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COAL MEN 



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AMERICA 



A Biographical and Historical 
Review of the World's Great- 
est Industry. 



Arthur M. Hull, 

Editor-in-Chief 

Sydney A. Hale. 

Associate Editor 



CHICAGO 
THE RETAIL COALMAN 

1918 



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Copyright, 1918, by 

The Retail Coalman, Inc., 
Chicago, 111. 

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FOREWORD 




HE HISTORY of a country is the history of its people, of the individuals who 
constitute its citizenship. In like manner, the history of any mo\ement, of any 
institution, of any great industry, is the history conii)rising the biography of 
the men whose lives are intimately identified therewith. 

The history of the coal trade, which is the history of a most wonderful industrial de- 
velopment, is distinctively the history of the men upon whose shoulders have been borne 
the burdens and upon whose brows have rested the victories and the successes incident to 
that wonderful commercial expansion. 

It is fitting- that conspicuous pages from the unknown history of the coal trade 
should be g^arnered and collected in permanent form as a memorial to that trade, as a record 
of the achievements of its master minds, and of the worthy service which has been con- 
tributed to the industry by the business nien who h^xe developed the various mining 
fields, and those who have devised and conducted the splendid methods of distribution 
that are in operation. 

Within the memory of men who are now eng'aged in the coal trade, this industry 
has grown from small volume, by leaps and bounds, to a magnitude that arrests the atten- 
tion and commands the respect of the entire world. Modern civilization would strive in 
vain to produce another era of human activity so stupendous or one more essential to human 
existence than that of the coal trade. We, the coal men of today, are in such close con- 
tact with this wondrous development that its marvelous growth is inadeciuately realized 
by us. 

Before the present generation of coal men retire from the stage of human activity, 
a record of what they have accomplished should be inscribed on the pages of history. 

The present undertaking' is of this nature. It is proposed to shoAv by the lives of 
men how one great coal field after another was discovered, how the mighty streams of com- 
merce expanded incessantly beyond all bounds and expectations, and how the splendid fab- 
ric of transportation and distribution took shape and grew. 

It is a wonderful piece of mosaic work of which the lives of coal men form its units, 
constituting in its composite whole a vision that should be imperishable and which must of 
necessity be mellowed with added charm as the years lengthen into the cycles of time. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENT 



^HE layman little realizes the amount of work and tedious detail con- 
I nected with the compilation of a book of the size and scope of "Coal 

Men of America." The editor and his associates have devoted the 
major portion of their time for nearly three years in gathering and 
preparing the necessary information. It has been their sole aim to 
make it as complete and accurate as possible, but their efforts have been seri- 
ously handicapped by the rapidly changing conditions and troublous times of 
the past two years wdiich have brought so many abnormal demands upon the 
time and attention of evervone eneaged in the coal industrv. 

It would be impossible to compile a book of the character of "Coal Men 
of America" without the active, hearty and cordial support and co-operation 
of man}^ The editor realizes, far better than anyone else, the debt of grati- 
tude he owes to all of those who have assisted him in the enterprise and 
helped to make the biographical data of the thousands of coal men represented 
accurate and authentic. 

The historical part and the introductory matter pertaining to the coal 
industry in the various states has been written by Sydney A. Hale, editor of 
the New York Coal Trade Journal, who has given much thought and study to 
verifying the facts stated, and this part of the work will be especially valuable 
for reference for many years to come. 

For the illustrations we are indebted to many photographers in all sec- 
tions of the country, and a complete list of those who made the reproductions 
of so many likenesses possible wHll be found on another page. 



PREFACE 




\\X presenting- "Coal ]\Ien of America" lo the ])nblic the publishers have attempted 
to make a contribution of more than passing value to the history of the coal 
industr}-. Statistics, ofbcial or otherwise, even the bare records of business 
transactions, exist in sufHcient detail to constitute a complete chronicle of the 
industry itself, but little or nothing- has been placed in permanent form reg-ard- 
ing- the men who have done the work, the human element which actualK- has l)een the 
g'reatest factor in its accon-iplishment. They are indeed the spirit which has animated it 
throughout, and their names should be perpetuated in connection with its storv. 

As an accurate and reliable record of the part which these men have played in the 
coal business, registering- their personal relations with it, we believe this volume to be 
uni(|ue in ])urpose, and to possess an historical \'altie and importance which will increase 
with the passing" of time, an enduring link between the present and future. The account 
of the ser^•ices which they have rendered in what has come to be recog'nized as the world's 
greatest industry, if not adequately noted while authentic information is easily available, 
may readily slip into the mass of impersonal achievements btilked under statistics, and 
lose forever the ^'italizing- interest which always attaches to biographical history. Too 
often we find nothing- more reliable than tradition when we are searching for this class of 
information, and this work was therefore designed to meet a demand now considered prac- 
tically a necessity in every field, presenting verified data whose immediate worth is appar- 
ent, but far surpassed by its future value. 

Several thousand coal men are represented in these pages, tog-ether with statistics 
•of importance and interest to every reader. The portraits constitute another desirable 
feature. The editor has made a conscientious effort to insure correctness in both historical 
and biographical matter, the latter embodying considerable information which would have 
been preserved in no other way. The thoroitghness with which this work has been done 
should commend it to all as a valuable work of reference, a real addition to the bibliog- 
raphy of the coal industry. 

]\Iuch care has been taken in the compilation of the work and every opportunity 
possible given to those represented to insure correctness in what has been written. 

The faces of some, and biographical sketches of many will be missed in this volume. 
For this the publishers are not to blame. Not having a proper conception of the work, 
some refused to give the information necessary to compile a sketch, while others were in- 
dift'erent, and neg"lected to send in the data asked for. 

However, we appreciate the cordial co-operation given to us by so many leaders in 
the trade and are confident that "Coal Men of America" will prove a highly interesting and 
valuable reference work to everv-one who is connected with the coal indtistrv. 



''Business possesses an 
added pleasure when 
it forms lasting friend- 
ships that are built on 
mutual confidence. 



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THE WORLD'S GREATEST INDUSTRY 



IN PEACE AND IN WAR 



THE United States is the richest country in the 
worhl. It is also the greatest producer of coal. 
The two facts are not accidental. The prosperity 
oT the United States in a very large measure is due to 
the extent of its coal deposits and their development by 
the pioneers who invested their money and their time 
in mining black diamonds for the benefit of tliis great 
union. Coal is not only one of the most important raw 
elements on which our national welfare is based, but 
it is the basic commodity, and, although it took a world 
Avar to drive this fact home, today the layman,, as well 
as the coal man, recognizes that without our extensive 
coal deposits as a military force the United States 
would be almost, if not entirely, helpless. Coal has 
made possiljle the construction of the greatest railroad 
mileage of the world. It has permitted the develop- 
ment of the vast metalliferous resources. It has added 
to the comfort of practically every citizen. From the 
time coal deposits were first noted by the early ex- 
plorers of Illinois in 1668 to the present day, when the 
annual production is close to 700,000,000 tons, the 
industrial development of the country can be measured 
by the increase of the coal tonnage. How far we have 
advanced can l)e perhaps glimpsed when it is remem- 
bered that in 1821, the first year for which we have 
fairly authentic statistics, the total output of the coun- 
try was only 1,322 tons. 

The detailed development of the coal industry is 
told in the succeeding pages under appropriate state 
headings. These give a general picture of the condi- 
tions that have existed up until the time of the World 
War. The situation that brought about that war, and 
particularly by the entrance of the United States as 
•one of the champions for universal democracy, deserves 
•a separate treatment. 



Before this condition can be properly understood, 
however, consideration must be given to the general 
background of the coal industry. In the first place, 
while coal is vital to the success of every other major 
industrial enterprise, it is peculiar in the fact that it 
can not create a demand for itself. The consumption 
of the domestic sizes and grades of coal is controlled 
wholly by climatic conditions, fluctuating with varia- 
tions in weather severity. On the industrial side coal 
is the first to feel the relaxation in the industrial 
growth and the last to participate in the benefits of 
expansion. As had been said by the author in another 
treatment of this topic, "the competition of coal is 
with coal." It has been able to make but little headway' 
against other tonus of fuel. This fact is strikingly 
illustrated in the history of the coal trade of those 
states that have come to the front as reservoirs for fuel 
oil, such as California and Texas. Because of this 
peculiarity, as well as the fact already mentioned, that 
the demand for coal is wholly dependent upon causes 
beyond the control of the coal operator, the struggle for 
markets as between different grades of coal was, up 
to the time of our own entrance into the war, as 
keen, if not keener, than that ever experienced by any 
other form of commercial enterprise of magnitude. 

With export trade very slightly developed (in fact, 
from the tonnage point of view of such volume as to be 
inconsequential in the general trend of the trade), with 
the producing fields in the eastern ])art of the country, 
for the most pai't older in point of exploration, and con- 
taining the better grades of coal, together with the fact 
that the general trend of traffic movement from the 
east to the west has been one of manufactured products, 
while the eastl;ound movement has lieen more largely 
one of raw materials, the pressure of eastern coals seek- 



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iiig <ui outlet for their surplus tonnage was most marked 
in the territory west of the Indiana-Ohio state line. 
Thus, until the war, Chicago, which with Pittsburgh 
shares the honor of being the greatest coal consuming 
district in the United States, drew its supplies from 
Pennsyhania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Maryland, Ken- 
tucky and West A-'irginia, with occasional shipments 
from Virginia, Tennessee and Arkansas. 

This pressure acting upon the states of Indiana and 
Illinois, themselves large producers of coal, served to set 
up a further westbound pressure, which sent the coals 
of Illinois into the Missouri river territory and into the 
Xorthwest and southern Mississippi states. Certain 
coals because of their special qualities, such as the 
smithing grade of West Virginia and Maryland, en- 
joyed a trade extending from the Atlantic to the Pa- 
cific, while the semi-bituminous or smokeless coals for 
general domestic purposes reached as far west as the 
j\Iissouri river. Although many of the western coals 
are Avell known for their quality, this pressure of the 
heavier producing eastern states and of the coals in the 
Illinois, Indiana and western Kentucky basin prevented 
any suljstantial eastern movements of coals l)eyond the 
Missouri river. 

While, in certaiii foreign countries, Avater borne has 
been a feature, with the exception of the coastwise trans- 
portation of coals from the Virginia piers to New Eng- 
land and the movement from the lower Lake Erie ports 
to the Head of the Lakes (and to a lesser degree along 
the Avestern shore of Lake j\Iichigan) the coal movement 
has been distinctly a railroad movement. Indeed, in 
1915 for example, out of a total bituminous production 
of 4:42,634:,426 tons only 21,506,488 tons, or approx- 
imately five per cent., moved via the inland Avaterways 
of the Great Lakes, and even this tonnage, originating 
in the states of West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio and 
Kentucky, had to move from the mines to the loading 
ports on Lake Erie all rail, and the bulk of it AA^as 
distributed from the docks at the Head of the Lakes and 
along Lake ]\[ichigan in the same manner. 

First Effects of the War. 

The effects of the war upon coal Avere first felt in the 
East, particularly in the 'New England and Middle At- 
lantic )States, Avhich have been and still are the scene of 
the greatest war industrial activity in the United States. 
The al)normal rates paid for ocean carriage from August, 
li)]4, naturally drcAv a number of the bottoms that had 
been engaged in coastAvise transportation into the for- 
cign service. At the same time the movements of Avar 
inuiiitions of one kind or another through the North 
Atlantic sealjoard ports, and especially Ncav York, threw 
a volume of traffic upon the railroads in that part of the 
country that they Avere not able to handle with the 
usual expedition. As a result, to use a railroad phrase, 
loads liacked up as far as Buffalo, then Pittsburgh, and 



linally as far Avest as. the Missouri river. \\'ith the rail- 
road congestion making it difficult for Ncav England to 
receive supplies by rail and the Avithdrawal of part of 
the bottoms cutting doAvn her opportunities to receive 
a normal supply of coal by vessel, New England began 
to reach out to new fields and endeavored to make up' 
the deficit in her supply created by these conditions. 

This section Avas faced not only with the necessity of 
maintaining a normal floAv of coal, but the business de- 
veloped almost over night in Avar manufactories and the 
demand of the Allies for speed in the production of 
munitions to stop the Huns made it necessary that her 
usual supply of fuel be abnormally increased. The re- 
sult of this situation Avas a bid of Ncav England against 
other markets of the country for the portion of the 
supply of coal that had hitherto gone to those markets. 
Prices, of course, reacted upward. The shortage Avas- 
at that time not a shortage in actual coal production., 
but a deficiency in the means of transporting the coal 
from the mines to the Ncav England market; in other 
Avords, as one editor has phrased it, it Avas a "borroAved 
shortage." It reacted upon the Middle Atlantic states- 
and sloAvly but steadily pushed its way AA^estward. Con- 
ditions in the Ceirtral West, however, shoAved no great 
variation until the late summer of 1916. Avhen the 
threatened strike of the railroad brotherhoods aAvoke the 
country Avith a start and thrcAV coal consumers Avho had! 
not provided for their Avinter's supplies into a panic. 
From that time the call for coal steadily increased- 
While. of course, there Avere fluctuations in price in 
different localities, as local demand and transportation 
conditions varied, tire general trend Avas upward. 

The Committee on Coal Production. 

When, in 1917, the United States declared that a 
state of Avar existed betAveen this country and Germany, 
the need for some control of this runaAvay market, a 
ireed that had been confessed by many leaders of the 
trade then and prior to that time, Avas so evident that 
positive steps were taken to cause a readjustment of 
conditions. The first step Avas the creation of the Com- 
mittee on Coal Production of the Council of National 
Defense. This committee was headed by ¥. S. Peabqcly, 
Chairman of Board. Peabocly Coal Co., Chicago, 111.,. 
as Chairman and he selected the foUoA^ing as his asso- 
ciates in the Avork : 

William Green, Secretary, Secretary Ignited Aline 
Workers of America, Indianapolis, Ind. 

George W. Eeed, Assistant Secretarv. Peabodv Coal 
Co., Chicago, 111. 

Herbert Addison, A^ice President Big Horn Collieries 
Co., Denver, Colo. 

F. C. Baird, Secretary Lake Erie Bituminous Coal 
Exchange, Cleveland, Ohio. 



cuAJ. Aii:\ UF amI':rk:a 



J^. ,). InTwiiicl. 1 '!■(.'.< ideal Ihtw iiiil-Wliitc Coal Miu- 
iiiii- Co.. Now York City. 

K. B. Chase. r>cr\vin(l-\Vliiti' Coal Mining Co.. Thihi- 
delphia. Pa. 

William Dianioml. rnitcd Mine Workers ol America. 
Wnshiiigton. 1). C. 

(ieorge Elliott, Socretarv National Committee on (ias 
and I'dectric Service, Washington, D. C. 

l\*ol)ert H. Harlin. Intornational Exeeutive Boaid. 
United Mine Workers of America. 

i-'i-ank Hayes, Vice President United ?\line AVorkeis 
ol' America, Indianapolis, Ind. 

W. W. Iveefer, President Pittsburgh Terminal luiil- 
i-oad i!c Coal Co., Pittsbnrgh, Pa. 

H. L. Kerwin. Secretary to the Secretary of Lalior. 
Wasliington, D. C. 

John L. Lewis, Statistician United ]Minc Workers of 
America, Indianapolis, Ind. 

James Lord, President Mining Department of Ameri- 
can Federation of Labor, Washington, D. C. 

Van H. Alanning. Director Burean of ]\Iines, AVash- 
ington. D. C. 

John Mitchell, Chairman Industrial Commission of 
State of New York, jSTew York City. 

C. ^I. Moderwell, President United Coal & Mining 
('o., Chicago, 111. 

Eembrandt Peale, Chairman Tidewater Coal Ex- 
cliange, Xew York City. 

Erskine Eamsey, Vice President Pratt Consolidated 
Coal Co., Birmingham, Ala. 

Eoy A. Eainey, W. J. Eainey Estate, New York City. 

George Otis Smith, Director Geological Sun^ey, Wash- 
ington. D. C. 

James J. Storrow, Chairman Massachusetts Com- 
mittee on Public Safety, Boston, Mass. 

Lucius S. Storrs, President The Connecticut Co., Xew 
Haven, Conn. 

H. N. Taylor, Vice President Central Coal & Coke 
Co., Kansas City, ^Mo. 

S. D. Warriner, President Lehigh Coal & Navigation 
Co., Philadelphia, Pa. 

J. F. Welborn, President Colorado Fuel & Iron Co.. 
Denver, Colo. 

Daniel B. AVeiitz, President Stonega Coal & Coke Co., 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

John P. White, President United Mine Workers of 
America, Indianapolis. Ind. 

The committee started out with the idea to apply 
natural economic regulations to prices. It was ap]iar- 
ently their plan to devote their efforts to overcoming 
the shortage and restraining the bidding of buyer 
against buyer for coal by increasing the production to a 
23oint where it would be ample to meet all demands. 
Before this campaign could be made effective, however, 
the public political clamor had become so great that the 
coal men decided that thev must institute artificial reg- 



ulation. Ac-tordingl\, in June, i:'!;. .\ir. I 'eabody called 
a general conference of operators at Washington. These 
operators mel with Mr. Peabody and his committee. 
Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane, and John 
F. Fort, member of the Fedei'al 'I'i'ade Commission, 
which had been conducting an in\estigation into the 
existing coal situation. The coal operators of the coun- 
try, in a most enthusiastic and patriotic meeting, vol- 
untarily agreed to surrender what for many of them 
had been the fii'st good market in years, and pledged 
themselves to observe the following scale of tentative 
maximum prices, until such time as an investigation of 
costs could be made by the government agencies with a 
view of fixing pernranent prices within a month or two: 

Mine Run Prepared Sizes 

Pennsylvania if 3.00 $3.50 

West Virginia 3.00 3. .50 

Oiiio (Thiclc Vein) 3.00 3.50 

Ohio (Massilon and Palmyra Dis- 
tricts) 3.50 3.50 

Alabama — 

Cahaba and Black Creek 4.00 4.00 

Pratt, Jaeger and Corona 3.50 3.50 

Big Seam 3.00 3.00 

Maryland 3.00 3.50 

Virginia 3.00 3.50 

Kentucky 3.00 3.50 

Illinois 2.75 3.50 

Long Wall Fields 3.25 4.00 

Indiana 2.75 3.50 

Tennessee 3.50 3.50 

These prices represented reductions of from 40 to GO 
])er cent. The action of the coal men so pleased Secre- 
tary Lane that he said to the coal operators thus assem- 
bled in special .'lession in ^Washington : 

"Gentlemen: This is a very novel proceeding. I think 
I am within the fact when I say that no such hearing or 
gathering as this has ever been held in the United States 
before, or perhaps in the world. You are, I hope, pio- 
neers in a good movement. I come from the land of pio- 
neers, the far western country, where we look back with 
respect and admiration and some reverence upon those 
who crossed the hard and stony and waterless places to 
the richer spots beyond. And I hope that you will be 
looked back upon not only by those who succeed you in 
the coal business, but by the industries of the United 
States, with respect and admiration for the manner in 
which you have acted at this conference. You have re- 
sponded as men should, to a call made upon you in the 
name of the people of the United States. You are not a 
removed class. You are of us. You belong to the people. 
Most of you are men who were not born to wealth. You 
came up out of the soil like the rest of us and you have 
shown a sympathy and an understanding of your relations 
with the people from which you spring. That is the 
essential quality in democracy. Unless we can maintain 
in our minds always a consciousness of the source of 
power in this country, democracy is a failure. There is 
a strong contention made that this Government cannot 
so organize itself as to meet to the full the demands that 
are to be made upon it, that other forms of government 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



in times of stress, or in fact any times, are more compe- 
tent and more efficient, because tliere is the strong liand 
of tfie Government above, threatening, menacing, com- 
pelling. If we in the United States are to work out our 
problem economic, social, as we liave worked out our 
problem political, we must work it out in my judgment in 
the spirit in which yon have worked^^ith sympathy, with 
recognition of those whom you serve. There is a kind 
of corporation in this country that we know as a public 
utility. A public utility is one that is at the service of 
any one and must render him the kind of service that it 
holds out to give. In the biggest and broadest sense, each 
one of you in running a coal mine is managing a public 
utility, because the public is dependent upon you. And 
this world is going forward and not backward, it is going 
to keep its confidence in democracy, if the men who have 
the management of industry and the men who give direc- 
tion to the thought of the country have in their hearts 
always the welfare of the people. The one thing that will 
turn us back is the exercise of arbitrary power by those 
who have power and who exercise it ruthlessly. You 
have been up against an extremely odd situation. And 
now you have gathered here and met that situation in 
man fashion. I think you have reason to be proud of what 
you have done. Speaking for Governor Fort and for Mr. 
Peabody and his committee and for myself, we are proud 
of what you have done." 



The Baker Letter of Repudiation. 

Two daj'S after this agreement, hailed by Secretar}^ 
Lane, had been heralded broadcast, the program was 
abrniDtly upset by a letter from Xewton D. Baker, Sec- 
retary of War, to W. S. Gifford of the Advisory Board 
to the Council of o^ational Defense, repudiating the 
entire agreement. Secretary Baker's position, as ex- 
pressed in his letter of July 1, 1917, was as follows: 

"My attention has been called through the newspapers 
to the action reported to have been taken at Washington 
during the last week by the so-called committee on coal 
production of the Council of National Defense, in co- 
operation with certain coal producers and representatives 
of coal mining enterprises with regard to the price of 
bituminous and anthracite coal. The facts seem to be that 
the coal production committee invited to Washington 
various coal operators and arranged conferences between 
thein, members of the Coal Production Committee and 
members of the Federal Trade Commission, leading to 
the adoption of resolutions in favor of an early and ac- 
curate determination of the costs involved in the produc- 
tion of bituminous and anthracite coal as a basis for some 
future action by some official agency of the Government 
in fixing fair and just prices for these products, should 
any such agency be given power to do so. Pending such 
an ascertainment of costs, this meeting seems to have 
adopted a resolution whereby the operators present agreed 
to sell bituminous coal at a price not higher than $3 a 
ton and that this obligation should remain in force until 
some such action had been taken by an authorized govern- 
mental agency. The color which has been given to this 
meeting and this resolution in the newspapers may well 
mislead the public into believing that the Council of 
National Defense has either undertaken itself to fix the 
price of coal or to sanction its being fixed by the Coal 



Production Committee, or that committee in conjunction 
with the coal operators. 

"I, therefore, as Presideiit of the Council of National 
Defense, write this to say that the Council of National 
Defense has no legal power and claims no legal power 
either to fix the price of coal or to fix a maximum price 
of coal or any other output. The Coal Production Com- 
mittee is a subordinate committee of the Council of Na- 
tional Defense, purely advisory in its character, formed for 
the purpose of advising the council as to steps which 
might be recommended leading to a stimulation of produc- 
tion and distribution of coal. 

"No power has ever been attempted to be delegated to 
it to consider or deal with the question of price, and any 
action taken by that committee, or sanctioned by that 
committee, dealing with price, either fixed or maximum, 
for coal is clearly beyond the legal power of the Coal 
Production Committee and of the Council of National De- 
fense, from which the committee derives whatever au- 
thority it has. 

"As you are aware, the Federal Trade Commission has 
L een directed by the President to ascertain for his infor- 
mation the costs involved in coal production. I am to 
some extent familiar with the progress made by the com- 
mission. The information I have from that and other 
sources, I think, justified me in believing that the price 
of $3 suggested or agreed on as a maximum is an exorbi- 
tant, unjust and oppressive price. 

"The fact that these conferences were attended by mem- 
bers of the Federal Trade Commission and by members 
of the Council of National Defense, of course, adds noth- 
ing to their legal powers, and I am sure that none of my 
associates in the council will dissent from the view I have 
herein expressed both on the limitations of the powers of 
the Council and the Coal Production Committee and the 
effect of the action alleged to have been taken. 

"I write this for the information of the coal committee 
and for the guidance of all other sub-committees of the 
Council." 



The Lever Act and the Coal Problem. 

\Yith the publication of the Baker letter the coal 
question was again thrown back into the arena of politi- 
cal discussion. The coal men were disgusted and dis- 
gruntled. While the Chairman of the Production Com- 
mittee and various association officials urged them to 
observe the terms of the Lane-Peabody price agreement 
despite the Baker repudiation, many took the position 
that the agreement was Avithout Ihnding force. ]Mean- 
while, several of the western states were actively agi- 
tating the price question. Although Ohio, Wisconsin, 
and some of the trans-Mississippi states participated in 
this campaign, the center of the disturbance was in 
Illinois and Indiana. In these two states public officials 
made threats as to what they woiild do unless the coal 
men came to their terms. At the same time Senator 
Pomerene had introdiiced an amendment, which subse- 
quently in substance became Section 25 of the Food 
and Fuel Control Law or the Lever Act then pending 
in the national Congress. It became a race to see 
whether government regulatidii oF the coal industry 
should he a state or federal matter. The coal men 



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sti'uiiii'lv insisted llial tlu' sulijcct was oiii' tliat should be 
controlled li\' the I'eileral utiNiTiuiieiit. while in Illinois 
puhlic ollicials wi'vr e(|ually iiisisteiil that regulation 
(iiuld not await action ol' Congress. Just as the matter 
had i-eaclie(l the most ei'itieal stage the rat-e was won hv 
tlu' federal go\X'i-ninent 1)\' the passage of the Le\i'r 
At-t. This provideil : 



"Sec. 25. That the President of the United States shall 
be, and he is hereby authorized and empowered, when- 
ever and wherever in his judgment necessary for the effi- 
cient prosecution of the war, to fix the price of coal and 
coke, wherever and whenever sold, either by producer or 
dealer, to establish rules for the regulation of ard to reg- 
ulate the method of production, sale, shipment, distribu- 
tion, apportionment, or storage thereof among dealers and 
consumers, domestic or foreign; said authority and power 
may be exercised by him in each case through the agency 
of the Federal Trade Commission, during the war or for 
such part of said time as in his judgment may be neces- 
sary. 

"That if, in the opinion of the President, any such pro- 
ducer or dealer fails or neglects to conform to such 
prices or regulations, or to conduct his business efficiently 
under the regulations and control of the President as 
aforesaid, or conducts it in a manner prejudicial to the 
public interest, then the President is hereby authorized 
and empowered in every such case to requisition and take 
over the plant, business, and all appurtenances thereof 
belonging to such producer or dealer as a going concern, 
and to operate or cause the same to be operated in such 
manner and through such agency as he may direct dur- 
ing the period of the war or for such part of said time 
as in his judgment may be necessary. 

"That any producer or dealer whose plant, business, and 
appurtenances shall have been requisitioned or taken over 
by the President shall be paid a just compensation for the 
use thereof during the period that the same be requisi- 
tioned or taken over as aforesaid, which compensation 
the President shall fix or cause to be fixed by the Federal 
Trade Commission. 

"That if the prices so fixed, or if, in the case of the 
taking over or requisitioning of the mines or business of 
any such producer or dealer, the compensation therefor 
as determined by the provisions of this act be not sat- 
isfactory to the person or persons entitled to receive the 
saiTie, such person shall be paid 7.5 per cent, of the amount 
so determined, and shall be entitled to sue the United 
States to recover such further sum as, added to said 75 
per cent., will make up such amount as will be just com- 
pensation in the manner provided by section 24, para- 
graph 20, and section 145 of the Judicial Code. 

"While operating or causing to be operated any such 
plants or business, the President is authorized to pre- 
scribe such regulations as he may deem essential for the 
employment, control, and compensation of the employes 
necessary to conduct the same. 

"Or if the President of the United States shall be of the 
opinion that he can thereby better provide for the com- 
mon defense, and whenever, in his judgment, it shall be 
necessary for the efficient prosecution of the war, then 
he is hereby authorized and empowered to require any 
or all producers of coal and coke, either in any special 
area or in any special coal fields, or in the entire United 
States, to sell their products only to the United States 
through an agency to be designated by the President, 



such agency to regulate the resale of such coal and coke, 
and the prices thereof, and to establish rules for the 
regulation of and to regulate the methods of production, 
shipment, distribution, apportionment, or storage thereof 
among dealers, consumers, domestic, or foreign, and to 
make payment of the purchase price thereof to the pro- 
ducers thereof, or to the person or persons legally entitled 
to said payment. 

"That within 15 days after notice from the agency so 
designated, to any producer of coal and coke that his, 
or its, output is to be so purchased by the United States 
as hereinbefore described, such producer shall cease ship- 
ments of said product upon his own account and shall 
transmit to such agency all orders received and unfilled 
or partially unfilled, showing the exact extent to which 
shipments have been made thereon, and thereafter all 
shipments shall be made only on authority of the agency 
designated by the President, and thereafter no such pro- 
ducer shall sell any of said products except in the United 
States through such agency, and the said agency alone 
is hereby authorized and empowered to purchase during 
the continuance of the requirement the output of such 
producers. 

"That the prices to be paid for such products so pur- 
chased shall be based upon a fair and just profit over 
and above the cost of production, including proper main- 
tenance and depletion charges, the reasonableness of such 
profits and cost of production to be determined by the 
Federal Trade Commission, and if the prices fixed by the 
said commission of any such product purchased by the 
United States as hereinbefore described be unsatisfactory 
to the person or persons entitled to receive the same, 
such person or persons shall be paid 75 per cent, of the 
amount so determined and shall be entitled to sue the 
United States to recover such further sum as added to 
said 75 per cent, will make up such amount as will be just 
compensation in the manner provided by section 24, para- 
graph 20, and section 145 of the Judicial Code. 

"All such products so sold to the United States shall 
be sold by the United States at such uniform prices, 
quality considered, as may be practicable and as may be 
determined by said agency to be just and fair. 

"Any moneys received by the United States for the sale 
of any such coal and coke may, in the discretion of the 
President, be used as a revolving fund for further carry- 
ing out the purposes of this section. Any moneys not so 
used shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous 
receipts. 

"That, when directed by "the President, the Federal 
Trade Commission is hereby required to proceed to make 
full inquiry, giving such notice as it may deem practicable, 
into the cost of producing under reasonably efficient man- 
agement at the various places of production the follow- 
ing commodities, to-wit: Coal and coke. 

"The books, correspondence, records, and papers in any 
way referring to transactions of any kind relating to the 
mining, production, sale or distribution of all mine op- 
erators or other persons whose coal and coke have or 
may become subject to this section, and the books, cor- 
respondence, records, and papers of any person applying 
for the purchase of coal and coke from the United States 
shall at all times be subject to inspection by the said 
agency, and such person or persons shall promptly fur- 
nish said agency any data or information relating to the 
business of such person or persons which said agency 
may call for, and said agency is hereby authorized to pro- 
cure the information in reference to the business of such 
coal-mine operators and producers of coke and customers 



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therefor in the naanner provided for in sections 6 and 9 
of the act of Congress approved September 26, 1914, 
entitled "An act to create a Federal Trade Commission, 
to define its powers and duties, and for other purposes," 
and said agency is hereby authorized and empowered to 
exercise all the powers granted to the Federal Trade 
Commission by said act for the carrying out of the pur- 
poses of this section. 

"Having completed its inquiry respecting any com- 
modity in any locality, it shall, if the President has de- 
cided to fix the prices at which any such commodity shall 
be sold by producers and dealers generally, fix and pub- 
lish maximum prices for both producers of and dealers in 
any such commodity, which maximum prices shall be 
observed by all producers and dealers until further action 
thereon is taken by the commission. 

"In fixing maximum prices for producers the commis- 
sion shall allow the cost of production, including the ex- 
pense of operation, maintenance, depreciation, and deple- 
tion, and shall add thereto a just and reasonable profit. 

"In fixing such prices for dealers the commission shall 
allow the cost to the dealer and shall add thereto a just 
and reasonable sum for his profit in the transaction. 

"The maximum prices so fixed and published shall not 
be construed as invalidating any contract in which prices 
are fixed, made in good faith, prior to the establishment 
and publication of maximum prices by the commission. 

"Whoever shall, with knowledge that the prices of any 
such commodity have been fixed as herein provided, ask, 
demand, or receive a higher price, or whoever shall, with 
knowledge that the regulations have been prescribed as 
herein provided, violate or refuse to conform to any of 
the same, shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine 
of not more than $5,000 or by imprisonment for not more 
than two years, or both. Each independent transaction 
shall constitute a separate offense. 

"Nothing in this section shall be construed as restricting 
or modifying in any manner the right the Government of 
the United States may have in its own behalf or in behalf 
of any other Government at war with Germany to pur- 
chase, requisition, or take over any such commodities 
for the equipment, maintenance, or support of armed 
forces at any price or upon any terms that may be agreed 
upon or otherwise lawfully determined." 



country, which also conferred upon the Executive control 
of the fuel supply. They are based upon the actual cost 
of production and are deemed to be not only fair and just 
but liberal as well. Under them the industry should no- 
where lack stimulation. 

WooDROw Wilson. 



Run of Prepared Slack or 

mine sizes screenings 

Pennsylvania $2.00 $2.25 $1.75 

Maryland 2.00 2.25 1.75 

West Virginia 2.00 2.25 1.75. 

West Virginia (New River) . . 2.15 2.40 1.90 

Virginia 2.00 2.25 1.75 

Ohio (thick vein) 2.00 2.25 1.75 

Ohio (thin vein) 2.35 2.60 2.10 

Kentucky 1.95 2.20 1.70 

Kentucky (Jellico) 2.40 2.65 2.15 

Alabama (Big Seam) 1.90 2.15 1.65 

Alabama (Pratt, Jaeger and 

Corona) 2.15 2.40 1.90 

Alabama (Cahaba and Black 

Creek) 2.40 1.65 2.15 

Tennessee (eastern) 2.30 2.55 2.05 

Tennessee (Jellico) 2.40 2.65 2.15 

Indiana 1.95 2.20 1.70 

Illinois 1.95 2.20 1.70 

Illinois (third vein) 2.40 2.65 2.15 

Arkansas 2.65 2.90 2.40 

Iowa 2.70 2.95 2.45 

Kansas 2.55 2.80 2.30 

Missouri 2.70 2.95 2.45 

Oklahoma 3.05 3.30 2.80 

Texas 2.65 2.90 2.40 

Colorado 2.45 2.70 2.20 

Montana • 2.70 2.95 2.45 

New Mexico 2.40 2.65 2.15 

Wyoming 2.50 2.75 2.25 

Utah 2.60 2.85 2.35 

Washington 3.25 3.50 3.00 

NOTE — Prices are on f. o. b. mine basis for ton of 2,000 
pounds. 



The Prices Fixed by the President. 

This law was approved by the President August 10, 
1917. Eleven days later President Wilson promulgated 
the following maximum prices on bituminous coal : 

The White House. 
Washington, 21 August, 1917. 

"The following scale of prices is prescribed for bitu- 
minous coal at the mine in the several coal producing dis- 
tricts. It is provisional only. It is subject to reconsidera- 
tion when the whole method of administering the fuel 
supplies of the country shall have been satisfactorily or- 
ganized and put into operation. Subsequent measures 
will have as their object a fair and equitable control of 
the distribution of the supply and of the prices not only 
at the mines but also in the hands of the middlemen and 
the retailers. 

"The prices provisionally fixed here are fixed by my 
authority under the provisions of the recent Act of Con- 
gress regarding administration of the food supply of the 



Garfield's Appointment and Anthracite. 

Two days later H. A. Garfield, President of Williams 
College, Williamstown, ]\Iass., was appointed Fuel Ad- 
ministrator and on the same date the President also 
fixed prices for anthracite on the following basis and 
jobbers" margins : 

The following regulations shall apply to the intrastate, 
interstate and foreign commerce of the United States, and 
the prices and margins referred to herein shall be in force 
pending further investigation or determination thereof by 
the President. 

jobbers' m.-xrgins. 

1. A coal jobber is defined as a person (or other 
agency) who purchases and resells coal to coal dealers or 
to consumers without physically handling it on, over or 
through his own vehicle, dock, trestle, or yard. 

2. For the buying and selling of bituminous coal a 
jobber shall not add to his purchase price a gross margin 



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in excess of 15 cents per ton of 2. Dot* pounds; nor shall the 
combined gross margins of any number of jobbers who 
buy and sell a given shipment or sliipments of bituminous 
coal exceed 15 cents per ton of 2,090 pounds. 

3. For buying and selling anthracite coal a jobber shall 
not add to his purchase price a gross margin in excess of 
20 cents per ton of 2,240 pounds when delivery of such 
coal is to be effected at or east of Buffalo. For buying and 
selling anthracite coal for delivery west of Buffalo, a job- 
ber shall not add to his purchase price a gross margin in 
excess of 30 cents per ton of 2,240 pounds. The combined 
gross margins of any number of jobbers who buy and sell 
a given shipment or shipments of anthracite coal for de- 
livery at or east of Buffalo shall not exceed 20 cents per 
ton of 2,240 pounds: nor shall such combined margins 
exceed 30 cents per ton of 2,240 pounds for the delivery 
of anthracite coal west of Buffalo. Provided, that a job- 
ber's gross margin realized on a given shipment or ship- 
ments of anthracite coal may be increased by not more 
than 5 cents per ton of 2,240 pounds when the jobber 
incurs the expense of rescreening it at Atlantic or lake 
ports for trans-shipment by water. 

4. Effective Sept. 1, 1917, the maximum prices per ton 
of 2,240 pounds free on board cars at the mines for the 
grades and sizes of anthracite coal hereinafter specified 
shall not exceed the prices indicated in paragraph 5 when 
such coal is produced and sold by the Philadelphia & 
Reading Coal & Iron Co., Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co., 
Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Co., Hudson Coal Co., Dela- 
ware & Hudson Co., Scranton Coal Co., Lehigh "Valley 
Coal Co., Coxe Bros., Pennsylvania Coal Co., Hillside Coal 
& Iron Co., Delaware, Lackawanna & Western R. R. Co., 
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Coal Co., Susquehanna 
Coal Co., Susquehanna Collieries Co., Lytle Coal Co., or 
the M. A. Hanna Coal Co. 

5. The grades and sizes for which the maximum prices 
are specified are as follows: White ash anthracite coal of 
the grade that between Jan. 1, 1915, and Jan. 1, 1917, was 
uniformly sold and recognized in the coal trade as coal of 
white ash grade. Red ash anthracite coal of the grade 
that between Jan. 1, 1915, and Jan. 1, 1917, was uniformly 
sold and recognized in the trade as coal of red ash grade: 
and Lykens Valley anthracite coal that is mined exclu- 
sively from the Lykens Valley seams, and of the grade 
that between Jan. 1, 1915, and Jan. 1, 1917, was uniformly 
sold and recognized in the coal trade as coal of Lykens 
Valley grade. 

White ash grade. Red ash grade. Lykens Valley grade. 

Broken $4.55 Broken $4.75 Broken $5.00 

Egg 4.45 Egg 4.65 Egg 4.90 

Stove 4.70 Stove 4.90 Stove 5.30 

Chestnut ... 4.80 Chestnut ... 4.90 Chestnut ... 5.30 
Pea 4.00 Pea 4.10 Pea 4.35 

6. Producers of anthracite coal who are not specified in 
paragraph 4 shall not sell the various grades and sizes of 
anthracite coal at prices that exceed by more than 75 cents 
per ton of 2,240 pounds free on board cars at the mines 
the prices enumerated in paragraph 5. Provided, that any 
producer of anthracite coal who incurs the expense of re- 
screening it at Atlantic or lake ports for trans-shipment 
by water may increase the price thereof by not more than 
5 cents per ton of 2,240 pounds. 

7. Producers of anthracite coal specified in paragraph 4 
of these regulations shall not sell anthracite coal to pro- 
ducers of anthracite coal not specified in paragraph 4. 

8. Dealers and selling agents shall not resell coal pro- 
duced by the producers included in paragraph 4 on the 



basis of the prices fixed at the mine for coal produced by 

producers not specified in said paragraph. 

Wooiiuow WiLso.v. 
The White House, 23 August, 1917. 

These margins, while accei)tal)le to johhers in certain 
parts oi' the eountrv, were bitterly oppo.sed by those in 
other sections and tlie status of tiie jol)her is cue of the 
most interesting questions that has been at is.stie since 
federal regulation became effective. 

Apportioning Coal and Regulating Retail Prices. 

Shortly after liis ap|)ointment Dr. (farfichl ainioiiiiced 
his general scheme for the api^ortionment of the coal 
siippl}' and the regulations of retail jn-ices. This plan 
l)rovided first, for the appointment of a Federal, or 
State, Fuel Administrator in each state to represent the 
Fuel Administration, together with a committee of 
citizens to act with the State Administrator; second, tlie 
appointment bv the State Administrator of committees ' 
to represent the Administration in each county of the 
state and in each city having more than 2,500 jiopula- 
tion, or such other population as the State Fuel Admin- 
istration might determine. It was provided that the 
State Administrator and state committee should be 
chosen by Dr. Garfield, with the approval of the Presi- 
tlent, and that the count}' and city committees were to 
be chosen by the State Administrators. 

''The state committee," said Dr. Garfield in announc- 
ing this plan, "will at once ascertain the amount of 
coal in the state available for use during the coming 
winter, and the amount of coal needed to meet any de- 
ficiency in the supply based on last year's consumption. 
It will be the duty of the various committees to ascer- 
tain and report to the Fuel Administration the reason- 
aide retail margins. These margins when duly fixed 
by order, together with the cost at the mine, named by 
the President, the transportatioit charge, and the job- 
Ijer's commission when sold through the Jol)l)er, will 
constitute the price to the consumer." 

Against this general plan no particular objection Avas 
raised, but pointed exception was taken to the provision 
that "no person will he appointed either as a state rep- 
resentative or on any of these committees, or on any 
committees mentioned below, that is connected with the 
local coal industry." Eetail coal men felt that this was 
an undeserved slur upon the integrity of the industry 
and that the failure to appoint practical coal men, if 
not as Administrators, at least in an advisory capacity, 
militated against the successful prosecution of the gov- 
ernment plan for retail regulation. These protests at 
that time, however, met with no success. 

On October 1. 191T. the Fuel Administration at 
"Washington announced its order giving the maximum 
gross margins of retail coal merchants. This order 
defined a retail coal merchant as "every person, part- 
nership, corporation or as.^ociation physically receiving, 



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handling and delivering coal or coke to consumers, as 
a retail coal or coke dealer within the meaning of this 
order.'" Eetail margins were defined as: 

"First, The difference between the price charged by 
a retail coal or coke dealer to the consumer and the aver- 
age cost of coal or coke to such retailer, f. o. ]). railroad 
cars at his railroad siding, yard, pocket or trestle, when 
such coal or coke is received by him by rail. 

"Second, The difference between the price charged by 
a retail coal or coke dealer to the consumer and the 
average cost of coal or coke to such retailer free along- 
side his wharf, pocket or yard when such coal or coke is 
received by him by water. 

"Third, The difference between the price charged by 
a retail coal or coke dealer to the consumer and the 
average cost of coal or coke to such retailer at whole- 
saler's pockets, trestles, railroad siding, mines, tipples, 
dumps, docks, yards and wharfs." 

First Method of Figuring Gross Margins. 

The order provided that the maximum gross mar- 
gin should not exceed the average gross margin on the 
same size and grade of coal or coke for each class of 
business during the year ending December 31, 1915, 
plus 30 per cent, of such margin for the year 1915, with 
the further provision that this margin should in no 
case exceed the margin in effect during July, 1917. This 
order created as much discontent and dissatisfaction 
among tlie retail trade as had the maximum prices f. o. 
b. mines among the producers and the jol^bers' commis- 
sion regulations among the wholesalers. It developed 
that in many sections of the country 1915 had been a 
year of unusual competition between retail coal mer- 
chants, so that prices had l)een depressed below their 
normal levels. Further practical oljjection was inter- 
posed that in many cases records of 1915 operations 
had not been preserved and that in a great number of 
instances the records that did exist were in such shape 
that they could not fairly be used as a basis, because 
many retailers at that time had not given the subject of 
cost accouirting the attention it deserved. Fuii:hermore, 
the limiting proviso of July, 1917, margins as a max- 
inunn was .attacked as putting an additional unfair bur- 
den upon the retail trade, because it had l^een the cus- 
tom of many retailers to make a lower price during the 
summer months than during the balance of the year so 
that they might keep their teams and men employed. 

Appeals to the Fuel Administration at Washington 
were met with the response that any objections to the 
Octol^er 1st plan would have to be referred to the State 
Fuel Administrations, all of which had not at that time 
been appointed. Chicago became the center of the piv- 
otal attack upon the October 1st order. The Chicago 
Coal ^lerchants' Association, representing the leading 
retailers of tliat citj', insisted that the order was unfair, 
unjust and unworkable. The contention was made that 



the order, if literally enforced, would compel the re- 
tailers to accept margins that would not be properly 
remunerative, for not only had the 1915 prices been 
greatly depressed in that city, but it was contended 
there, as in many other places, that the 30 per cent, 
increase g-ranted over the 1915 margins did not fairly 
represent the actual increase in the cost of conducting 
business as between the two periods. The legal point 
was raised that the order was contrary to the section of 
the Lever Act, from which Dr. Garfield derived his 
powers, in that that section provided "that the prices to 
be paid for such products shall be based upon a fair and 
just profit," and that "in fixing such prices for dealers 
the commission shall allow the cost to the dealer and 
shall add thereto a just and reasonable sum for his profit 
in the transaction." 

Chicago System Finally Adopted. 

The State Fuel Administration of Illinois, before 
whom the problem was placed, passed it on to the con- 
sideration of the Cook County x\dvisor, Eaymond E. 
Durham. Mr. Durliam asked the coal men to lay all 
their facts and figures before him, and as a result of 
his investigation of the situation presented to him, 
the 30 per cent, basis of the October 1st order was cast 
aside for the principle of gross margins based upon 
existing costs of doing business. This basis as made 
effective in Chicago November 10, 1917, has since been 
generally adopted throughout tlie country. 

The Status of the Jobber. 

As has been indicated, one of the storm centers in the 
question of regulation has been the status of the coal 
jol3ber or wholesaler. This branch of the industry has 
felt itself particularly circumscribed with the various 
limitations placed upon its activities, not only by the 
regulations of the Fuel Administration. Init also by 
the fact that the great demand for coal from all sides, a 
demand where the buyer has sought the seller, instead 
of the seller the buyer, has deprived it of a large share 
of the tonnage that was formerly distributed through 
jol3bing channels. Prior to the Lane-Peabody price 
agreement, the jobber who either represented the smaller 
producers whose tonnage did not justify the mainte- 
nance of an independent sales organization, large pro- 
ducers in distributing centers far removed from the 
mines, or handled surplus output of producing com- 
panies that also maintained selling organizations or 
functioned in all three cases, had received, in the ma- 
jority of cases at least, his compensation out of the mine 
price. In other words, the price to the consumer was 
presumably the same, whether he purchased his coal 
from the operator or through a jol)ber. Indeed one of 
the most frequent complaints of producing interests an- 



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ta>;'iini>tic in llu' jol.liiiii: cli'iuciU oi ihc ti'inlc \\;i> lliat 
(.•i)ns\iiiu>rs roiild Iniy thoir coal Iroiii a joIiIht at a price 
lower than tliat iiuulo bv the oporatois in the same liehh 
The Lano-1'eabody agreement fi-\i>il inaxiniiiin eompeii- 
satioii for the jobber at 'i') cents ])er ton over and above 
the niaximuni mine price. 

From tiiis point the real struggles of tlu' jobbei- for 
an existence liegan. The addition of the commission to 
tne }nine price would, of course, under nornud condi- 
tions place the jobber at a disadvantage in competition 
for trade, but under the .stress of wartime circum.stances 
it operated to deprive him of a portion of his tonnage 
through the creation of new sales companies affiliated 
with the producing interests. These com])anies would 
absorb the extra 25 cents. Aside from this the status 
of the jobber was made artificial : heretofore it had been 
po.ssible to draw a broad line between the production 
and the distribution of coal; the two divisions were sep- 
arate and distinct and in many cases were handled by 
two unrelated organizations. The jobber's plea for 
consideration rested i;pon the basis that he was per- 
forming a service not rendered by the producer from 
whom he purchased his coal. It was on this theory 
presumably that such prodiicers had given him prices 
below the mine basis to the consumer or retailer. The 
President's proclamation, while recognizing the jobber 
as an institution, reduced his commission and contin- 
ued his artificial status by telling him to look to the 
purchaser instead of the seller for his remuneration. 

The difficulties of the jobber were further increased 
by a number of restrictive regulations, governing the 
prices at wliicli coal purchased from the mine prior to 
Augiist 21, 1917, but not sold to the consumer, and on 
coal sold to the jobber's customers and the consumer 
prior to that date, but not purchased from the mine, 
might be invoiced. These regulations provided that fhe 
jobber, ^vho had contracted to buy coal at or below the 
maximum government price, but had no contract to 
sell such coal, should not dispose of it at a price higher 
than the contract figure plus the jobber's commission. 
At file same time, the jobber who had a contract for 
delivery to his customer at a jjrice higher than the gov- 
ernment maximum plus the jobber's commission was 
prohibited from filling this with coal purchased at the 
government price, while a jobber having a contract to 
purchase coal at a price in excess of the government 
maximum when not protected by a contract with his 
own customer antedating August 23 was forced to sell 
such coal at the government maximum plus the joblier's 
connnission. 

Although certain modifications were later made in a 
portion of these rules, the general restrictions, both 
because of these regulations and the sales conditions pic- 
tured, showed no material relaxation. While it is gen- 
erally conceded by all of the jobl)ing interests that an 
ideal solution would have been: 



■•"ii'st. to e>Ialili>h a llal mint' price to lie ])aid by 
the ultimate carload buyer, whether i)urchase was 
made fidin an operator or jobbing company. 

Second, that the jobber receive proper compensa- 
tion from the producing coin|)any, and. 

Third, that the producing companies be required to 
distribute through the jobbing channels the same per- 
centage of their tonnage that they had distributed 
j)rior to the war. 

As.sent of the [)roducing interests to such a program 
seemed .so remote that when in February, 1918, Dr. 
Carfield announced that beginning A])ril 1st jobbers' 
commissions would be abolished and a fiat mine price 
established, leaving the jobber to look to the operator 
for such allowances fj'om the government maximum as 
the operator might see fit to make, the jobbing interests 
declared that their very existence was at stake and 
started such a campaign against the enforcement of this 
regulation that the order was finally withdrawn before 
it ever became effective and the much criticised pur- 
chasing agent scheme was substituted in its stead. This 
plan, incorporated in the Presidential proclamation 
under date of March 15, 1918, required all persons, 
firms, corporations and associations, "except those spe- 
cifically exempt by the Lever Act, producers and miners 
of coal and manufacturers of coke, distributing exclu- 
sively their own product and retail dealers engaged in 
the business of distributing coal or coke as jobber, 
broker, seller, iJurchasing agent, wholesaler, or in any 
capacity whatsoever" to secure a license to do business. 
The regulations issued by Fuel Administrator Garfield 
regarding the licensing of distributors deprived a li- 
censee owning the coal sold of the right to charge in 
excess of the government price, except in the case of 
re-screened anthracite, and allowed him, when acting as 
a purchasing agent of coal for and by authority of the 
retail dealer or consumer, to charge 15 cents per net ton 
on bitun:iinous, 5 per cent, of the delivered price on 
smithing, 20 cents per gross ton on anthracite east of 
Buffalo, and 30 cents per gross ton on deliveries west 
of Buffalo, plus 5 cents when licensee incurred the ex- 
pense of re-screening at Atlantic or lake ports for trans- 
shipment bv water. It also provided that where moi'c 
than one purchasing agent licensee was involved in the 
transaction the combined brokerage charge should not 
exceed the figures above given. Special regulations have 
since been issued with respect to the handling of lake 
cargo coal. 

The practical effect of the licensing regulation has 
been to compel every jobber to act as a purchasing 
agent, as the cases where he has been able to derive his 
compensation from the operator and so sell at the max- 
imum government price have been exceptional. Al- 
though various eft'orts have been made to change the 
rituation, tliey were unsuccessful. 



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The Production Plan of 1918. 

For the first eight mouths of its existence, aside fronr 
its campaigns for conservation, including the lightless 
nights orders and the restrictions on consumption with- 
in certain industries, the work of the United States 
Fuel Administration was primarily- one of price regu- 
lation. The severity of weather conditions during the 
M'inter of 1917-18 caused it to exercise a species of piece- 
meal control over distribution, but the supervision was 
largely confined to special commandeering of shipments 
to meet local individual conditions. With the begin- 
ning of the coal year of 1918-19, however, the Fuel Ad- 
ministration, co-operating with the United States Eail- 
road Administration, took complete charge of distribu- 
tion through the promulgation of the zoning system for 
the movement of bituminous coal, while the Anthracite 
Committee of the Fuel Administration reached the 
same end with respect to anthracite distribution by the 
allofjnent system first annomiced in May, 1918. 

As has been indicated in a preceding paragraph, be- 
fore the World War the distribution of coal had been 
unhampered by governmental regulation. Economic and 
transportation conditions had led to a predominating 
westbound movement of tonnage, but, except for the 
absence of favorable rates, there was no prohibition 
against a reversal of this process. Indeed, under the 
stress of the war demands of the eastern states, Illinois 
coal moved to Connecticut and New York, to JMichigan 
and to Canada. The widespread Avestern distribution 
of eastern coal and the trans-Mississippi sale of Illinois 
coal had been fostered and encouraged by the railroad 
companies serving the various mining fields. The Fuel 
Administration, following the bitter experiences of the 
winter of 1917-18, when the transportation breakdown 
and pronounced car shortage had intensified the coal 
difficulties of the country, determined that production 
could be increased and transportation facilities con- 
served by limiting, as far as possible, the sale of coal 
from a particular district or districts to the territory 
most adjacent to such mining centers. 



Zone System of Distribution. 

"■Heretofore,"' to (juote the words of the Fuel Admin- 
istration in making public this plan, "coal has been dis- 
tributed practically without regard to the distance be- 
tween the mine and the consumer. Under the zone sys- 
tem coal will be distributed to consuming territory un- 
der restrictions that will avoid as far as possible waste 
of transportation facilities, l)ut nevertheless consistent 
A\itb the maintenance of the greatest possible produc- 
tion and a proper coal supply to all coal users. We 
must have adequate coal supply in order to win the war, 
for otlierwise we can not make jnunitions or other war 
supplies or buihl ships or use them when built. 



"The general effect of the zone system is to restrict 
eastern coal to eastern markets and to fill the vacancy 
in the central and western states Avith near-by coal pro- 
duced in those states. In addition to the saving in 
transportation, the system will provide for the possible 
i-etention of something like 5,000,000 tons of coal for 
the eastern states which have heretofore gone west, all 
rail. As an indication of the saving to be effected by 
the system, it will eliminate the movement of more than 
2,000,000 tons of Pocahontas coal to Chicago and other 
western points over a haul of about 660 miles. Chicago 
can obtain this tonnage of coal, and rmder this system 
must obtain most of it, from southern Illinois mines, 
with an average haul of 312 miles. AlloAA'ing for the 
differences in quality in the two coals there will be thus 
saved 11,400,000 car miles, or very conservatively fig- 
ured 285,000 car days. This will permit 11: additional 
round trips of 20 days each from West Virginia mines 
to zone destinations, permitting an additional produc- 
tion of at least 700,000 tons of Pocahontas coal. 

"Similar comparisons show that on the movement of 
550,000 tons annually from Kanawha districts to Wis- 
consin- points there can be saved about 2,500,000 car 
miles, or with a consequent increased production of 
some 300,000 tons. On the movement from southeast- 
ern Kentucky to Chicago the saving will be about 
800,000 car miles and 50,000 tons production. The 
elimination of the Indiana to Iowa movement will save 
1,600,000 car miles and permit 100,000 tons additional 
production. These are only a few of the instances of 
transportation saving to be effected by the system. 

"The movement of bituminous coal which is regu- 
lated by the zone system is about 300,000,000 tons, or 
60 per cent, of the total production. Based on this pro- 
duction there will be saved on the round trip from and 
to the mines almost 160,000,000 car miles. This will 
permit the same cars to make almost 300,000 addi- 
tional trips from the mines, equivalent to an increase 
of five per cent, in the production. The increase in 
total production in 1917 over 1916 resulting from all 
efforts was about eight per cent. 

"A large part of the coal which the system will pre- 
vent from moving west out of the eastern producing dis- 
tricts will be available for use in Xew England, inso- 
far as it can be transported there. Production in the 
districts supplying New England via all-rail routes can 
be increased somewhat, but there is difficulty in mov- 
ing by all-rail routes the amount of coal needed and the 
capacity of the rail gateways to New England has been 
nearly reached. Improvements now being made Avill 
increase the capacity of the Poughkeepsie liridge route, 
but it is impossible to escape the conclusion that pi'o- 
vision must be made for a larger movement by water 
in 1918 than in 1917 or New England and its people 
and industries will suffer. 

"The restrictions imposed upon the movement of coal 
by the zone system will make necessarv some readjust- 



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mciils ill furl [irmlircs in varimis (•(iiniiiiiiiiTics alTi'ct^'il 
liv ihcso lost rift inns. The Fuel Admisistrator conli- 
ileiitlv expects tlie patriotic co-operation of everv coal 
coiisiiiiier who luav he iiicomeiiiciucd hy the use ol' I'uel 
to which he is not acciistoine(l. The vast purposes to he 
served hv the savin,ii-s which the system effects will un- 
douhtedlv coiiiiuand tlic support of every user of coal." 
The zoning- plan divided the producing districts and 
(Jreat T.akes" docks, with the exception of those in the 
Kocky ^Mountain and Tacific Coast states, into lo dis- 
tricts, each designated liy letters. In hrief. these zones 
were as follows: 

Zone A — Producing districts in Arkansas, Iowa.; Kansas, 
Missouri and Oklahoma. 

Zone B — Lake Michigan and Lake Superior Coal Docks. 

Zone C — Illinois mines. 

Zone D — Indiana mines. 

Zone E — Western Kentucky mines. 

Zone F — Virginia mines on Louisville & Nashville R. R.; 
eastern Kentuckj^ mines on Louisville & Nashville, the 
Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific and short line 
connections; Tennessee mines on the Cumberland Valley 
division of the Louisville & Nashville and on the Middles- 
borough R. R. 

Zone G — Tennessee and Georgia mines; Kentucky mines 
of the Louisville & Nashville main line and branches con- 
necting at and south of Corbin and on the Cincinnati, New 
Orleans & Texas Pacific south of Somerset; all Black 
Mountain and Stonega district mines in Lee, Wise and 
western Russell counties in Virginia, on the Louisville & 
Nashville, Virginia & Southwestern, Interstate, Norfolk & 
Western, Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio railroads and their 
short line connections. 

Zone H — Alabama mines. 

Zone K — Ohio mines. 

Zone L — West Virginia high volatile field; mines on the 
Kanawha & Michigan, Kanawha & West Virginia and Coal 
& Coke (west of Dundon) railways. 

Zone M— West Virginia high volatile and Kentucky dis- 
tricts in the Thacker, Kenova and Kanawha fields on the 
Norfolk & Western and Chesapeake & Ohio railways and 
Kentucky mines in the eastern Kentucky districts on the 
Chesapeake & Ohio, Sandy Valley & Elkhorn and Norfolk 
& Western railways and connections. 

Zone N — Low volatile fields of West Virginia and Vir- 
ginia, viz., mines in the Pocahontas, Tug River and New 
River districts on the Norfolk & Western, Chesapeake & 
Ohio and Virginian railways and short line connections; 
mines in the high volatile Clinch Valley district in Taze- 
well and eastern Russell counties, Virginia along the Nor- 
folk & Western and Virginian railways. 

Zone N — All mines in northern West Virginia, Pennsyl- 
vania and Maryland on the Baltimore & Ohio, Western 
Maryland and Coal & Coke railways. 

Except for the movement of railroad fuel, coal via 
inland waterways other than the Great Lakes (move- 
ment to which, for trans-shipment only, was confined 
to coals from mines in the Pittsbnrgh, Connellsville, 
Westmoreland, Altoona, Meyersdale or northern Penn- 
sylvania districts; Fairmont, Kanawha, Ivenova- 
Thacker, Kew Eiver. Pocahontas, West Virginia dis- 
tricts; Ohio; Hazard and McEoherts fields, and L. & 



X. and ('.. X. (). \- 'i\ I', mines in soulherii Kentucky) 
and coal, moving under permit from the United States- 
Fuel Administration for gas, hy-products, metallur- 
gical and smithing purposes, the limitations placed upon 
the sources of supply from whicli each stale could draw 
hv this ])lan were as follows; 

Consuming State. Producing Zones Open to State. 

Alabama G-, H. 

Arkansas A, C*, E*, H*. 

Arizona S* *. 

California S* '■'. 

Colorado S* '■'■'. 

Delaware P. 

District of Columbia. .N, P. 

Florida G*, P. 

Georgia G. H. 

Idaho S* *. 

Illinois C, D*, E*. 

Indiana C*, D*, E*, F*, K*, L*, M*. 

Iowa A*, B*, C*. 

Kansas A. 

Kentucky C*, D*, 'E'--, F*, M*, N-^. 

Louisiana A*, C*, E, H. 

Maryland P. 

Michigan B (upper peninsula), D*, F (lower 

peninsula), K*, L (lower penin- 
sula, M (lower peninsula). 

Minnesota B, C*. 

Mississippi E, H. 

Missouri A, C*. 

Montana S* *. 

Nebraska A and Colorado and Wyoming^ 

mines. 

Nevada S* *. 

New England States.. N (water movement), P. 

New Jersey N (water movement), P. 

New Mexico S* •■'. 

New York N (water movement), P. 

North Carolina G, N. 

North Dakota B, and North Dakota, Montana 

and Wyoming. 

Ohio F*, K*, M*, N"S P (Pennsylvania 

and West Virginia, Panhandle 
districts only). 

Oklahoma A. 

Oregon S'-' *. 

Pennsylvania P. 

South Dakota B, C* and North Dakota, Wyom- 
ing and Montana. 

Tennessee C*, E*, G*, H*. 

Texas A*, E*, H*. 

South Carolina G, N*. 

Utah S* *. 

Virginia G'% M*, N. 

Washington S* *. 

West Virginia L*, M*, N*, P. 

Wisconsin B-, C*, D*, E*. 

Wyoming S* *. 



'•'Indicates that only a portion of the state is open to 
zone named; where territory has been so limited, detailed 
boundaries have been defined by the Fuel Administration. 

**Arbitrary designation, not listed in Fuel Administra- 
tion order, but covering the mines in Colorado, Montana, 
New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming, to 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



which, under the general order of zoning, the Rocky 
Mountain and Pacific Coast states must loolt for their 
fuel supplies. 

While there have l:)een a numher of modifications in 
the boundaries of the territories open to each of the pro- 
ducing zones since ,the system was first promulgated, 
in its essential outlines it remained without alteration. 
The modifications effected have been the result of in- 
creased production within particular zones, such as in 
Zone C, necessitating a widening of the markets to 
which Illinois coal could be shipped, or a narrowing 
of the limits because of increased demand in territory 
more or less contiguous to the mines. How radical the 
steps taken have been will appear from a comparison of 
the zone limits with the pre-war sources of supplies 
shown under individual state headings later. 

The United States Fuel Administration. 

At the time the United States Fuel Administration 
was first organized, in the late summer of 1917, the 
sentiment of the coal trade towards it could not be said 
to be overly cordial. This was traceable in part to the 
political criticisms that were indulged in prior to the 
passage of the Lever Act and to the fact that, at the 
outset, the personnel, if not anti-coal, was largely made 
up of men who Avere without practical experience in the 
various branches of the coal industry. This has been 
changed. Responsible positions have been filled by 
practical coal men with an increasing smoothness of 
operation and a deepening respect for the plans and 
policies of the Administration on the part of the coal 
trade. This was strikingly emphasized in the results 
obtained in the campaign to increase production under- 
taken in the summer of 1918, when the bituminous coal 
increase for July, August and September over the cor- 
responding months in 1917 was over 17 per cent. 

Although federal regulation has touched almost every 
phase of the coal industry, its outstanding features may 
be summarized as follows: 

1. Eegulation of Prices. 

2. Eegulation of Distribution. 

3. Eegulation of Production. 

1. tk'gulation of prices has covered the sale of coal 
from the mine to the retailer. While the initial price 
fixing for the mines under the Lever Act was hastily 
executed and in the majority of cases unsatisfactory to 
the producers, subsequent modifications made by the 
United States Fuel Administration have placed the 
schedules upon a basis that is, for the most part, ac- 
cepted as just and reasonable by the operators from the 
cost basis. The weakness of the government scheme 
lies in a substantial disregard of figures from the quality 
basis of prices. Looking at the question from the cost of 



producing coal, rather than from the intrinsic quality 
of the coal produced, it has frequently happened that 
coals which under normal times commanded higher 
prices in the open market because of their superior qual- 
ities are subject to a lower maximum selling price than 
less attractive coals that may, because of thinness of 
seam or other mining conditions, cost more per ton to 
produce. Criticism has also been made because of the 
narrow spread betwen the prices on prepared sizes and 
those applicable upon run of mine. Many mines in the 
past have spent vast sums in building plants to improve 
the preparation of the coal mined and this was not 
taken into account in the original prices. Some recog- 
nition has been given to this since that time, however, 
in the extra allowance made for special preparation. 

The regulation of prices from the point of view of the 
jobber has been less successful. While, upon certain 
classes of business, the 15-cent commission originally 
allotted would have been ample, upon other classes, and 
particularly scattered domestic tonnage in central and 
western states, it has proved non-compensatory. The 
artificial status of the jobber under the first plan, as 
well as the purchasing agency scheme, has been dis- 
cussed more in detail in earlier paragraphs. To this, 
as a factor, must be added the volume of tonnage han- 
dled. This, as has been pointed out, has been curtailed 
so that commissions remunerative under a normal vol- 
ume of business have become otherwise with a reduction 
in tonnage. 

Eetail price regulation has, in the long run, turned 
out to be a financial benefit to the retail coal merchant. 
The basis first announced, 130 per cent, of the 1915 
gross margins, was unworkable and soon discredited for 
the fixing of margins based upon actual, present day 
costs. As in the case of mine prices this system of reg- 
ulation has forced upon the coal men a closer study of 
the costs of doing business. E. N. Hurley, when chair- 
man of the Federal Trade Commission, began the 
preaching of this doctrine of "know your costs" to the 
business men of the country; the price fixing under 
the Fuel Administration drove home to the coal men 
the necessity of embracing this doctrine. 

2. Until the promulgation of the zoning scheme, reg- 
ulation of distribution was piece-meal, conflicting and 
confusing. Although the zoning plan has meant the 
disruption of many long established trade relations, it 
has accomplished its purpose of saving transportation 
and thereby increasing production. It has not, however, 
stopped with zoning for producing districts in the bitu- 
minous coal fields and the allotment to states of definite 
quotas of anthracite for domestic consumption, but has 
been augmented further, first by the priority classifica- 
tions of the War Industries Board, which has determined 
the relative right of various inditstries, public ittilities 
and domestic consumers to receive coal and, second, by 
the storage limitation orders of the United States Fuel 
Administration, which have fixed the maximum amount 



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COAL M1-:X OF AMERICA 



of coal industries in iliirt'ivnt pails of \hv coiiiitrv inav 
luni' in slora.iio at any our tinir. Anthrai-itc distri'.ui- 
tiou has lu'i'ii further eoutrulleil liy Washington, in tlie 
utteraiue of an order requiring a dealer to make deliv- 
eries of two-tliirds' to all householders consuming lour 
tons or more liefore any consumer receives his entire 
quota of this fuel and this scheme has heeu further 
expanded in indi\idnal eonimunities hy limiting deliv- 
eries to consumers with specilied types of heating equip- 
ment. In many cases, it has heen ordered that a cer- 
tain percentage of hituminous coal must be bought in 
order to receive anthracite. In some states communities 
have l)een deprived of anthracite altogether. 

3. Aside from the aid to production in the zoning 
plan the T'nited States Fuel Administration launched 
an intensive personal campaign among the mine work- 
ers and mine managers to induce them to boost output 
as an aid to winning the war. This work, under the 
direction of James B. Xeale, assisted by a corps of prac- 
tical coal men. has been very successful. In addition to 



swelling production, special elVnrts have been made to 
increase the \aliu- of the actual coal su])ply of the coun- 
try by teaching economy in consumption in house- 
hdldcrs and imlustrial consumers ami, in some cases, 
coal supplies to certain lines of iudusliy luive been cur- 
tailed or entirody cut off. 

.\lthonL;li the general |)owers of the Tnited States 
Fuel Administration, as now con.stituted under the pro- 
visions of the Lever Act "shall cease to be in effect when 
the existing state of war belween the I'liifed States and 
Germany shall have terminated, and the fact and date 
of such termination shall be ascertained and proclaimed 
by the President,'' it seems prol)able that some degree 
of sui)ervision will be exercised for some time after 
the President's proclamation. 

There are economic and legal points involved in the 
return of coal to a peace basis that are beyond the scope 
of this introduction. Whatever the outcome this is cer- 
tain : The coal industry during the Great War was rec- 
og-nized for what it is, the World's Greatest Iiulustrv. 



Coal Industry Better Understood 



A Short Statement from Washington. 



The most fateful thing that can happen to an in- 
dustry is to be generally misunderstood. That un- 
doubtedly was the position of the coal industry prior to 
the war. As far as the public was concerned, a pall of 
the densest ignorance overhung the mining, the whole- 
saling and retailing of coal. With this ignorance went 
the usual concomitants — impatience, dissatisffiction, 
unfairness, and community, yes, national anger. 

The war itself brought on a tremendous strain on 
every part of the industry and much suffering that 
could hardly be avoided. Then came inquiry, then 
the facts, then the light of understanding. The fierce 
M'hite light of publicity beat in upon this industry which 
is so essential to civilization. The people began to see 
the difficulties with which the miners, the operators 
and the retailers had to contend. It suddenly dawned 
upon the public what an important and necessary fac- 
tor coal was to our very lives, our civilization. Then 
came the magnificent response of the miners to our 



war needs, a thing ^unparalleled in our history; also 
came the sacrifice of the indiyidual so that the war 
could be carried on successfully and to such a glorious 
finish, and there is no brighter page in history than 
this. Finally came the great conservation movement 
with its saying of millions of tons tlii'ough intelligent 
eft'ort. 

The result today is that the entire industry is better 
understood than ever before; the doubt which led to 
misgivings and anger have disappeared and the peace 
and content that always ought to exist between a great 
industry and the people has been achieved. 

It is now your problem — made easier than ever be- 
fore after coming through the fire of ordeal. What are 
vou going to do about it? 

VAjST H. MANJfING, 

Director Bureau of Mines, 
Department of the Interior. 



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ALABAMA 



ALABAMA, which ranks high among the Southern 
states in the production of coal, leads all of the 
commonwealths in that section of the country in 
the consumption of fuel within its own borders. Secon- 
dariljf this may be attributed to the iron and steel enter- 
prises that have given its principal city the significant 
designation, "the Pittsburgh of the South," but primar- 
ily the home utilization of its vast ore deposits is due to 
the high quality coking coals mined from the beds 
within the state. This is illustrated in striking fashion 
by a comparison of the operations in the three leading 
iron ore states. Minnesota, with no coal of its own, 
marketed 32,545,336 long tons of ore in 1916, but had 
only three Ijlast furnaces ; Michigan, with a small coal 
production, marketed 13,664,437 long tons of iron ore 
and had 12 blast furnaces reporting, while Alabama, 
with an iron ore production of 5,134,995 long tons — 
third in the list of iron producing states — reported 47 
furnaces. 

From the point of view of fuel consumption Alabama is 
self-sustaining to a degree approached by but one other 
major coal producing state. Exclusive of railroad fuel 
and steamship bunker coal, approximately 49 per cent, 
of the Alabama production is burned within the state. 
Home consumption records are, it is true, ex- 
ceeded by half a dozen other states upon a per- 
centage record, but not upon actual tonnage fig- 
ures. The remarkable fact, however, is that the 49 per 
cent, of the Alabama production referred to represented 
more than 97.6 ]Der cent, of the total bituminous coal 
consumed in 1915 by general industrial and domestic 
users in that state. While Alabama was giving such 
signal recognition to home products, 15 other states, ex- 
tending from the Pacific to the Atlantic coast, were 
also testifying to the woi-fh of the Alabama fuel, con- 
suming, during the period named, 14 per cent, of the 
Alabama output. The railroads used 34 per cent, and 3 
per cent, was shipped to tidewater. 

The coal fields of Alabama, covering an area of ap- 
proximately 6,000 square miles in the northern part of 
the state, form the southwestern end of the Appalachian 
coal region. The United States Geological Survey di- 
vides the helds into four distinct coal producing basins, 
viz., the Coosa, Cahaba, Warrior and Plateau. The 
first three are named after the rivers that drain them, 
while the Plateau field includes Bloimt, Lookout and 



Sand (or Eacoon) mountains. The general location, 
area and characteristics of these divisions are described 
oy the Survey as follows: 

"The Coosa basin is a deep syncline forming the 
southeastern margin of the Alabama coal fields and ex- 
tending across Shelby and St. Clair counties. It is 60 
miles long by six miles wide and contains about 350 
square miles. This basin has not been thoroughly ex- 
plored and the number and extent of its coal beds are 
not well known, but, in different parts, two to 12 beds 
are reported having a thickness of three feet or more. 

"The Cahaba basin is also a syncline west of the 
Coosa basin, to which it is parallel and from whicli it is 
separated by a faulted anticline. It includes parts of 
St. Clair, Jeilerson, Shelby and Bibb counties. Its 
length is 68 miles, its average width about six miles and 
its area 394 square miles. There are many workable 
beds and the total quantity of coal in the basin is large. 

"The Warrior basin is separated from the Cahaba 
basin and Blount mountains by Jones and Murphrees 
valleys. It includes all of Walker county, most of Jef- 
ferson, Tuscaloosa and Fayette counties, and smaller 
parts of Bount, Cullman, Winston and Marion counties. 
Its known area is estimated at 4,000 square miles. 

"The Plateau field embraces parts of Blount, Etowah, 
Dekalb, Cherokee, Marshall and Jackson counties and is 
upward of 3,000 square miles in extent. The coal re- 
sources of this field are not well known, but they are 
comparatively small. There are believed to be from four 
to six beds that are locally workable." 

Of the divisions named, the Warrior basin has been 
and is by far the most important commercially. It con- 
tains the famous Blue Creek, Mary Lee and Pratt beds, 
from which are produced coking coals that have made 
Alabama one of the most important iron producing 
states. Over 60 per cent, of the total production in the 
Birmingham district comes from these three beds, their 
percentage contributions to the total ranking in reverse 
order to the naming in the sentence preceding. Eight 
or ten other beds furnish the remainder of the pro- 
duction. 

The earliest record of coal production in Alabama 
dates back to 1834. Output was first reported in the 
United States Census for 1840, when the state, among 
the first to have production recorded, was credited with 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



an output of 946 tons. Figures between that dale and 
18()U are estimated in the government reports. In 1860, 
according to Census figures, the production was ]0.'200 
tons. Actual records are again lacking until 1870, when 
an increase of only 800 tons over 1860 was reported. 
Expansion of production proceeded at a modest pace un- 
til 18T4. when tlie output was 44,800 tons, against 16,800 
tons the year preceding. Between 1873 and 1883, pro- 
duction advanced to 89().000 tons. The development of 
the iron resources of tlie Birmingliam district, wliich 
began on a large scale in 1883, pushed production up to 
l..")()8.000 tons. Output since that date is .shown in the 
followiiiir table: 



Year. Ton. 

1884 2.240,000 

1885 2,492,000 

1886 1,800,000 

1887 1,950,000 

1888 2,900,000 

1889 3,572,983 

1890 4.090,409 

1891 4,759,781 

1S92 5,529,312 

1893 5,136,935 

1894 4.397,178 

1895 5,693,775 

1896 5,748,697 

1897 5,893,770 

1898 6,535,283 

1899 7,593,416 

1900 8,394,275 



Year. Ton. 

1901 9,099,052 

1902 10,354,570 

1903 11,654,324 

1904 11,262,046 

1905 11,866,069 

1906 13,107,963 

1907 14,250,454 

1908 11,604,593 

1909 13,703,450 

1910 16,111,462 

1911 15,021,421 

1912 16,100,600 

1913 17,678,522 

1914 15,593,422 

1915 14,927,937 

1916 18,086,197 



Figures covering detailed distribution for 191.5, the 
only year prior to the war for which .statistics are avail- 
able, show that the total production in Alabama at that 
time was 14,927,937 tons. Of this tonnage, 7,347,886 
tons were consumed within the state : 53.5,340 were 
l)urned at the mines, 289,239 tons were sold locally, 
1,780,872 tons were coked at the mines, while 4,742,435 
tons were shipped to points within the state. The rail- 
roads purchased 5,072,435 tons. Tidewater shipment 
(23.641 tons for foreign export, 319,307 for foreign 
buidver and 160,951 tons for domestic bunker) accounted 
for 503,899 tons. 

Louisiana was the largest interstate customer that 
year, u.«ing 717,437 tons out of the total of 2,003,717 
tons shipped interstate. i\Iississippi came second with 
596,218 tons; Georgia, third, 363,572 tons. Arkansas 
received 10,450 tons; California, 292; Florida. 108,782; 
Missouri, 3,519; the Carolinas, 475; Oklahoma, 713; 
Oregon, 190; Tennessee, 161,754; Texas, 39,987; Vir- 
ginia, 307 tons, and Washington, 21 tons. 

As mentioned in an earlier paragraph, over 97.6 per 
cent, of the total l)ituminous coal consumption of Ala- 
l)ama is taken care of by the mines in the state. The 
1915 bituminous coal consumption (exclusive of railroad 
and steamship lousiness) totaled 7,524,540 tons. Ala- 
bama furnished 7,347,886 tons ; Georgia, 36 ; Kentucky, 
56,913 ; Tennessee, 48,942 ; Virginia, 67,961, and West 
Virginia, 2,800 tons. In addition, the state called upon 
Pennsvlvania for 8.100 tons of anthracite. 



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JESSE M. OVERTON, Nashville, Tennessee, 

President Alabama Fuel & Iron Co., Nashville, was born in 
Pulaski, Tennessee, July 25, 1863, and has been in the coal 
business thirty-one years. He is Treasurer of the Rocky 
River Coal & Coke Co. Mr. Overton was formerly Vice 
President and General Manager of the Bon Air Coal & Iron 
Co. He is one of the prominent coalmen in the South and 
has extensive financial interests. 




CHARLES FAIRCHILD DE BARDELEBEN, Birmi]iii;liam. 

Vice President and General Manager Alabama Fuel & 
Iron Co., Brown-Marx Building-, Birmingham, Alabama, is 
also President of the Margaret Coal & Sales Co. and 
has been in the coal business for twenty-flve years. He 
was born in Prattville, Alabama, July 4, 1874. He has 
recently filled the position of President of the Birmingham 
Chamber of Commerce and is highly regarded in both civic 
and coal trade circles. He is a son of Col. H. F. De Bardele- 
ben, who located and named the first coal seam found in 
Alabama, and founded Pratt City and Bessemer, Alabama; 
also one of the organizers of the Tennessee Coal, Iron & 
Railroad Co. 




WILLIAM CARSON ADAMS, Birmingham, Alabama. 

Manager of Sales Alabama Fuel & Iron Co. and Margaret 
Coal & Sales Co., 1242 Brown-Marx Building, Birmingham, 
was born in Bowling Green, Kentucky, November 17, 1S81, 
and has been in the coal business eighteen years. He was 
formerly connected with the Galloway Coal Co., Memphis, 
Tennessee. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





JAJIES BONNYMAN, Birmingham, Alabama, 

President of the Bonnyman-Norman Coal Co., Brown-Marx 
Building-, Birmingham, Ala., was born July 9, 1879, at Lex- 
ington, Kentucky, and has been in the coal business for fif- 
teen years. Mr. Bonnyman is also President of the Brook- 
side Pratt Mining Co. and the Supreme Mining Co. He was 
formerly connected with the Durham Coal & Coke Co., 
Stearns Coa.1 Co. and Birmingham Coal & Iron Co. He is a 
member American Society Civil Engineers and American 
Institute Mining Engineers. 



L 

.lOSE^FH A. IVORMAN, Blrminj^liam, Alabama, 

Vice President of the Bonnyman-Norman Coal Co., 730 
Brown-Marx Building, Birmingham, Alabama, has been 
in the coal business twelve years and is Vice President 
of the Supreme Mining Co. Mr. Norman was formerly Gen- 
eral Sales Agent for the Birmingham Coal & Iron Co. He 
Has born in Knoxville, Tennessee, February 9, 1875. The 
Bonnyman-Norman Coal Co. was org^anized in 1911 and does 
a general wholesale coal business. On April 1, 1918, Mr. 
Norman and others organized the Bonnyman-Norman Sales 
Co., Inc., of which he was elected Vice President, to conduct 
a general sales agency and coal purchasing agency. 





JAMES LAFAYETTE DAVIDSON, Birminj^ham, Alabama, 

Secretary-Treasurer of the Alabama Coal Operators' Asso- 
ciation, Birmingham, Alabama, is also General Counsel, 
Secretary and Director of the Yolande Coal & Coke Co., the 
New Connellsville Coal & Coke Co., and the Abernant Coal 
Co. Mr. Davidson was born in Centreville, Alabama, Sep- 
tember 2, 1880. He has been interested in the coal business 
fourteen years, although the practice of law is his principal 
yocation. 



ASA LiYMAlV HOYT, Birmingham, Alabama, 

President Tahaba Red Ash Coal Co., Birmingham, was born 
April 3, 1878, in Atlanta, Georg-ia, and has been in the coal 
business over twenty years. He was formerly a member of 
the firm of H. O, Hoyt & Son. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





WILLIAM S. LOV^ELL, Birmin^^ham, Alabama, 

President of the Montevallo Mining Co.. American Trust 
Building, Birmingham, Alabama, has been actively in- 
terested in the coal industry for twenty-five years. He is 
also President of the Black Creek Coal & Mining Co. and 
Director of the Bessemer Coal, Iron & Land Co. Mr. Lovell 
was born at Natchez, Mississippi, October 20, 1861. 



JAMES W. aiaeaUEEN, Biiiiiinsham, Alabama, 

Vice President and Sales Manager Sloss-ShefReld Steel & 
Iron Co., American Trust Building, Birmingham, Alabama, 
was born April 15, 1866, in Society Hill, South Carolina. 
He has been connected with railroads and coal companies 
continuously for thirty-two years. Prior to his connection 
with his present company he was with the Cahaba Coal 
Mining Co. for six years, froin 1885 to 1891. This company 
now produces over 2,000,000 tons of coal annually. 





ERSKINE RAMSEY, Birmlusliaiii, Alabama, 

Vice President and Chief Engineer of the Pratt Consolidated 
Coal Co., at Birmingham, Alabama, was born September 24, 
18G4, near Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania. In 1887 Mr. Ramsay 
became connected with the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Rail- 
road Co., and in 1901 was appointed to his present position. 
In addition to his mining interests, Mr. Ramsay is Director 
of the First National Bank of Birmingham, President of the 
Bank of Ensley and is interested in numerous other enter- 
prises. He is a member of the American Institute of Mining 
Engineers and was one of four engineers appointed by the 
C S. Bureau of Mines to investigate and report on coal 
mining conditions :n European collieries. 



EDGAR JAMES ROW'E, Birmingham, Alabama, 

Vice President and Treasurer of the Yolande Coal & Coke 
Co., Birmingham, Alabaina, of which concern he was until 
I'ecently the Sales Manager, was formerly connected with 
the Sloss-ShefReld Steel & Iron Co. He has been in the coal 
business since January 15, 1903. Mr. Rowe was born 
September 24, 1879, in Wilkes County, Georgia. He is 
also interested in the Hurricane Creek Coal & Coke Co. 
Mr. Rowe is very popular in trade circles and has many 
friends in the coal business. 



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COAL MEX OF AMERICA 




JAMES AVILLIAM AVHATLEY, Birmin>i;liaiii, Alabama, 

Manager of Sales for the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad 
Co. of the Coal, Coke and Fertilizer department, with gen- 
eral offices in the Brown-Marx Building-, Birmingham, Ala- 
bama. He is eleven years in the coal business. He was 
born at Idaho, Alabama, July 29, 1874, and is one of the 
most popular and progressive coalmen in the south. 



K.\OX A. CO>Vll,l,K, KiriiiiiiKiiaiii, 

Traffic and Sales Manager Pratt Con- 
solidated Coal Co., American Trust 
Building', Birmingham, Alabama, was 
born May 20, 1873. in Clay County, 
Alabama. He is also interested in the 
McCormack & Ramsay coal mining 
projects and is active in the Alabama 
Coal Operators' Association. He has 
spent tw^elve years in the coal busi- 
ness. 



DAVID ROBERTS, JR.. Birininsliam, 

President and General Manager Bril- 
liant Coal Co., American Trust Build- 
ing. Birmingham, Alabama, has been 
in the business twelve years, having 
served two years as Engineer with 
the Brushy Mountain Coal Co., and 
has been active in the Alabama Coal 
Operators' Association. He was born 
April 10, 1884, in Charleston, South 
Carolina. 



DE BARDELEBEJN COAL, CO., Birminj^haiu. 

This company is one of the leading coal 
producers in Alabama, owning 15,U0U acres 
Black Creek Coal lands in Walker County, 
forty miles northwest of Birmingham. 

The De Bardeleben Coal Co., with a capi- 
tal stock of $600,000 and 6 per cent twenty 
year serial gold bonds of $600,000, was orig- 
inally incorporated as the Maryland Coal 
& Coke Co. but the name was changed May 
1, 1915. The officers are: 

President — Henry T. De Bardeleben, Bir- 
mingham. 

Vice-President and Resident Manager at 
the Mines — Milton H. Fies, Sipsey. Alabama. 

Secretary and Treasurer — G. M. Bowers, 
Birmingham. 

Directors — I. N. Hanson, Atlanta, Georgia; 
Eugene Fies, Birmingham: T. Johnson "Ward, 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; G. M. Bowers 
and Henry T. De Bardeleben, Birmingham. 

The company produces about 300,000 tons 
annually, which is prepared in five sizes. 
The mine is modern and electrically equipped. 

The coal is well adapted to bunker pur- 
poses and the company owns the majority 
interest in W. G. Coyle & Co. of New Or- 
leans. Louisiana, who supply the bunker 
trade at that port — and have had the Uni- 
ted States Navy contract for past two years 
on their Sipsey washed steam coal. 

The inines are located at Sipsey, Alabama, 
on the Warrior river, navigable the year 
around and by which means the company 
transports with their own barges and tow- 
boats a large percentage of its coal by water 
to Mobile, Ala. 

Henry T. De Bardeleben, President, is the 
eldest son of Henry F. De Bardeleben, the 
pioneer and chief coal and iron developer 
of Alabama. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



ALABAMA— Birmingham 

CI-ARENCE SEAUS BISSELL, President Black Diamond 
Coal Mining- Co., 1926 Jefferson County Bank Building, Bir- 
mingham, Alabama, was born in Fulton, New York, January 
]6 1871. He is Treasurer and General Manager of the 
Beuoit Coal Mining Co., President of the Cordova Fuel Co., 
and Secretary and Treasurer of the Commercial Coal Mm- 
ing Co. He has been engaged in the coal business for ten 
years and has filled the position of President of the Frisco 
Coal Car Operators' Association. 

HAROLD ELMER BISSELL, 1926 Jefferson County Bank 
Building, Birmingham, Alabama, Secretary and Treasurer 
Black Diamond Coal Mining Co., is a native of Rochester, 
New York, the date of his birth being December 25, 1890. 
He has been engaged in the coal business during the past 
seven years and is Treasurer of the Cordova Fuel Co. and 
Secretary of the Benoit Coal Mining Co. 

nAUBY HEN.\f;.\.Af BROWN of D. H. Brown & Co., 
Brown-Marx Building, Birmingham, Alabama, was born 
December 23, 1873, in Sumter County, Alabama. His career 
as a coal merchant covers a period of twelve years. 

JOHN EDMUND DILWORTH of Birmingham, Alabama, 
is President and Treasurer of the Sipsey Coal Mining Co. 
and is interested in several retail coal yards in Birming- 
ham. He has been in the business thirty-seven years 
and has been connected with the loUowing companies; 
Cambria Iron Co., Johnstown, Pennsylvania; Abernant Coal 
Co.; Virginia & Alabama Coal Co.; Yolande Coal & Coke 
Co. He was born April 23, 1858, In Millstone, New Jersey. 

EUGENE A. HOLMES, Manager of Sales Roden Coal 
Co., Brown-Marx Building, Birmingham, Alabama, was born 
September 6, 1872, in Lafayette, Alabama. He has been 
in the coal business twenty-three years, having been for- 
merly with the National Coal & Coke Co. of Birmingham 
and with the Galloway Coal Co. of Memphis, Tennessee. 
Mr. Holmes is now acting as District Representative for 
the United States Fuel Administration in the Alabama 
District. 

FRANK W. HOPKINS, 218 Woodward Building, Birming- 
ham, Alabama, is President of the Isthmian Coal & Trad- 
ing Co., Vice President of the Dixie Coal Mining Co., and 
Vice President of the Carbon Hill Mining Co. Mr. Hopkins 
was formerly connected with the Palos Coal & Coke Co. 
and has been fifteen years in the business. He was born 
October 23, 1858, in Magnolia, Mississippi. 

GEORGE BRYANT McCORMACK is President of the 
Pratt Consolidated Coal Co., Birmingham, Alabama, and 
President or Vice President of several other coal companies. 
He has been President of the Alabama Coal Operators' Asso- 
ciation since its organization ten years ago. He was at 
one time connected with the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Rail- 
road Co. and is extensively interested in coal mining 
projects. He was born April 4, 1859, at Plattin, Missouri, 
and has been engaged in the coal business during the past 
thirty-seven years. Mr. McCormack has long been one of 
the most prominent factors among Alabama coal producers. 

JOHN THOMAS MORGAN, late President and Treasurer 
of the East Pratt Coal Co., Birmingham, Alabama, was 
also largely interested as an individual owner of valuable 
coal lands. Some of his former connections in the' business 
were with the Dora Coal Mining Co., the Palos Coal Co., 
and the Little "Warrior Coal & Coke Co. Mr. Morgan was 
born February 6, 1861, at Morganville. Georgia, and was 
active in the coal industry twenty-seven years, dying De- 
cember 25, 1917. He has been succeeded by his eldest son, 
Thomas William Morgan, as President and Treasurer of the 
East Pratt Coal Co. 

JOHN WILLIAM PORTER, Treasurer and General Sales 
Manager for the Alabama Coal Co., Birmingham, Alabama, 
has given fifteen years to the coal business. Prior to his 
present connection he was with the Kansas «& Texas Coal 
Co., Pittsburg, Kansas, and the Lacey-Buek Iron Co. of 
Birmingham. He was born February 17, 1873, at Grand 
Ridge, Illinois. 

EDW^ARD POWELL ROSAMOND, Birmingham, Alabama, 
is General Superintendent of the Pratt Consolidated Coal 
Co. He also is President of the Powell Coal Co., as well 
as Secretary and Treasurer of the Jagger Coal Co. For 
twenty-seven years Mr. Rosamond has been interested in 
the business, having been for some time with the Tennessee 
Coal, Iron & Railroad Co. He was born in Jasper, Alabama, 
July 31, 1869. 



JOHN EDW^ARD ROSS, Woodward Building, Birmingham, 
Alabama, is Secretary and Treasurer of the Dixie Coal Min- 
ing Co. He was born August 17, 1888. in Poplar Grove, 
Arkansas. Formerly Mr. Ross was interested as a stock- 
holder in the Commercial Coal Mining Co. and in the Al- 
toona Coal & Iron Co., being Treasurer and General Man- 
ager of the latter for some time. He likewise was connected 
with the Black Diamond Coal Mining Co. as Traffic Man- 
ager, and with the Gravlee-Lint Coal Co. and the West 
Corona Coal Co. 

HAROLD R, SANSON, 1411 American Trust Building, Bir- 
mingham, Alabama, is General Manager for the Cahaba 
Southern Coal Mining Co., and holds a similar position with 
the Warrior-Pratt Coal Co. He has been in the coal busi- 
ness sixteen years. Mr. Sanson was born in East Orange, 
New Jersey, in 1876. 



JOSEPH S. SHANNON, 850 Brown-Marx Building, Bir- 
mingham, Alabama, is President of the Ruby Coal Co. and 
of the Diamond Coal Co. He has been twenty-two years 
in the business, having organized and promoted the two 
companies mentioned, as well as the Oak Leaf Coal Co., 
in 1896. He also is interested in the Mt. Carmel Coal Co. 
Formerly he was with the Gallo^vay Coal Co., Memphis, 
Tennessee. Mr. Shannon was born August 19, 1866, in 
Union County, North Carolina. 

BERNARD R. SMITH. First National Bank Building, Bir- 
mingham, Alabama, is Manager of Sales for the Corona 
Coal & Iron Co. and the Birmingham Fuel Co. He formerly 
was with the Roden Coal Co., Marvel, Alabama, and with 
the Reid Coal Co. and Dow Coal Co.. Dallas, Texas. The 
past fifteen years have been spent by him in the coal 
business. Mr. Smith was born September 15, 1876, in San 
Augustine, Texas. 

CARL FERDINAND WITTIC'HEN is the President of the 
Wittichen Coal & Transfer Co., 12 South Twentieth St., 
Birmingham, Alabama. He is also interested in the Brook- 
side-Pratt Mining Co., Birmingham, Alabama. He has been 
five years actively in the coal business. He was born in 
Baltimore, Maryland. He was for thirteen years General 
Manager of the Kirkpatrick Sand & Cement Co. 



ALABAMA 



CHARLES PELHAM ANDERSON is the proprietor of the 
Anderson Coal Co. at Montgomery, Alabama, and has been 
engaged in the coal business for twenty-eight years. He 
was born at Montgomery February 11, 1866. 

HUGO BROWN, Mobile, Alabama, is the President of the 
Brown-Morgan Coal Co., and has been in the business five 
years. Mr. Brown is a native of Germany and was born 
February 11, 1868. Leo M. Brown, a well-known lawyer of 
Mobile, is Secretary of the coinpany. 

CASIMER PHILIP CHABERT, Corona, Alabama, is Presi- 
dent and General Manager of the Chabert Coal Co. and has 
been in the business for fourteen years. He -was born April 
6, 1877, at Hubbert, Ohio. 

SAMUEL J. CHILDERS is the senior member of the firm 
of S. J. Childers & Son at Jasper, Alabama. With his son, 
Thomas M. Childers, he has been in the co.al business for 
the past twenty years. Mr. Childers was born at Jasper 
in Deceinber, 1847. 

M.'VTT MARTIN COCHRAN, Manager Cochran Coal Co., 

1920 Alabama Avenue, Bessemer, Alabama, was born Feb- 
ruary 25, 1883, in Columbia, Tennessee. He has been en- 
gaged for five years in the coal business and is making a 
successful record for his company. 

THOMAS JAMES COCHRAN, 1920 Alabama Ave., Besse- 
mer, Alabama, is the senior member of the Cochran Coal 
Co., which was organized about five years ago. Mr. Cochran 
was born Februai;y 1, 1882, in Columbia, Tennessee. 

ALBERT C. DANNER, 50 North Commerce St., Mobile, 
Alabama, is President of the Mobile Coal Co. and has been 
in the business for forty years. Formerly he was head of 
the firm of Danner & Co. He was born at Winchester, 
Virginia, March 12, 1843, and is one of the prominent coal- 
men of the south. His son. Paul Danner, is Vice President 
and General Manager. 

FRANK L. DAVIDSON is the proprietor of a coal busi- 
ness at Selma, Alabama, in which he has been success- 
fully engaged during fourteen years. Mr. Davidson was 
born at Selma January 12, 1874. 

F. B. DUNLAP is President of the Montevallo-Shelby Coal 
Co., Straven, Alabama, and has been engaged in the coal 
business for sixteen years. He was born at Milwaukee, 
Wisconsin, March 17, 1850. 



26 



COAT. Ml^.N OF AMERICA 



HARHV KVAXS FKKIO'rW'OOI). General Manager Samo- 
set Coal Co., Burnwoll Mines, Alabama, is interested in 
the Burnwell Coal Mining Co. and formerly was con- 
nected with the Seaboard Coal & Coke Co. He has been a 
member of the Leg-islative Committee of the Alabama Coal 
Operators' Association. His active connection with the 
coal industry covers fifteen years. Mr. Fleetwood was born 
November 2 1, 1873, in Savannah, Georgia. 

CHARLES VV. GRIFFIX is the sole owner of the business 
of C. W. Griffin & Co.. Lafayette, Alabama, and has been 
in the coal business for seventeen years, Mr, Grillin was 
born June H, 1866, at Lafayette. 

LEOX H. IIATTEMER, 1036 South Court St„ Montgom- 
ery, Alabama, is President of the Dixie Coal Co. and has 
been in the coal business for four years. He was born at 
Fort Deposit. Alabama. November 11. 1899. Mr. Hattemer 
is now serving' as an enlisted man with Battery E, 118th 
A. F. A., stationed at Camp Whalen, Macon, Georgia. Dur- 
ing his absence Henry L. Hattemer is managing the busi- 
ness. 

JAMES n. HILLHOUSE of Adamsville, Alabama, is the 
President of the North Pratt Coal Co. and of the Summit 
Coal Co. He is a native of Scotland and was born in 1866. 
Mr. Hillhouse has been connected with different branches 
of the coal industry for about forty years and from 1893 
to 1897 he was Chief Mine Inspector of the State of Ala- 
bama. 

A. U. JERVIS, Decatur, Alabama, is the President of the 
Decatur Ice & Coal Co. and has been in the business for 
four years. Mr. Jervis is a native of Wales and was born 
in 1860. 

PERRY R. JORDAN of Blossburg, Alabama, is President 
of the Jordan Coal Co. He was born at Delta, Alabama, 
September 29, 1868, and has been actively engaged in the 
coal business for thirty years. Formerly he filled the posi- 
tion of Superintendent of Mines with the Sloss-Sheffleld 
Iron & Steel Co. 

JAMES EnWARD KANE, Secretary Mobile Coal Co., 
Mobile, Alabama, was born in Mobile in 1885 and has been 
in the coal business thirteen years. 

BAYNARD L. MALONE, President Malone Coal, Grain & 
Motor Co., of Albany, Alabama, was born February 2, 1874, 
in Macon, Georgia, and has been in the coal business for 
twenty-six years. 

ROBERT J. MILLING, Mobile, Alabama, is the Local Man- 
ager for the Pratt Consolidated Coal Co, He was born at 
Birmingham, Alabama, in 1887, and has been in the coal 
business twelve years. 

HENRY JOSEPH MOORE, Florence. Alabama, is Vice 
President and General Manager of the Alabama Coal Min- 
ing Co. He is also interested in the Florence Ice & Coal 
Co. and the J. Nailen Coal Co. He has been in the coal 
business for twenty-three years and prior to his present 
connection was with J. A. Edwards & Co., miners, and w^ith 
the Long Coal & Mining Co. Mr. Moore was born October 
28, 1874, at Florence. Alabama. 



JOHN DANIEL M^M.WD has been a retail coal merchant 
at Koanoke, Alabama, for six years and is the sole owner of 
his business. He was boi'n in Harris Count.v, Georgia, July 
5, 1856. 

M. L. O'NEAI-E of Coal City. Alabama, has been Superin- 
tendent of Mines for the Bird Coal it Iron Co. since .July 
1, 1917. Pie was Superintendent of Mines for the Seaboard 
Coal & Coke Co. from 1911 to 1914 and of the Central Coal 
Co., Kimberly, Alabama, from September, 1912, to March, 
1913. He filled a similar position with the Coal City Min- 
ing Co. from 1914 to July, 1917. Mr, O'Neale was born at 
Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1886. 

A. B. PARKER is the Manager of the Sylacauga Ice & 
Coal Co., Sylacauga, Alabama. R. H. Woodward is Sec- 
retary and Treasurer and located at Birmingham. 

JAMES PUGH PEARSON, Kimberly. Alabama, is now 
trustee of the Central Coal Co., of which he formerly 
was Secretary and Treasurer. Mr. Pearson has been in the 
coal business eighteen years. He was born at Orlando, 
Florida, June 15, 1882. 

JOHN HENRY PHEYLEN, Marvel, Alabama, is Secretary 
and Treasurer of the Roden Coal Co., with which he has 
been connected during the last three years. Mr. Pheylen 
was born at Richford, New York, January 19, 1876. B. F. 
Roden is President of this company and C. C. Bowman of 
Pittston, Pennsylvania, is Vice President. 

FRANKLIN D. PIERCE, M. D., of Bridgeport, Alabama, 
is President of the Pierce Coal & Lumber Co., miners of 
coal and manufacturers of lumber. Dr. Pierce has been 
connected with the coal mining industry for fourteen years. 
He was born at Plum, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Feb- 
ruary 22, 1853. 

ED PRICKETT is the sole proprietor of a coal yard at 
North Birmingham, Alabama, and has been in the business 
for ten years. He was born October 19, 1872, at Rockford, 
Alabama. 

J. E. ROSS of Jasper, Alabama, is the Secretary and 
Treasurer of the Dixie Coal Mining Co. He was formerly 
connected with the Altoona Coal & Iron Co., the Black 
Diamond Coal Mining Co. and the Commercial Coal Mining 
Co. Mr. Ross was born at Poplar Grove, Arkansas, August 
17, 1886, and has been in the coal business for twelve years. 

JOE A SEARCY is Manager for the Northport Coal Co., 
Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He has been in the coal business 
for six years. Mr. Searcy was born March 28, 1879, at Tus- 
caloosa. Frank Rice is President of the company and Joe 
Rice is Secretary and Treasurer. 

THOMAS HARRISON TUTWILER 13 Secretary of the 
Davis Creek Coal & Coke Co. at Rock Castle, Alabama. He 
was born August 24, 1876, at Columbus, Texas, and has 
spent nineteen years in the coal business. Mr. Tutwiler 
was formerly connected with the Alabama Consolidated 
Coal Co., the Sloss-Sheffield Iron & Steel Co., and the Cor- 
dova Coal & Coke Co., filling the position of Secretary and 
Salesman, 

DANIEL O. VAUGHAN, a retail coal merchant of Geneva, 
Alabama, has been in the business for fifteen years. He 
was born at Geneva June 13, 1871. 



27 



ARIZONA 



THE iinportance of Arizona in coal trade history is 
still a i^romise. Its present claims for fame must 
rest i;pon its climate, its silver mines and other 
activities unconnected with the fuel industry. Without 
the severe winter season to induce a heavy consumption 
of coal for house-heating purposes and with industrial 
demands low because of limited commercial enterprise, 
this state is at the bottom of the list as a coal consumer. 
Its 1915 industrial and domestic consumption totaled 
only 158,723 tons. With the exception of 450 tons 
shipped from West Virginia, New Mexico mines took 
care of the entire requirements of the state. No ship- 
ments of anthracite from the Pennsylvania tields were 
reported. 

Despite the minor place now occupied by Arizona the 
state holds possibilities of taking rank among the major 
southwestern producing fields if the manufacturing and 
transportation development of that part of the United 
States should reach the point where the draft upon the 
output of existing mines should show a heavy increase. 
Although mining upon a commercial scale has not been 
attempted, the commonwealth contains approximately 
6,000 sqiiare miles of coal-bearing land, with an esti- 
mated available recovery of 8,030,000,000 tons. 



The most important coal area is the Black Mesa re- 
gion, which underlies the Ilopi and Navajo Indian reser- 
vations in the northeastern part of the state. This field 
contains approximately 5,920 square miles. As the re- 
sult of a reconnaissance study some years ago, M. E. 
Camj^bell, of the United States Geological Survey, esti- 
mated that the field contained 14:,082,000,000 tons and 
that 8,000,000,000 tons of this were recoverable. It is 
thought that the coal bearing strata are an extension of 
the formation underlying the San Juan and Gallup 
fields in New Mexico. 

While the Deer Creek lield, lying north of Gila, about 
midway jjetween the Salt Eiver and the main line of 
the A. T. & S. F. Ry., is much smaller in area — 30 
square miles — the existence of coal in the basin has been 
known for about 35 years, although no commercial 
development has been attempted. The beds are thin, 24 
to 30 inches, and it is estimated that only half of the 
assumed deposit of 60,000,000 tons would be available 
for commercial recovery. There are at least two beds of 
workable thickness throughout the basin. The field 
yields a hai'd block coal suitable for transportation and a 
softer grade adaptable only for local use. 



ARIZONA 



THOMAS C. DAVIES, Douglas, Arizona, Is the proiJrietor 
of the Davies Fuel & Feed Co., being the successor of Bas- 
sett cfe Frist in the business. Mr. Davies is a native of Wales 
and was born February 24, 1881, coming- to Cleveland, Ohio, 
with his parents when a boy. When he became of age he 
was naturalized. 

CHARLES DAZE has been in the retail coal business at 
Winslow, Arizona, for seven years and represents the Dia- 
mond Coal Co. He was formerly connected with the Victor 
.\merican Fuel Co. Mr. Daze was born in Canada February 
16, 1865. 

.I.VCK B. M.\RTIX, President of the People's Fuel & Feed 
Co., Tucson, Arizona, was born in Los Angeles, California, 
August 4, 1894, and has been in the coal business three 
years. 



.lOHN MASSING, proprietor of the coal business of John 
Massing & Co., Prescott. Arizona, has been connected 
with the industry for twelve years and is the owner of 80 
acres of coal lands near Gallup, New Mexico. He was born 
at Brimfield, Illinois, December 21, 1866. 

CHARLES F. MOSS, Benson. Arizona, is proprietor of the 
Benson Coal & Ice Co. and of the Wilcox Coal & Ice Co. 
He has been in the business for fifteen years and was for- 
merly connected with the Victor American Fuel Co. Mr. 
Moss Avas born June 27, 1872, at Mossville, Pennsylvania. 

HENRY CLAY ROBINETTE, proprietor of the business 
of the Robinette Feed & Fuel Co., 426 North Second St., 
Phoenix, Arizona, was born in Flintstone, Maryland, 
August 16, 1852. He has been in the coal business eight 
years. 

WALTER J. WAKEFIELD is President and Manager of 
the Arizona Fuel «& Supply Co., at Tucson, Arizona, and has 
been in the coal business three years. Mr. Wakefield was 
born in Tucson March 22, 1882. 



28 



ARKANSAS 



PKonrCTIOX statistics considered alone give a 
inisKMdin^- index to the part played bj' Arkansas 
in ilu" (.iiiuincrrial coal trade history of the coun- 
try. Except tor Louisiana, directly south, and Missis- 
sippi, southeast. Arkansas must make its distribution 
throngli a wall of coal producing states. Superior trans- 
portation facilities, both rail and water, permitting the 
free movement of coals from the East and from Illinois, 
and the proximity of the Alabama and Kentucky coal 
fields, have acted as an efEective barrier against the com- 
mercial marketing of the Arkansas product in Louis- 
iana and Mississippi. 

Despite these natural drawbacks the quality of coal 
produced in the better parts of the Arkansas field is 
such that 37 per cent, of the output of the state is dis- 
tril)ute(l hetAveen Texas on the south and Minnesota on 
the north. The principal coal field of the state is an 
extension of the Hartshorne bed in Oklahoma and fol- 
lows the course of the Arkansas river to Eussellville, 
aoout 75 miles east of the Oklahoma-Arkansas state line. 
Xear the Oklahoma border the bed contains coal of a 
semi-bitnminous character, which closely approaches 
Pocahontas and Xew Eiver on an analytical basis, 
although the Arkansas product is of greater friability. 
As the bed proceeds eastward, the percentage of fixed 
cariion increases until the coal enters the semi-anthra- 
cite class. 

Two other beds, the Charleston, aliout 700 feet above 
the Hartshorne seam, and the Paris, about 300 feet 
al)ove the Charleston, are worked to a limited extent, 
the former in Franklin and the latter in Logan county, 
but approximately 99 per cent, of the Arkansas product 
comes from the Hartshorne field. A fourth bed lies be- 
low the Hartshorne, but it is small in area and has not 
been worked upon a commercial scale. The southeastern 
lowlands of the state contain extensive lignite beds, but 
these are largely undeveloped. The area of the semi- 
bituminous coal and the semi-anthracite fields in the 
state approximates 1,500 square miles. 

The first official record of production was in 1840. 
when the Census credited Arkansas with a total output 
of 220 tons. The same year Missouri production was re- 
ported as 9,972 tons and Iowa as 400 tons. These three 
states were the first west of the ^Mississippi river to re- 
port coal production and this condition continued until 
1860. At that time Arkansas production was only 200 



tons, while Missouri had jumped to 280,000 and Iowa 
to 41,920 tons. Eecords are again blank until 1880, 
when the Arkansas production had risen to 14,778 tons. 
Five years ago this had increased to 100,000 tons and 
from that date to 1903 the rate of increase has been 
steady. Although the maximum production yet achieved 
was in 1907, when the output reached 2,670,438 tons, 
tonnages since 1903 have been fairly steady. Produc- 
tion figi;res for the past 30 years are shown in the tabu- 
lation following: 
Year. Ton. Year. Ton. 

1887 129,600 1902 1,943,932 

1888 276,871 1903 2,229,172 

1889 279,584 1904 2,009,451 

1890 399,888 1905 1,934,673 

1891 542,379 1906 1,864,268 

1892 535,558 1907 2,670,438 

1893 574,763 1908 2,078.357 

1894 512,626 1909 2,377,157 

1895 598,322 1910 1,905,958 

1896 675,374 1911 2,106,789 

1897 856,190 1912 2,100,819 

1898 1,205.479 1913 2,234,107 

1899 843,554 1914 1,836,540 

1900 1,447,945 1915 1,652,106 

1901 1,816,136 1916 1,994,915 

Although only 14 per cent, of the total production is 
consumed locally within the state, that represents 48.14 
per cent, of Arkansas'" bituminous coal requirements. In 
1915, for example, 62,175 tons were consumed at mines, 
46,260 tons sold locally and 129,951 shipped to intrastate 
points — a total of 238,386 tons used within the state. 
Shipments to other states were as follows: Iowa, 16,537 
tons; Kansas, 114,812; Louisiana, 93; Minnesota. 
5,372; Missouri, 198,768; ^Tebraska, 120,376; Okla- 
homa, 60,791; Tennessee, 15,258, and Texas, 78,418 
tons — a total of 610,425 tons. Eailroad fuel took 803,- 
295 tons. 

"While Arkansas drew upon nine outside sources for its 
fuel supplies during the year named, as before stated, 
48.14 per cent, of the total bituminous coal consumption 
was from state mines. The total bituminous coal con- 
.•jumption of 495,155 tons was divided as follows: Ala- 
bama, 10,450 tons; Arkansas, 238,386; Colorado, 14,- 
234; Georgia, 73; Illinois, 128,950; Kansas, 13,669; 
Kentuck}-, 86,966 ; Missouri, 1,888 (including Missouri 
coal consumed in Illinois); Oklahoma, 453; Pennsyl- 
vania, 86. In addition approximately 800 tons of Penn- 
sylvania anthracite were shipped into the state. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





M. M. McWILLIAMS, Spadra, Arkansas, 

President of the Spadra-Clarksville Coal Co , also holds 
interests in the following- concerns: McWilliams, Ward 
& Co.. Clark, McWilliams & Co., Southern States Coal Co., 
and the Smokeless Anthracite Coal Co. He has filled the 
position of Vice President of the Southwestern Coal Oper- 
ators' Association for the state of Arkansas. Mr. McWil- 
liams has been in the coal industry for twenty-six years 
and his companies are the oldest mine operations in the 
state. He was born at Braddock, Pennsylvania, September 
2. 1871. 



XATHAMEL, R. CLARK, Clarksvillf . Arkansas, 

Former President of the Spadra-Clarksville Coal Co.. has 
been in the coal business for the past twenty-six years. 
Other companies in which he is interested are Clark, Mc- 
Williams & Co. and McWilliams, W^ard & Co.. both of Spadra, 
Arkansas. These are the oldest coal mine operations in the 
state of Arkansas. Mr. Clark was born in Spadra, November 
9, 1859. 




E. D. BEUAVELIi, Port Smith, Arkansas, 

President of the E. D. Bedwell Coal Co. with general offices 
at Port Smith, Arkansas, has been engaged in the coal 
business over twenty years, having formerly been with the 
Prairie Creek Coal Co., the Midland Valley Coal Co., and 
the Arkansas Valley Coal Co. as General Sales Agent. Mr. 
Bedwell was born in 1862 at St. Joseph, Missouri. 



J. E. NICHOLS, Clark.sville, Arkansas, 

Secretary, Treasurer and General Man- 
ager Sterling Anthracite Coal Co., 
Vice President Arkansas Anthracite 
Coal Co., and Southern Sales Agent 
Midland Coal Co.. is also heavily inter- 
ested in Arkansas anthracite coal lands 
yet undeveloped and is a recognized 
authority on Arkansas coal lands, 
especially in the anthracite district. 
Mr. Nichols was born August 25, 1874, 
in Judsonia, Arkansas, and has been 
actively connected with the coal busi- 
ness eighteen years. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



ARKANSAS 



K. P. AliEXAMJIiR, 830 Southern Trust Buliding-, Little 
Rock, Arkansas, is Division Sales Agent for the McAlester 
Fuel Co., whose general otiices are at McAlester, Oklahoma. 
Mr. Alexander has been in the coal business for fifteen 
years and was formerly with the Midland Valley Coal Co. 
of Ft. Smith, Arkansas. He was bom in St. Louis, Mis- 
souri, in 186". 

S. C. AWHHKV of Fort Smith, Arkansas, President S. C. 
Awbrey & Co., Inc., with branches at El Paso, Dallas, Fort 
Smith, Kansas City, San Francisco. Los Angeles, and Mexico 
City, was born at Birmingham, Alabama, March 22, 1878, and 
has been in the coal business twenty years. Mr. Awbrey 
was previously connected with the Colorado Fuel & Iron 
Co. and Mexican Coal & Coke Co., and has built up an 
extensive business. 

ROBERT J. BAHR. who is President and General Man- 
ager of the Woodson-Barr Coal Co., Bonanza, Arkansas, 
has been in the business for thirty years. He was born 
in Dairy, Scotland, February 12, 185!). He formerly was 
connected with the Central Coal & Coke Co., Kansas City, 
Missouri. 

B. J. BEST is a retail coal merchant at Newport, Arkan- 
sas, where he has been in business for five years. He was 
born at Arkabutla, Mississippi, January 7, 1880. 

JAMES R. COXXOLE is Treasurer and Manager of the 
Camden Ice & Coal Co., Camden, Arkansas, and has been 
engaged in the coal business for twenty-five years. He 
was born at Carrollton, Illinois, October 19, 1863. 

ANDREW BROWN Cl'RREIVT, proprietor of The A. B. C. 

Flouring Mills, Siloam Springs, Arkansas, was born Janu- 
ary 11, 1872, at Relf's Bluff, Arkansas and has been in the 
retail coal business eighteen years. 

GEORGE E. DODSON, Alix, Arkansas, owns the business 
of the Geo. E. Dodson Coal Co. and is Vice President of the 
Southern States Coal Co., Little Rock, Arkansas. He for- 
merly was connected with the Dodson & Metton Coal Co. 
and has been twelve years in the coal business. Mr. Dodson 
was born September 30, 1873, at East Freedom, Pennsyl- 
vania. 

FRANK T. GUNTHER of Greenwood, Arkansas, Is the 
Secretary-Treasurer of the Greenwood Coal Co. and is like- 
wise Secretary and Treasurer of the Gunther Coal Co. and 
of the Bokoshe Smokeless Coal Co. Mr. Gunther has been 
in the coal business for eleven years and was born in New 
York City October 1, 1886, and served as a member of the 
Committee on Coal Production, Council of National Defense. 

C. J. HORNER of Hot Springs, Arkansas, is the owner of 
the business of the C. J. Horner Co. and has been engaged 
In the coal business during the past eleven years. Mr. 
Horner was born in Hot Springs November 22, 1883. 

WILLIAM B. HURLEY is the proprietor of a retail coal 
business at Newport. Arkansas, and has been in the busi- 
ness for six years. He was formerly with the firm of Dean 
& Hocking. He was born at Newport August 27, 1882. 

J. E. JAMES, Vice President of the Heim-James Coal Co. 
at Clarksville, Arkansas, is a native of Wales, and has 
been connected with the coal industry in all of its branches 
for over fifty years. He is now sixty-two years of age. 
He is the President of the Smokeless Anthracite Coal Co. 
of Clarksville and formerly was connected with the fol- 
lowing companies of Spadra, Arkansas: Eureka Coal Co., 
Spadra Creek Coal Co., Clarksville Coal Co., and Spadra 
Coal Co. 

JOHN W. JASPER of Huntington, Arkansas, Manager of 
the Jasper Coal Co., has been connected with the coal in- 
dustry since he was a boy of twelve years. He has worked 
up through all departments and prior to his present con- 
nection was with the Kansas & Texas Coal Co., Central Coal 
& Coke Co., Prairie Creek Coal Co., and the Phoenix Coal 
& Mining Co. He was born at Rolla, Missouri, July 3, 1877. 

ELWTN THORNTON JONES of Helena, Arkansas, is 
Manager and one of the stockholders of the Tappan Coal 
Co. He has been interested in the coal business for eight 
years. He was born at Hernando, Mississippi, April 7, 1880. 
This company was established in 1872 by Major James A. 
Tappan, who died March 6. 1913. 

CASPER LENSING of Scranton, Arkansas, holds the office 
of Secretary of the Heim-James Coal Co. and is also inter- 
ested in the Smokeless Anthracite Coal Co. of Spadra. 
Arkansas. Mr. Lensing has been in the coal business for 
six or seven years. He was born in Scranton January 6, 1888. 

BARON V. LEWIS of Russellville, Arkansas, is Treasurer 
of the Onita Coal & Mining Co. He was formerly Sales 
Agent and has been in the coal business for six years. Mr. 
Lewis was born In North Carolina in 1869. 



\V. I>. LO(;i E is Secretary of the Denning Coal Co. at 
Denning, .Arkansas. Koimerly he was witli the Western 
Coal i.*i Mining Co. and has been eight years in the business. 
Mr. Logue was born at Odell, Illinois, in 1886. 

E.\RLE JACKMAN M.\RI)IS of Clarksville, Arkansas, Is 
Vice President and General Manager of the Eureka Mining 
Co. and Secretary and Manager of the Lucas Mardis Coal 
Co. of Spadra, Arkansas, both coal operating companies. 
Mr. Mardis was born near Youngstown, Mahoning County, 
Ohio, February 19, 1883, and has been in tlie coal business 
twelve years. He was formerly connected with the Spadra 
Creek Coal Co. 

PERCY PRESTON M.VRIJIS of Clarksville, Arkansas, is 
Secretary and Manager of the Spadra Creek Coal Co. and 
is also interested in the Eureka Mining Co. He has been 
engaged in the coal business for nine years and was born 
December 19, 1884, at Lisbon, Ohio. 

W. G. McGHEE of Jenny Lind, Arkansas, is Secretary 
and Treasurer of the firm of Petty & McGhee. He was 
formerly senior member of McGhee & Urquhart and has 
been five years in the coal business. He was born in 
.\rkansas, November 24, 1871. G; F. Petty is Manager of the 
firm and has been in the coal business for fifteen years. 

W. R. MERRITT is a coal merchant at Clarendon, Arkan- 
sas, where he has been engaged in the business for the 
past four years. 

lA'AN R. PACKARD, President Harper Coal & Coke Co., 
Bates, Arkansas, was born March 16, 1878, at North Paris, 
Maine, and has been in the coal business seventeen years. 
He was formerly President of the Choctaw Coal & Coke Co.. 
and has been active on various committees and been an 
officer of the Southwestern Coal Operators' Association. 

IRA PETTIT, Hackett, Arkansas, is Secretary and Sales 
Agent for the Arkansas Valley Coal Co. He has been in 
the business for three years. He was born at Des Moines. 
Iowa, July 27, 1884. 

HORACE F. ROGERS, Ft. Smith, Arkansas, is President 
of the Katy Coal Co. He was born in Anderson County, 
Tennessee, August 12, 1863, and has spent about twenty 
years in the coal business. Mr. Rogers was General Man- 
ager of the Prairie Creek Coal Co. from 1891 to 1903 and 
of the Ouita Coal Co. from 1896 to 1906, after which he 
w^as out of the coal business for ten years, re-entering It 
again in 1917, taking the active management of the Mid- 
land Six mine for the Katy Coal Co. 

CHARLES SCHMIDT, President Schmidt-Blakely Coal Co., 
Coal Hill, Arkansas, is a native of Arkansas. Mr. Schmidt 
was a famous Majoi- League ball player, having helped to 
win three American League pennants for Detroit and caught 
in three World Series games. He lives at 1200 North 11th 
St., Fort Smith, Arkansas. 

REINHARDT A. SCHMIDT of Coal Hill, Arkansas, Sec- 
retary and Treasurer of the Schmidt-Blakely Coal Co., was 
born at Indianapolis, Indiana, September 9, 1873, and has 
been in the coal business for fifteen years. Formerly he 
was connected with the W. H. West Coal Co. 

THOMAS HENRY SHAW. Midland, Sebastian County, Ar- 
kansas, is General Manager for the National Coal Mining 
Co. of Hackett, Arkansas, and Purchasing Agent for the 
National Supply Co., Lincoln, Nebraska. Mr. Shaw has 
been in the coal business for twenty-six years and from 
May 21, 1913, to July 8, 1917, he was State Mine Inspector 
for Arkansas. He was born at Tyndesley, England, June 
28, 1875. 

FREMONT STOKES of Clarksville, Arkansas, is the Vice 
President and General Manager of the Fernwood Mining 
Co. He has been in the coal business for forty years and 
was formerly with the Erie Railroad. He was born at 
Hazleton, Pennsylvania, February 18, 1864. 

W. A. TINSLEY is Manager of the Dennis Coal Co. at 
Paris, Arkansas. He has been in the coal business for 
twenty-three years and was formerly connected with the 
Miami Coal Co., advancing from the position of Mine Boss. 
Mr. Tinsley was born at Ozark, Arkansas, July 7. 1881. 

LOUIS E. TURNER of Huntington, Arkasas, is Presi- 
dent and Treasurer of the Dallas Coal Co.. and has been 
in the business sixteen years. He is Secretary of the Coal 
District Power Co., central station, supplying power and 
light to the Huntington district, and is the owner of val- 
uable Arkansas smokeless coal acreage in the same region. 
Mr. Turner was born at Hannibal, Missouri, May 14, 1869. 

LINUS W. WALKER of Bates, Arkansas, is Superintend- 
ent for the Bates Smokeless Coal Co. He has been six years 
in the coal industry and formerly was with the Hazleton 
Coal Co., Coalgate, Oklahoma, and with the Southern 
Anthracite Coal Co., Russelville, Arkansas. He was born 
in Missouri February 4, 1891. 



31 



CALIFORNIA 



CALIFOKNIA possesses many claims to greatness 
that have spread its fame across the hemispheres, 
but coal plays a distinctly minor role in the pres- 
ent drama of its achievements. Although there are a 
number of widely scattered beds, ranging from black 
lignite to true bituminous coal, within the state, petro- 
leum overshadows the coal output to a degree attained in 
no other commonwealth enjoying the twin blessings of 
both forms of fuel resources. Not only does petroleum 
control the transportation and industrial field, but it also 
enters, both directly and indirectly, into the domestic 
market. 

The principal coal fields of the state are five in num- 
ber : ( 1 ) The Mount Diablo, in Contra Costa County ; 
(2) the Corral Hollow field in Alameda County; (3) 
the Priest Valley, and (-i) Trafton fields in San Benito 
County, and (5) the Stone Canyon field in Monterey 
County. In quality there is a decided improvement from 
north to south. The more northerly fields are sub- 
bituminous, the middle district has more of the weather- 
ing qualities of bituminous, while the coal found in the 
Stone Canyon district is a trae non-coking bituminous 
and, under more favorable conditions, would, in the 
opinion of government geological experts, prove a for- 
midable contender for the domestic trade of San Fran- 
cisco and other large cities. 

The zenith of production was recorded in 1880, when 
the output was 236,950 tons. Detailed production fig- 
ures since 1880 are shown in the following table: 



Year. Ton. 

1881 140,000 

1882 112,592 

1883 76,162 

1884 77,485 

1885 71,615 

1886 100,000 

1887 50,000 

1888 95,000 

1889 119,820 

1890 110,711 

1891 93,301 

1892 85,178 

1893 72,603 

1894 67,247 

1895 75,453 

1896 78,544 

1897 87,992 

1898 145,888 

♦Includes Idaho and Nevada 



Year. Ton. 

1899 160,915 

1900 171,708 

1901 151,079 

1902 84,984 

1903 104,673 

1904 78,888 

1905 77,050 

1906 25,290 

1907 13,950 

1908 18,755 

1909 45,836 

1910 11,164 

1911 10,747 

1912 10,978 

1913 24,839 

1914 *13,947 

1915 *12,503 

191C *7,240 



Production records for the state date back to the Civil 
War. How far the coal industry has advanced since that 
time can be inferred from the statement that the 1861 
production of 6,620 tons represented a contribution of 
relative importance to the output of the 16 states then 
reporting bituminous coal production. Kapid and con- 
sistent gains were made in every year but two until 1871, 
when the output had reached 215,352 tons. For the next 
three years production slumped, falling to 107,789 tons 
in 1877. Since that time, although subject to some 
widesjDi'ead variations as between successive years, the 
general tendency has been distinctly downward. Devel- 
opments in the Stone Canyon field in 1909 promised a 
revival of the industry, but the promise was short lived. 

From a consuming point of view the industry is also 
held back by the preponderating influence of the petro- 
leum outpu.t of the state, the total bituminous coal con- 
sumption for 1915 being less than 500,000 tons. Com- 
mercially speaking the most interesting phase of the con- 
sumption is the high percentage of imported coal used. 
This coal, coming chiefly from British Columbia mines, 
supplies the bulk of the domestic and bunker coal de- 
mand of the state and represents over 46 per cent, of 
the total local consumption and bunker loadings. Cali- 
fornia's output is grouped with that of Idaho and Ne- 
vada, as there was but one mine reporting in each state 
during 1915. According to data available none of this 
combined output of 12,503 tons was used by the rail- 
roads or shipped to interstate destinations. The Cali- 
fornia consumption was divided as follows : Alabama,. 
292 tons; California. 12,503 (including Idaho and Ne- 
vada) ; Colorado, 5,771 ; Georgia, 30; Maryland, 10,244;, 
New Mexico, 75,025; Pennsylvania, 5,324; Utah, 161,- 
987 ; West A'irginia, 17,250 ; Wyoming, 43,546 ; imports, 
284,225 ; total, 616,197 tons; bunker fuel, 170,000 tons;, 
total state bituminous coal consumption, 446,197 tons;. 
Pennsylvania anthracite, 500 tons. 

Of the totals above given 442,563 tons, or approxi- 
mately 71 per cent., were received at the port of San 
Francisco. These receipts were divided as follows : 
British Columbia, 164,130; Australia, 106,768; Great 
Britain, 3,644 ; Japan, 22 ; Washington and Oregon 
(water), 1,711 ; eastern United States (water), 103,183 ;. 
all-rail, 63,105 tons. Of the total before given, 168,500 
tons were used in domestic and foreign bunker trade 
and 479 tons were loaded for export, leaving a local 
consumption of approximately 273,600 tons. 



32 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



CALIFORNIA 



JOHN S. AKERMAX, Secretary, Treasurer and i\laiiag:er 
of the Pacific Wood it Coal Co., San Diego, California, was 
born May IG, ISlid, in Ijondon, England, and has been in the 
coal business twenty-eight years. Jlr. Akernian is also Sec- 
retary of the Diamond Coal Co. of Los Angeles, and is one 
of the most prominent coal merchants of Southern Califor- 
nia. He is President of the Merchants' Association of San 
Diego and has served as President of Associated Chambers 
of Commerce of the Pacific Coast, San Diego Chamber of 
Commerce and San Diego Board of Trade. 

O. E. .VS.^IAX is the Owner and Manager of a coal, wood. 
hay and grain business at Sacramento and Oregon Sts., 
Berkeley. California. He has been in the business for six 
years and has held the office of Vice President of the Retail 
Coal and Wood Dealeis' Association of Alameda County, 
California. Mr. Asman was born in Germany December 
13, 1876. 

R. A. BAKER is senior member of the firm of R. A. Baker 
& Son, 6050-6064 Pasadena Ave., Los Angeles, California. 
He ■was born in Pennsylvania in 1857 and has been in the 
coal business for about fourteen years. 

CLAIDE M. BARTON, Manager Modesto Fuel Co., 
Modesto, California, was born July 25, 1878, at Merced, Cal- 
ifornia, and has been in the coal business for eight years. 
He was formerly connected with Dorsey-Parker Co., Fresno, 
California. 

AXGELO L. BRIZZOLARA, 119 Jackson St., San Fran- 
ciso, California, is President of the coal firm of L. Brizzo- 
lara & Son, Inc He was born in San Francisco November 
28, 1869, and for twenty-five years has been in the coal 
business. 

A*. J. B. CHEDA, San Rafael, California, is Secretary 
and Manager of the S. H. Cheda Co., which was organized 
in 1878. He has been with the firm since 1896 and was 
born January 20, 1875, in Switzerland. 

AVILLIAM L,. CLACK, Manager Diamond Coal Co., Los 
Angeles, California, was born July 31, 1876, at Boydton, 
Virginia, and has been in the coal business for the past 
twelve years. Mr. Clack is one of the best known and most 
popular merchants in Los Angeles and has served as Presi- 
dent of the Southern California Fuel Dealers' Association, 

WILLIAM E. CLARK Is Local Manager for the Pacific 
Wood & Coal Co. in Los Angeles, at 2144 East Seventh 
St. He has been in the business twenty-six years and 
formerly was a member of the firm of Clark Bros. He was 
born in Ohio August 27, 1868. 

JOSEPH CLAVO is the proprietor of a coal business at 

239 Georgia St., Vallejo, California. He has been in the 

coal business for over twelve years. He was born in Val- 
lejo September 25, 1868. 

DENNLS DESMOND is President and Manager of the Red- 
ding- Feed Co., Redding, California. He has been in the 
coal business for seven years. He was born April 7, 1860, 
at French Gulch, California. 

J. CAL. EAVING, 234 Stuart St., San Francisco, California, 
holds the positions of Vice President and Manager of the 
coal firm of W. G. Stafford & Co. He has been in the coal 
business for eighteen years and for four years has been 
President of the California Coal Dealers' Association. He 
was born in San Francisco, June 24, 1876. Mr. Ewing is 
one of the most popular and highly respected coalmen on 
the Pacific Coast. 

THOMAS HILL is the proprietor of a coal business at 
1399 Eighth St., Oakland, California, and has been in the 
trade for over twenty years. He was born at London, 
Ontario, Canada, in 1871. 

GEORGE T. HOPPER of Los Banos. California, is Man- 
ager of Merchandise for Miller & Lux, Inc. He has been 
connected with the coal business for eight or nine years. 
He is a native son of California and was born in March, 
1881. 

WILLIAM F. HORAX is Manager of The Horan Co., retail 
coal merchants at 717 Marin St.. Vallejo, California. He 
has spent twenty-one years in the business. He was born 
January 29, 1878, in Vallejo. 



A'ALEXTIXE JOHN JACai'ES, President and Manager of 
the Jacques Wood & Coal Co., 2529 South Main St., Los 
Angeles, California, was born February 14, 1869, at Doncas- 
ter, Yorkshire, England, and has been in the coal business 
for twenty years. lietiring from tlie coal business, Mr. 
Jacques spent four years in Calcutta, India, and returning 
again entered his favorite business two years ago. He has 
served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Los 
Angeles Fuel Dealers' Association. His partner in l)usiness 
is C. Bruns, who was formerly Yard Manager for the Dia- 
mond Coal (^o. 

JAMES B. 3IUIR, Oakland, California, has been Secretary 
of the Alameda County Retail Coal Dealers' Association for 
the past thiiteen years and Secietary of the California Fuel 
Dealers' Protective Association since its institution five 
years ago. 

EDWARD A. NEIGER, 135 North Fifth St., Alhambra, 
California, is President and Manager of the Alhambra Feed 
& Fuel Co. He has been in the business for nine years. 

O. L. NEWTON, 797 Temple Ave., Long Beach, California, 
is a co-partner in the Consumers' Feed & Fuel Co, of Long 
Bea.^-h and in the firm of Newton & Harding at Corona, 
California. He has been engaged in the coal business for 
thirteen years. He is a Canadian by birth. 

AVILLIAM SANDERCOCK is President of the Sandercock 
Transfer Co. at San Luis Obispo, California. He has been 
in the coal business for more than twenty years and owns 
an interest in coal properties in San Luis Obispo County 
which are still undeveloped. He formerly was with the 
Pacific Coal Co. at Rock Springs, and other points. Mr. 
Sandercock was born in Chicago, Illinois. 

HUGH R. SLAYDEN owns the coal business of the H. R. 
Slayden Coal Co., Pasadena, California. He has been in the 
business twenty-four years and is filling the office of Presi- 
dent of the Southern California Fuel & Feed Dealers' Asso- 
ciation. He was born in Kentucky, May 2, 1867. 

GEORGE STREBEL is Manager of the H. R. Slayden Co., 
Pasadena, California. He has been connected with this 
company and with Slayden Bros. Co. for over twenty years. 
He was born at Syracuse, New Y'ork, June 24, 1872. 

BENJA3IIN BASIL STURDIVANT, 423 Fulton St., San 
Francisco, California, has oeen in the coal business for 
twenty-three years and is the President of the firm of 
Sturdivant & Co. He was born October 31, 1869, in San 
Francisco. 

A. W. SWISHER is Manager for the Southern Pacific 
Grain Co., 140 E St., San Bernardino, California. He went 
v/est from West Virginia, where he was born September 1, 
1866. 

WILLIAM JAMES THOMAS, Proprietor Thoinas Feed & 
Fuel Co., 326 West 58th St., Los Angeles. California, was 
born September 2, 1871, at Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, and 
has been in the coal business for fourteen years. Mr. 
Thomas is President of the Southern California Fuel and 
Feed Dealers' Association. He started with small capital, 
but has built up a successful business. 

JOSEPH F. ULERY, Pomona, California, is senior partner 
in the firm of Ulery & Son, coal merchants. He was for- 
merly a member of the firm of Hoffman & Ulery and has 
been in the coal business twenty-two years. He was born 
in Ohio in 1850. 

A. H. W^HITE is the proprietor of a retail, coal business 
at 1678 Seventh St., Oakland, California. He has been a 
coal merchant for eight years and for two years was Presi- 
dent of the Alameda County Retail Coal Dealers' Asso- 
ciation. Mr. White was born in Ohio, October 21, 1861. 

RALPH EUGENE WILCOX of Stockton, California, is 
President and Manager of Yolland & Co., and has been 
for twenty-one years in the coal business. He has been 
Secretary of the Stockton Coal -Dealers' Association for 
fifteen years, and is a member of the Executive Board of the 
California Fuel Dealers' Protective Association. He was 
born in the state of Maine in 1873. 

ROBERT H. WINN of the Robt. H. Winn Co., San Diego, 
California, was born in 1874 at Numa, Iowa, and has been 
in the coal business for nine years. 

HUGH M. WOLFLIN, 407 Underwood Building, San Fran- 
cisco, California, has been in the coal business five or six 
years. He is also mining engineer for the U. S. Bureau 
of Mines and Chief Mine Inspector for the California Indus- 
trial Accident Commission. He was formerly Secretary of 
the Mining Section of the National Safety Council. Mr. 
Wolflin was born at Canton, Missouri, August 12, 1886. 



33 



THE CAROLINAS 



CONSIDEBED in relation to the other states in 
the Sonth Atlantic gronp and especially in com- 
parison with other non-producing areas in the 
southern district the consumption record of the Caro- 
linas shows up well from the point of view of aggregate 
tonnages. In addition North Carolina, with its check- 
ered record of intermittent modest production begin- 
ning in 1840 and ending after two definitely known 
breaks of six and five years respectively in 1913, has 
an historic interest to the students of American coal 
statistics. Whether the natural difficulties surround- 
ing the mining of coal in that state are to remain too 
great to be surmounted by a rising demand for fuel has 
a not uninteresting place in the field of economic spec- 
ulation. 

North Carolina contains two coal-bearing areas, the 
Deep Eiver and the Dan Eiver fields. These fields 
are described b}^ the United States Geological Survey 
as follows: ''The coal in the Deep Eiver field is in 
Triassie rocks and is of the same geologic age as the 
beds of the Eichmond basin in Virginia. The Dan 
Eiver field in Stokes and Eockingham counties is also 
of Triassie age. The coal-bearing rocks extend from 
a point just north of the Virginia line south- 
ward through Leaksville, Madison and Walnut 
Cove to Germantown, jST. C. Black, slat)^, car- 
bonaceous shale is common, but coal occurs at onlv a 
few places. Nowhere has a deposit of any commercial 
value been found. During the Civil War coal was 
mined near Leaksville and shipped by boat to Danville, 
Va. The coal is semi-anthracite, but the bed is so thin, 
so broken by shale partings and of so small lateral 
extent that mining is unprofitable. Considerable pros- 
pecting has been done in the vicinity of Walnut Cove, 
but the semi-anthracite found, which is nowhere more 



than one foot thick, has no present commercial value. 

The census of 1840 gives the first record of North 
Carolina production as three tons. While it is thought 
probable that small mines were in operation subsequent 
to that time, no record antedating the Civil War has 
been found. Between 1861 and 1865 the Confederate 
government is estimated to have taken out 60,000 tons 
from the North Carolina mines, but the close of the 
war sa.w a steady decline until 1874' when production 
ceased. Six years later mining operations upon a very 
small scale were resumed. In ,1889 the Cummock or 
Egypt mines in the Deep Eiver field were re-opened and 
continued a moderate and fiuctuating production until 
1906. During 1911-1912 a small production, 320 tons, 
was reported from Moore County. The total output 
from 1862 to 1912 was only 477,122 tons. 

Treating North and South Carolina as a unit the per 
capita consumption reported in 1915 was only .69 ton 
(.66 bituminous coal and .03 anthracite) ; consump- 
tion per square mile was 33 tons. In comparison with 
the country averages of 2.82 and 123 tons, these fig- 
ures are, of course, low, Init allowance must be made 
for the general climatic conditions and the character 
and extent of the manufacturing enterprises of the two 
states. The total bituminous consumption for the year 
was 2,658,177 tons. Virginia, with shipments of 1,366,- 
943 tons, contributed the major portion of the fuel sup- 
ply of the Carolinas; West Virginia came second with 
977,782 tons; Tennessee third with 168,512 and Ken- 
tucky fourth with 143,660 tons. Shipments from other 
states were as follows : Alabama, 475 tons ; Georgia, 
500 ; Pennsylvania, 305 tons. Anthracite shipments 
from the Pennsylvania fields approximated 124,000 
tons. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 




MAJOR JAMES S. POYTHRESS, Henderson, North Carolina, 

Well-known retailer of Henderson, North Carolina, was 
born in Warren County. North Carolina, on September 17, 
1871, and has been engaged in the coal business at Hender- 
son since 1887, where he now does the largest business. 
Mr. Poythress was Skout for North Carolina in the Order 
KoKoal and has served in the TTnited States Army. He 
entered the service of the State January 2, 1889, receiving 
many commissions, the last being his pronnotion to Major 
in the Quartermaster Corps on March 27, 1917. 



NORTH CAROLINA 



W. A. AVAAT, proprietor of the Avant Wood & Coal Co. 
of Charlotte, North Carolina, was born at Charlotte and 
has been in the coal business for the past fifteen years. 

GEORGE HUGH BEAU., retail coal merchant at Durham, 
North Carolina, was born at Cumberland, Maryland, August 
15, 1867, and has been in business for himself for over 
twenty years. 

ABR.VM OLIVER BRAY, Owner and Manager of the North 
Wilkesboro Roller Mills of North Wilkesboro, North 
Carolina, was born in Wilkes County, North Carolina, Janu- 
ary 8, 1882, and has been in the coal business for ten years. 
He is also interested in the City Fuel Co. of Elkin, North 
Carolina. 

DAVID O. BRINKLY, retail coal merchant at Plymouth, 
North Carolina, was born in Gates County, North Carolina, 
April 22, 1853, and has been in busifiess for himself fifteen 
year.?. 

CLEVELAND E. CARTER, Secretary-Treasurer of the 
Weldon Ice Co. of Weldon, North Carolina, was born in 
Halifax County, North Carolina, and has been in the coal 
business two years. 

H. E. CARTLAND, Secretary and Treasurer of the Arctic 
Ice & Coal Co. of Greensboro, North Carolina, was born in 
Guilford County, North Carolina, March 1, 1878, and has 
been with this company since its organization. 

JAMES WESLEY CATES, retail coal merchant of Burling- 
ton, North Carolina, was born in Orange County, North 
Carolina, September 30, 1S47, and had been in the coal 
business seventeen years, where he died January 5, 1918. 
In March, 1918, the business was incorporated under the 
name of J. W. Gates, Bertha I. Gates, who had been asso- 
ciated with her father for a number of years, being elected 
Secretary and Treasurer. 

GROVER C. DENTON, Manager of the Morgantown Ice 
& Fuel Co. of Morgantown, North Carolina, was born at 
Morgantown, November 4, 1888, and has been in the coal 
business for twelve years. 

ARTHUR EVANS DIXON, General Manager of the Fay- 
etteville Ice & Mfg. Co. of Fayetteville, North Carolina, was 
born at Laurel, near Leavenworth, Kansas, April 27, 1867, 
and has been in the coal business twenty years. 



nERN.\HD EI, IAS, Secretary and Manager of the Southern 
Coal Co. of Asheville, North Carolina, wa.s born at Franklin, 
North Carolina, on May 29, 1881!, and has been in the coal 
business for five years. 

I'OWELI, K. GREEN of Winslon-Salenv, North Carolina. 
Sales Agent of Ihc T.itz-Sniitli Fuel (^o., whoso main office is 
at Huntington, West A'irginia, was born at Dover, Delaware, 
in 1861, and has been in the coal business for three years. 
He was formerly connected with the Bluefield Coal & Coke 
Co. of Bluefield, West Virginia. 

WILLI.AM HENRY GRIFFIN, senior member of W. H. 
Griffin & Son, a retail firm at Goldsboro, North Carolina, 
was born at Goldsboro on May 27, 1858, and has been in 
the coal business for thirty-two years, 

ROBERT J. H.VLL. retail coal merchant of Burlington, 

North Carolina, was born in Alamance County, North Caro- 
lina. January 8. 1860, and has been in the coal business 
t\\'tnt>' years. 

.lONATHAN HAA'ENSj wholesale and retail coal merchant 
at Washington, North Carolina, a native of Washington, 
has been in the coal business for thirty-eight ygars. 

JAMES AVILLIAMS HINES of Rocky Mount, North 
Carolina, one of the most prominent retail coal merchants of 
North Carolina, was born at Fai-mville, Pitt County, North 
Carolina, on July 7, 1858, and has been in the coal business 
for seventeen years. Mr. Hines is owner of the North 
State Ice & Fuel Co. of Rocky Mount, Greenville Ice & Coal 
Co., Greenville, Catawba Ice & Fuel Co., Spencer, Salisbury 
Ice & Fuel Co., Salisbury, Monroe Ice & Fuel Co., Monroe, 
and Weldon Ice & Fuel Co., Weldon, all of North Carolina. 
He also established the Bank of Rocky Mount and is a 
Director and member of the Executive Committee of the 
Rocky Mount Chamber of Commerce. 

AVILLIAM THOMAS LOVE, SR., President and General 
Manager of the Crystal Ice & Coal Co. of Elizabeth City, 
North Carolina, was born at Elizabeth City on January 26, 
1862, and has been in the coal business for thirteen years. 

BENJAMIN A. MERRITT, retail coal merchant at Wil- 
mington, North Carolina, was born in North Carolina Sep- 
tember 24, 1874, and has been in the coal business ten years. 
He was formerly connected with Wm. E. Worth & Co. and 
has been City Councilman for four years and Mayor Pro 
Tem for two years, with two years more to serve. 

DANIEL H. PENTON, Vice President and Secretary of 
the Springer Coal Co., Wilmington, North Carolina, was 
born in Bridgeton, New Jersey, March 30, 1868, and has 
been in the coal business thirty years. This firm was 
established in 1872 and incorporated in 1905. 

THOMAS COX POWELL, President of Powell & Powell, 
Inc., a retail coal firm at Raleigh, North Carolina, was 
born in Wake County, North Carolina, September 26, 1875, 
and has been in the coal business for over a quarter of a 
century. He was formerly connected with Jones & Powell. 

W. B. ROSS, General Manager of the Piedmont Ice & Coal 

Co., retailers at Greensboro, North Carolina, was born at 
Pleasant Garden, North Carolina, in 1876, and has been in 
the coal business for ten years. He was formerly connected 
with Dixie Ice & Coal Co. and Arctic Ice & Coal Co. 

CLAUDE A. SHELTON, retailer of Mount Airy, North 
Carolina, was born at Mount Airy, February 27, 1885, and 
has been in the coal business for five years. 

JAMES ARTHUR SPRINGER, President of the Springer 
Coal Co. of Wilmington, North Carolina, was born in Maine, 
December 16, 1847, and has been in the coal business almost 
half a century. 

JOHN ROLY THOMAS, retail coal merchant doing business 
at Winston-Salem, North Carolina, was born at Eller, North 
Carolina, on May 17, 1868, and has been in the coal business 
for fourteen years. 

WILLIAM B. THORPE, President and Treasurer of W. B. 
Thorpe & Co., Inc., of Wilmington, North Carolina, was born 
at Rocky Mount, North Carolina, November 17, 1873, and 
has been in the coal business for fifteen years. 

HENRY WALTER TROLLINGER, retail coal merchant at 
Burlington, North Carolina, was born near Haw River, Ala- 
mance County, North Carolina, July 20, 1862, and has been 
in the coal business since 1892. Mr. TroUinger has been 
assisted for the past ten years by E. P. TroUinger, his 
nephew. 

JAMES ALLEN VINSON, retail coal merchant of Golds- 
boro, North Carolina, was born in Wayne County, North 
Carolina, April 8, 1885, and has been in the coal business 
for five years. He was formerly associated with W. H. 
Griffin. 

J. M. WAGNER, Manager of the Newton Ice & Fuel Co. 
of Newton, North Carolina, was born in Newton October 
14, 1887, and has been in business for himself for ten years. 



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JOHN OSCAR WILLIAMS, President of Williams & 
Palmer, Inc., a firm handling- coal at retail at Wilson, North 
Carolina, was born at Ruffin, North Carolina, May 8, 1885, 
and has been in the coal business for almost five years. He 
was formerly connected with Jewett, Bigelow & Brooks at 
Norfolk, Virginia. 

JOEL ALEXANDER YARBROUGH, President and Treas- 
urer Yarbrough & Bellinger Co., Charlotte, North Carolina, 
was born in York County, Virginia, on October 1, 1876, and 
has been in the coal business ten years. 



SOUTH CAROLINA 



HENRY W. DA VIEGLE, President and Treasurer Chester 
Ice & Fuel Co., Chester, South Carolina, was born in 1886 
in Chester, and has been in the coal business five years. 

GEO. F. EPPERSON, retail coal merchant of Sumter, South 
Carolina, was born December 11, 1857, in Pittsylvania Coun- 
ty, Virginia, and has been in the coal business for thirty 
years. 

JOHN ARCHIBALD FISHER, Manager retail coal firm of 
J. A. Fisher, Mullins, South Carolina, was born in 1864 in 
North Carolina, and has been in the coal business five years. 

W. B. HALLETT, President Hallett Ice & Coal Co., has 
been in business, handling ice. coal and feed, in Spartan- 
burg, South Carolina, for thirty-three years. 



ROBERT A. LONG, President Peoples Ice & Fuel Co., 
Beaufort, South Carolina, was born December 15, 1864, in 
Rogersville, Tennessee, and has been in the coal business 
for twenty-two years. 

CHARLES PEARSON MIDGLEY, proprietor Bennettsvllle 
Ice Co., Bennettsvllle, South Carolina, was born April 19, 
1879, in England, and has been in the coal business eight 
years. 

AMOS B. MORSE, President Amos B. Morse Co., retail coal 
firin of Abbeville, South Carolina, was born in Anderson, 
South Carolina, March 8, 1865, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness twenty years. 

J. S. MORSE, Secretary and Treasurer Amos B. Morse Co. 
of Abbeville, South Carolina, was born April 9, 1883, in 
Abbeville, and has been in the coal business nine years. 

C. F. RICE, JR., Sales Manager Blackwood Coal & Coke 
Co., Spartanburg, South Carolina, was born in Clearmont 
County, Ohio, January 26, 1875, and has been in the coal 
business about eleven years. 

HERMAN VON RODEN SCHRADBR, Manager Greenwood 
Ice & Coal Co. of Greenwood, South Carolina, -was born in 
1857 in Philadelphia, and has been in the coal business sev- 
enteen years. 

WILLIAM ARCHIBALD SHERROD, Secretary and Treas- 
urer Hallett Ice & Coal Co., Spartanburg, South Carolina, 
was born August 2, 1890, in Hamilton, North Carolina,' and 
has been in the coal business three years. 

JOHN R. TOLLESON of the retail firm of J. R. Tolleson & 
Co. of Gaffney, South Carolina, was born October 2, 1856, in 
Cherokee County, South Carolina, and has been in the coal 
business for fifteen years. 



36 



COLORADO 



COLOHADO holds first place among the coal ]n'o- 
iliu-ini>- ami consuming states west ot the Mis- 
souri river. In production it stands among the 
first ten commonwealths of the entire country, while 
from the consuming side it is the most self-sustaining 
area in the country, crowding out Alabama, which- has 
that envialjle position east of the ]\Iississippi river, by 
a fraction of one per cent., although the southern state 
upon a tonnage basis is the greater coal consumer of the 
two. It is fair to say that the important place held by 
Colorado in the vast industrial wealth of the country is 
due to its rich coal deposits, for without these close at 
home the state would have required transportation facili- 
ties greatly in excess of those it has and would have been 
at a disadvantage in bringing in its basic commodity 
that makes the developments of its other resources pos- 
sible under difficult transportation conditions and high 
freight charges. 

The lower flanks and foothills of the Eocky j\Ioun- 
tains divide the coal fields of the state into three major 
deep synclinal basins. The eastern group contains the 
Trinidad, Canon .City and South Platte fields. The 
park group includes the fields in the South, Middle and 
Xorth parks. The western group, which is the largest 
of the three major divisions, covers the Yampa, Dan- 
forth Hills, White Eiver, Grand Hogback, Glenwood 
Springs, Crested Butte, Grand Mesa, Book Cliffs and 
Durango fields. Not only are the fields extensive — the 
Geological Survey estimates they contain over 10,000 
square miles of workable coal — but they offer the con- 
sumer a wide range in cjuality. Sub-bituminous or 
black lignite is found in the South Platte field; the 
Trinidad and Glenwood Springs beds yield a high grade 
coking coal, while anthracite is mined in the Crested 
Butte field. 

As a commercial proposition the principal devclo])- 
ments are in the eastern and western groups. The loca- 
tion of the South Platte field gives it ready access to the 
Denver market, to which the bituminous coals of the 
Trinidad and Canon City fields also make important 
contributions. In the western group, operations are 
carried on on a large scale in the Glenwood Springs 
and Crested Butte fields and in a lesser degree in the 
vicinity of Durango. Grand Junction and Steamboat 
Springs. The further extension of the Moffatt railroad 



is permitting a greater exploitation of the resources of 
the Yampa field in ^Moifatt and Eoutt counties. 

Colorado stepped into coal statistical history in 1864 
when an output of 500 tons was reported. It proceedea, 
with varying degTees of fluctuation, until 1876, when 
117,666 tons were produced. For the next six years the 
output increased rapidly so that the 1883 figures were 
1,061,479 tons. At that time there were only ten other 
states which reported an output in excess of 1,000,000 
tons. From 1882 to 1910, when a production of 11,973,- 
736 tons was reached, there were only five years in 
which the output showed a decrease. Unfavorable gen- 
eral commercial and agricultural conditions in 1911 and 
1912 caused a decline and the rate of production was 
further pulled down by the prolonged strikes of 1913- 
1914. Detailed figures from 1882 to 1916 appear in 
the following; table: 



Year. Ton. 

1882 1,061,479 

1883 1,229,593 

1884 1,130,024 

1885 1,356,062 

1886 1,368,338 

1887 1,791,73B 

1888 2,185,477 

1889 2,597,181 

1890 3,077,003 

1891 3,512,632 

1892 3,510,830 

1893 4,102,389 

1894 2,851,409 

1895 3,082,982 

1896 3,112,402 

1897 3,361,703 

1898 4,076.347 

1899 4,776,224 



Year. Ton. 

1900 5,244,364 

1901 5,700,015 

1902 7,401,343 

1903 7,423,602 

1904 6,658,355 

1905.. 8,826,429 

1906 10,111,218 

1907 10,790,236 

1908 9,634,973 

1909 10,716,936 

1910 11,973,736 

1911 10,157,383 

1912 10,977,824 

1913 9,232,510 

1914 8,170,559 

1915 8,624,980 

1916 10,484,237 



As stated in an earlier paragraph 07.88 per cent, of 
the coal consumed within the borders of Colorado comes 
from the mines of the state. This consum]3tion is equal 
to approximately 58 per cent, of the total production of 
Colorado. A fraction over 20 per cent, of this local 
consumption is coked at the mines and plays a large 
part in the great smelter enterprises for which the state 
is famous. The railroads are the largest individual cus- 
tomers of the Colorado mines ; in 1915 they took 28 per 
cent, of the total product, which was double the amount 
shipped to destinations in 13 states lying between the 
Mississippi river and the Pacific coast. Outside of 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



Colorado itself, the largest individual market for Colo- 
rado coal is in Nebraska, which produces no fuel of its 
own. Kansas, itself a coal producer of no mean rank 
in the Southwest, has been the second largest customer, 
while Texas, for local uses and for exports into Mex- 
ico, comes third. Detailed figures covering the distribu- 
tion of the 1915 output of Colorado coal were as fol- 
lows : Consumed locally at the mines, 294,571 tons ; sold 
locally, 291,243; made into coke at mines, 1,015,346; 
shipped intrastate, 3,386,315 ; total, 4,987,475 tons. 

Interstate shipments were as follows : Arkansas, 14,- 
234 tons; California, 5,771; Iowa, 12,660; Kansas, 340,- 



779; Missouri, 535; Nebraska, 422,320; Nevada and 
Utah, 2,526 ; New Mexico, 22,948 ; Oklahoma, 120,298 ; 
Soiith Dakota, 12,598; Texas (including exports), 273,- 
337; Wyoming, 20,984; total, 1,248,990 tons, or 14 per 
cent. ; used by railroads, 2,388,515 tons, or 28 per cent. 
The total consumption within the state for the same 
year — including 600 tons of Pennsylvania anthracite — 
was 5,096,149. As shown in the table preceding 4,987,- 
475 tons, or 97.88 per cent, of the bituminous coal con- 
sumption, came from the Colorado mines. New Mexico 
furnished 107,877 tons; Wyoming, If^l, and Pennsyl- 
vania (bituminous), 96 tons. 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





WILLIAM B. LEWIS, New York City, 

President of the Oakdale Coal Co. of Denver, Colorado, re- 
sides in New York City, having an office at 40 Wall St. He 
has had much experience as a coal mine operator in the 
West and has been a member of the Board of Trustees of 
the Colorado State School of Mines for several years. He 
is a graduate of that institution. 



HARRY F. AASH, Denver, Colorado, 

Vice President and General Sales Agent for the Oakdale 
Coal Co., Denver, is also a Director of the Primrose Coal 
Co. and the owner of undeveloped coal lands in Colorado. 
He has been in the coal business for over twenty years, 
beginning as a mine clerk and advancing with different 
companies to Vice President. He is Secretary of the Colo- 
rado Coal Operators' Association. Formerly he was con- 
nected with the Primrose Coal Co., Continental Fuel Co., 
National Fuel Co. and South Canon Coal Co. He is a 
Director of the Employers' Mutual Insurance Co. He was 
born at Fort Dodge, Iowa, September 21, 1873. 



GRAND .lUNCTIOxV MNG. & FUEL CO„ 
Denver, Colorado, 

Has its office at 1120 First National 
Bank Building, Denver. 

Its mine is located at Cameo, Mesa 
County, Colorado, on the Denver & Rio 
Grande Railway and the Colorado Mid- 
land Railway, and its output — 1,000 tons 
daily capacity — is used almost entirely 
by the railroads. The officers are: 

President, John McNeil, Jr. 

Vice President, D. O. McNeil. 

Secretary-Treasurer, A. M. McNeil. 

General Manager. George W. McNeil. 

The McNeil Coal Co., with the execu- 
tive offices the same as the above com- 
pany, has a mine at MacGregor, Routt 
County, Colorado, on the Denver & Salt 
Lake Railway, producing domestic coal, 
carefully graded in four sizes. The 
output — 800 tons daily capacity — is sold 
through the Coal Hill Coal Co., of 
Omaha, Nebraska. 

John McNeil, President, and G. F. 
MacBeth, Treasurer, are the active of- 
ficers. Paul Lanieus is Vice President 
and John S. MacBeth Secretary. 



COLORADO— Denver 

JOSEPH P. BRACKETT, 1124 Foster Building, Denver, 
Colorado, is Secretary and Treasurer of The Carbon Fuel & 
Iron Co. He is also President of the Garfield Mine Leasing 
Co. and Secretary-Treasurer of the Frederick Fuel Co., 
Denver. He is likewise in charge of credits for the Rocky 
Mountain Fuel Co. Formerly he was with the Raton Coal 
& Coke Co. of Raton, New Mexico. Mr. Brackett has been 
in the coal business for over twenty years. He was born 
March 12, 1879, at Riceville, Tennessee. 

JAMES DALRYMPLE, 430 Clarkson St., Denver, Colorado, 
is Chief Coal Mine Inspector in his state. He has been mine 
foreman and superintendent for different companies and 
has been in the business for over forty-two years. He 
was formerly with the Union Coal & Coke Co., the Northern 
Coal & Coke Co., the Pocahontas Coal Co. and the South 
Canon Coal Co. He was born in Scotland, July 13, 1863. 

GEORGE FRUTH, 1001 East Twelfth Ave., Denver, Colo- 
rado, holds the offices of President and General Manager 
with the following companies: Aztec Coal Mining Co., 
Indian Creek Coal Mining Co. and The Walsenburg Coal 
Mining Co. He was born at Mason City, West Virginia, 
April 21, 1867, and has been in the coal mining business 
for over thirty years. 

D. M. HARRINGTON of Denver, Colorado, is President 
and General Manager of the Cedar Hill Coal & Coke Co. 
and has been in the coal business for eighteen years. He 
vv'as for some years with the Victor Fuel Co. prior to his 
present connection. He was born at Houghton, Michigan, 
May 17, 1877. 

G. W. HARRIS, 803 First National Bank Building, Den- 
ver, Colorado, is President of the Colorado &: Utah Coal 
Co. and of the Colony Coal Co., a Colorado corpora- 
tion operating near Rock Springs, Wyoming. He has 
been in the coal business sixteen years and formerly w^as 
connected ^vith the following companies in Iowa: Excelsior 
Coal Mining Co., Albia Coal Co. and Bidwell Coal Co., in 
which he still is interested. He was born in Oskaloosa. 
Iowa, May 8, 1876. 

LEWIS A. HAYDEN is President of The Hayden Broth- 
ers Coal Corp., Tramway Building. Denver, Colorado. 
The corporation operates two coal mines in Routt County, 
Colorado, on the Denver & Salt Lake Railroad. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



EDGAR HOPPER, Denver, Colorado, is Commissioner of 
the Denver Coal Merchants' Association and Secretary of 
the Colorado Retail Coal Dealers' Association. He was 
born at Mt. Vernon, Illinois, January 14, 1877. 

GUY R. HOUGHTELIN holds the position of General 
Sales Manager for the Aztec Coal Mining Co., 632 Cooper 
Building, Denver, Colorado. He has been in the coal busi- 
ness for ten years, having been with the Rocky Mountain 
Fuel Co. and the C, K. & N. Coal Co. Mr. Houghtelin was 
born at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, December 25, 1874. 

C. A. HUjVCK, 4160 Irving St., Denver. Colorado, has been 
in the coal business for seven years. He was born in Ger- 
many September 30, 1846. 

E. V. HUTCHINS, Denver, Colorado, is Sales Manager for 
The Hayden Bi others Coal Corp., Tramway Building, which 
is operating two mines in Routt County, Colorado. 

JOHN D. JONES is General Manager of the Oakdale Coal 
Co. at Denver, Colorado. He has been connected with the 
coal business for thirty-nine years. He was Chief Coal 
Mine Inspector for Colorado for eight years and a deputy 
inspector for eight years. He was born .in Wales January 
15, 1865. 

GEORGE D. KIMBALL is General Manager of The Rugby 
Fuel Co., 422-427 Exchange Building, Denver, Colorado, and 
has been in tlie coal business fifteen years. He is Treasurer 
of the Coal Mines Welfare Association of Denver. He was 
born at Portland, Maine. 

HENRY L. LITTELL is the President and General Mana- 
ger of The Littell Bros. Coal Mining Co., 200 Cooper Build- 
ing, Denver, Colorado. He was formerly connected with the 
Western Coal & Mining Co. He has been in the coal busi- 
ness for twenty-five years. He was born at Pleasanton, 
Kansas, in 1871. 

J. M. 3IARTINDALE, General Sales Agent of the Rugby 
Fu?l Co., Denver, Colorado, was born February 10, 1881, at 
Tipton, Indiana, and has been in the coal business for eight 
years. He was formerly connected with the Sunnyside Coal 
Mining Co. and the Western Coal & Mining Co. 

HARRY VAN MATER, Colorado Building, Denver, Colo- 
rado, is President of Tlie National Fuel Co. and of The 
Royal Fuel Co. He has been in the coal business for twen- 
ty-five years and was formerly connected with the follow- 
ing companies: Citizens Coal & Coke Co., Southern Coal 
Co., Alpine Coal Co. and the Continental Fuel Co. He was 
born September 26, 1860, in Monmouth County, New Jersey. 

JOHN MoGOWAN of Denver, Colorado, is the Purchasing 
Agent for The Victor American Fuel Co., having formerly 
filled the office of Treasurer. He has been in the coal busi- 
ness for about fifteen years. He was born at Louisville, 
Kentucky, April 5, 1874. 

DOUGLAS MILLARD, 840 Seventeenth St., Denver, Colo- 
rado, is Manager of the retail department of The Colorado 
Fuel c& Iron Co. and has been in the business for thirteen 
years. He was born at Cleveland. Ohio. September 29, 1S79, 
and resided for several years in Chicago. 

THOMAS G. OWEN, Denver, Colorado, is President and 
General Manager of The Cambrian Coal Co., a close cor- 
poration of which he is the owner. He formerly was for 
six years Superintendent of the Western Chemical Works, 
Denver. After coming to America in 1882 Mr. Owen was 
connected with the Staten Island Chemical Co. of New 
Jersey, the Foreste Powder Co., Lake Hopatkong, N. J., 
and the Highland Chemical Co., N. Y., prior to going to 
Denver. He has been in the business for twenty-four years 
and was born in Wales, September 28, 1856. 

E. W. ROBINSON, 201 West Iowa St., Denver, Colorado, 
has been in the retail coal business for tliirty-four years. 
He was born in Canada in 1858. 

AV'ILLIAM E. RUSSELL, 1523 Welton St., Denver, Colo- 
rado, has been in the coal business as a retailer for 
twenty-five years. He is tlie owner of a coal mine in Weld 
County, Colorado, and formerly was with the Citizens Coal 
& Colce Co. of Denver. Mr. Russell was born at Dum- 
fermline. Scotland, Novembei- 13, 1872. He is liigiily re- 
garded and popular in trade circles. 

ALBERT P. SMITH, President Rugby Coal Co., Denver, 
Colorado, was born in 1870 at Sycamore, Illinois, and has 
been in the coal business twenty-one years. Mr. Smith is 
very popular and highly regarded in trade circles and is 
President of the Colorado Retail Coal Dealers' Association 
and Secretary-Treasurer of the Denver Coal Merchants' 
Association. 

GEORGE N. SPARLING of Denver, Colorado, is President 
of the Bear River Coal Co., whose mines are located at 
Bear River, Colorado. He has been engaged in the coal 
business for sixteen years, and is Manager of Tlie George 
N. Sparling Coal Co., 626 Gas and Electric Building. Den- 
ver. Gordon B. Ashworth is General Sales Agent of the 
company. 



R. E. SPENCER, 4000 York St., Denver, Colorado, is Presi- 
dent and Treasurer of The R. E. Spencer Lumber Co. He 
was formerly with the Halleck Lumber & Supply Co. and 
has been in tlie business for seventeen years. He was born 
in Tennessee December 31, 1878. 

J. P. WELBORN, Denver, Colorado, is President of The 
Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. He started as a clerk in the 
sales department of the company twenty-eight years ago 
and advanced through the various grades to Vice Presi- 
dent and Sales Manager, being finally elected President in 
March, 1907. Mr. Welborn was born in Nebraska March 
9, 1870. Mr. Welborn stands higu in the trade and served 
on the Committee on Coal Production, Council of National 
Defense. 

NORMAN A. WYLIE is the Secretary and Treasurer of 
The Rugby Coal Co., 501 Fifteenth St., Denver, Colorado. 
He formerly was witli the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. and 
has been in the coal business for sixteen years. He was 
born at Clairton, Pennsylvania, January 24, 1882. 



COLORADO 



JOHN J. J. ABERCROMBIE, Trinidad, Colorado, is Sales 
Manager for The Bear Canon Coal Co. and owner of 
the J. J. J. Abercrombie retail coal yard. He has been in 
the business for fourteen years. He was formerly with 
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad and the C. & S. 
Railroad as distributor of cars and coal biller. He was born 
in Georgia January 27, 1869. 

MISS RUTH BANNING is the Owner and Manager of the 
Union Ice & Coal Co., 115 West Vermijo St., Colorado 
Springs, Colorado. She has been in charge of the business 
for two years, or since the death of her brother, William 
Marion Banning, Jr., who died as a result of injuries 
received at the training camp at Golden, Colorado, before 
Colorado Battery C was sent to the Mexican border. The 
business was established thirty-six years ago by her father, 
William M. Banning, who died in April, 1914. Miss Banning 
was born at Colorado Springs, July 11, 1892. 

REASON JUDY BELCHER is the President and General 
Manager of The Mountain Ice & Coal Co., Pueblo, Colorado. 
He has been in the coal business for over twenty years 
and has served as Vice President of the Retail Coal Dealers' 
Credit Bureau of Pueblo and Treasurer of the Colorado Re- 
tail Coal Association. 

E. D. BOWERS, Colorado Springs, Colorado, is President 
of The Monument Valley Fuel Co. and has been engaged in 
the coal business for twenty-five years. He has filled the 
offices of President of the Colorado Springs Retail Coal 
Dealers' Credit Association and Vice President of the Colo- 
rado Retail Coal Dealers' Association. He was born July 17, 
1859, at Whitewater, Wisconsin. 

EDWARD J. BRADY, Cripple Creek, Colorado, is Manager 
of The Colorado Trading & Transfer Co., and is interested 
in the Pike's Peak Fuel Co. of Denver and Colorado Springs. 
He has been connected ■with the coal trade for eleven years. 
He was born in Pennsylvania in 1886. 

DAVID BRIMBLE, President Washington Coal Co., Erie, 
Colorado, was born in April, 1856, in England, and has been 
in the coal business fifty years. 

WILBUR EDWIN BROOKS, Secretary and Treasurer of 
tlie Brooks Fuel Co., Louisville, was born in Evans, Iowa- 

FENTON W. BRUINGTON is Manager of the Bruington- 
Armstrong Fuel Co. at Cripple Creek, Colorado, and has 
been active in connection with the coal trade for twenty 
years. He formerly was with the Colorado Trading & 
Transfer Co. as purchasing agent and bookkeeper. He 
was born at Atlantic, Iowa, December 9, 1872. 

A. E. CARLTON is the sole owner of the Colorado Trading 
& Transfer Co., Cripple Creek, Colorado. He was been con- 
nected ^vith the coal business for thirty years, as a producer 
and wholesaler. He is likewise interested in the Pike's 
Peak Fuel Co. of Colorado Springs and other coal concerns. 
He was born in Indiana in 1865. 

L. A. CLANCY is Manager of the Loveland Mercantile & 
Ice Co., Loveland, Colorado, and has been three years in 
the business. He was formerly with the Loveland Ice & 
Fuel Co. He was born at Mattoon, Illinois, September 22, 
1871. 

WILLIAM J. CLARK, coal merchant at Monte Vista, 
Colorado, for twenty-four years, was born at East Water- 
ford, Pennsylvania, in August, 1848. His brother, D. B. 
Clark, is associated with him. 

TRANK CONVERSE Is General Manager of the Converse 
Coal Co. at Paonia, Colorado and has been engaged in 
the business for thirteen years. He formerly was with 
the Black Diamond Coal Co. He was born at New London, 
Ohio, in 1859. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



AVII.1L.IAM H. t OLK, Piesident and Manag^er Leadville 
Joe A: Coal Co. and Leadville Coal & Supply Co.. Leadville, 
Colorado, was boin October IS, 1861, at Mosend, Scotland, 
and has been in the coal business for thirty-four years. 

WALTER AVHALEY CIRTIS, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 
is President and Treasurer of The Curtis Coal Co. and of the 
Rapson Coal JMining- Co. and has been in the business for 
six years. He was born at Elkton, Maryland, September 28, 
1863, and is a civil engineer by profession, being a member 
of several scientific societies. 

A\THO\Y FIDEL is Manager of the Fidel Coal Co. at 
Fruita, Colorado, and has been in the coal business for 
over twenty-five years. He was with the Black Diamond 
Coal Co. formerly and is experienced in coal mining. He 
was born in Pennsylvania. 

GEOllGE \V. HAIGH. Trinidad, Colorado, Is President and 
General Manager of the Trinidad Coal Co. and has been 
connected %\ ith the coal industry twenty-eight years. He 
was yardmaster for various Denver concerns in the early 
'nineties and has opened up seven mines in different coun- 
ties of Colorado. He was born in Yorks, England, in 1870. 

ALBERT \V. HALL is Manager of the Red Mountain Coal 
Co. at Cedaredge, Colorado, and has spent eight years in the 
coal business. He was torinerly connected with the 
Surface Creek Co-operative Coal Co. He was born at Daven- 
port, Iowa, November 7, 1857. 

HAROLD C. HARMOX, Colorado Springs, Colorado, has 
been in the coal business for twenty-nine years and is 
President of the Colorado Springs Fuel Co. He was four- 
teen years with the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co., advancing 
from mine clerk to traveling salesman, and later to Manager 
of the retail department at Denver and Assistant Manager 
of the wholesale department. Mr. Harmon was the first 
President elected by the Rocky Mountain Coal Men's Asso- 
ciation. He was born at Chicago, Illinois, June 10, 1868. 

"WILLIA3I LOAVES, a retail coal merchant at Sedgwick, 
Colorado, has been doing business in Sedgwick nine years. 
He was born in England December 13, 1868. 

JAMES E. 3IoL.\rGHLIX, Trinidad, Colorado, is President 
and General Manager of The Black Diamond Xiggerhead 
Coal & Mining Co. He also is the operator and owner of 
the McLaughlin wagon mine near Trinidad. He has been 
in the coal industry for thirty-six years and has been 
President of McLaughlin Bros. Coal Co. and of the Santiago 
Coal Co. In L'tah he was for two years Assistant to the State 
Geologist and in Montana he was Manager of the Clark's 
Fork Coal Co.. the Kuntz Mining Co. and the Spring Rock 
Mine. He was for six years Mine Superintendent for the 
Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. in Colorado and Mine Boss and 
Engineer for the Raton Coal & Coke Co. Mr. McLaughlin 
is a member of the Rocky Mountain Mining Institute. He 
was born at Glasgow, Scotland, in 1869 and was raised in 
■W^ill County, Illinois. 

JOHN W. JIoGOVERX", Manager and Secretary McGovern 
Coal Co., Pueblo, Colorado, has been in the retail coal busi- 
ness eleven years. He has served as Vice President of the 
Pueblo Retail Coal Dealers' Credit Bureau. Mr. McGovern 
was born in Pueblo June 23, 1881. 

CHARLES McMillan, Fort Collins, Colorado, is Secre- 
tary and Treasurer of The McMillan Transfer, Coal & 
Storage Co. He has been engaged in the business thirteen 
years and has served a term as Second Vice President of 
the Colorado Retail Coal Merchants' Association. He was 
born January 1, 1885, in Columbia City, Indiana. 

ANDREW J. MERRITT, "Walsenburg, Colorado, is Audi- 
tor and General Office Manager for the Turner Coal Co., 
the Gordon Coal Co., and the Delcarbon Coal Co., as well as 
President of the Huerfano Agency Co., which handles their 
coals. He also is Selling Agent for a number of small 
mines in the Walsenburg district. He was born in Ashland, 
Kentucky, January 9, 1884, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness ten years. 

J. CRIT MITCHELL, Manager Center Fuel & Supply Co., 
Center, Colorado, was born at Charleston, Illinois, in 1858 
and has been in the coal business for five years. 

JOHN J. NEISH, Palisade, Colorado, is Superintendent of 
The Palisade Coal & Supply Co., and has been in the coal 
business for about twenty-seven years. Formerly he was 
connected with the following companies: Rocky Mountain 
Fuel Co., Grand Junction Mining & Fuel Co., Colorado Fuel 
& Iron Co., and the Moffat Coal Co. He was born at Coal- 
ville, Iowa, December 12, 1880. 

C. P. O'NEILL, Superintendent Allen Coal Co., Coal View, 
Routt County, Colorado, was born October 22, 1862, in 
England, and has been in the coal business for many 
years. He was formerly with the National Fuel Co., South 
Canon Coal Co. and Minaqua Coal Co. 

W. L. PATCHEN, Pueblo, Colorado, is Manager of the 
Capers & Helwig Coal Co. and was formerly President of 
the Gordon Coal Co. of Colorado. He has been in the busi- 
ness for eleven years. 



SAMVEL PETRY is an individual coal operator and 
retailer at Florence. Colorado, and is owner of a wagon 
mine. He has been in business for eleven years. He was 
born in Italy January 2.'), 1876. 

THOMAS G. PIERCE is General Manager of the Sunshine 
Coal Co. at Durango, Colorado, and has been in the coal 
business for six years. He was born October 1, 1869, at 
Chariton, Iowa. 

FREDERICK C. REMMER, Victor, Colorado, is Manager 
and Cashier for The Colorado Trading & Transfer Co. 
and was formerly Secretary and Treasurer of the Gold Belt 
Supply Co. He has been in business for eleven years. He 
was born at Yorkville, Illinois, September 18, 1873. 

C. W. RINEHART of Cedaredge, Colorado, is Manager of 
the Green "\'alley Coal Co. He has been in the business for 
the past three or four years. He was born in Ohio in 1865. 

HENRY W. J. SMITH of the Northern Colorado Fuel Co., 
Coalmont, Colorado, was born December 10, 1887, at Wil- 
liamsport, Pennsylvania, and has been in the coal business 
for ten years. 

C. R. STRAIN is senior member of the firm of Strain 
Bros., Lamar, Colorado, being likewise interested in the 
Lamar Seed Co. and the W. F. McCue Mercantile Co. Mr. 
Strain has been connected with the coal business for twen- 
ty-three years, formerly with M. Strain. He was born at 
Bloomington, Indiana, August 15, 1871. 

RAY' STRAIN is junior member of the firm and Manager 
for Strain Bros., coal merchants at Lamar. Colorado. 
He also has coal interests at McClave and La Junta, Colo- 
rado. He has been in the business twenty years and is a 
Director of the Colorado Retail Coal Merchants' Association. 
He was born at Bloomington, Indiana, February 11, 1878. 
Mr. Strain is Mayor of Lamar. 

WELLING A. SVMNER, Walsenburg, Colorado, Sales 
Manager Huerfano Agency Co. and Auditor for the Gordon 
Coal Co., is interested in the Turner Coal Co. Formerly he 
was connected with the Niggerhead Coal Co. and the 
Walsenburg Coal Mining Co. and has served as Cashier, 
Auditor and Salesman. He was born at Des Moines, Iowa, 
November 14, 1885. 

ALVA E. THOMPSON, Walsenburg, Colorado, is Deputy 
State Inspector of Coal Mines in Colorado. He lias been 
connected with the coal industry for over twenty years, 
having formerly been with The Colorado Fuel & Iron Co., 
The Choctaw Coal Co., and The Victor American Fuel Co. 
He was born at Camden, Missouri, February 10, 1880. 

R. CLYDE TODD, La Junta, Colorado, is Secretary and 
General Manager of The La Junta Trading Co. and has 
been connected with the coal business for nineteen years. 
He formerly was with the R. W. English Lumber Co. at 
La Junta. Mr. Todd was born at Ft. Scott, Kansas, October 
13, 1878. 

WILLIAM D. TUDOR is General Manager of the Tudor 
Coal Co. at Colorado Springs, Colorado. He has been in the 
business for over twenty-five years. His company carries 
on a retail, wholesale and mining business. He was born 
at Pine Run, Pennsylvania, September 28, 1873. 

ALBERT R. WEINHOLD, a retail coal merchant at Evans, 
Colorado, has been in the business for six years. He was 
born at "Wilson, Kansas, June 7, 1882. 

ERNEST EDMUND WITHERS is Manager of the Iron 
City Fuel Co. at Pueblo, Colorado, and has been in the 
busine.ss ten years. He has served as President of the 
Pueblo Retail Coal Dealers' Association for six years and is 
now First Vice President of the Colorado Retail Coal Deal- 
ers' Association. He was born in Pueblo December 16, 1883. 

HOWE H. WOODFORD is Manager of the Woodford Coal 
Co., Trinidad, Colorado, and has been in the coal business 
one year. He holds an interest in an undeveloped coal land 
tract of 1,000 acres. He was born at Philippi, West Vir- 
ginia, December 3, 1875. 

J. R. YOUNG, Colorado Springs, Colorado, is the Manager 
of The Pike's Peak Consolidated Fuel Co.. and has been in 
the business six years. Mr. Young is Vice President of 
the Retail Coal Dealers' Association of Colorado and Presi- 
dent of the Colorado Springs Retail Coal Dealers' Associa- 
tion. He was born at Topeka, Kansas, July 17, 1876. 

TIMOTHY N. YOUNG, President and General Manager of 
the Iron City Lumber Co., Pueblo, Colorado, was born May 
20. 1870, in Laclede County, Missouri, and has been in the 
coal business five years. 

WATSON ZEIGLER is the President and General Man- 
ager of The Grand Mesa Fuel Co., Delta, Colorado, and has 
been in the coal business for eleven years. He was born 
at Sigourney, Iowa, October 26, 1855. 



41 



DELAWARE 



DELAWAEE, upon a per capita basis, is the 
greatest coal consuming state in the country. Its 
average per capita in 1915 was 6.69 tons, against 
an average for the United States as a whole of approxi- 
mately five tons. In other words,> although Delaware 
produces no coal within its own borders, its proximity 
to the great coal producing- states of Pennsylvania and 
West Virginia — which under normal times contribute 
over 50 per cent, of the total bituminous output of the 
country — makes possible a concentrated manufacturing 
enterprise within its relatively small area that permits 
this member of the Thirteen Colonies to form an im- 
portant luiit in the great iVtlantic Seaboard workshop 
of the United States. 

If consideration is confined to domestic and indus- 
trial bitumious coal consumption the record for Dela- 
ware assumes added significance. Upon this basis the 
average for the country given above, five tons (inclusive 
of anthracite, railroad and bunker consumption), falls to 
2.04 tons, while Delaware shows a per capita bituminous 
coal consumption of 5.70 tons — a record exceeded only 
by the state of Illinois, where the per capita consump- 



tion in the Chicago industrial district (8.3 tons in 1912) 
raises the general state average to 5.91 tons per capita. 
Delaware, however, has a higher per capita anthracite 
consumption than Illinois, so that the combined indus- 
trial and domestic consumption for both classes of fuel 
is 6.69 tons in Delaware, against 6.45 tons in Illinois 
and 2.82 tons per capita for the counti-y as a whole. 
Upon a per square mile basis, Delaware shows a con- 
sumption of anthracite and bituminous coal for indus- 
trial and domestic purposes of 597 tons. In this it is out- 
ranked only by Penns3dvania (1,968 tons), the New 
England States (1,525 tons). New York (772 tons) 
and Illinois (764 tons). Even upon the square mile 
basis the Delaware consumption is nearly five times the 
average for the United States as a whole, 123 tons. 

The total bituminous consumption for the state in 
1915 was 1,206,197 tons. Pennsylvania furnished the 
greater part of the fuel used, viz., 951,419. West Vir- 
ginia was second with 245,451 tons, while the remainder, 
9,327 tons, came from the neighboring state of Marj^- 
land. The anthracite consumption was 210,000 tons. 



JAMES B. BICE, retail coal merchant, Dover, Delaware, 
has been in the business twenty-three years. He w^as for- 
merly a member of tlie firm of Slaughter & Bice. Mr. Bice 
was born in Maryland September 4, 1S58. 

JOHIV CO]VI.,Y of the firm of Conly Bros., coal merchants at 
Wilmington, Delaware, has been in the business for twenty- 
six years. He was born at Wilmington October 27,, 1843. 

NEAIi CONLY is a member of the firm of Conly Bros., 
Front and Madison Sts., Wilmington, Delaware, and has been 
in the business for over twenty-five years. He was born 
Aug-ust 25, 1845, at Wilmington. 

JOHIV M. DONOHOE, Wilmington, Delaware, has been in 
tlie retail coal business for about nine years. He w^as born 
at Wilmington November 2, 1874. 

LUTHER W. HURLEY, retail coal merchant of Seaford, 
Delaware, was horn April 13, 1853, in Seaford and has been 
in the coal business tliirty-tliree years. 

AVILLLVM A. HYDE is Assistant Treasurer of The Ed- 
ward R. Pusey Co. at Wilmington, Delaware, and has been 
connected witli tlie coal business for eleven years. He for- 
merly was with the following: Charles H. Ten Weeges. 
Diamond Ice & Coal Co., and the Charles Warner Co. He 
was born at Hockessin, Delaware, June 14, 1891. 

ANTHONY I'. INGRAM, retail coal merchant of Lewes, 
Delaware, was born in Delaware in 1859 and has been in the 
coal business twenty years. 

JISTA G. JUSTUS is President of the J. G. Justis Co., retail 
coal merchants at Newport, Delaware, and has been engaged 
in the business for over thirty years, formerly with John M. 
Nowbold. He was born in Maryland October 4, 1866. 



HENRY AVARNER McNEAL, Newark, Delaware, has been 
operating a retail coal yard at that place for sixteen years. 
He was born near Elkton, Maryland, March 7, 1870. 

I. ELMER PERRY, coal merchant at Wilmington, Dela- 
M'are, has been in the business for eight years and formerly 
was with H. T. Sergeant. He has served as President of 
the Wilmington Coal Exchange. He was born July 28, 1869. 
in Wilmington, 

EDAVARD R. PUSEY is the President of The Edward R. 
Pusey Co. at Wilmington, Delaware, and has been in the 
coal business for twenty-one years. Formerly he was con- 
nected with the Consumers Ice & Coal Co. and the Hygeia 
Ice Co. Mr. Pusey has served three terms as Director of 
the Pennsylvania Retail Coal Merchants' Association. He 
was born at Wilmington March 23, 1878. 

VICTOR R, PYLE is President of the Victor R. Pyle Co., 
Market and D Sts., Wilmington, Delaware, and has been 
identified with the coal business for twenty-nine years. He 
formerly was connected with Cranston, Newbold & Co.. 
George W. McKee and McKee & Pyle. He was born at 
Wilmington April 10, 1865. 

AVILLIAM N. RADCLIPF is a retail coal merchant at 
Bridgeville, Delaware, and has been doing business there 
for seven years. 

AA'ILMER STRADLEA-, 616 West 20th St., Wilmington, 
Delaware, is Treasurer and General Manager of the Dia- 
mond Ice & Coal Co. He was formerly with the Consumers 
Ice & Coal Co. and has been fifteeen years in tlie business. 
He was born at Wilmington March 24, 1889. 



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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 



Data on District of Columbia iiuluded iiiuler Maryland. 

Data on Fuel Administration included under "The World's Greatest Industry in Peace and War, 



page 7. 




PHOTOGRAPH OF THE STAFF OF THE UMTED STATES Fl EL, \DMIMSTRATION TAKEN ON THE STEPS 
OF THE UNITED STATES TREASURV BUILDING AT WASHINGTON. 1918. 



DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA— Washington 

JERE3IIAH MURRAY BURREUL,, 827 14th St., N. W., 
Washington, D. C, is President of The Allegheny Coal Co. 
and a stockholder in the Keystone Coal & Coke Co. of 
Greensburg, Pennsylvania. He has been identified with the 
coal business for over thirty years and formerly vi^as con- 
nected with the Corona Coal & Coke Co. of Alabaina and the 
Austin Coal & Coke Co. of West Virginia. He is a member 
of the Board of Managers of the Coal Merchants' Association 
of the District of Columbia. Mr. Burrell was born in Greens- 
burg June 25. 1854. 

WARD W. GRIFFITH, proprietor of a retail coal busi- 
ness at N and First Sts., Washington, D. C, has been a 
retailer for twenty years. He was born in Maryland in 
June, 1873. Mr. Griffith is highly regarded in trade circles 
and acted as adviser to the District Administrator. 

WILLIAM F. HUMMER, 511 A St., N. E., Washington, D. 
C, has been in the retail coal business for twenty-seven 
years. He has served as Treasurer and Director of the 
Coal Merchants' Association of Washington. He was born 
in Loudoun County, Virginia, March 8, 1867. 

B. FRANK JOY, 1112 Ninth St., N. W.. Washington, D. C, 
has been in the retail coal business for four years. He 
formerly was connected with the firm of Akehurst & Joy. 
He was born in the city of W^ashlngton. 

CHARLES FRANCIS MILLER:, President Charles F. Mill- 
er & Co., Chevy Chase, D. C, was born December 11, 1888, 
In Montgomery County, Maryland, and has been in the coal 
business for six years. 



JOHN D. A. MORROW, General Director of Distribution, 
U. S. Fuel Administration. Washington. D. C, was born in 
1881 in Ohio and has been closely identified vi'ith the coal in- 
dustry for the past seven or eight years. Mr. Morrow was 
Assistant Secretary of the Federal Trade Commission when 
it was first organized. He was also Commissioner of the 
Pittsburgh Coal Producers Association and General Secretary 
of the National Coal Association before assuming his pres- 
ent duties. 

OTTO G. RAYMOND, Secretary-Treasurer John P. Agnew 
& Co., Inc., of Washington, D. C, was born October 12, 
1882, at Syracuse, N. Y., and has been in the coal business 
for seven years. Mr. Raymond is a Director of the Coal 
Merchants' Association of the District of Columbia. 

■WILLIAM H. ROSEWAG, retail coal merchant of Wash- 
ington, D. C, was born June 28, 1875, in Washington and has 
been in the coal business for three years. 

RODNEY N. SMITH, retail coal merchant of Washing- 
ton, D. C, was born January 25, 1876, in Maryland and has 
been in the coal business twenty-two years. 

WILLIAM D. SUTHERLAND, 3126 14th St., N. W., V/ash- 
ington, D. C, is President and Manager of the Mt. Pleasant 
Coal Co. and has been in the business for eight years. He 
was born in Richmond, Virginia, June 11, 1855. George H. 
Sutherland, his son, is Assistant Manager of the company. 

JOSEPH P. STEPHENSON, proprietor of Stephenson & 
Bros.. Washington, D. C, was born in Washington in 1875 
and has been in the coal business twenty-seven years. 

LUCIEN N. WALTERS of Walters & Co., retail coal mer- 
chants at Washington, D. C, was bc/rn January 10. 1850, in 
Virginia and has been in the coal business twenty-one years. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





HARRY AUGUSTUS GARFIELD, AVasliington, 

President Williams College, Williamston, Massachusetts. 
was appointed United States Fuel Administrator, with head- 
quarters at Washington, District of Columbia, August 23, 
1917, by President Wilson. He was born in Hiram, Ohio, 
October 11, 1S63, the son of James A. Garfield, the twentieth 
President of the United States. By profession a lawyer, 
by experience a business man, by appointment an educator, 
he brought to the position, a trying one during the great 
war. an ability that made his new duties a success. 



GEORGE OTIS SMITH, Wa.sliington, 

Director United States Geological Survey since 1907, with 
headquarters at Washington, District of Columbia, -wa.s 
born in Hodgdon, Maine, February 22, 1871, and since his 
graduation from Colby College has been engaged in g'eo- 
logical work. He and his department played an important 
part in the Fuel Administration during 1917 and 1918. 





VAN H. MANNING, AVashiugton, 

Director of the Bureau of Mines, with headquarters at Wash- 
ington, District of Columbia, was born in Horn Lake Depot, 
Mississippi. For more than twenty years he has been en- 
gaged in teclmical and scientific work under the Department 
of the Interior. Mr. Manning is a member of leading mining 
and scientific societies and the author of a large number of 
topographic maps and special bulletins, a worthy successor 
of the late Dr. Holmes. 



) by Harris & Ewing. 
CARL EUGENE LESHER, Washington, 

Statistician United States Fuel Administration and Geologist 
United States Geological Survey, Washington, District of 
Columbia, was born in L.a Junta, Colorado, in 1885. He was 
a mining' engineer and metallurgist engaged in practice in 
British Columbia. Illinois, and New York previous to his 
connection with the Geological Survey, four years of his 
connection with the latter being in charge of the valuation 
of public coal lands. Mr. Lesher's work is considered very 
valuable by the coal industry. 



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FLORIDA 



PONCE DE LEOX on his record in his search for 
the fabled Fountain of Youth could hardly qual- 
ify for membership in Ye Ancient and Honorable 
Order of Coal Knights, for his joiirneys led him to a 
garden spot where the fuel man upon business bent finds 
little to arouse his commercial instincts. However, 
those fortunate enough to have wrung wealth out of the 
prosperity created by coal farther north, to disport them- 
selves at Palm Beach, to enjoy San Aiigiistine and the 
other attractions for which our southernmost state is 
famous, will forgive the old Spaniard for his lack of 
consideration. Florida, with an annual coal consump- 
tion in the neighborhood of 250,000 tons, uses a smaller 
amount of coal than any other state in the Union except 
ISTevada. 

Upon a per capita consumption basis Nevada is 
forced to yield even that record to its southern sister. 
The average Florida per capita domestic and industrial 
consumption (exclusive of railroad and bunker busi- 
ness) is .26 ton. The low record for the country is 
found in that other great citrus state and national play- 
ground — California — where the per capita consumption 
is .11 ton. Arkansas falls below the Florida record 
by a fraction over .09 ton. Upon the square mile basis, 



however, Florida outranks Arizona (1 ton), California 
and Nevada (2 tons each) and Oregon (3 tons) and is 
on the same plane as Idaho. 

Coming to a concrete tonnage basis it is found that 
Florida used 22-5,176 tons of bituminous coal and 25,000 
tons of Pennsylvania anthracite in 1915. The bitum- 
inous supplies were all drawn from southern states. 
The neighboring commonwealth of Alabama led with 
108,782 tons; Virginia contributed 40,230; West Vir- 
ginia, 31,980; Tennessee, 26,886; Kentucky, 17,268, 
and Georgia, 30 tons. During the year a small quantity 
of coal, 422 tons of anthracite and 1,909 tons of bitum- 
inous, were exported through the Florida customs dis- 
trict. Imports of 515 tons of bituminous coal were re- 
ported. Bureau of Commerce, Foreign and Domestic 
Commerce figures show that the district supplied 117,- 
261 tons of bunker coal to vessels engaged in foreign 
commerce and 30,552 tons in 1914 to steamships en- 
gaged in domestic trade. 

According to data published in Saward's "Coal 
Trade," the bunker business at Pensacola. Florida's lead- 
ing port, totaled 116,062 tons in 1916. In addition. 11,- 
582 tons were exported through the same port to ^lex- 
ico, Cuba, Brazil and Italy. 



FLORIDA 



JOHX GRAY AXDERSOX, JR., is Secretary-Treasurer and 
Manager of the Tampa Coal Co. at Tampa, Florida, and 
has been engaged in the retail and bunker business for over 
ten years. He was born at Williamsburg, Virginia. Lieut. 
F. M. Anderson, N. R. F., is President of the company. 

FRA>X'I.S MAKEMIE AXnERSOX, President of the 
Tampa Coal Co., Tampa, Florida, was born October 11, 1882, 
in Accomack, Virginia, and has been in the coal business 
for twelve years. 

J. J. LOGAN of Jacksonville, Florida, is President of the 
Logan Coal & Supply Co. and has been engaged in the coal 
business for thirteen years. He was born in Bradley Coun- 
ty, Tennessee, November 30. 1873. 



R. M. CARY, President of Cary & Co., Inc., 10 South Pala- 
fox St., Pensacola, Fla., established the business over thirty 
years ago. It is the oldest coal concern in western Florida 
and does a large trade in the bunkering of ships, Pensacola 
being the chief port of call for steamers plying between 
gulf ports, llr. Cary was born in Isle of "Wight County, 
Virginia, Hay 19. 1861. 

JOHX MASSEY, Secretary of Cary & Co., Inc., Pensacola, 
Florida, has been associated in the coal business with R. M. 
Cary for twenty years. He was born at the U. S. Naval 
Station in Pensacola July 4, 1877. Mr. Massey has a wide 
acquaintance in the trade and is one of the popular coal- 
men in the south. 

GEORGE V. MESERVE, retail coal merchant at St. Au- 
gustine. Florida, has been in the business for seven years. 
He was born at St. Augustine September 13. 1890. 



45 



GEORGIA 



IX these daj's wlieu the half-billiou mark iu bitumin- 
ous coal output is history and tallc of an annual pro- 
duction of 1,000,000,000 tons is no longer an invi- 
tation to incarceration in a home for the feeble-minded, 
the output currentl}' mined in the state of Georgia does 
not bulk large in the statistical reviews of the coal year. 
^Yhile the total area of the Georgia field, estimated at 
167 square miles (not all of which is workable), is the 
smallest in any of the Appalachian states, extensive op- 
erations are carried on in both counties. About 26.2 
per cent of the coal in the Lookout Mountain basin in 
"Walker county is distilled into coke and finds a market 
at Chattanooga and other furnace points in Tennessee 
and Georgia. The Georgia coal also has a high reputa- 
tion for bunker and general steam purposes and is used 
at Brunswick and other coast cities. 

The first authentic production records for the state 
appear in the Census report for 1860, when the output 
was placed at 1,900 tons. Figures for the 19 years fol- 
lowing are upon estimated bases. Eeliable records re- 
appear in 1880, when the Census report credited the 
.state with a production of 154,644 tons. Although sub- 
ject to marked fluctuations there was a general upward 
trend until 1903 when the peak production of 416,951 
tons was reached. From that point there was an un- 
checked decline iintil 1912, when the output rose from 
165,210 tons to 227,503 tons. There was a slight de- 
crease the nest year and a pronounced slump in 1914: 



Year. Ton. 

1880 154,644 

1881 168,000 

1882 160,000 

188.3 155,000 

1884 150,000 

1885 150,000 

1886 223,000 

1887 313,715 

1888 180,000 

1889 225,934 

1890 228,337 

1891 171,000 

1892 215,498 

1893 372,740 

1894 354.111 

1895 260,998 

1896 238,546 

1897 195,869 

1898 244,187 



Year. Ton. 

1899 233,111 

1900 .- 315.557 

1901 342,825 

1902 414,083 

1903 416,951 

1904 383,191 

1905 351.991 

1906 332,107 

1907 362,401 

1908 264,822 

1909 211,196 

1910 177,245 

1911 165,210 

1912 227,503 

1913 255,626 

1914 140,243 

1915 134,496 

1916 173,554 



The uneven course in production records for the state 
are attributed by the United States Geological Survey 
to jDeculiar labor conditions. Commenting upon the sit- 
uation the Survey said : 

"The production of coal in Georgia has fluctuated 
greatly from year to year' since 1876, when it first ex- 
ceeded 100,000 tons. A noteworthy feature is that in 
nearly every instance the year following one of the high 
points has recorded the minimum for the period, suc- 
ceeding which there has been a steady building up to 
the next maximum high point. The fluctuations have 
been due in the past for the most part to peculiar labor 
conditions. Prior to 1904 the principal labor employed 
consisted of convicts leased from the state government. 
An act of the legislature prohibiting the further leasing 
of convicts to industrial enterprises caused the gradual 
withdrawal from the coal mines of this labor when the 
contracts expired and operators in the somewhat iso- 
lated region where tire mines are located were unable to 
supply the deficiency by free labor." 

Since 1911 there have been only two mines in opera- 
tion in the state. 

The distribution of the production, using the 1915 
total of 134,496 tons, was as follows: The mines used 
7,200 tons; 35,377 tons were coked and 78,195 tons 
were shipped to local points, making a total internal 
consumption of 120,772 tons. The railroads purchased 
5,000 tons. Shipments to points outside of Georgia 
totaled 8,724 tons and w^ere divided as follows: Ala- 
bama, 38; Arkansas, 73; California, 30; Florida, 30; 
Missouri, 538; the Carolinas, 500; Tennessee, 7,359, 
and Texas, 156 tons. 

While the 120,772 tons of Georgia coal consumed 
within the state represented 92.4 per cent, of the total 
production, this tonnage was equal to less than 4.5 per 
cent, of the total bituminous requirements of that com- 
monwealth. Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee and the 
Virginias were called upon to contribute the other neces- 
sary 95.5 per cent, in the following tonnages: Alabama, 
363,572 tons; Kentucky, 800,822; Tennessee, 481,271; 
Virginia, 368,751, and West Virginia, 41,332. Penn- 
sylvania anthracite receipts for that year approximated 
50,000 tons. Upon a per capita basis the 2,226,520 
tons of coal used within the state were .73 ton Ijitu- 
minous and .02 ton of antliracite. The square mile con- 
sumption was 37 tons. 



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GEORGIA — Atlanta 



JOH.\ BULOW CAMPBELL, President of The R. O. 
Campbell Coal Co. at Atlanta, Georgia, has been in the 
business for twenty-eight years. He is A'iee President of 
the Westbourne Coal Co. and Treasurer of the following: 
Campbell Coal Mining Co., Sterbourne Coal Co., Highcliff 
Coal Co., Blue Diamond Coal Co., and Red Feather Coal Co. 
He was born at Atlanta December 15, 1S70. 

JOHN C. DEADY. Atlanta, Georgia, is Southern JNIanager 
for the Bewley-Darst Coal Co. and has been in the coal 
business for about fifteen years. He was formerly con- 
nected with the O'Gara Coal Co.. Chicago. He was born in 
Chicago, Illinois, August 17, 1880. 

JIMP.SIE FARMER, retail coal merchant at 1264 De Kalb 
Ave., Atlanta. Georgia, has been in the retail business twelve 
years. He has a branch yard at Decatur, Georgia, and for- 
merly was with the Georgia Iron & Coal Co. for nine years, 
holding positions from shipping clerk to Superintendent. 
He was born .March 13, 1875, in Conyers, Rockdale County, 
Georgia. 

1IE>UY MEINERT of the Henry Meinert Coal Co., Atlanta, 
Georgia, has been in the retail coaP trade over twenty years. 
Grover X. Meinert is a member of the firm and General Man- 
ager. 

JOHN H. MOORE, 227 McDaniel St.. Atlanta, Ga., has 
been In the retail coal business for twenty-four years. He 
was born at Monroe, Georgia, September IS, 1874. 

■\VILLIAM LAXE RAXDALL,, 212 Peters Building, At- 
lanta. Georgia, is a member of the retail coal firm of Ran- 
dall Bros., and has been in the business for thirty-two 
years, since its establishment in 1885. He v/as born at 
Decatur, Georgia. July 9. 1861, and Is one of the prominent 
coal merchants in the south. 



GEORGIA 



JAMES G. BARROX, 211 Commerce St., Albany, Georgia, 
is sole owner and Manager of the Barron Coal & Wood 
Co. and has been in the retail business for twenty-one 
years. He began with the Gillespie Coal Co. at Glasgow, 
Scotland, and advanced from miner and wagoner through 
all departments. He was born in Ireland October 15, 1856. 

T. M. CARTER is Manager for Carter & Co., coal and 
cotton factors at Albany, Georgia, and has been identified 
with the coal business for forty years. He formerly was 
connected with N. & A. F. Tift Co. and with Carter & Wool- 
folk. He T^'as born at Augusta, Georgia, In 1841. 

L. J. CASSELS, President of the Kirkwood Ice & Coal 
Co. at Kirkwood, Georgia, has been in the business for 
sixteen years. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia, July 12, 
1874. He is also a member of the firm of Cassels & Fleming. 

LEWLS FLEMISTER is the Manager of the Fowler- 
Flemister Coal Co. at Milledgeville, Georgia. He was for- 
merly with the Cook Lumber Co. and has been in the coal 
business for over ten years. He was born March 10, 1884, 
at Griffin, Georgia. 

XATHAX GADLEY is senior partner in the firm of Gad- 
ley & Griffin at Savannah, Georgia, and has been in the 
retail business for four years. He was born at Walter- 
boro, South Carolina, in March, 1876. 



ER\EST ('. <;<)OI>VV'YX is proi)rietor of a wholesale and 
retail coal business at Nevvnan, Georgia, and has carried 
it on for about fifteen years. He was one of the organizers 
of the Southeastern Association of Coal Merchants in At- 
lanta, Georgia, 1905. He was born in Newnan July 27, 
1875. 

JAMES D. GRAHAM has been in the retail coal business 
at Dalton, Georgia, since 1892, when he succeeded E. O. 
Herndon. He was born June 27, 1837, in Ganesville, Georgia. 

ROBERT \V. GRAVES is President of The Graves-Harper 
Co. at Rome, Georgia, and has been in the coal business 
for twenty-seven years. He has served a term as President 
of the Southeastern Coal Dealers' Association. He was 
born at Rome, Georgia, in 1871, and is highly regarded 
in the trade. 

JOSEPH F. GRIFFIX, Savannah, Georgia, is a junior 
partner in the firm of Gadley & Griffin, retail coal mer- 
chants, and has been in the business for four years. He 
was born February 13, 1886. 

AVILLIAiM LAXE HAXCOCK, proprietor W. L,. Hancock 
Coal Co., Athens, Georgia, was born December 7, 1870, at 
Jefferson, Georgia, and has been in the coal business ten 
years. 

CARL J. HERMAX is a member of the Herman Coal & 
Wood Co. at Savannah, Georgia, and has been in the retail 
coal business for twenty-one years. He was born In 
Savannah November 2, 1875. 

WILLIAM WOLFF HERTZ, 3 60 New St., Macon, Georgia, 
is the proprietor of the business of the Hertz Coal Co. 
and has been doing a retail business for thirteen years. He 
was born at Macon March 7, 1879. 

JOHX B. MILLS is General Manager and Secretary-Treas- 
urer of the Newton Coal & Lumber Co. at Griffin, Georgia. 

IJAXIEL W\ PEACE, retail coal merchant at Douglas- 
ville, Georgia, was born August 29, 1861, at Crawford, Mis- 
sissippi, and has been in the coal business twenty-six years. 

ETHELRED PHILIPS. 1400 Third Ave., Columbus, Geor- 
gia, is head of the firm of E. Philips & Sons. He suc- 
ceeded in 1880 to the coal business established by Charles 
Philips in 1870. George B. and Ernest W. Philips are now 
actively In charge. Mr. Ethelred Philips was born March 
6, 1851, at Mariana, Florida. 

J. W. PHILLIPS is a member of the coal firm of W. C. 
Wykie & Co. at Augusta, Georgia, and its Secretary and 
Treasurer. He is thirty-nine years old and was born in 
Columbia County, Georgia. 

JOSEPH FELDER POU is proprietor of the coal business 
of J. F. Pou & Co. at Columbus, Georgia, and has been 
engaged in the business for twenty-six years. The title 
of the firm was changed from W. L. & J. F. Pou in 1895, 
when W. L. Pou died, his brother, J. F. Pou, buying his 
interest from the widow. Mr. Pou w'as born at Columbus 
September 16, 1867. 

WILLIAM JAMES RYAX is President of the Vulcan Fuel 
Co., 635 Hull St. W., Savannah, Georgia. He was formerly 
with the Central of Georgia Railway and has been in the 
retail coal business six years. He was born in Savannah 
July 24, 1883. 

ALEXAXDER F. SMITH of Herndon & Smith, Elberton, 
Georgia, wa.- born July 13, 1867, in Elberton and has been in 
the retail coal business three years. 

JOHX ESTELLE TARBLEY' is Cashier and Office Mana- 
ger for Carter & Co., coal merchants at Albany, Georgia, 
and has been in the business for six years. He was born at 
Canton, Mississippi, October 3, 1890. 

Ml^LFORD P. WORD, Manager LaGrange Ice & Fuel Co., 
LaGrange, Georgia, was born November 9. 1877, at Rome, 
Georgi.a. and has been in the coal business fifteen years. He 
was formerly connected with the Rome Ice Mfg. Co. 



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IDAHO 



IDAHO entered the ranks of coal producing .states less 
than 15 years ago. The early developments centered 
about scattered lignite beds of restricted area, par- 
ticularly in the Salmon district in Lemhi county, near 
the Idaho-Montana state line. In the last two or three 
years, however, production has been confined to one 
bituminous coal mine in the St. Anthony district (Te- 
ton Basin field). Production figures from 1905 to 1913 
were as follows : 



Year. Ton. 

1905 5,782 

1906 5,365 

1907 6,508 

1908 5,429 

1909 4,553 



Year. Ton. 

1910 4,448 

1911 1,805 

1912 2,319 

1913. 2,143 



Statistics of production since 1913 are not reported 
separately, but are included in the figures for California 
and Nevada. 

Exclusive of this Idaho coal, all of which presumably 
was consumed within the state, the 1915 consumption 
of bituminous coal totaled 350,380 tons. By far the 
greater part of this came from adjoining state of Utah, 
which shipped in 227,417 tons. Wyoming came second 
with 87,619 tons; Washington shipped 25,000 tons; 
Montana 9,311 tons, and Pennsylvania 33 tons. The 
state also received approximately 1,000 tons of lake 
cargo coal from the docks and 200 tons of Pennsylvania 
anthracite. The per capita consumption was slightly 
in excess of .83 ton. 



IDAHO 



HOAVARD E. CAMPBEL.!, is Secretary-Treasurer of the 
Union Seed & Fuel Co., Ill S. Tentli St., Boise, Idaho, and 
has been eng'aged in the retail coal business for seven 
years. He was born October 8, 1869, at New Haven, Con- 
necticut. 

A. G. CHANGNON is Manager of the Changnon Commis- 
sion Co. at Idaho Falls, Idaho. Formerly he was with 
Crow & Changnon and has been seven years in the coal 
business. He was born at St. Anne, Illinois, February 4, 
1864. 

ALFRED H. CLEVELAND is a Stockholder in the Lewis- 
ton Fuel & Implement Co. at Lewiston, Idaho, 'and has 
been in the business for three years. He was born at 
Lewiston July 21, 1892. 

M. B. DEIVLIXGER, proprietor of the Denlinger Coal & 
Ice Co., of Idaho Falls, Idaho, was born in 1856 in Rock 
Island County, Illinois, and has been in the coal business 
in Idaho Falls thirteen years. His company has the 
reputation of being the largest retail coal concern in the 
state. 



M. A. CORNER is co-partner and Manager of the firm of 
Corner & Fisher, coal merchants at Wallace, Idaho. He 
was born in Ohio July 23, 1863. 

JOHN GETTY is the proprietor and Manager of the Getty 
Feed & Fuel Co. at Lewiston, Idaho, and has been in the re- 
tail coal business for seven years. He was born in Ireland 
March 14, 1872. 

OSCAR McCARTOR is Manager of the Moscow Commis- 
sion Co. at MoscoAv, Idaho. He has been in the coal busi- 
ness for over twenty years. He was born in Indiana Janu- 
ary 11, 1860, and has many warm friends in the trade. 

E. W. MILLER is the owner of a retail coal business at 
Kellogg, Idaho. He has been in the business for twenty- 
four years. He has represented Idaho in the Western Fuel 
Dealers' Association of Spokane, Washington. He was 
born at Canal Dover, Ohio, April 4, 1872. 

LAWRENCE POITWIN is Manager of the East Side Lum- 
ber Co. at Idaho Falls, Idaho, and has 'been in the retail 
coal business for four years. He was born in Norden, 
Nebraska, April 9, 1886. 

W. S. SIMS is President and General Manager of The 
Sims Co., Idaho Falls, Idaho, and has been in the business 
thirteen years. He was born at Lincoln, Utah, June 1, 1882. 



48 



ILLINOIS 



ILLINOIS has so nianv claims upon tlie consideration 
of the coal men of America that it is difficult to 
decide just what particular feature of its overwhelm- 
miT importance as ]K'oducer and consumer should be 
given precedence. Its leading city shares with Pitts- 
burgh the honor of being the largest coal consuming 
center in the country. As a coal producer it is out- 
ranked only by Pennsylvania and West Virginia. On 
t!ie side of potential coal production it contains the 
largest commercial coal bearing area in the United 
States. To meet its fuel requirements it draws upon 
the resources of ten other states and in turn distributes 
a substantial proportion of its own tonnage to 17 states 
from Minnesota and North Dakota on the north to 
Texas on the south, Nebraska on the west, and Tennes- 
see and Ohio on the east. While Indiana and the south- 
eastern Mississippi Valley marks the normal limits of 
its eastern movements, the strenuous times of the past 
three years have seen Illinois coal go into Canada, New 
York state and Connecticut. 

The coal fields of the state form the western part of 
the eastern interior basin which includes Illinois, Indi- 
ana and western Kentucky. Technically the state has 
been divided into 14 fields and six beds, but, as cuiient 
commercial matter, the mines of the state have been 
classified into six major groups and two important sub- 
sidiary groups. The 14 fields mentioned by the State 
Geological Survey are as follows: Eock Island, North- 
em, Wilmington, Peoria-Fulton, Grape Creek, Spring- 
field, Virden, Pana, Central Illinois, Centralia, William- 
son-Franklin, Big Muddy, and Saline. The major com- 
mercial groups are: (1) The Southern Illinois District, 
comprising Franklin, Saline, and Williamson counties 
and portions of adjoining counties, including the Du- 
quoin district in Perry County; (2) the Central Illi- 
nois field, which includes the Springfield, Virden, Pana 
and Centralia fields; (3) the Belleville or Standard Dis- 
trict, designated by the State Survey as Central Illinois, 
which covers the counties contiguous to the St. Louis- 
East St. Louis industrial district; (4) the Danville 
(Grape Creek) field in Vermilion County; (5) the 
Fulton-Peoria County fields, and (6) the Northern 
field in Bureau, LaSalle, Grundy, Will, Putnam, Kan- 
kakee, Livingston, Woodford and Marshall counties, 
i. e., the Northern and Wilmington fields of the 
State Survey classification. The Big Muddy-Murphys- 



Ijoro field in Jackson county, while of limited area, is 
of considerable commercial importance. The Duquoin 
subdivision has already been mentioned. The Kock Isl- 
and field in Mercer and Pock Island counties is of only 
limited importance. 

Of the six seams mentioned No. 1 is of the least com- 
mercial importance at the present time. This bed is 
worked most actively in Mercer and Rock Island coun- 
ties, where the output is most readily accessible to the 
Tri-Cities, which are its chief market. It is also found 
in BroAvn, Calhoun, Greene, Hancock, Henry, Jersey, 
McDonough, Schuyler, Scott and Warren counties. 
No. 2 coal is of greatest commercial importance in the 
Northern Illinois-Wilmington field, where it is known 
to the trade as "Third Vein"' and in the Big j\Iuddy dis- 
trict in Jackson county. The deposits in the No. 2 bed 
in the latter field are said to be more nearly akin to the 
high grade coals of the eastern states than at any other 
part of Illinois. The Jackson county coal, according to 
Professor Andros, "has less volatile matter, more fixed 
carbon, less ash and moisture and a higher calorific 
value than the coal in any other (Illinois) district." A 
thin vein of No. 2 coal is also found in Brown, Calhoun, 
Cass, Fulton, Greene, Hancock, Henry, McDonough, 
Mercer, Eock Island, Schuyler, Scott and Warren 
counties. 

Between 25 and 30 per cent, of the coal mined in the 
state comes from the No. 5 seam which underlies the 
Central Illinois, Harrisburg and Fulton-Peoria fields. 
This l)ed is found in Cass, DeWitt, Fulton, Gallatin, 
Knox, Logan, Macon, Mason, Menard, McLean, Peoria, 
Saline, Sangamon, Schuyler, Tazewell and Woodford 
counties. The Franklin-Williamson and Belleville 
groups are the principal factors in the No. 6 bed, al- 
though portions of the Central Illinois field, Jackson 
county. Perry county (Duquoin district) and the 
Grape Creek (Danville) district, contribute no mean 
tonnages to the aggregate that gives this bed over half 
of the annual commercial production of the state. In 
detail the No. 6 bed is reported in Bond, Christian, 
Clinton, Franklin, Jackson, Macoupin, Madison, Ma- 
rion, Montgomery, Moultrie, Perry, Eandolph, Sanga- 
mon, Shelby, St. Clair, Washington and Williamson 
counties. No. 7 coal is found in Edgar and Vermilion 
counties, but the total production is small. 

What is believed to be the earliest mention of coal in 



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the history of the United States is a reference to Illi- 
nois deposits. Until a few 3'ears ago credit for this ref- 
erence was given to a French missionary, Father Hen- 
nepin, for his journal entry of 1679 of the existence of 
a "cole" mine above Fort Crevecoenr, near the site of 
the city of Ottawa. Eecent investigation, however, 
gives the first mention as of the year 1673, when the 
discovery of coal near the present city of Utica was 
made by Joliet and Marquette. This was mapped by 
the first named explorer the year following its discov- 
ery. The next mention, after Father Hennepin's, was 
by Father Charlevoix in 1720, when the statement was 
made that "many coals" were found in the environs of 
what is now LaSalle. Further reference to Illinois coal 
is made in "Travels through the Interior Parts of 
North America in 1766, 1767 and 1768 by J. Carver, 
Esq." The existence of coal in the Northern Illinois 
field is again recorded in Kennedy's account of his 
search for a copper mine in 1773 and in "Morse's 
American C4azetteer/'' published in 1797. 

As far as known the earliest record of shipment 
dates back to 1810, when a flatboat load of coal was 
shipped from Brownsville, Jackson county, on the Big 
I^Iuddy river, to New Orleans. Discovery of coal in this 
part of the country came about, according to "Beck's 
Gazetteer of the States of Illinois and Missouri," pub- 
lished in 1823, in the following manner: "Coal exists 
in abundance on this alluvian and the blufEs which 
bound it. Its discovery was made in a very singular 
manner. Many years since, a tree taking fire, com- 
municated to its roots, which continued burning for 
some time. Upon examination, they were found to com- 
municate with a bed of coal, which continued to burn 
imtil the fire was completely smothered by the falling in 
of a large mass of incumbent earth. About two miles 
from this place a coal bank has been opened — the vein 
is as thick as any at Pittsburgh." 

Beck, in the same publication quoted from above, also 
refers to the existence of coal deposits in Clark, Oreene, 
Jackson, Pike and Sangamon counties and in the vi- 
cinity of Alton, the Big Muddy river, Cahokia, Chi- 
cago creek. Crooked creek. Fox river, Eedbud creek, 
Otter creek, Peoria, Spoon river and Sugar creek. As 
early as 1830 St. Clair county coal was used locally for 
blacksmithing purposes. In 1831 Peck, in his "Guide 
for Emigrants," stated that "exhaustless beds" of coal 
exist in the bluffs of St. Clair county and that large 
quantities were being sold in St. Louis at from 10 to 
121/2 cents per bushel. Another writer, three years 
later, declared that the St. Louis trade totaled thou- 
sands of bushels annually. One record for 1833 stated 
that 150,000 bushels had been hauled by wagon from 
St. Clair county mines to St. Louis. 

Although between 1833 and 1850, the estimated pro- 
duction in the state increased from 6,000 to 300,000 
tons, it was not until the era of railroad development 



began, in the early '50s, that the industry began to 
come into its own. In 1860 production had reached 
728,400 tons and at the close of the Civil War was 
1,260,000. Lentil the middle '50s the center of mining 
activity upon a commercial scale appears to have been 
in St. Clair county in the Belleville district, and that 
field held the lead for a number of years. In 1856 the 
LaSalle county beds began to assume importance and 
nine years later the discovery of coal in Will county 
and the organization of the Chicago & Wilmington Coal 
Co. (the father of the present C, W. & P. Coal Co.) 
pushed the third vein field further towards the front. 
About the same time development upon a commercial 
scale was begun in the Danville district. While the 
Belleville district has always remained an important 
factor in the total jiroduction of the state, the center 
of production, in the Northern field (LaSalle county) 
has been gradually shifting south. Between 1886 and 
1905, both inclusive, Macoupin or Sangamon counties 
(Central Illinois) led in production 13 out of 20 years. 
Since 1907 the honors have gone to the Williamson- 
Franklin coTinty field. The production record for the 
state as a whole since 1860 is shown in the following 
table : 



Year. Ton. 

1860 728,400 

1861 670,000 

1862 780,000 

1863 890,000 

1864 1,000,000 

1865 1,260,000 

1866 1,580,000 

1867 1,800,000 

1868 2,000,000 

1869 1,854,000 

1870 2,624,163 

1871 3,000,000 

1872 3,360,000 

1873 3,920,000 

1874 4,203,000 

1875 4,453,178 

1876 5,000,000 

1877 5,350,000 

1878 5,700,000 

1879 5.000,000 

1880 6,115,377 

1881 6,720,000 

1882 9,115,653 

1883 12,123,450 

1884 12,208,075 

1885 11,834,459 

1886 11,175,241 

1887 12,423,066 

1888 14,328,181 



Year. Ton. 

1889 12,104,272 

1890 15,292,420 

1891 15,660,698 

1892 17,862,276 

1893 19,949,564 

1894 17,113,576 

1895 17,735,864 

1896 19,786,626 

1897 20,072,758 

1898 18,599,299 

1899 24,439,019 

1900 25,767,981 

1901 .' 27,331,552 

1902... 32,939,373 

1903 36,957,104 

1904 36,475,060 

1905 38,434,363 

1906 41,480,104 

1907 51,317,146 

1908 47,659,690 

1909 50,904,990 

1910...- 45,900,246 

1911 53,679,118 

1912 59,885,226 

1913 61,618,744 

1914 57,589,197 

1915 58,829,576 

1916 66,195,336 



Under normal conditions about 45 per cent, of the 
total production of the state is consumed in local in- 
dustrial enterprises and for domestic uses. The largest 
individual customers of the Illinois mines are, of course, 
the railroad companies, some of which control extensive 
mining operations of their own. While the major rail- 



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road i'uol consnmi)tion is by transportation companies 
having direct connection witli the Illinois mines, dur- 
ing the past two years (1916-1917) Illinois coal has 
been used as locomotive fuel by roads in Canada and the 
Northwest and by carriers operating west of the Mis- 
souri ri\or. Upon a general commercial basis, the Chi- 
cago industrial district is tlie lieaviest consumer. In 
1915 this district used 7,852,675 tons of Illinois coal. 
During that year the output of the state was distributed 
as follows : 

Used within the state, 26,781,713 tons, divided as fol- 
lows: Consumed at mines, 1,533,609 tons; sold locally, 
2,470, 11-1 tons; shipped to intrastate points, 22,778,530 
tons. Shipped to Arkansas, 128,950 tons; Indiana, 825,- 
601 tons; Iowa, 3,053,413 tons; Kansas, 414,467 tons; 
Kentucky, 6,807 tons; Louisiana, 67,338 tons; Mich- 
igan, 83,256 tons; Minnesota, 1,334,330 tons; Missis- 
sippi, 96,577 tons; Missouri, 4,391,722 tons; Nebraska, 
938,905 tons; North Dakota, 106,674 tons; Ohio, 3,036 
tons; South Dakota, 319,370 tons; Tennessee, 68,559 
tons; Texas, 20,648 tons; Wisconsin, 1,260,188 tons; 
total, 13,119,841 tons; railroad consumption, 18,928,- 
022 tons; gTand total, 58,829,576 tons. 

As a consumer of coal for industrial and hoiisehold 
purposes Illinois in the aggregate uses more fuel than 
any other state in the Union but Pennsylvania. Its 
normal consumption of bituminous coal alone is in excess 
of the combined anthracite and bituminous consumption 
of the six New England states, although the intense con- 
centration of manufacturing enterprise along the North 
Atlantic seaboard during 1916-1917 suggests that this 
record may not have held true during the past 24 
months. As to its status as an individual consuming 
state, in comparison with other states considering indi- 
vidually, however, there is no question. 

Primarily, this record is made possible because of the 
heavy consumption of fuel in the Chicago industrial 
district. This consumption represents over 50 per cent, 
of the total fuel requirements of the state. It is the 
factor that brings the per capita bituminous consump- 
tion of Illinois above that of any other state in the 
T'nion. The per capita bituminous coal consumption 
for 1915 was 5.91 tons; of anthracite, .54 ton, making a 
total per capita of 6.45 tons- — a record exceeded by but 
one state, Delaware. Upon a square mile basis, Illi- 
nois consumption, 764 tons, ranks a close fourth to the 
New York record of 772 tons. The gi-eater density in 
population in the eastern states, however, permits higher 
square mile consumption in Pennsylvania, the New 
England group and New York state. 

Exclusive of railroad and steamship fuel, the total 
consumption in the state for 1915, as reported by the 
United States Geological Survey, was 43,268,850 tons. 
Pennsylvania anthracite contributed 3,292,000 tons to 
this total. The bituminous consumption was divided as 
follows: Illinois, 26,781,713 tons; Indiana, 4,044,528 



tons; Iowa, 17,700 tons ; Kentucky, 864,047 tons; Mary- 
land, 20,783 tons; Ohio, 287,561 tons; Pennsylvania, 
1,677,186 tons; Virginia, 120,300 tons; West Virginia, 
5,079,032 tons ; lake coal, 1,084,000 tons ; total, 39,976,- 
850 tons. 

In addition a small tonnage was received from j\Iis- 
«ouri, but this total is reported with receipts under Ar- 
kansas. 

The only complete figures covering consumption at 
Chicago were compiled by the Chicago Association of 
Commerce in 1912 in connection with its report upon 
"Smoke Abatement and Electrification of Railway Ter- 
minals in Chicago." These figures showed the follow- 
ing : 

1. TOTAL, COjSTSUMPTION WITHIN CHICAGO DISTRICT. 

Percent. 

Ton. of total. 

Pennsylvania anthracite 1,827,158 8.62 

Smokeless 1,230,787 5.80 

Coke 3,435,753 16.20 

Illinois bituminous 9,184,126 43.31 

Indiana bituminous 3,084,688 14.54 

Other bituminous 2,446,374 11.53 



21,208,886 100.00 

II. CONSUjVIPTION' AVITHIN city LIMITS OF CHICAGO. 

Pennsylvania anthracite 1,633,002 

Smokeless 1,174,742 

Coke 3,099,302 

Bituminous 11,675,477 



17,582,523 

That these figures have been vastly increased during 
the past five years is a matter of common knowledge 
and estimates upon current consumption range between 
27,000,000 and 30,000,000 tons. For example, the fig- 
ures under Table I, supra, include 2,815,400 tons of fuel 
consumed by the railroads. Of this amount 2,786,029 
was bituminous coal. The percentage of this fuel origin- 
ating in states other than Illinois and Indiana is so 
small that it may safely be ignored. If this be deducted 
from the totals above shown, the total Illinois and 
Indiana consumption for non-railroad purposes is re- 
duced to 9,482,785 tons. Statistics for 1915 show that 
the non-railroad consumption in the Chicago switching 
district originating in Illinois and Indiana was 10,937,- 
395 tons. Smokeless consumption has greatly increased 
during the past five years; well considered estimates 
place the 1915 consumption for domestic and other low 
pressure plants at 2,600,000 tons. The increased activ- 
ity in steel and other manufacturing enterprises has also 
shot up consumption so that the round figure estimate 
of 30,000,000 tons for 1917 does not appear to be far 
out of line. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 




FRANCIS STUYVESANT PEABODY, Chicago, Illinois, 
Whose coal activities include operations in Illinois, Indiana. Ohio, 
Kentucky, Virginia and Wyoming, is Chairman of the Board of Direc- 
tors of the Peabody Coal Co., Chicago, which does a business of 12,- 
000,000 tons a year. 

Mr. Peabody was born in Chicago in 1859, and went into the coal 
business as a retailer in his native city in 1884, three years after his 
graduation from Yale. Since that year he has had practical business 
experience from every angle of the coal industry, and with success. 
He is prominent in the industrial life of Chicago and Illinois. 

In the recent war he was Chairman of the Committee on Coal Pro- 
duction of the Council of National Defense, and the later success of 
the Fuel Administration was attained on those basic principles 
which he laid down with his committer. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 




CLIFFORD DOUGLASS CALDWELL, Chicago, Illinois, 

Sales Manager of the By-Products Coke Corporation, Vice Chairman of 
the Coke Committee of the Semet-Solvay Co., Vice President of the 
Black Mountain Corporation, President of the C. H. & S. E. R. R., and 
Secretary of the Iroquois Iron Co., with office^ in the McCormiclv Build- 
ing, Chicago, is also a Director of the following companies: Black 
Mountain Coal Corp., Solvay Collieries Co., Iroquois Iron Co., Rogers- 
Brown Ore Co., C. H. & S. E. R. R. Co., C. S. L. Ry. Co. He was born 
in Bristol, Tennessee, October 16, 1872. Mr. Caldwell was formerly con- 
nected with the .Jones interests of Pittsburgh for a number of years, 
and has many friends in the coal trade. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





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JAMES EDMUND RUTLEDGE, Chicago, Illinois, 

Late President of the Riitledge & Taylor Coal Co., 1515 Fisher Building, 
Chicago, had been in the coal business for thirty years at the time of 
his death in April, 1918. He had also been President of the following: 
New Staunton Coal Co., St. Louis; Nokomis Coal Co., Chicago; Security 
Coal & Mining Co., Chicago, and the Standard Briquette Fuel Co., 
Kansas City, Missouri. He formerly was connected with the Consoli- 
dated Coal Co. of St. Louis. Mr. Rutledge was born in Bloomington, 
Illinois, October 30, 1861, and was one of the largest and most promi- 
nent of Illinois coal operators. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 




JACKSON K. BERING, Chicago, Illinois, 

President J. K. Bering Co., 332 South Micliigan avenue, Chicago, and 
Bering Mines Co., has been active in the coal business twenty-eight 
years. He formerly was connected with the following coal concerns: 
C. L.. Bering, Consolidated Coal Co., Riverton Coal Co. and the Bering 
Coal Co. of Belaware. Mr. Bering was born in Barlington, Wisconsin, 
August 1, 1870, and is one of the most popular and capable coalmen 
in the West. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





JOSEPH B. ROYjVON, Chicago, Illinois, 

Vice President and Secretary J. K. Bering- Coal Co., Chicago, 
and Secretary Dering- Mines Co., was born in Chicag-o March 
27. 1874, and lias been twenty-five years in the coal business, 
all the time with the present company, an unusual record 
for the coal trade. 



JAMES B. PAULEY, Chicago, Illinois, 

Vice President J. K. Dering Coal Co., Chicago, and Dering 
Mines Co., was born In Lebanon, Ohio, August 16, 1875. 
Previously he had a wide experience in the implement in- 
dustry both in this country and Europe. 





WILLIAM H. D. GIBSON^ Chicago, Illinois, 

Of the J. K. Dering Coal Co., McCormick Building, Chicago, 
was born September 1, 1871, in Chicago and has been in the 
coal business ten years. He was formerly with the Chicago 
& Eastern Illinois Railroad and is exceptionally well posted 
on traffic questions. Mr. Gibson has done a great deal of 
excellent committee work for the Chicago Coal Merchants' 
Association. 



ARTHUR R. ODELL, Chicago, Illinois, 

Manager of Country Sales for the J. K. Dering Coal Co., 
McCormick Building, Chicago, Illinois, has been in the coal 
business since 1899, with his present company except from 
1910 to 1912, when he was with the Meeker Co. He was 
born at South Bend, Indiana, in 1878. Mr. Odell has a wide 
acquaintance and is popular with the retail trade through- 
out the Northwest. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 




GEORGE B. HARRINGTON, Chioaso, Illinois, 

President of the Chicag-o, Wilmington & Franklin Coal Co., 
McCormick Building-, Chicago, Illinois, has been engaged in 
the coal business for seven years. Mr. Harrington is a 
graduate of Princeton University and of the Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology, where he specialized in mining 
engineering. He was born at Wilmington, Delaware, in 
1881. Under his management this large and old established 
company has had a most successful growth. 





ANDREW J. MALONEY, Chicago, Illinois, 

Vice President and Sales Manager Chicago, Wilmington & 
Franklin Coal Co., 407 McCormick Building, Chicago, has 
been in the coal business for seventeen years and forinerly 
was with the J. S. "Wentz Co. and the Royal Colliery Co. 
He wa.s born in Schuylkill Countv, Pennsylvania, February 
12, 1884. 



THOMAS F. HOtiMES, Lincoln. Illinois, 

General Superintendent Chicago, Wilmington & Franklin 
Coal Co., Chicago, was born in Brooklyn. New York, in 1861, 
and has been a resident of Ijincoln since 186G. Mr. Holmes 
started in as a bookkeeper at the mines in 1883, and since 
that time has filled every position from day laborer to 
superintendent — a practical mining man. The record pro- 
duction sheets of the company in 1918 tell of his success 
in his line. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





CHARLES M. MODERWELL, Chicago, Illinois, 

President of C. M. Moderwell & Co., McCormick Building, 
Chicag'O, Illinois, has been in the coal business twenty- 
five years. He is interested in the United Coal Corp., the 
Columbus Mining- Co.. and the Thos. N. Mordue Coal Co. He 
was with the Montana Coal & Coke Co. from 1892 to 1899, 
with the Fairmont Coal Co. from 1899 to 1901 and with the 
National Coal & Coke Co. from 1901 to 1903. Mr. Moderwell 
was born May 6, 1S6S, at Geneseo, Illinois. Mr. Moderwell 
is very highly regarded and commands the confidence and 
respect of the entire trade to an unusual degree. 



HENRY E. PATRICK, Chicago, Illinois, 

Vice President of C. M. Moderwell & Co., McCormick Build- 
ing, Chicago. Illinois, has been in the coal business fifteen 
years. He was born September 5, 1852, in New York state 
and is well kno^vn in the coal trade. 





ARTHUR 1.. AL,L,AIS, Chicago, Illinois, 

Vice President of The United Coal Corporation and of C. 
M. Moderwell & Co., McCormick Building, Chicago, Illinois. 
He is also interested in the Columbus Mining Co. and the 
Brazil Collieries Co. He has been in the coal business for 
twenty years and formerly was connected with the Mecca 
Coal Co. and the Rock Run Coal Co. He -was born at 
Maries, France, in August, 1868. 



JAMES BARNES HILTON, Chicago, Illinois, 

Secretary and Treasurer of the Columbus Mining Co., 758 
McCormick Building, Chicago, Illinois, has been in the coal 
business for nine years and was formerly connected ■n^ith 
the United Coal Corporation as its Third Vice President. He 
born in Lowell, Massachusetts, May 25, 1872. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





HERBERT HALLIDAY TAYLOR, Chieaso, Illinois. 

President of the Taylor Coal Co., 1215 Old Colony Building, 
Chicago, Illinois, has been engaged in the coal business for 
over twenty years. Formerly he was connected with the 
New Kentucky Coal Co. He was born at Columbus, Ohio, 
August 14, 1877. Mr. Taylor is one of the largest and most 
popular of Illinois coal operators. 



EDWIIV R. KEELER, Chicago, Illinois, 

Vice President and General Sales Manager of the Taylor 
Coal Co., Old Colony Building, Chicago, Illinois, has been 
in the coal business for seven years. He was born at 
Rockford, Illinois, June 27, 1889. Mr. Keeler served with 
the National Guard in Mexico and Is at present an officer 
in the United States Army on the staff of Gen. O. L. How- 
ard, Jr., commanding the 161st Field Artillery Brigade. 





HARRY JOHN ELLIS, Chicago, Illinois, 

Treasurer and Sales Manager of the Taylor Coal Co., Old 
Colony Building, Chicago, Illinois, and Vice President of the 
Distributors' Coal Co., was formerly with Guy G. Gibson & 
Co. and the New Kentucky Coal Co. He was born in Chicago 
August 30, 1888. 



B. Xi, SHEPARD, Chicago, Illinois, 

Secretary Taylor Coal Co., Chicago, was born September 25, 
1868, in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin. His first business 
ventures were in fire insurance and real estate in Fond du 
Lac. In 1897 he went into the coal business in Chicago, 
continuing until 1912, when he opened an oflice as a public 
accountant. Mr. Shepard assumed his present position in 
1918. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 




WILLIAM F. WICKHAM, St. Louis, Mo., 

President Wickham & Burton Coal Co., 
325 McCormick Building-, Chicago, also 
President Wickham Coal Co., 412 Pierce 
Building-. S.t. Louis, Missouri, was born 
in St. Louis, -where the Wickliam name 
is a most highly respected one in 
business circles. At Princeton Uni- 
versity he -was a member of the class 
inade fai-nous by Woodrow Wilson, now 
President. His early business expe- 
rience was with the Tudor Iron Works 
and the Republic Iron & Steel Co. of 
St. Louis. His first experience in 
the coal industry was -with his brother, 
E. F. Wickham, when he joined the old 
St. Louis firm, the Wickham Coal Co., 
and upon his brother's deatli succeeded 
to the Presidency. He is also Presi- 
dent of tlie Johnston City Washed Coal 
Co., witli mines at Johnston City, Illi- 
nois. 




FREDERIC A. BIRTOX, Cliieaso, 111., 

Of the Wickham & Burton Coal Co., 325 
McCormick Building. Chicago, exclusive 
sales agents of the Paradise Coal Co., 
a well-known Illinois coal company, 
-was born September 12, 1873, in To- 
ronto, Canada. When he came to Chi- 
cago he entered the law office of Bur- 
ton & Harris. As his legal education 
-was developed court reporting appealed 
to him, and he specialized along that 
line, with the result that he became 
known as one of the best in the city of 
Chicago. This work brought hii-n in 
contact with the coal industry, and in 
1907 he turned to coal, beginning as a 
jobber in Franklin County (Illinois) 
coal, then a comparatively new field. 
Since that time he 1-ias devoted his 
whole time to both tlie operating and 
selling ends of the coal industry. Mr. 
Burton is also Treasurer of the John- 
ston City Washed Coal Co., with mines 
at Johnston City, Illinois. 



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COAL MEN OF AAIERICA 




JAMES FORESTER, Du Quoin, Illinois, 

Vice President Paradise Coal Co., Du 
Quoin, was born June 18, 1868, in Du 
Quoin and in tliat region of Illinois 
gained a most practical knowledge of 
coal mining-. He was for thirty years 
with the Muddy Valley Mining & Man- 
ufacturing Co. at Hallidayboro, Illinois, 
and when it was sold to the Jackson 
Coal Co. he was its Vice President and 
General Manager. Mr. Forester is a 
member of the State Mining Board of 
Illinois, a member of the Mine Inves- 
tigation Committee of Illinois, and a 
member of the Executive Board of the 
Illinois Coal Operators Association, and 
stands high in the coal operating cir- 
cles of the state. 




R. J. FORESTER, Du Q.uoin, Illinoi.s, 

General Superintendent Paradise Coal 
Co., Du Quoin, was born in 1884 in Du 
Quoin, and took his degree in rrlechan- 
ical engineering at the University of 
Illinois. He was first with the Rob- 
erts & Schaefer Co. of Chicago, Illinois, 
and while with them designed the tip- 
ple of the Paradise Coal Co. Then he 
was associated with The Jeffrey Man- 
ufacturing Co. of Columbus, Ohio. In 
1905 he installed the electric plant at 
the Paradise mine, after which he went 
to Mexico to take charge of a mine for 
a syndicate. Here he remained until 
a revolution broke out, whereupon he 
returned to Illinois to become Superin- 
tendent of the Paradise Coal Co. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





ARTHUR M. HULL,, Chicago, Illinois, 

Editor and General Manager The Retail Coalman. Chicago, 
was born in Chicago February 14, 1874, and has been identi- 
fied with the coal trade for seventeen years. He organized 
the Order KoKoal, was Secretary-Treasurer of the National 
Coal Association and Field Secretary of the National Retail 
Coal Merchants' Association. 



MORTON HISCOX, Chicago, Illinois, 

Business Manager The Retail Coalman, Chicago, was born 
in Westerly, Rhode Island, October 3, 1868. His connection 
with the coal trade dates from 1906 when he became asso- 
ciated with The Retail Coalman. 





.JOHN GROENIER, Chicago, Illinois, 

Secretary and Treasurer The Retail Coalman, Chicago, has 
been connected with the coal trade for sixteen years, for- 
merly with the Illinois and Wisconsin Retail Coal Dealers' 
Association, and since 1907 with The Retail Coalman. He 
was born in Holland September 21, 1879. 



WILLIAM A. IRELAND, Columbus, Ohio, 

"The Cartoonist of the Coal Trade," was born in Chilli- 
cothe, Ohio, in 1880. His cartoon in every Issue of The 
Retail Coalman is a feature that has endeared him to the 
hearts of all connected with the coal industry. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



BIG CREEK COLLIERY CO. 

Peoples Gas Building 
CHICAGO, ILL. 

One of the largest and most important of Illinois eoal com- 
panies is the Big Creek Collier\' Co., with headquarters at Chi- 
cago. This compan_v, of which Charles I. Pierce is President 
and C. E. Karstrom Secretary and Sales Manager, is the selling 
organization of two large operating companies in the Southern 
Illinois field as follows: 

SALINE COUXTY COAL CO., with five operations in Sa- 
line County, Illinois, operating since 1906, and located on the 
Big Four, Illinois Central and Louisville & Nashville Eailway, 
producing "Premium" Harrisburg coal. 

BIG CREEK COAL CO., with three operations in Fulton 
County, Illinois, operating since 1904, on the Chicago, Burlington 
& Quincy Eailway and the Toledo, Peoria & Western Eailway, 
producing "Big Creek" coal. 

This company is equipped to fill all kinds of contracts. Its 
products are knoM'n as "Premium" and "Big Creek" coals. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





FENWICK C. ATWILIi, Chicago, Illinois, 

President and Treasurer of The At.will-Makem.son Coal & 
Coke Co., McCormick Building-, Chicago, Illinois, was for- 
merly with The Marmet Co. and the Richards-Ambler Co., 
and has been in the coal business nineteen years. He was 
born .Tune 4, 1878, in Burlington, Vermont, son of the late 
Rt. Rev. Edward Robert Atwill, first bishop of the Episcopal 
diocese of "West Missouri. Mr. Atwell is a thirty-second 
deg-ree Mason, and he has a host of warm friends in the 
coal trade. 



JAMES LEROY 3IAKEMSON, Chicago, Illinois, 

Vice President and Secretary of the Atwill-Makerason Coal 
& Coke Co.. McCormick Building, Chicago, Illinois, has 
been engaged in the coal business for eighteen years. He 
was formerly with C. K. Pittman. Richards, Ambler & Co. 
and tlie New Kentucky Coal Co. He was born December 
20, 1880, in Iowa, and has a wide acquaintance in the trade. 





FRED C. HOXNOLD, Chicago, Illinois, 

Secretary-Treasurer and General Manager Chicago & Big 
Muddy Coal Co. and New Enterprise Coal Co., 2013 Fisher 
Building, Chicago, Illinois, has been in the coal business 
for twelve years and holds the following offices: Secretary- 
Treasurer of the Illinois Coal Operators' Association and of 
the Southern Illinois Coal Operators' Association; Secretary 
of the Franl<lin County Coal Operators' Association; Direct- 
or of the Illinois Coal Traffic Bureau; Illinois Director of 
the National Coal Association. He was born in Missouri in 
1872. Dr. Honnold is Distributor of the United States Fuel 
Administration for Illinois, Indiana and "Western Kentucky. 



OSCAR M. BURNETT, Chicago, Illinois, 

General Sales Manager Chicago & Big Muddy Coal Co., 
2013 Fisher Building, Chicago, Illinois, has been in the 
coal business ten years, five of which were passed as travel- 
ing salesman for the company. He -was born near Marlon, 
Illinois, July 23, 1871. 



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COAL ^Fl<:X OF AAIERICA 





AVILLIAM D. EL.MSTROM, Chicago, Illinois, 

President of the Wm. D. Elmstrom Coal Co., 1116 East 
Forty-second St., Chicago, Illinois, has been engaged in 
the coal business for over twenty years. He was one of 
the organizers of the Chicago Coal Merchants' Association 
and of the Chicago Track Coal Dealers' Association, and 
has served as I*i-esident and Director of both organizations. 
He was born in Buffalo, New York, May 15, 1861. 



TVATHANIEL H. KENDALL, Chieag^o, Illinois, 

Commissioner of the Chicago Coal Merchants' Association, 
Plymouth Building, Chicago, Illinois, has been connected 
with the trade for six years. He was born in Chicago Sep- 
tember 14, 1877, and was formerly in the railroad business. 
Mr. Kendall is well posted on traffic matters and under his 
management the Chicago association has enjoyed a splendid 
growth. 





CLIFFORD H. JENKIIN'S. Cliicais;o, Illinois, 

Late Manager The Domhoff & Joyce Co.. 348 Railway Ex- 
change Building, Chicago, Illinois, had been in the coal and 
coke business eighteen years at the time of his death, Jan. 
9. 1919. He was born in Cincinnati April 10. 1881. Mr. Jen- 
kins had been uniformly successful and had many friends 
in the trade. 



RAYMOND D. JENKINS, Chioaso, Illinois, 

With the coke department of the Atwill-Makemson Coal & 
Coke Co., McCormick Bldg., Chicago, Illinois, was fourteen 
years with The Domhoff & Joyce Co., located at the Cincin- 
nati office for seven years and later at Cleveland and Chi- 
cago as the Assistant Manager. He was born in Cincinnati 
September 18, 1885. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





GUSTAVE GOLSEN, Chicago, Illinois, 

President of the Golsen-Doan Coal Co., President of the 
Merrimac Anthracite Coal Corporation and Vice President 
and Director of the BoonviUe Mining Co., has been in the 
coal industry for over thirty years. He was formerly with 
the United States Coal Co. as its President and with O'Gara, 
King- & Co. as its Secretary. He was born in Chicago April 
7, 1869. 



GEORGE H. DOAN, Chicago, Illinois, 

Treasurer of the Golsen-Doan Coal Co., Old Colony Build- 
ing, Chicago, Illinois, has been in the business for twenty- 
eight years. He was with the Grape Creek Coal & Coke 
Co. of Chicago from 1887 to 1890 and organized and sunk 
the Royal Colliery mine at Virden. Illinois. He represented 
the Chicago, Wilmington & Vermillion Coal Co. in Chi- 
cago from 1896 to 1902. Mr. Doan was born at Danville, 
Illinois, in 1867. 





CHESTER A. HARRIS, EvsuLston, Illinois, 

President Modern Coal Co., whose property is located a Ses- 
ser, Franklin County, Illinois; Vice President Harris-Dilla- 
vou-Dimond Co., who distribute the coal from the Modern 
Coal Co., the West Frankfort Coal Co. and the Crown 
Coal Mining Co., was born in Lena, Illinois, August 29, 1879. 
He started in business in 1904 at Champaign, Illinois, and 
was succeeded May 10, 1907, by Chester A. Harris & Co.. 
whicli company was later succeeded by Harris-Dillavou & 
Co. in March, 1913. 



JOHIV M. DIt,L,AVOTJ, Evanston, Illinois, 

President Harris-Dillavou-Dimond Co., Old Colony Building, 
Chicago, who distribute the coal produced by West Frankfort 
Coal Co., West Frankfort, Franklin County, Illinois, Modern 
Coal Co., Sesser, Franklin County, Illinois, and Crown Coal 
Mining Co., Winkle, Perry County, Illinois, and Secretary 
and Treasurer Modern Coal Co.. is likewise interested in 
the West Frankfort Coal Co., and has been connected with 
the coal industry twelve years. He was born in DeLand, 
Illinois, November 22, 1883. 



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COAL MI^X OF AMERICA 





COl.. MICHAEL R. KELI.Y, Cliioago, Illinois, 

Partner and Manager in the firm of E. L. Hedstrom & Co., 
Marquette Building, Cliicago, Illinois, has been in the busi- 
ness since May 1, 1879. when he started to work for the 
company he now manages. He was born in St. Johns, New- 
foundland. Colonel Kelly is highly respected in trade 
circles and ha.'; served on the Governor's personal staff. 



CLARK T. ROBERTS, Chicagro. Illinois, 

Of the firm of E. L. Hedstrom & Co., 140 South Dearborn 
Street, Chicago, was born in Buffalo, New York, July 1, 1869, 
and has been thirty-eight years in the coal trade. He is 
one of the Roberts brothers, who have an unusually wide 
circle of friends In the coal trade. 





HEXRY J. KOEBER. Chicago, Illinois, 

President of Henry Holverscheid & Co., Old Colony Building. 
Chicago, Illinois, is likewise President of the following: 
Barker Coal Co., Albany Coal Co., Carter Coal Co., Domes- 
tic Coal Co. He has been engaged in the coal business for 
over thirty years, fifteen of which were with the Pennsyl- 
vania Coal Co. He has served as President of the Kantishna 
Club, composed of Chicago coal men, and was a Director 
for three years. He was born in Chicago, December 30, 1871. 



HENRY HOLVERSCHEID, Chicago, Illinois, 

Late President of Henry Holverscheid & Co., Chicago, was 
born in Stratford, Ontario. Canada, August 31, 1856, and died 
at Hinsdale, Illinois. January 23, 1917. He started in busi- 
ness with Blake, "VVhitehouse & Co., Chicago, and later was 
with the Pennsylvania Coal Co., their successor, for twenty- 
five years. In 1901 he organized his own company and 
gained a wide reputation as a pioneer in the sale of Ken- 
tucky coals in the North. At the time of his death he 
was also President of a number of Chicago retail coal 
companies. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





THOMAS DAYHOFF JI ASKi:'! I'. Chicago, Illinois, 

President of the Power Coal Co., 616 Fisher Building-, Chi- 
cago, Illinois, has been in the business for thirteen years. 
He is Vice President of the Rowland-Power Coal Co. of 
Indiana and of the Rowland-Power Consolidated Coal Co. 
He formerly was connected with the following concerns: 
H. W. Finch, Chaffln Coal Co., C. G. Blake Co., and Big Creek 
Colliery Co. He was born at Kokomo, Indiana, May 19, 1884, 
and enjoys a wide personal acquaintance. 



ROSS FllliUlt 31AU1-NK., Cliioago, Illinois, 

Secretary of the Power Coal Co., 616 Fisher Building, 
Chicago, Illinois, has been connected with the coal 
business for fifteen years. Other firms with whom he has 
worked are the following: Federal Coal Co., Sedalia Coal 
Co., O. S. Richardson Coal Co., White Oak Coal Co., Marine 
& Ward, Rutledge & Taylor. Mr. Marine was born in 
Vinton, Iowa, November 8, 1878, and is considered an 
unusually good salesman. 



HENRY P. POPE, Chicago, Illinois, 

Manager and proprietor of the busi- 
ness of George G. Pope & Co., Fisher 
Building, Chicago, Illinois, has been 
engaged in the coal business for 
thirty-three years. He is a Director 
of the Worth-Huskey Coal Co., Vice 
President of the Ridge Coal Mining- 
Co., Vice President of the Knox Coal 
Mining Co., and a Director of the 
United Fourth Vein Coal Co. Mr. Pope 
has filled the office of President of 
the Chicago Coal Trade Golf Associa- 
tion and is Vice President of the Na- 
tional Coal Trade Golf Association. 
He was born in New Bedford, Massa- 
chusetts, October 7, 1864. He was for- 
merly a stockholder in the Big Muddy 
Fuel Co. and is now intereste"-! in tl-ie 
Franklin Coal Co. and the S. W. Little 
Coal Co. 



GEORGE (i. I'OPE, Chicago, Illinois, 

Was born in New Bedford, Massachu- 
setts, in 1825, and died in Chicago 
September 21, 1908. He was one of 
the California pioneers,- going to 
California via the Isthmus of Panania 
in 1850 and remaining there until 1856, 
and was Secretary of the Chicago So- 
ciety of California Pioneers for many 
years, holding that office until the 
time of his death. He first entered 
the coal trade in 1876, in the employ 
of E. L. Hedstrom & Co., and organ- 
ized the firm of Geo. G. iPope & Co. in 
1878, continuing same until his death. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





PIERRE CHARLES RICHARDS, Chioaso, Illinois, 

President and Treasurer of the coal firm of Richards, Evans 
& Co., 417 S. Dearborn street, Chicago, Illinois, has been in 
the business since 1887, formerly with The Marmet Co., 
as Manager. He was born at Bedford, Indiana, January 
15. 1861. Mr. Richards is unusually well-posted on coke 
and highly respected in the trade. 



JOHN HENRY EVANS, Cliiea>:;o, Illinois, 

Vice President and Secretary Richards, Evans & Co., 417 
South Dearborn St., Chicago, Illinois, was formerly con- 
nected with the Chicago office of the Marmet Co. and has 
been in the coal business for seventeen years. He was 
born at Newtown, North Wales, July 11, 1882, and is well 
acquainted with the Chicago trade. 





WILLIAM P. WORTH, Chicago. Illinois, 

President of the Worth-Huskey Coal Co., Old Colony Build- 
ing, Chicago, Illinois, has been twenty years in the business. 
He is also President of the Franklin Coal Co. and of the 
Knox Coal Mining Co. and Treasurer and General Manager 
of the Ridge Coal Mining Co. Formerly he was President of 
the Garden City Fuel Co. and Secretary and Treasurer of 
the Lill-Robinson Coal Co. He has been Vice President of 
the Chicago Track Coal Dealers' Association and of the 
Sunset Club. He was born in Channahon, Illinois, January 
7, 1870. 



HARLEY A. HUSKEY, Chieai^o, Illinois. 

Treasurer and General Manager of the V/orth-Huskey Coal 
Co., Old Colony Building, Chicago, Illinois, has been con- 
nected with the coal trade for twenty-two years, formerly 
with the F. G. Hartwell Co., Austin Coal Co., and Bedford 
Coal Co. He is Treasurer and Manager of the Knox Coal 
Mining Co. and T.easurer of the Franklin Coal Co. Mr. 
Huskey has served as President of the Chicago Coal Trade 
Golf Association. He was born at Carlinville, Illinois, Sep- 
tember 22, 1879. 



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R. FLOYD CLINCH, Chioago, Illinois, 

Member of the coal firm of Crerar, Clinch & Co., Chicago, 
Illinois, having- interests also in the Equitable Coal & Coke 
Co., the Searls Coal Co., and the Duncan Coal Co., has been 
connected with the coal business twenty-nine years. He 
was born at Savannah, Georgia, July 19, 1865. Mr. Clinch 
also has large real estate interests in Chicago and is one 
of its substantial citizens. 



JOHN CRERAR, Chicago, Illinois, 

Senior member of the coal firm of 
Crerar, Clinch & Co., 645 Rookery 
Building, Chicago, has been in the coal 
business twenty-nine years. Mr. Crerar 
was born January 7, 1857, in Pictou, 
Nova Scotia, Canada, a seaport noted 
as a shipping point for coal mines ad- 
jacent to it, and, it seemed befitting that 
he should locate in Chicago, one of the 
greatest coal markets of the world, 
and should become well-known in the 
coal industry. He has other extensive 
business interests, and is rated high 
in the business life of Chicago and the 
coal industry of the country. 





EDWIN CARY SEARLS, Chicago, Illinois, 

General Manager Crerar. Clinch & Co., St. Louis, Missouri, 
and Chicago, Illinois, was born December 10, 1866, in Buf- 
falo, New York, and has been in the coal business for the 
past eighteen years. Mr. Searls is well known and has 
many warm friends in coal trade circles. He is also inter- 
ested in the Searls Coal Co., Majestic Coal & Coke Co., and 
is President of the Illinois Coal Operators Association. 



CHARLES B. EBBERT, Chicago, Illinois, 

General Sales Manager for the White Oak Coal Co., 122 
South Michigan Ave., Chicago, Illinois, has been connected 
with the coal business for over twenty years. He started 
with the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad in 1899 as Traveling 
Coal Freight Agent and soon became associated with F. L. 
Garrison in selling by-product coke from the ovens at Ham- 
ilton, Ohio. In 1900 he became Sales Manager in Chicago 
for the Chicago-Virden Coal Co. and in 1902 organized the 
Ogden Coal & Coke Co. Later he was with the Drexel Coal 
Co. and the Black Band Coal Co. He has been with the 
"White Oak Coal Co. since 1908. He was born at Columbus. 
Kentucky, January 4, 1871. 



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HARRY C. ADAMS, Chicago, IllinoLs, 

President The Jones & Adams Coal Co., 1103 Steger Building, 
Chicago, was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, and has been 
interested both in mining and selling coal thirty years. His 
former connections were A. T. Tliatcher & Co. and The 
Turney & Jones Co. He has been President of the Central 
Illinois Coal Operators' Association, and has been prominent 
in the councils of the operators. 



EUGENE AMBLER, Chicago, Illinois, 

Senior member of the firm of Eugene Ambler & Co., 343 
South Dearborn Street. Chicago. Illinois, was born at 
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, May 23, 1875, and has been engaged 
in the coal business for over twenty years. He formerly 
was associated with the Ricliards, Ambler & Co. He served 
as Imperial Modoc. Order KoKoal, and is one of the most 
popular of Chicago coalmen. 





EDWARD THACHER BEIVT, Chicago, Illinois, 

President Oglesby Coal Co.. Oglesby, since the death of his 
father, Thaeher T. Bent, in 1908, has been active in the coal 
industry thirty-eight years. He was Secretary of the first 
Interstate Joint Conference held at Columbus, Ohio, in 1886; 
for many years was Secretary-Treasurer of the Illinois Coal 
Operators' Association and was its President in 1916-17. He 
represented the Illinois coal operators on the Liability Com- 
mission. Recently he was Assistant to the President of the 
Spring Valley Coal Co., Spring Valley. Illinois. He was born 
in Kenosha, Wisconsin, January 20, 1863. 



AVALTER SCOTT BOGLE, Chicago, Illinois, 

President of W. S. Bogle & Co., Inc., 343 South Dearborn 
Street, Chicago, Illinois, is one of the largest Indiana opera- 
tors. He is also interested in the Pittsburgh-Belmont Co. and 
No. 8 Coal Co. of Ohio. He completed fifty years' association 
with the coal business July 6, 1918, and formerly was 
with the following: D. Bogle, D. Bogle & Sons, King & 
Bogle. Delaware & Hudson Canal Co. and Crescent Coal & 
Mining Co. He was born at Dover, New Hampshire, April 3, 
1852. Mr. Bogle is highly respected and considered the dean 
of the Chicago coal trade. 



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ROBERT C. CANTELOIT, Chicago, Illniois, 

Western Manager for The Houston Coal Co., 700 Old Col- 
ony Building, Chicag-o, Illinois, has been twenty-six 
years in the coal business and formerly was connected with 
MacParlane & Co., Louisville, Kentucky, Castner, Curran & 
Bullitt, Consolidation Coal Co. and The C. G. Blake Co. He 
was born in Lowndes County, Alabama, July 4, 1866. Mr. 
Cantelou is very popular in the trade and considered an 
unusually good salesman. 



RODERICK W. CLASSEN, Chicago, Illinois, 

Advertising Manager with the Taylor Coal Co., 1215 Old 
Colony Building, Chicago, Illinois, was with Roberts & 
Schaefer Co. for six years and for the same period w^ith 
The Retail Coalman as Service and Advertising Manager. 
He was born in Chicago May 10, 1888, and has a wide 
acquaintance in the coal trade. 





THOMAS HEXRY COCHRAN, Chicairo. Illinois, 

President Ender Coal Co., Fisher Building, Chicago, Illinois, 
has been engaged in the coal business seventeen years. He 
was with O'Gara, King & Co. from 1900 to 1904. He was 
born in Centerville, Iowa, May 15, 1878. 



FRED H. HARWOOD, Chicago, Illinois, 

President of the New Kentucky Coal Co. and Traffic Manager 
Illinois Coal Traffic Bureau, Fisher Building, Chicago, Illinois, 
was born in Chicago January 15, 1863. He was for twenty- 
two years with the Illinois Central Railroad, being Coal 
Traffic Manager from 1904 to 1909. He has been in the coal 
business for eight years and has many friends in the trade. 



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JAMES A. GALLIGAIV, Chicago, lUinoiN, 

Sales Agent Pickands, Brown & Co., McCormick Building, 
Chicago, nas been in the business eleven years. He was boi-n 
in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 28, 1875. Mr. Galligan 
was formerly Assistant General Purchasing Agent for the 
AUis-Chalmers Co. In his present connection he has had 
an active part in the sales direction of introducing Solvay 
Coke. "The fuel without a fault," and has seen it grow in 
the West from infancy to a substantial tonnage in both 
metallurgical and domestic channels. Mr. Galligan is Dis- 
trict Coke Representative in the Middle West for the United 
States Fuel Administration. 





WILLIAM CHESTER HILL, Chicago, Illinois, 

Vice President and General Sales Agent of the Thos. N. 
Mordue Coal Co., Peoples Gas Building, Chicago, Illinois, has 
been identified with the coal industry for twenty-six years. 
He was formerly with the Chicago & Carterville Coal Co. 
and the Consolidated Coal Co. of St. Louis, Missouri, and 
has filled the ofRce of President of the Chicago Coal Ex- 
change, President Chicago Coal Trade Golf Association and 
Treasurer of the Chicago Automobile Club. He was born 
at Chester, Illinois. December 5, 1868. 



CHARLES W. JACKSOX, Chicago, Illinois, 

Has been in the coal business thirty years, during which 
time he has been with C. K. Pittman, Davis Coal & Coke Co., 
Rogers, Brown & Co., and the F. G. Hartwell Co. He has 
served as Chairman of the Arbitration Board of the Chicago 
Coal Merchants" Association and the Tean.sters' Union. 
He was born in Albia, Iowa, September 2, 1868. 



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HOMER D. JONES. Chicago, Illinois, 

President and Treasurer of the Western Fuel Co.. Adams 
and Rockwell Sts., Chicago, Illinois, has been in the coal 
business twenty-five years. He is a Director of the Chi- 
cago Coal Merchants' Association, Chairman of its Cost and 
System Committee, and a member of the Retail Advisory 
Committee of the Cook County Fuel Administration. He 
was born in Columbus. Ohio. December 24, 1879. Mr. Jones 
is considered an authority on the cost of retailing coal. 



CHARLES EDWIN KARSTROM, Chicago, Illinois, 

Vice President and Manager of Sales for the Big Creek Col- 
liery Co., Peoples Gas Building. Chicago, Illinois, has been 
in the coal business for thirteen years. He was born in 
Chicago January 29, 1888. 




J. L. KEIPLEIN, Chicago, Illinois, 

Secretary-Treasurer of the New Kentucky Coal Co., 1709 
Fisher Building, Chicago, Illinois, was formerly with the 
Consolidated Coal Co. of St. Louis and has been in the 
business twenty-three years. He is Secretary of the 
Williamson County Coal Operators' Association. He was 
born at East St. Louis, May 17, 1879. 



MITCHELL. & DILLON COAL CO., 
Chicago, Illinois, 

One of the oldest and widely-known 
of Chicago coal firms, was founded in 
1875 in Burlington, Iowa, but removed 
soon after to Chicago. They were the 
first, about 1889, to make their head- 
quarters in the Bedford Building, 
which afterward became the hoine of 
many of the Chicago coal trade. 

A. Mitchell, the founder, died October 
13, 1913, and W. J. Dillon, who had 
started as an office boy in the _ firm, 
became, and still is. President of the 
company. A. Mitcliell. a son of the 
founder, is now Secretar.y-Treasurer. 

The firm, in specializing in certain 
grades of bituminous coal and anthra- 
cite, has gained a wide reputation not 
only at the mines but in the West and 
Northwest. 



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AVILLIAM P. McMillan, Chicago, Illinois, 

President Franklin Star Coal Mining Co., Cliicag-o, was born 
in Canada August 31, 1S75, and has been in the operating 
and selling ends of the coal business eighteen years. He is 
also interested in coal operations in Perry, Jefterson and 
Franklin counties, Illinois. Mr. McMillan was formerly 
with Guy G. Gibson & Co., and MacBridge, Simpson. Mc- 
Millan & Co., and organized, developed and operated the 
Ziegler District Colliery Co., the first mine in Christopher, 
Illinois. He was Vice President and General Manager until 
he became associated with the late Fred A. Busse, after 
whose death he became associated with a bond house until 
he organized his present company. 



H. S. MIKESELL, Cliitaso, Illiiioiis. 

President and Treasurer Mikesell Bros. Co., 178 North LaSalle 
Street, and Vice President and a Director Textile Convert- 
ing Co., Chicago, was born in Everett, Pennsylvania, August 
16, 1871, and has been in the coal business fifteen years. He 
was formerly connected with the Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf 
Railroad, Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co., Consolidated In- 
diana Coal Co., Coal Valley Mining Co., and Rock Island 
Mining Co., and has a wide and varied experience in coal 
matters. 





ANDREW T. 3IIRPHY, Chicago, Illinois, 

President and Publisher of The Black Diamond, the well- 
known weekly trade journal, published at Manhattan Build- 
ing, Chicago, Illinois, was born in Quincy, Illinois. Novein- 
ber 21, 1878. The Black Diamond is the second oldest coal 
trade publication and under Mr. Murphy's management has 
shown steady progress. 



JOHN PYNCHON, Chicago, IllinolH, 

Western Sales Agent for the Crozer-Pocahontas Co., 1105 
Fisher Building, Chicago, Illinois, has been connected with 
the coal ^usiness for thirty-nine years. He has been with 
the following concerns: Pennsylvania Coal Co. of Pennsyl- 
vania, Star Coal Co. of Illinois, John Pynchon of Milwaukee 
and Chicago, Kanawha & New River Coal & Coke Co. 
and the F. G. Hartwell Co., Chicago. He was born at 
Springfield, Massachusetts, June 11, 1856, and is one of 
Chicago's best known coalmen. 



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RIDGELY REA, Chicago, Illinois, 

Chicago Manag-er for The Deep Vein Coal Co., 343 S. Dear- 
born St., has been in the coal business for twenty-six years, 
formerly with the following- concerns: Consolidated Coal 
Co., St. Louis, Missouri, North Western Fuel Co. and Hunter 
W. Finch. He was born at Springfield, Illinois, February 
17, 1867, and is well-known in the Chicago trade. 



GEORGE W. REED, Chicago, Illinois, 

Vice President Peabody Coal Co., Chicago, Illinois, has been 
in the coal business fifteen j^ears. He was formerly with 
O'Gara, King & Co. and President Lincoln-Springfleld Coal 
Co. Mr. Reed was Secretary of the Committee on Coal Pro- 
duction, Council of National Defense. He has been the rep- 
resentative of the Illinois Coal Operators' Association and 
the Indiana Bituminous Coal Operators' Association in a 
number of cases before the Interstate Commerce Commis- 
soin. He was born in Dubuque, Iowa, September 3, 1878. 





MARK A. ROLEE, Chicago, Illinois, 

President of the Black Gem Coal & Coke Co., Old Colony 
Building. Chicago, Illinois, was born April 9, 1869, at Rome, 
New York. Mr. Rolfe is well known in the Chicago coal 
trade and has been successful in handling both steam and 
domestic coal. 



LEON ROMANSKI, Chicago. Illinois, 

President and Manager of the Atlas Coal & Coke Co., Old 
Colony Building, Chicago, has been connected with the busi- 
ness for over twenty years. He was born November 24, 1876. 
Formerly he was with the Eureka Coal & Dock Co., the Lin- 
coln-Springfield Coal Co., the O'Gara Coal Co. and the Luh- 
now Coal Co. Mr. RomanskI was one of the founders of 
the Order KoKoal, the Chicago Coal & Coke Exchange and 
the National Coal Jobbers' Association. 



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FRED AV. IPHAM. Chicago, Illinois, 

President of the Consumers Co., Conway Building-, Chicago, 
Illinois, has been thirteen years in the coal business. He 
is also interested in the Peabody Coal Co. He was born 
in Racine, Wisconsin, January 29, 1S61. Mr. t'pham is one of 
Chicago's prominent citizens, has served on the Board of Re- 
view, and held many important civic positions. 



CARL SCHOLZ, Chicago, Illinois, 

General Manager Yalier Coal Co. and Consulting Mining 
Engineer Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co., was 
formerly President of the Rock Island Coal Mining Co. and 
Coal Valley Mining Co, He has been connected with the 
coal business twenty-six years. Mr. Scholz served three 
years as President of the American Mining Congress, has 
been on various committees of the American Institute of 
Mining Engineers, and Is a member of the Western Society 
of Engineers. He went to Europe in 1910 to investigate 
mining conditions for the United States Bureau of Mines. 
He was born in Germany, at Slawentzitz, July 2, 1S72. 





STEWART K. SMITH, Chicago, Illinois, 

Receiver Consolidated Indiana Coal Co., Fisher Building, 
Chicago, has been connected with the business twenty years. 
The following positions were formerly held by Mr. 
Smith: Chief Engineer. Northern Pacific Coal Co., Ros- 
lyn, Washington; General Superintendent, Utah Fuel Co., 
Salt Lake City, Utah; General Superintendent, Bering 
Coal Co., Chicago, Illinois; General Manager, Vinton Col- 
liery Co., Vintondale, Pa. His experience as a mining en- 
gineer and superintendent has practically covered the states 
of Washington, Montana, Utah, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, 
Oklahoma and Pennsylvania. Mr. Smith is the inventor of 
the tilting type of box car loader. He was born in Somerset, 
Michigan. 



DE LOS HILL, Oak Park, Illinoi.s, 

Former retail coal merchant, was born near De Ruyter, 
New York, April 12, 1842. He entered the coal business in 
1893 and sold out to the Consumers Co. of Chicago in 1913. 
For many years he was active in retail coal association 
affairs, serving as President of the Illinois and Wisconsin 
Retail Coal Dealers' Association and of the National Coun- 
cil of Retail Coal Merchants, as well as being instrumental 
in organizing many state and local retail coal associations. 
He now makes his home at Canon City, Colorado. 



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OGLESBY COAI> CO., Oglesby, Illinois. 

This ccmpany, with both office and 
mine at Og-lesby, LaSalle County, Illi- 
nois, was organized in 1867 by Thacher 
T. Bent, and is one of the oldest and 
best known companies in Illinois. 
During its existence of over half a cen- 
tury it has been owned and operated 
by the Bent family. 

The mine is located on the Illinois 
Central Railway, Chlcag-o, Milwaukee 
& St. Paul Railway and the Chicago, 
Burlington & Quincy Railway. The 
coal is the Tliird vein, thin seam, Illi- 
nois, of a high grade quality for steam 
and domestic purposes, the mine being 
especially equipped to prepare most of 
its product of 225,000 tons annually 
for domestic use. 

The personnel of the company at 
present is as follows: 

President — Edward T. Bent of Chi- 
cago. 

Secretary and Treasurer — Henry A. 
Bent of Oglesby. 

Superintendent — J. Raymond Bent of 
Oglesby. 

President Bent has been actively en- 
gaged in the coal industry for thirty- 
nine years. His knowledge was relied 
upon to a great degree by the Illinois 
Coal Operators' Association since its 
formation in 1898, and in all joint con- 
ferences of operators and miners he 
took a most active part. 

Secretary and Superintendent Bent 
are both practical coal operators, with 
a thorough .knowledge of conditions 
that govern the conditions of thin 
seam mining in the northern part of 
Illinois. 

The Bent family, coming originally 
from the western part of Massachu- 
setts, has been so long associated with 
the coal mining industry of Illinois 
that no movement for the betterment 
of the operating end of the trade can 
be touched upon without some refer- 
ence to tliis respected family, 



AV. D. OBCAMP, Liuooln, Illinois, 

President _and General Manager of the 
Citizens Coal Mining Co. at Liincoln, 
has been connected with the coal busi- 
ness twenty-four year.s. He is a mem- 
ber of the Executive Board of the Illi- 
nois Coal Operators' Association. He 
was born in Lincoln, November 8, 
1868. 



E. C. OBCA3IP, Lincoln, Illinois, 

Vice President and Secretary of , the 
Citizens Coal Mining Co. at Lincoln, 
has been In -the coal industry twenty- 
eight years and is a member of the 
Illinois Coal Operators' Association. 
He was born December 13, 1871, in 
Lincoln. 



E. H. BUCKLEY, Springfield, Illinois, 

President and General Manager of the 
Athens-Dawson Coal Co.. Springfield, 
has been in the business sixteen years, 
formerly with the Sangamon Coal Co. 
He was born in Springfield August 10, 
1884, Mr. Buckley is also interested in 
the Chicago-Willlamsville Coal Co. 



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CHARLES C. SWIFT. LaSalle, Illinois, 

General Manager of the LaSalle County Carbon Coal Co. 
at LaSalle, Illinois, has been connected with the company 
for eleven years. Formerly he was with the Chicago, 
Wilniingrton & Vermillion Co. He was born at Streator, 
Illinois, June 14, 1877, and has taken an active interest in 
the affairs of the Illinois Coal Operators' Association. His 
predecessors were Franklin O. Wyatt and Howard S. Hazen. 



BEXJ. H. ARMSTRONG, Lincoln, Illinois, 

General Manag'er of the Lincoln Mining Co., Lincoln, Illi- 
nois. He has been connected with the business for twenty- 
three years, formerly with The Decatur Coal Co. at Niantic, 
Illinois. He was born September 28, 1873, at Macon, Illi- 
nois. Mr. Armstrong has been interested in the work of 
the Illinois Coal Operators' Association for many years. 





ROBERT FORSYTH, Marissa, Illinois, 

Vice President and General Manager of The Carterville & 
Herrin Coal Co. and President of the Dozo Valley Coal Co., 
has been in the business for twenty-three years. He was 
formerly with the Borders Coal Co. and the Forsyth Coal 
Co. until July, 1916, when he obtained the controlling 
interest in the Carterville & Herrin Coal Co. He has been 
a Director of the Illinois Coal Operators' Association and 
of the Fifth and Ninth District Association. He was born 
in Scotland June 10, 1864. 



GEORGE V. PENWELL, Pana, Illinois, 

President of the Penwell Coal Mining Co. at Pana, Illinois, 
has been identified with the coal industry since 1888 and is 
a member of the Illinois Coal Operators' Association. He 
was born in LaPorte, Indiana, February 6. 1846, and is one 
of the well-known coal operators of Illinois. 



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JOHN H. BONTJES, Peoria, Illinois, 

President of The B. & B. Coal Co. and well-known coal 
operator of Peoria, Illinois, was born February 15, 1871, at 
Petersburg, Illinois, and has been in the coal business for 
the past sixteen years. Mr. Bontjes is also President of 
the Citizens Coal Mining Co. of Springfield, Illinois, and an 
active member of the Illinois Coal Operators' Association. 



MAURICE E. CASE, Peoria, Illinois, 

Secretary-Treasurer and General Manager of tlie Crescent 
Coal Co., Jefferson Building, Peoria. Illinois, has been 
connected with the business for nine years. He has taken 
an active interest in the work of the Illinois Coal Operators' 
Association. He was born at Peoria September 29, 1872. 





,IAMES n. DOOI^EY, Peoria. Illinois, 

President of Dooley Bros., Peoria, Illinois, has been in the 
coal business twenty-nine years. He began his career In 
the industry at the age of nine as trapper in Canadian mines. 
He was formerly with the Eastern Coal Co., and has served 
as President of the Peoria Coal Club and of the Illinois and 
Wisconsin Retail Coal Dealers' Association. He was born 
in Xova Scotia .Tune 21. 1856, 



ARCHIBALD T. MeMASTER, Peoria, Illinois, 

President of the McMaster Coal Sales Co., Lehmann Build- 
ing, Peoria, Illinois, has been in the coal business for 
twenty-six years, formerly with Miles & Co., Newell Coal 
Co. and Clark Coal & Coke Co. He has held the office of 
Secretary of the Peoria Retail Coal Bureau and Vice Presi- 
dent of the Illinois and Wisconsin Retail Coal Dealers' 
Association. He was born at Girard, Illinois, August 21, 
1874. Mr. McMaster has served as President of the Central 
Illinois Republican Club and has been active in politics. He 
is a Knight Templar, Mason and Shriner. 



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THOMAS NEAVSAM, Peoria, Illinois, 

General Manager for Newsam Bros., coal operators, has 
been In the business for thirty-one years. He was born in 
Lancashire, England, September 3, 1854. Mr. Newsam is 
one of the well known and highly respected coal operators 
in his district. 



WILLIAM W. NICOL,, Peoria, Illinois, 

Secretary and Treasurer of the Peoria Fuel Co., has been 
in the coal business for twenty-eight years. He is President 
of the Peoria Coal Club and is active in the Illinois and 
Wisconsin Retail Coal Dealers' Association. He was born 
at Peoria February 22, 1865. 





RICHARD OWEjV SHARON, Peoria, Illinois, 

President and Manager of the Sharon Coal Co. at Peoria, 
Illinois, has been in the coal business for eighteen years. 
He formerly was connected with the East Cuba Coal Min- 
ing Co., P. W. Meehan and the Jones & Adams Coal Co. He 
was born at Sciota, Illinois, September 24, 1871. Mr. Sharon 
is an old railroad man and since entering the coal business 
has been successful and has a host of friends in the trade. 



EDAVIN HOLTON KEELER. Roekford, Illinois, 

Secretary-Treasurer of the Roekford Lumber & Fuel Co., 
Roekford, Illinois, has been connected witli the coal business 
thirty-five years. He is also Treasurer of the Taylor Coal 
Co.. Chicago, and Vice President of the Keeler Lumber & 
Fuel Co., Beloit, Wisconsin. He was born in Janesville, 
Wisconsin. August 13, 1863. Mr. Keeler is one of the 
most successful and highly respected retail coal merchants 
in the west and has always been active in every movement 
for the betterment of the trade. 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



ILLINOIS — Chicago 



CHARLES ■»'. ALABECK, 2042 Howe St., Chicago, Illi- 
nois, is City Sales Manag-er for the Thomson Coal Co., with 
which he has been connected for the past eight years. He 
has been in the coal business for twenty-three years and 
formerly was with Coxe Bros. Coal Co. and the Crescent 
Coal Mining Co. He was born at Dubuque, Iowa, in 1880. 

AXDREWS ALI/EX is President of the Allen & Garcia 
Co., 955 McCormick Building, Chicago, Illinois. He has 
been identified with engineering work in connection with 
the coal mining industry since 1900. He was born at 
Madison, Wisconsin, January 11, 1870. 

FRA.XK ARL.T, 2658 Y/est Twenty-first St.. Chicago, Illi- 
nois, is Manager of the Carter Coal Co. and is also inter- 
ested in the V/arren Park Coal Co. He was formerly with 
the Albany Coal Co. and has been in the business for eight 
years. He was born in Chicago in 1889. 

SAMUEL I. BABCOCK is President of the Babcock Coal 
Co., McCormick Building, Chicago, Illinois. He was for- 
merly with W. P. Rend & Co. as salesman and has been 
In the business for eight years. He was born at Lowell, 
Indiana, in 1880. 

JAMES B. BEARDSLEE, Fisher Building, Chicago, Illi- 
nois, i.? Assistant Western Manager for the Consolidation 
Coal Co. and has been in the coal business for nineteen 
years, formerly with the North Western Fuel Co. He was 
born at St. Paul, Minnesota. December 19, 1880. Mr. Beards- 
loc is .It I'jresent Assistant Distributor for the United States 
Fuel Administration at Washington, D. C. 

CHARLES A. BELKE, Fisher Building, Chicago, Illinois, 
has been engaged in the coal business for sixteen years. 
Formerlj' he was Treasurer of the Federal Coal Co. and 
Assistant Sales Manager for the Hart-Williams Coal Co. 
He was born in Chicago in 1874. 

ALBERT L. BERRY, 234 South DaSalle Street, Chicago, 
Illinois, is the head of the firm of A. L. Berry & Co. and 
has been engaged in the coal business for thirty-four years. 
He was born at Norwalk, Ohio,- but says he is too old now 
to remember the date of his birth. Mr. Berry established 
the Berry Coal & Coke Co. in St. Louis, Missouri, which has 
become the Berry-Bergs Coal & Coke Co. 

J. EDWARD BISHOP is President of the Bishop-Hamlin 
Coal Co. at Sixty-first and State Streets, Chicago, Illinois. 
He formerly was connected with the New Kentucky Coal 
Co. as Manager and has been in the business for thirteen 
years. He was born at Joliet, Illinois, December 4, 1874. 

WILLIAM BLAIR, General Sales Agent for Henry Hol- 
verscheid & Co., Old Colony Building, Chicago, Illinois, has 
been in the coal business for twenty-one years. He for- 
merly was traveling salesman for the W. L. Scott Co. and 
Western Agent for the Susquehanna Coal Co. He was 
born at Gratis, Ohio, in 1854. 

EDWARD J. BOBBER, is President of the Robey Coal 
Co., 5012 South Paulina Street, Chicago, Illinois, and has 
been in the retail coal business for seven years. He was 
born in Chicago, June 5, 1896. 

WILLIAM CLEAVELAND BODMAN. Peoples Gas Build- 
ing, Chicago, Illinois, is Salesman for the F. G. Hartwell 
Co. in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin. He has 
been connected with the coal business for twenty years. 
He was born in Milwaukee in 1858. 

F. ALFRED BRAHM is Secretary and Treasurer of the 
Piatt & Brahm Coal Co., Old Colony Building, Chicago, 
Illinois. He has been in the coal business for twenty-eight 
years, formerly with Coxe Bros. & Co. and The Lehigh 
Valley Coal Co. in Chicago. He was born at Sheboygan, 
Wisconsin, July 14, 1874. 

■\V. \. BREWERTOX is President of the Sangamon County 
Mining Co., 140 South Dearborn St., Chicago, Illinois. He 
has been in the coal business for twenty years, formerly 
with the G'Gara Coal Co. He was chairman of a reorgan- 
ization committee of the O'Gara Coal Co. Mr. Brewerton 
was born in Chicago May 23, 1883. 

LEONARD GEORGE BRUDER was Manager for B. NicoU 
& Co., Old Colony Building, Chicago, Illinois, for several 
years, and has been connected with the coal business for 
twenty-five years. Formerly he was with the following: 
Peabody Coal Co., Brazil Coal Co., Bryan & Eberhart Coal 
Co. and Davis Coal & Coke Co. He was born at Granville, 
Illinois, February 3, 1873, and is a specialist on the sale of 
smithing coal. 

ALBERT J. BllNGE is President of Bunge Bros. Coal Co., 
Lake and Paulina Streets, Chicago, Illinois. He has been 
in the business for thirty-six years and has served several 
terms as Secretary and Treasurer of the Chicago Coal Mer- 
chants Association. He was born January 17, 1867, in 
Chicago, and is regarded as one of Chicago's substantial 
retail coal merchants. 



JOSEPH BUSH is General Manager of The Robey Coal 
Co., 5812 South Robey Street, Chicago. Illinois, and has been 
in the coal business sixteen years, formerly with the Pea- 
body Coal Co. and the W. P. Rend Coal Co. He was born 
in Italy, June 26, 1884. 

CHARLES R. CAMPBELL is Vice President of The Con- 
sumers Co., Conway Building, Chicago, Illinois, and has 
been in the coal business twenty-one years. He was born 
in Iowa April 12, 1869. 

ROBERT H. CLARK, 35 South Dearborn St., Chicago, Illi- 
nois, is President of the Clark Coal Co. and has been in the 
business for twenty-six years, formerly with David Rutter 
& Co., Inc , as Secretary. He was born at Canajoharie, New 
York, January 1, 1866. 

WILLIA3I HUNT COMSTOCK, President and Treasurer of 
the Cross Creek Coal Co., 6 North Clark Street, Chicago, 
Illinois, has been in the business for over thirty years. He 
was formerly a member of the firm of France & Co. and 
of Comstock Bros. He was for thirteen years Manager of 
the city sales department for Coxe Bros. & Co. Mr. Com- 
stock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, January 29, 1854. 

JAMES P. CONNERY is Secretary-Manager of the Miami 
Coal Co., 1804 McCormick Building, Chicago, Illinois. He 
formerly was connected with The Silver Creek & Morris 
Coal Co. and with the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron 
Co. and has been in the coal business thirty-one years. He 
was born in Chicago May 17, 1865. 

JOHN T. CONNERY, President of the Miami Coal Co., 
1804 McCormick Building, Chicago, Illinois, has been en- 
gaged in the coal business for forty odd years. He was 
formerly Secretary of the Silver Creek & Morris Coal Co. 
and of the Youghiogheny & Lehigh Coal Co., and connected 
with E. L. Hedstrom & Co. and The Pittsburgh Coal Co. 
He was born in Bristol, Rhode Island, January 10, 1861. 
He is interested in The Ohio Fuel Co. and The Barney 
Coal Co. of Birmingham, Alabama. 

JOHN H. COULTER is Treasurer of The Martin-Howe 
Coal Co., McCormick Building, Chicago, Illinois, and Secre- 
tary of The Tecumseh Coal & Mining Co. He has been 
engaged in the coal business for eighteen years. He for- 
merly was connected with the firm of George G. Pope & 
Co. He was born at Cleveland, Ohio, in 1877. 

RAYMOND B. DANIELS is President and Treasurer of 
Edwin F. Daniels & Co., 120 Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, 
Illinois. He has been connected with the coal business for 
seven years, prior to which time he practiced law. He 
was born in Chicago, August 26, 1883. 

GEORGE A. DAVIDSON owns the business of G. A. Da- 
vidson & Co., 353 North Elizabeth St., Chicago, Illinois. He 
has been in the coal business for thirty-eight years, with 
Wm. E. Johnson & Co. for fourteen, when he became a 
member of the firm of D. H. Preston & Co., and since the 
retirement of Mr. Preston July 1, 1905, has carried on the 
business under his own name. He was born in Chicago, 
January 27, 1864. 

WHITFIELD G. DAVIS is President of The W. G. Davi« 
Coal Co., 307 Parkside Ave., Chicago, Illinois, and formerly 
vi^as with The Traill Coal Co. He has been in the coal 
business for eleven years. He was born at Shabbona, Illi- 
nois, in 1875. 

LYE HARPER DAYHOFF, Maywood, Illinois, is Vice 
President of the Jones & Adams Coal Co., 1103 Steger 
Building, Chicago, and has been in the business fifteen years. 
He was born in Chicago August 22, 1885. 

\V. T. DELIHANT, 5820 Race Ave., Chicago, Illinois, is 
Sales Manager for Edwin F. Daniels & Co. and has been 
in the coal business for thirty-eight years. Formerly he 
was connected with W. P. Rend & Co., New Kentucky Coal 
Co., Peabody Coal Co., Chicago Washed Coal Co., F. G. 
Hartwell Co., Reynolds Coal Co., and F. A. Busse Coal Co. 
He has been President of the Standard Washed Coal Co. 
and the Commercial Coal & Coke Co. He was born at 
Florissant, Missouri, in 1860. 

WILLIAM J. DILLON is President of the Mitchell & 
Dillon Coal Co., 203 South Dearborn St., Chicago, Illinois. 
He has been in the coal business for twenty-nine years 
with the same company. He was born at Oshawa, Canada, 
September 18, 1874, and commands the respect of all who 
know him. 

CHARLES H. DREISKE. 814 North Sawyer Ave., Chicago, 
Illinois, is a retail coal merchant who has been in the 
business for twenty-two years. He has been connected 
with the following concerns: W. D. Dreiske & Co., L. F. 
Dreiske & Co., William Dreiske & Co. He was born In 
Chicago, October 6, 1877. Mr. Dreiske has served several 
terms as a Director of the Chicago Coal Merchants' Asso- 
ciation and on various committees of that organization. 
He has also been President, Secretary and Treasurer of the 
Sunset Coal Club, composed of west side coal merchants 
in Chicago. 



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^V1L1,I.V,■»1 I). l)Hl';iSIvE, 3036 Chicago Ave., Chicag^o, Illi- 
nois, formerly with Wm. D. Dreiske & Co., retail coal mer- 
chants, was born September 18, 1881, and has been in the 
coal business for ten years. 

AMJKK'r KK.VMv BHILEY. Vice President of the Druley 
it O'Brien Co., 4t)lS) Park Ave., Chicago. Illinois, has been 
in the retail coal lousiness for thirteen years. He formerly 
was connected with the J. E. Decker Coal Co., Delos Hull 
& Co. and the Consumers Co. He was born in Joliet, Illinois, 
November 13, 1887. 

PAVL, DRZYMALSKI. President of the Polonia Coal Co., 
1360 West North Ave., Chicago, Illinois, has been engaged 
in the retail coal business twenty years. He has served as 
a Director of the Chicago Coal Merchants' Association. Mr. 
Drzymalski was born in Poland December 16, 1877. 

CHARLES ALLEX EASTMAN, Vice President of the 
Eastman-Barber Co., Chicago, Illinois, has been in the coal 
business thirty-six years and is interested in several retail 
yards in Chicago. He formerly was connected with the 
following concerns: Southern Ohio Coal & Iron Co.. S. J. 
Patterson Co., Coxe Bros. & Co.. Zeller, McClellan & Co., W. 
L. Scott Co., Susquehanna Coal Co., and the Eldridge Coal 
Co. He was born in San Francisco, California, in 1863. Mr. 
Eastman now holds a commission as Major in the Quarter- 
master's Corps. Major Eastman has taken part in many 
important actions before the Interstate Commerce Com- 
mission. 

CLiAlDE X. EASTMAX is President of the Eastman Coal 
Co., 260 West Sixty-ninth St., Chicago, Illinois, and has 
been in the retail business for sixteen years. He was born 
at Plattsville, Wisconsin, December 15, 1879. 

ANDREW ELLISOX', President of the Ellison Warehous* 
& Van Co., 3047 Sheffield Ave., Chicago, Illinois, has been 
in the retail coal business twenty-nine years. He was 
born In Sweden April 23, 1854. 

L.A'WRENCE 'W. PERGUSOX, President of the Ferguson 
Coal Co., 1123-1129 Ardmore Ave., Chicago, Illinois, was 
formerly Western Manager for the Davis Colliery Co. and 
has been in the coal business for nineteen years. He was 
born March 22, 1876, at Leroy, Illinois. 

AUGrST ■W. FLECK, 1432 Wells St., Chicago. Illinois, 
has been in the retail coal business for over thirty years. 
He formerly was a member of the firm of J. Fleck & Son. 
He was born in Chicago, in 1858. 

"WILLIAM J. FRECKLETOX, 1356 West Forty-seventh 
St., Chicago, Illinois, has been in the retail coal business 
for twenty-eight years. He was born in the north of Ire- 
land. 

ALFRED FRERK AXD OTTO FRERK are partners in 
the business of Henry Frerk Sons. 3135 Belmont Ave., Chi- 
cago, Illinois. They have been connected with the retail 
trade for twenty-six years. Both were born in Chicago, 
the former September 17, 1874, and the latter January 19, 
1877. 

ROBERT L. GREEX, salesman for Henry Holverscheld & 
Co., Old Colony Building, Chicago, Illinois, has been con- 
nected with the coal business for about twenty-five years. 
He was formerly with the Brazil Block Coal Co., Sunday 
Creek Coal Co., and Paint Creek Collieries Co. He was 
born at Shelbyville, Indiana, September 6, 1857. 

EUGEXE E. GRUMBIXE, 4445 Greenview Ave., Chicago, 
Illinois, is a salesman for the Interstate Coal & Dock Co. 
and is also interested in a retail coal yard. He has been 
with Coxe Bros. & Co. and the Susquehanna Coal Co., and 
has been in the business as a salesman for sixteen years. 
He was born at Ohio, Illinois, April 12, 1874. 

HARRY MILLARD HALL is Vice President of the Fort 
Dearborn Coal Co., 343 South Dearborn St., Chicago, Illi- 
nois. He formerly was for six years with the Chesapeake 
& Ohio Railroad as Coal Freight Agent. He has been Sec- 
retary of the Kantishna Club of Chicago and a Director 
of the Chicago Coal Trade Golf Association. He was born 
at Marshalltown, Iowa, September 16, 1883, and is one of 
the most popular of the younger coalmen. 

HUBERT P. HARMON. President and Treasurer of David 
Rutter & Co., 417 South Dearborn St., Chicago, Illinois, has 
been engaged in the coal business for about twenty-five 
years. He was born in Chicago January 21, 1873, attended 
the Chicago Manual Training School and the University of 
Michigan, and started with the above firm as office boy, hav- 
ing been identified with them continuously to the present 
time. 

FRED G. HARTWELL, President F. G. Hartwell Co., 
Chicago. Illinois, and also President of the Berwind Fuel 
Co., has been identified with the coal business forty-one 
years. He was born in Amst'erdam, New York, August 1, 
1S61. Mr. Hartwell is considered one of the leaders in the 
western coal trade. 



MORRIS \V. HARTWELL, 5222 Dorchester Ave., Chicago, 
Illinois, is Vice President of the F. G. Hartwell Co., and 
has been actively connected with the coal business for over 
twenty-five years. He was born at Joliet, Illinois, August 
23, 1865. 

CHARLES H. HASSMANX, Secretary of the Worth-Hus- 

key Coal Co., 2624 North Sawyer Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, 
has been in the coal business sixteen years. He was for- 
merly with the Martin-Howe Coal Co. and is interested in 
the Ridge Coal Mining Co. He was born in Chicago Feb- 
ruary 3, 1881. 

DE FORREST "WEAD HEATH, Secretary and Treasurer 
of The Jones & Adams Coal Co., Steger Building, Chicago, 
Illinois, has been in the coal business for over thirty years. 
He was formerly with A. T. Thatcher and the Turney & 
Jones Co. He was born in Homer, Louisiana, May 3, 1853. 

OTTO H. HEDRICH, President and Treasurer of Otto H. 
Hedrich & Co., Monadnock Building, Chicago, Illinois, has 
been engaged in the coal business for thirty-two years. 
He formerly was with Robert Law, the Brazil Block Coal 
Co. and the Brazil Coal Co. He was born in Chicago in 1869. 

THEODORE L. HEDRICH, Vice President of Otto H. Hed- 
rich & Co., Monadnock Building, Chicago, Illinois, was for- 
merly connected with the Brazil Coal Co. and has been 
eighteen years in the coal business. He has filled the office 
of Secretary of the Chicago Coal & Coke Exchange. He 
was born March 15, 1876, in Chicago. 

HARRY L. HIRTZLER, Country Sales Manager Taylor 
Coal Co., Old Colony Building. Chicago, Illinois, started his 
career in the coal business with Fred A. Busse in 1896. His 
experience in the last twenty-two years has embraced every 
phase of the coal business from retailing to producing com- 
panies, having been in business, wholesale and retail, for 
himself at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for several years. Mr. 
Hirtzler was born in Chica,go February 16, 1883. 

HARRY HOLA^ERSCHEID, Hinsdale, Illinois, is Treasurer 
of the coal firm of Henry Holverscheld & Co., Old Colony 
Building, Chicago, Illinois. He has been in the business 
ten years and is interested in the following concerns: Bar- 
ker Coal Co., Carter Coal Co., Albany Coal Co. and Domestic 
Coal Co. He was born in Chicago March 27, 1889. 

ROBERT HOLVERSCHEID, Secretary Henry Holverscheid 
& Co.. Chicago, was born in Chicago July 9. 1887. and has 
been in the coal business for seven years. He is also Secre- 
tary of the Albany Coal Co. and Carter Coal Co. and Secre- 
tary-Treasurer of the Barker Coal Co. and Domestic Coal 
Co. He resides at Hinsdale, Illinois. 

CHARLES E. HOSTLER, Manager of Country Sales for 
the Globe Coal Co., 332 South Michigan Ave.. Chicago, Illi- 
nois, has been in the coal business for twenty-eight years. 
He formerly was with the Hostler Coal & Coke Co. and 
with the Eureka Coal & Dock Co. He was born at Milton 
Center, Ohio, February 5, 1867, and has a wide acquain- 
tance throughout the West. 

SIDXEY P. HOSTLER, Manager of the S. P. Hostler Coal 
Co.. Ellsworth Building, Chicago, Illinois, has been in the 
business twenty-nine years. He was formerly with the 
Winifrede Coal Co. and the O. S. Richardson Coal Co. He 
has served as a Director of the Chicago Coal Trade Associa- 
tion and has been for years a leading advocate for recipro- 
cal demurrage laws. Mr. Hostler was born in Ohio Decem- 
ber 28, 1861. 

FRAXK F. HYXES is one of the proprietors of Hynes 
Bros., retail coal merchants at 3624 bouth State St., Chi- 
cago, Illinois, and has been in the business for sixteen 
years. He was born at Stoughton, Wisconsin. 

ALEXAXDER S. IRVIXE, 6620 South Park Ave., Chicago, 
Illinois, is a retail coal man who has been in the business 
for twenty-six years. He was born April 27, 1867, at St. 
John, New Brunswick. 

THOMAS CLEVELAND IRWIX% 7403 Evans Ave., Chi- 
cago, Illinois, has been in the coal business sixteen years. 
Prior to the present he was Chicago Manager for Rutledge 
& Taylor, and previous to that with the W. L. Scott Co., the 
Susquehanna Coal Co. and the White Oak Coal Co. He was 
born at Trenton, Missouri. June 23, 1883. 

EDG.A.R .I.VMES, 5821 South Halsted St.. Chicago, Illinois, 
is President of the James Coal Co. and has been in the retail 
business for twenty-nine years. He was born at Darlington, 
Wisconsin, February 8, 1872. 

■WILLIAM T. JAMES, 6611 Drexel Ave., Chicago, Illinois, 
is President of the American Conveyer Co. and has been 
in the coal machinery business for over twenty years, 
formerly with the Link-Belt Co. and the Howe Scale Co. 
as Sales Engineer. He was born in Wales July 30, 1866. 

DAVID JAMIESON is a member of the coal firm of 
Crerar, Clinch & Co., 645 Rookery Building, Chicago, Illinois, 
and has been in the business for twenty-six years. He 
was born at Renfrew, Ontario, August 22, 1856. 



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JOHN SUTPHIX JOXES, Steger Building, Chicago, Illi- 
nois is Chairman of the Board of the Sunday Creek Coal 
Co The Buckeye Coal & Railway Co., and the Ohio Land 
& Railway Co., Columbus, Ohio, and a Director of the Jones 
& Adams Coal Co.. Chicago. He was formerly with the 
Columbus & Hocking Valley Coal & Iron Co. and the 
National Hocking Coal Co. He has spent twenty-eight years 
in the coal business. He was born at Washington Court 
House, Ohio, January 4, 1849. 

THOMAS D. JORDAN is Western Sales Manager for The 
Hisylvania Coal Co., 1255 Old Colony Building, Chicago, 
Illinois and has been in the coal business for eighteen 
years He started as a stenographer with the Wilmington 
Star Mining Co. and rose through various departments to 
traveling salesman in Illinois and Wisconsin, and finally 
Chicago representative. He was born in England, June 
30, 1878. 

THKODORE C. KELLER, 37 West Van Buren St., Chicago, 
Illinois, President and Treasurer of T. C. Keller & Co., has 
been in the coal business for twenty-six years. He is also 
President and Treasurer of the Franklin County Collieries 
Co. and the Sesser Coal Co., and Vice President and General 
Manager of the Northern Central Coal Co. He is the Re- 
ceiver of Coal Properties of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois 
Railroad, and formerly was General Manager of the Grape 
Creek Coal Co. Mr. Keller was born in Boston, Massachu- 
setts, in 1864. 

B. H. KEMPER is proprietor of The Baum Coal Co., 343 
S. Dearborn St., Chicago, Illinois, and has been twelve years 
in the business. He also was Sales Manager for Bell & 
Zoller for two and one-half years in addition to conducting 
his own business. He was born in Ohio. 

CHARLES R. KLINE, Vice President of the Waubun Coal 
Co., Chicago, Illinois, has been engaged in the business 
twenty-one years. He formerly was connected with the 
Mitchell & D'illon Coal Co., Coxe Bros. & Co., Stonega Coal 
& Coke Co., and the Zenith Furnace Co. He was born at 
Byron, Illinois, January 26, 1878. 

WILLIAM J. F. KUECHLER is in charge of the jobbing 
line with Henry Holverscheid & Co., Old Colony Building, 
Chicago, Illinois, and has been in the coal business for 
twenty-five years. He is one of the Directors of the 
Domestic Coal Co. and formerly was with E. Puttkammer 
and the Cook-Rutledge Coal Co. He was born In Hamburg. 
Germany, June 18, 1872. 

H. B. LANIGAN, Treasurer and Manager of the R. B. 
Arnold Coal Co., 2141 S. Homan Ave., Chicago, lUinios, has 
been in the business for over thirty years. He was born 
in Illinois in 1858. 

CARL LEE, electrical engineer with the Peabody Coal 
Co. at Chicago, Illinois, has been connected with the coal 
business for four years. He formerly was Receiver for 
Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad coal properties. He 
was born at Comanche, Texas, March 12, 1891. 

ALBERT BERRV LEMMON, Resident Sales Manager for 
The Consolidation Coal Co., Fisher Building, Chicago, 
Illinois, has been six years with that concern and In the 
coal business for eighteen years. He was formerly with 
F. B. Newell & Co., Burlington Coal & Coke Co., and the 
North Western Fuel Co. He was born in Clarendon Hills, 
Illinois, March 23, 1884. 

AVILLIAM A\'EST LILL, Vice President and Treasurer of 
the George Lill Coal Co., 1122 Berwyn Ave., Chicago, Illi- 
nois, has an experience of thirty years in the retail coal 
business. He was born in Chicago October 6, 1870. Mr. Lill 
is a Director of the Chicago Coal Merchanta' Association. 

ALBERT J. LORR is the senior partner in the coal firm 
of Albert J. Lorr & Bros., retail coal merchants at 2614 
S. St. Louis Ave., Chicago, Illinois, He has been in the 
business for thirteen years. He was born in Bohemia, 
April 23, 1877. 

HARRY LI'TTON, Manager for the Chicago Fuel Co., 37 
W. Van Buren St., Chicago, Illinois, has been for twenty 
years in the coal business. He was born in Chicago in 1874. 

C. K. M.-VDDEROM, President of the C. K. Madderom Co., 
10940 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Illinois, has been in the 
retail coal business for thirty-six years, formerly as a 
member of the firm of Prince & Madderom. He was born 
in Chicago, November 27, 1854. 

EDWARD C. A. MANTHEY is joint owner with his father, 
W. J. Manthey, of the coal business of W. J. Manthey & Son, 
4915 S. Morgan St., Chicago, Illinois. He has managed the 
retail yard for four years and has done a wholesale trade 
for four years. Formerly he was in the accounting depart- 
ment of the Peabody Coal Co. He was born in Chicago 
February 14, 1893. 

ELMER MARTIN. Sales Agent for the Lehigh Valley Coal 
Sales Co., 313 McCormick Building, Chicago, Illinois, has 
been in the coal business for twenty-one years, formerly 
with the Bolen Coal Co. and the Central Coal & Coke Co., 
both of Kansas City, Missouri He was born near Quincy, 
Illinois, July 25, 1865. Mr. Martin is very popular and has 
a wide acquaintance in the trade. 



FRANK MATES, Secretary of the J. J. Wallace Coal 
Co., 4233 N. Keeler Ave., Chicago, Illinois, has been in the 
business for twenty-one years. He was born July 14, 1880, 
at Barrington, Illinois. 

JAMES B. MoCAHEY is Trustee and General Manager of 
John J. Dunn Estate, 5100 Federal St., Chicago, Illinois. 
He has been in the coal business for eleven years and has 
served as Director of the Chicago Coal Merchants' Associa- 
tion. He was born in Chicago, April 19, 1888. 

DAVID EDWARD McMILLAN, senior partner in the coal 
firm of D. E. McMillan & Bro., Old Colony Building, 
Chicago, Illinois, has been in the business for twenty-two 
years. He was formerly with the following coal concerns: 
Jas. W. Ellsworth & Co., Montana Coal & Coke Co., Fair- 
mont Coal Co., Consolidation Coal Co., and C. G. Blake & Co. 
He was born in Montreal, Canada, August 6, 1860. 

JOHN PERCIVAL BIcMILLAN is a partner in the firm of 
D. E. McMillan & Bro., Old Colony Building, Chicago, Illi- 
nois, and formerly was connected with the Chicago, 
Wilmington & Vermillion Coal Co. He has been in the 
business for seventeen years, starting with his present firm 
in July, 1907. He was born March 2, 1879, in Montreal, 
Canada. 

EDMUND J. McQ,UAID, 5822 S. Racine Ave., Chicago, 
Illinois, has been in the retail coal business for twenty-five 
years and is sole owner. He formerly was with the follow- 
ing: Consolidated Coal Co., Riverton Coal Co., Dering & 
McQuaid, F. G. Hartwell Co. as Manager of Sales, and the 
Worth-Huskey Coal Co., as Vice President. He was born 
at Irwin, Pennsylvania, June 21, 1866. 

GEORGE E. MEDIN was Western- Sales Agent for Thorne. 
Neale c& Co., Old Colony Building, Chicago, Illinois, having 
been in the coal business for eleven years. He was with 
the Logan Coal Co. and the Davis Coal & Coke Co. prior 
to his recent connection. He enlisted in the U. S. Navy 
April 16, 1918. He was born November 18, 1888, in Chicago. 

GEORGE HERBERT MERRYWEATHER, President and 
Treasurer of the Waubun Coal Co., 6 N. Clark St., Chicago,- 
Illinois, has been active in the business for twenty-eight 
years. Formerly he was General Sales Agent for the 
Pittsburgh, Ohio & Western Coal Co. and Sales Agent for 
Coxe Bros. & Co. He served as Illinois Scout, Ordei 
KoKoal, and as Vice President of the Chicago Coal & 
Coke Exchange. He is a member of the Executive Com- 
mittee and Director of the National Coal Jobbers' Associa- 
tion. Mr. Merryweather was born in Brooklyn, New Tork, 
September 24, 1870. 

GEORGE I. METHE, 601 S. Ridgeland Ave., Oak Park, Illi- 
nois, is Retail Manager for the F. G. Hartwell Co., Chicago, 
and has been connected with the coal business for seventeen 
years, formerly with the Busse-Reynolds Coal Co. He has 
served as a Director of the Chicago Coal Merchants' Asso- 
ciation. He was born in Chicago, July 5, 1883. 

D. B. MIKESELL, Vice President Mikesell Bros. Co., 176- 
178 No. LaSalle St., Chicago, Illinois, has been connected 
with the coal industry thirteen years, formerly with the 
Franklin County Coal Operators' Association and the Rock 
Island Coal Mining Co. as Assistant Secretary of the former 
and Division Sales Ag'ent of the latter. He ■was born in 
Troy, Ohio, in 1879. 

THOMAS DAVID MILLER, Chicago, Illinois, gas coal ex- 
pert, is special representative of E. M. Mancourt, Western 
Manager of the Consolidation Coal Co.,, Dime Bank Building, 
Detroit, Michigan, and has been connected w^ith the gas 
business thirty-five years. He has been Engineer and Man- 
ager for The Ft. Worth Gas Co., the Dallas Gas Co. and the 
New Orleans Gas Light Co., as well as City Gas Inspector 
at St. Louis, Missouri. Mr. Miller was born in Hannibal, 
Missouri. 

ABRAHABI MITCHELL, Secretary and Treasurer of the 
Mitchell & Dillon Coal Co., 203 South Dearborn St.. Chicago, 
Illinois, has been connected w^ith the coal business for 
sixteen years. He was born in Chicago, May 26, 1887. Mr. 
Mitchell is one of the inost popular of the younger coalinen. 

ALFRED JOHN 3IOORSHEAD, President and General 
Manager Madison Coal Corp., Karpen Building, Chicago. 
Illinois, has been thirty years in the business and with the 
same concern. He was born in London, England, in 1863. 
Mr. Moorshead serA-ed as President of the Illinois Coal Op- 
erators' Association from 1909 to 1911, and is regarded as 
one of the influential operators in Illinois. 

TH03IAS NEWTON MORDLE, President of the Thomas 
N. Mordue Coal Co., Peoples Gas Building, Chicago, Illi- 
nois, has been in the coal business for about thirty-six 
years. He is also President of the Mordue Collieries Co., 
and interested in the Bowyer Smokeless Coal Co. He for- 
merly was Chicago Manager for Castner. Curran & Bullitt 
and has been connected with the firms of George H. Hull & 
Co , Kent, Macfarlane & Mordue, and Macfarlane & Mordue, 
Louisville. Kentucky. Pie Avas born in Louisville, Kentucky, 
July 14, 1860. 



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FRANK E. MITELLER, 7616 E. Lake Ter., Chicago, Illi- 
nois, is Secretary and Cliief Engineer of the Roberts & 
Schaefer Co., 332 S. Michigan Ave., and for sixteen years 
has been connected with the coal business. He was born 
December 4, 1880, in Chicago. 

JAMES KEEnHAM, President of the St. Paul Coal Co. 
and General Superintendent of Jlines Chicago, Milwaukee & 
St. Paul Railway Co., Chicago, Illinois, has been in the busi- 
ness for over twenty years. He formerly was connected 
with the Consolidated Coal Co., St. Louis, Missouri, the 
Kansas it Texas Coal Co., McAlester, Oklahoma, and the 
Union Pacific Coal Co. at Cheyenne, Wyoming. He was born 
at Collinsville. Illinois. August 8, 1871. 

LEOPOLD OESTERREICHER, 505 Marengo Ave., Forest 
Park, Illinois, President of the Chicago Wood & Coal Co., 
at 1153 N. Halsted St., Chicago, has been in the business 
for sixteen years. He was born in Hungary, April 10, 1867. 

AVEBSTER ARNOLD PATTERSON, Secretary-Treasurer 
of the Harrisburg-Franklin Coal Co., Steger Building, 
Chicago. Illinois, is also Secretary of the Chicago-Car- 
lisle Coal Co. and has been in the coal business for nine- 
teen years. His former connections with coal concerns 
were as follows: Danville District Coal Co., Kelly ville Coal 
Co., Westville Coal Co., J. K. Dering Coal Co. and Mission 
Mining Co. He was born in Watseka, Illinois, August 17, 
1877. 

STUYA'BSANT "JACK" PEABODY is President of the 
Peabody Coal Co., 332 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Illinois, 
has been in the business for nine years, formerly with the 
Coal Supply Co. Mr. Peabody was born in Chicago August 
7, 1888, and is a son of Francis S. Peabody. He is at present 
in the service of his country. 

FREDERICK N. PEASE is the Southwestern Sales Agent 
for Williams & Peters, 203 S. Dearborn St., Chicago, Illinois, 
and has for twenty-nine years been connected with the 
■coal business. He was born in Chicago and is one of the 
best known anthracite sales agents in the West. 

EDWARD 31. PLATT is President of the Piatt & Brahm 
•Coal Co., Old Colony Building, Chicago, Illinois, and has 
Taeen in the business for about twenty-seven years. He 
formerly was connected w^ith the following concerns: 
Columbus & Hocking Coal & Iron Co., Manitowoc Coal & 
Dock Co., Pennsylvania & Ohio Fuel Co., Lehigh Valley 
Coal Co. Mr. Piatt was born in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, Sep- 
tember 4, 1865. Mr. Piatt has been President of the National 
Coal Jobbers' Association. 

JOSEPH PAUL REND, President of the W. P. Rend Co., 
601 McCormick Building, Chicago, Illinois, has been engaged 
in the coal business for over thirty years. He is also Presi- 
dent of the following: "W. P. Rend Collieries Co., W. P. 
Hend Coal & Coke Co., W. P. Rend Transportation Co. and 
the Standard Hocking Coal Co. He is a Director of the 
Vandalia Coal Co. Mr. Rend was born September 22, 1870, 
in Chicago. 

JOHN J. ROBERTS, 7716 E. Lake Ter., Chicago, Illinois, 
is Treasurer of the Roberts & Schaefer Co.. and has been 
in the coal business fifteen years. He was born in Tolona, 
Illinois, January 3, 1874. 

MAJOR WARREN R. ROBERTS, 1423 Pargo Ave., 
Chicago, Illinois, is President of the Roberts & Schaefer 
Co. and has been identified with the coal business for 
seventeen years. He was born October 20, 1863, at Sadorus, 
Illinois. Major Roberts is at present in charge of construc- 
tion for the United States War Department. 

3IILTON E. ROBINSON, 740 E. Forty-first St., Chicago, 
Illinois, has been in the coal business for thirty-three years 
and is President of the Milton E. Robinson Coal Co. For- 
merly he was President of the Lill-Robinson Coal Co. for 
two years. Mr. Robinson is a charter member of the Chi- 
cago Coal Merchants' Association and was its first President, 
serving for tliree years. He was born in Kenosha, Wiscon- 
sin, April 27, 1862. 

CHARLES J, ROTH, Sales Manager for the Peabody Coal 
Co., 332 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Illinois, has been con- 
nected witli the company for over twenty years. He was 
born at Wheeling, West Virginia, April 7, 1879. 

DONALD A. SAGE is President of Sage & Co., Inc., 600 S. 
Dearborn St., Chicago, Illinois, and has been in the coal 
business for twenty-four years. He was born at IngersoU, 
Canada, July 13. 1857. 

FREDERICK SCHIFFERLE, Assistant General Sales Man- 
ager Rutledge & Taylor Coal Co., Chicago, Illinois, was born 
September 15, 1886, in St. Louis, and has been in the coal 
Ijusiness twelve years. He was formerly connected vyith 
the Interstate Coal & Mining Co., Security Coal & Mining 
Co.. and Nokomis Coal Co. 

JOHN SCHWTEDA, Vice President, of the Polonia Coal Co., 
1360 W. North Ave., Chicago, Illinois, has been in the retail 
coal business for nine years. He was born in Chicago, 
IVIay 15, 1875. 



DON B. SEBASTI.VN, Vice President of the Bickett Coal & 
Coke Co., McCormick Building, Chicago, Illinois, is also 
President of the Groveland Coal Mining Co. and has been 
twelve years in the business. Formerly he was fuel agent 
for the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. and has 
filled the position of Vice President and Secretary of the 
International Railway Fuel Association. He was born May 
1, 187S, in Chicago. 

CHARLES R. SHABINO, President of the Keystone Fuel 
Co., 343 S. Dearborn St., Chicago, Illinois, has been in the 
coal business for seventeen years. He was formerly with 
the Edwards & Bradford Lumber Co., in the coal depart- 
ment, and was one of the founders of the Order KoKoal. He 
was born June 3, 1884, in South Dakota. 

DELAVAN C. SHOEMAKER is Sales Manager in the Car 
Load Sales department with the Consumers Co., Conway 
Building, Chicago, Illinois, and in char.ge of coal purchases, 
reporting to the Vice President. He has been eleven years 
in the coal business, formerly with City Fuel Co.. since fused 
with the Con.sumers Co. He was born at Monmouth, Illinois, 
January 5, 1883. 

JA3IES G. SKIDMORE, Purchasing Agent for the Tavlor 
Coal Co., 1215 Old Colony Building, Chicago, Illinois, has 
been in the business eighteen years, formerly with the 
Madison Coal Corp., St. Louis, Missouri. He was active in the 
Order KoKoal and has held many offices in coal trade 
organizations. He was born June 17, 1880, at Charleston, 
Illinois. 

EDWARD F. SMITH is Manager of Car Sales for Edwin 
F. Daniels & Co., 20 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago, Illinois, and 
has been in the coal business for eleven years. He formerly 
was with the New Kentucky Coal Co., the Taylor Co. and 
the Atwill-Makemson Coal & Coke Co. He has served as 
Imperial Pictor, Order KoKoal, and as Secretary and Treas- 
urer of the Chicago Coal Trade Golf Association. Mr. Smith 
was born in Chicago, November 19, 1881. 

LOUIS H. SMITH, Manager of the Spring Valley Coal Co., 
915 Old Colony Building, Chicago, Illinois, has been in the 
coal business for about eighteen years and formerly was 
Secretary of the Illinois Third Vein Coal Co. He is a mem- 
ber of the Executive Committee of the Illinois Coal Oper- 
ators' Association, Vice President of the Coal Operators' 
Mutual Fire Insurance Co. and a member of the Executive 
Committee of the Illinois Coal Traffic Bureau. He was born 
May 12, 1871, in Ottawa, Illinois. 

PAUL N. SNYDER, Manager Car Sales O. S. Richardson 
Coal Co., Old Colony Building, Chicago, Illinois, has been 
eight years in the coal business. He formerly was with 
J: C. Snyder, retail merchant, at Fulton, Illinois. He was 
born at Pulton, Illinois, September 2, 1888. 

EDAVARD R. SORENSEN is proprietor of the retail coal 
business of the Windsor Park Coal Co., 7454 Exchange Ave., 
Chicago, Illinois, and has been in the business seven years. 
He was formerly with the Susquehanna Coal Co. Mr. Soren- 
sen was born at Port Clinton, Ohio, November 28, 1886. 

ROLLIN STAFFORD. General Sales Agent for the Atlas 
Coal & Coke Co., 775 Old Colony Building, Chicago, Illinois, 
has been in the business for fifteen years, formerly with 
John W. Love and the Sunday Creek Coal Co. He was born 
at Harvey, Illinois, June 23, 1883. 

GEORGE FREDERICK STAHMER, President Fort Dear- 
born Coal Co., Fisher Building, Chicago, Illinois, has been 
in the coal business eighteen years. He was formerly with 
Coxe Bros. & Co.. Globe Coal Co., and Manager of the Bitu- 
minous department of the Mitchell & Dillon Coal Co., Chi- 
cago. 

LY'MAN OTIS STANTON is owner of wie L. O. Stanton Coal 
Co., 1335 Old Colony Building, Chicago, Illinois. He has 
been in the business for twenty years, formerly with Jas. W. 
Ellsworth & Co. and Hull & Co. as Department Manager. 
For the past twelve years he has been Sales Manager for 
the Clinton Coal Co. He was born in Markesan, Wisconsin, 
March 13, 1866. 

GROVER W. STUBBEE, traveling salesman for the Old 
Ben Coal Corp., Chicago, Illinois, was born June 2, 1885, in 
Farnhamville, Iowa, and has been in the coal business ten 
years. Mr. Stubbee was formerly with the Des Moines 
Coal & Coke Co. and the Coal Hill Coal Co. He now repre- 
sents Old Ben in Southern Minnesota and Northern Iowa, 
making his headquarters at the Chicago office. 

GEORGE EDWARD SUTTON, Sales Manager Geo. G. Pope 
& Co., 1817 Fisher Building, Chicago, Illinois, has been in 
the coal business for over thirty years. He formerly was 
connected with the following concerns: Wabash Coal Co., 
"Wilmington-Springfield Coal Co., S. & S. Fuel Co., Central 
States Fuel Co. He was born at Springfield, Illinois, March 
8, 1864. 

EDWARD H. TAYLOR, fuel and gas engineer with Crerar, 
Clinch & Co., 645 Rookery Building, Chicago, Illinois, has 
been in the business for thirteen years. He was born at 
Evanston, Illinois, January 13, 1869. 



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HUBERT CLEMEXT TAYLOR, President of the Hicks & 
Taylor Coal Co., Kedzie Ave. and Taylor St., Chicago, Illi- 
nois, has been in the retail business for twenty-eight years. 
He was born October 12, 1867, at Hudson, Iowa. 

HENRY H. TEBBETTS, 2226 Millard Ave., Chicago, Illinois, 
Is a retail coal merchant who has been in the business for 
forty-seven years. He was born at Rochester, New Hamp- 
shire, June 21, 1840. 

GEORGE THOMSON, President and General Manager of 
the Thomson Coal Co., 709 Fisher Building. Chicago, Illinois, 
has been in the coal business eleven years, formerly as a 
member of the Thomson & Burton Co. He also is Vice Pres- 
ident and General Manager the Benton Coal Co. He was 
born at Stirling, Scotland. 

THOMAS M. .TOBIN, President and Treasurer of the T. M. 
Tobin Bros. Co., 9326 South Chicago Avenue, Chicago, Illi- 
nois, has been in the retail business for thirty-seven years. 
His brother, Edmond W. Tobin, is Vice President, and an- 
other brother, John A., is Secretary of the company. Thomas 
M. Tobin was born December 11, 1863, in Huntingdon County, 
Pennsylvania. 

MARCUS W. TURNER, President of the Turner Coal Co., 
1461 Monadnock Building, Chicago, Illinois, has been in the 
business for about thirty years. He formerly was with the 
Silver Creek & Morris Coal Co. He was born in New York, 
June 1. 1866. 

WILUIAM C. WADDEUU. General Salesman for The S. C. 
Schenck Co., Old Colony Building. Chicago, Illinois, has been 
connected with the coal trade for eighteen years, formerly 
with The B. Uhrig Fuel Co. and the W. L,. Scott Co. He was 
born in 1874 in Chicago. 

SILAS ARTHUR WEST, Manager of the Soft Coal depart- 
ment of The S. C. Schenck Co., Old Colony Building, Chicago, 
Illinois, has been seventeen years in the coal business, for- 
merly with the North Western Fuel Co. and the Consolida- 
tion Coal Co. He was born October 5, 1882, in Chicago. 

R.\LPH CRAWFORD WHITSETT is President and Gen- 
eral Manager of the R. C. Whitsett Coal & Mining Co., Chi- 
cago. Illinois, the Kentucky River Coal Mining Co. of Haz- 
ard. Kentucky, and the Black Comet Coal Co. of Sullivan. 
Indiana. He has been in the coal business twenty years, 
formerly with the Rainbow Coal & Mining Co., Sullivan, 
Indiana. He was born in Mingo, Ohio, April 7, 1877. 

■\\TLLI.\M E. WITHALL is a retail coal merchant at 3456 
"W, Fifty-first St., Chicago, Illinois, who has been in the 
business for seventeen years. He was born in England, 
July 3, 1867. 



ILLINOIS — Springfield 



V. J. DEVLIN, Springfield, Illinois, is Mine Superintendent 
for the Jones & Adams Coal Co. He has been connected with 
the coal industry for thirty years, formerly with the San 
Toy Coal Co.. at San Toy. Ohio, and with the O'Gara Coal 
Co. at Springfield. He was born in .Scotland June 27, 1875. 

CHARLES V. HICKOX of Springfield. Illinois, was In the 
coal business for twenty years, but for many years has 
been Secretary of the Coal Operators Mutual Fire Insurance 
Co. of Springfield, Illinois. He was born at Springfield in 
April, 1846. 

CARL HOLDEN HOY', 816 Reisch Building, Springfield, 
Illinois, is President of the White County Mining & Power 
Co. He was formerly with the Madison Coal Corp.. and has 
been connected with the coal business eighteen years. He 
was born in Litchfield, Illinois, July 2, 1883. 

EVAN D. .JOHN. Springfield. Illinois, Director' of the 
Department of Mines and Minerals for the state of Illinois, 
was born in Maestag, Wales, October 8, 1S61, and died in 
December, 1918. 

ALVIN S. KEYS, 207 S. Sixth Street, Springfield, Illinois, 
Is President of the Southside Coal Co. and has been con- 
nected with the business for eleven years, formerly w^ith 
the Tuxhorn Coal Co. at Springfield. He was born at 
Springfield January 30, 1888. 

PHILLIPS G. MATHENY', Secretary of the TVest End Coal 
Co. of Springfield, Illinois, has been connected with the 
business fourteen years. He is interested in the Niantic Coal 
Co and formerly was with the Republic Iron & Steel Co. as 
Manager of their Springfield coal properties. He was born 
In Springfield August 3, 1870. 

O. G. SCOTT, Owner and Manager of the Scott Coal Co., 
827 Soiith Fifth Street, Springfield, Illinois, has been in the 
coal business for over twenty years. He was Cashier of 
the Springfield Coal Association for ten years and Secretary 
of the Central Illinois Coal Bureau. He was appointed As- 
sistant District Representative by the United States Fuel 
Administration for nine counties in Central Illinois. He was 
born in Butler, Ohio, December 20, 1865. 



CHARLES ALEXANDER STARNE, 311 DeWitt Smith 
Building, Springfield, Illinois, is Treasurer of the West End 
Coal Co. of Springfield and has been identified with the coal 
business for eighteen years. He was born at Springfield 
June 4, 1877. 

HOW^ARD K. W'EBER is President of the Sangamon Coal 
Co. of Springfield, Illinois, and has been connected with the 
coal business for eleven years. He was born at Hagers- 
town. Maryland. June 27, 1843. 

GEORGE A. YVOOD, 501 W. Capitol Avenue, Springfield, 
Illinois, is Secretary-Treasurer of the Chicago-Springfield 
Coal Co. He has been in the coal business for fifteen years. 
He was born in 1858 at Springfield. 



ILLINOIS 



IRA D. ADAMS, Secretary and Treasurer of the Ira D. 
Adams Lumber Co. at Lexington, Illinois, has been in the 
business for over twenty years. Formerly he was with 
Shade & Crothers and with W. D. Alexander & Co. He was 
born January 19, 1877, at Minier, Illinois. 

CHARLES AHT„ Superintendent of The Moweaqua Coal 
Mining & Manufacturing Co. at Moweaqua, Illinois, has 
been in the business twenty-four years, with his present 
company. He was born in 1867 at Cloverport, Kentucky. 

J. M. ALLEN, retail coal merchant at Eureka, Illinois, has 
been in the business for twenty-seven years. He was born 
at Eureka March 3, 1870. 

LEWIS H. ALLEN is a partner in the coal firm of Hunter, 
Allen & Co. at Lacon, Illinois, and has been connected with 
the business for twenty-five years. Other interests are 
those of his firm at Magnolia and at Lostant, Illinois. Mr. 
Allen was born at Tiskilwa, Illinois, in February, 1869. 

HENRY C. ANDRES is the sole owner of the H. C. Andres 
Coal Co.'s business at Aurora, Illinois, and has been in the 
retail trade for five years. He was born at Tinley Park, 
Illinois, in 1861. 

ANDY' MELVIN APPLEGATE, owner of the retail coal 
business at Pearl, Pike County, Illinois, has been in the coal 
business there for twenty years. He w^as born in Illinois 
February 22, 1871. 

BEN T. AXFORD is President of the Axford Coal Co. at 
Petersburg, Illinois, and has been in the business for seven 
years. He vi^as formerly with the South Mountain Coal Co. 
He was born in PeterslJurg February 7, 1890. 

JOHN NICHOLAS BACH has been a retail coal mer- 
chant at Fairbury, Illinois, for seventeen years. He was 
born in Alsace-Loraine July 10, 1871. 

ARTHUR W. BADGER, President of the Badger Lumber 
Co., Morrison, Illinois, has been engaged in the retail coal 
business for thirteen years. He was born at Amboy, Illi- 
nois, April 17, 1880. 

WILLIAM H. BAETHKE, President of the Newton- 
Baethke Co., retail coal merchants at Glen EUyn, Illinois, 
has been in the business for thirteen years. He was born 
at Maywood, Illinois, August 30, 1873. 

W. T. BAILY is Business Manager and partner of the 
National Fuel Co. at Galesburg, Illinois, and has been 
connected with the business for two years. He was born 
in Illinois in 1875. 

W^ALTER B. BALLENTINE is President and General 
Manager of the Ballentine Coal & Ice Co. at Toulon, Illinois, 
and has been in the coal business for about thirty years, 
owning a coal mine on his farm about five miles from Tou- 
lon, and doing a shipping business in town. He has as his 
partner, Secretary and Treasurer, his wife, Mrs. Margaret 

E. Ballentine. Mr. Ballentine was born in Stark County, 
Illinois. February 16, 1862. 

GERSON BANKS, Kirkland, Illinois, is Manager for the 
firm of Geo. W. Banks & Son and has been connected with 
the business three years. He was born in Irene, Illinois, 
October 6, 1891. 

WILLIAM ERNEST BARBOUR, 1030 Forest Ave., Evans- 
ton, Illinois, District Manager for the Consumers Co. of 
Chicago, has been connected ^vith the retail coal business 
for twenty-three years. He formerly owned the business 
of W. E. Barbour & Co. and was President, Treasurer and 
Director of the Lincoln Fuel Co. He was also connected 
with the following concerns: Castner, Curran & Bullitt and 

F. G. Hartwell Co. He was born at St. Charles, Illinois, 
April 1, 1874. 

WILLIAM P. BARKER, retail coal merchant at Batavia, 
Illinois, has been in the business for sixteen years. He 
was born at Batavia July 7, 1850. Mr. Barker is highly 
respected in the coal trade and has served as Treasurer 
of the Illinois and Wisconsin Retail Coal Dealers' Asso- 
ciation. 



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Kn^VARn K. BAKKKTT, 3:!:{ South Waiola Ave.,L,aGrange, 

Illinois, is A'ioe I'ri'sident of the Roberts & Schaefer Co. 
and lias been connected with the business for seventeen 
years. He was born in I'ort Byron, Illinois, October 12, 
1870. 

"\V. G. BARTELS, CarlinviUe, Illinois, is President and 
General Manager of tlie CarlinviUe Coal Co. He begran In 
the employ of his father in 186y and continued until 1883, 
since which time he has operated in liis own behalf. He 
was born at CarlinviUe March 2, 1858. 

ED. A. BAISER, Bunker Hill, Illinois, has been in the 
retail coal business for sixteen years and is the lessee of 
the Bauser-Truesdale coal mine. He was born in St. Louis, 
Missouri, February 4, 1873. 

LEWIS M. BAA'XE is General Manager of the L. M. 
Bayne Lumber Co. at Ottawa, Illinois, and is interested in 
the company's yards at Ottawa. Grand Ridge, Strawn, and 
Emington, Illinois. He has been in the retail business for 
over twenty years. He was born at "Wenona, Illinois, June 
2, 186!1. 

PETER BECK, President of the Beck Coal & Lumber 
Co. at Harvey, Illinois, has been engaged in the business 
sixteen years. He was born in Braidwood, Illinois, April 
23. 1877. He has served as President of the Illinois and 
AVisconsin Retail Coal Dealers' Association and has done 
splendid work by encouraging' coal merchants to install 
better systems of cost accounting- and bookkeeping. 

BEXJAMIX BECKEXHEIMER, President of the Smith- 
Lohr Coal Mining Co., Pana, Illinois, has been connected 
with the business for thirteen years. He formerly was 
connected with the Central Illinois Coal Bureau and is a 
member of the Illinois Coal Operators' Association. He 
was born at Baltimore, Maryland, September 22, 1845. 

CHARLES BECKER, Secretary of the Star Coal Co., 
Freeburg, Illinois, has been in the business for ten years 
and formerly was with the Freeburg Mining Co. and the 
Freeburg Coal Co. He was born in Germany June 27, 1848. 

W. D. BeDELL of BeDell Bros, at Mt. Carmel, Illinois, 
has been in tlie coal business as a retailer for over twenty 
years. Formerly he was connected with the Saline County 
Coal Co. at Harrisburg-, Illinois. He was born at Mt. Carmel 
in 1872. Ij. T. BeDell, his brother, was born in 1880 at Mt. 
Carmel. 

HERMAN H. BEEDE, Chadwick, Illinois, is owner of a 
half interest in the business of the Chadwick Supply Co. 
He was formerly with Beede Bros, of Cliadwick. He was 
born in Xew Hampshire December 29, 1857. 

HEXRY A. BENT, Secretary and Treasurer of the 
Oglesby Coal Co. at Oglesby, Illinois, has been engaged In 
the business for about thirty-five years. He was born at 
Kenosha, Wisconsin, July 2, 1866. 

.JOSIAH RAYMOND BENT is Vice President and Superin- 
tendent of the Oglesby Coal Co. at Oglesby, Illinois. He 
has been connected with the coal business since 1896. He 
was born in Oglesby January 3, 1877. 

ROBERT V. BENTON, Decatur. Illinois, is proprietor 
of the City Fuel Co. and has been in the business for eight 
years, formerly with the Decatur Coal Co. He was born 
in Macon County, Illinois, in 1885. 

GEORGE L. BLANCHARD, retail coal merchant at Lake 
Forest. Illinois, has been in the business for ten years. 
He has filled the ofRce of Vice President of the Illinois and 
Wisconsin Retail Coal Dealers' Association for two years 
and Director two years. He was born in Ashby, Massachu- 
setts. 

HENRY BLESSMAN has been a retail coal merchant at 
Gridley, Illinois, for ten years and was formerly ■with W. D. 
Castle & Co. He was born in Germany May 5, 1873. 

THEODORE F. BOECKER, JR., is Manager of the 
Boecker Coal & Grain Co. at Naperville, Illinois, and has 
been in the business two years. The present company is 
succes.sor to T. F. Boecker, who succeeded B. B. Boecker. 
Theodore F. Boecker, Jr., was born in Naperville February 2, 
1896. 

GEORGE ROGER, President of Geo. Boger & Sons, Hins- 
dale, Illinois, coal merchants, has been in the retail busi- 
ness for twenty-three years. He was born in Dupage 
County, Illinois, near Hinsdale, in 1853. 

OS^WALD BOLLMAN, Belleville, 111., is Secretary and 
Treasurer of the Fullerton Coal Co. and has been in the 
business for eighteen years. He is also interested in the 
Summit & Eldnar Coal Co. He was born December 3, 1876, 
at Belleville. 

FRANK H. BOSWORTH, Manager of F. S. Bosworth & 
Son, Elgin, Illinois, has been in the retail coal business for 
twenty-nine years. He was born at Dundee, Illinois, Sep- 
tember 3, 1870. 

WILLIAM J. BRADBURY is senior partner in the firm 
of Bradbury Bros., coal merchants at Areola, Illinois. He 
was born in England February 3, 1848, and has been in the 
coal business for thirty-five years. 



W.VLTER S. BH.WT, Havana, Illinois, has been connect- 
ed with till' .\I. .\I. Clark Coal Co. of Havana for over twenty 
years. He was born in Havana September 14, 1871. 

HARRY BR.ALER is the owner of the coal business of 
Brauer & Son. Olney, Illinois, and is the son of John Brauer, 
who established the business about twenty years ago. 
The latter died September 22, 1916. Harry Brauer was 
born in Olney October 23. 1884. 

GEORGE A. BRECHIN'ITZ, Belleville, Illinois, is the Presi- 
dent and General Manager of the Silver Creek Valley Coal 
Co. and is likewise interested in the Prairie Coal Co. He 
was born at Belleville and has been engaged in the coal 
business for thirteen years. 

WALTER A. BRO'WN is a retail coal merchant at Carroll- 
ton, Illinois, who has been in the business for twenty-three 
years. Pie was born November 11, 1868, at Greenfield, Illi- 
nois. 

CHARLES C. BRUBAKER is senior member of the firm 
of Brubaker & Son at Robinson, Illinois. He has been 
connected witli the retail coal business for twenty-six years. 
He w^as born in Kansas June 20, 1869. His son, George A. 
Brubaker, has been the junior partner for the past five 
years. He was born in Illinois May 18, 1893. 

GEORGE M. BRYANT, coal merchant for fourteen years 
at De Pue, Illinois, was born in Kendall County, Illinois, 
Januarj' 26, 1859. and is well known in that territory. 

W./VLTER H. CALL.\HAN is the Owner and Manager of the 
retail business of the Callahan Coal Co., 4200 State St., East 
St. Louis, Illinois, with which he has been connected for 
eight years. He was born in Ava, Illinois, December 26, 1881. 

JA9IES H. CALVER, Decatur, Illinois, has been In the 
retail coal business for five years. He w^as born in Ross 
County, Ohio, June 26, 1858. 

JOHN H. CARLIN, Utica, Illinois, has been a retail coal 
merchant for twenty-nine years. He was born 'in Utica 
October 11, 1853. 

W. J. CARLIN, retail coal mercliant at Bowen, Illinois, 
has been in the business for twenty-four years. He was 
born at Columbus, Illinois, January 29, 1869. 

MELVIN CAROKER, proprietor of the coal business of 
Caroker & Ragsdale at Cobden, Illinois, has been a retailer 
for five years. He was born at Cobden. 

WILLIAM H. CARPENTER, Rock Island, Illinois, Is con- 
trolling partner and Manager of the Carpenter Coal Co. 
He was formerly with W. H. Carpenter & Co. at Moline, 
Illinois, and with the Empire Coal & Coke Co. at Rock 
Island. He has been in the coal business for twenty-six 
years and was born at Rochester, Ne^w York, April 10, 1841. 

ANDREW F. CHAPMAN, President A. F. Chapman Co., 
Dundee. Illinois, was born in 1845 at Ulirichsville, Ohio, and 
has been in the coal business for the past forty years. 

WILLIAM HENRY CHAPPLE is General Manager and 
Treasurer of the Peoples Coal Co. at Lebanon, Illinois. He 
has been in the retail coal business for about seven years, 
and worked in coal mines for forty-four years. He Was 
born in England in 1861. 

W^ALTER HOW^ARD CHASE, retail coal merchant at 
Sullivan, Illinois, has been engaged in the business for 
twenty-two years. He was formerly with The Alexander 
Lumber Co. He was born at Madison, Wisconsin, Septem- 
ber 23, 1858. 

JOHN THOMAS CHERRY is Superintendent of the B. F. 
Berry Coal Co. of Standard, Putnam County, Illinois, and 
has been connected w^ith the coal industry for thirty-three 
years, starting as a trapper boy in 1884 and filling all 
positions in and around coal mines. He was formerly with 
the Chicago, Wilmington & Vermillion Coal Co. and with 
the St. Paul Coal Co. He was born at Braidwood, Illinois, 
June 8, 1871. 

C. A. CHITTENDEN has been conducting a retail coal 
business at Mendon, Illinois, for twenty-one years. He 
was born in Mendon April 7, 1857. 

HORACE CLARK, General Manager of the Clark Coal & 
Coke Co., Jefferson Building. Peoria, Illinois, is also inter- 
ested in the Logan Coal Co.. and has been in the business 
twenty-six years. He was born in Peoria July 13, 1863. He 
has many friends in the trade. 

MARVIN M. CLARK, born June 13, 1860, has been in the 
retail coal business for twenty-six years and is the owner 
of the M. M. Clark Coal Co. at Havana, Illinois. He has 
filled the office of Vice President of the Illinois and Wiscon- 
sin Retail Coal Dealers' Association. 

VICTOR I. CLARK is President of The North Side Lum- 
ber Co. at Sycamore, Illinois, and has been connected with 
the coal business for nineteen years. He was born in 
DeKalb County, Illinois, March 22, 1862. 

ARTHUR E. CLEVIDENCE, retail coal merchant at Mt. 
Morris, Illinois, has been in the business since 1901. He 
was born at Mt. Morris in 1870. 



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FRAXK B. CLINTOA is a retail coal mei-chant at Paris, 
Illinois, who has been in the business for thirty-four years. 
He has been in full charge since the death of his father, 
C. M. Clinton, in 1915. Mr. Clinton was born in Paris June 
5, 1865. 

AVILLIAM J. CLIPPERT has been in the retail coal busi- 
ness at Warsaw, Illinois, for twenty-five years, formerly 
with the firm of Clippert & Diehl. He was born at War- 
saw October 17, 1862. 

MOnTIMER M. CLOrDMAIV, retail coal merchant, 166 
Chicag-o St., Elgin, Illinois, has been in the business for 
sixteen years, formerly as a member of the, firm of Hem- 
mens & Cloudman. He was born at Memphis, Tennessee, 
about forty-five years ago. 

GEORGE C. COCKRELL has been in the retail coal busi- 
ness at Jerseyville, Illinois, during the past seven years. 
He was born at Jerseyville in 1882. 

ARTHUR Z. COFFMAN, owner of the South Side Coal Co. 
at Quincy, Illinois, has been in the business for seven years. 
He was born at Newark, Ohio, September 11, 1877. 

P. H. COLEHOUR is the proprietor of a retail coal busi- 
ness at Mt. Carroll, Illinois, which he has conducted for 
sixteen years. He formerly was with Colehour & Miles. 
He was born in Mt. Carroll September 14, 1866. 

W. R. COLEMAIV, Sales Manager of the Clark Coal & Coke 
Co., at Peoria. Illinois, is President of the Logan Coal 
Co. He has been in the business twenty-three shears, 
formerly with the Newell Coal Co. He has served as Presi- 
dent of the Peoria Wholesale Club. He was born at Peoria 
November 11, 1876. 

J. W. COLLIVER, Aurora, Illinois, is Secretary, Director 
and Sales Manager for the Old Ben Coal Corp., Chicago, and 
has been in the business for about twenty-three years. He 
was formerly with the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway Co. 
as General Agent at Joliet, Illinois. He was born at Picton, 
Ontario, Canada, January 28, 1867. 

WESLEY ROBERT COMFORT, SR., Palatine, Illinois, has 
been in the coal business for thirty-nine years. He is 
senior partner in the firm of W. R. Comfort & Co. He was 
liorn in Canada January 28, 1855. His partner, Henry F. 
Battermann, has been in the coal business for thirty years. 

MATT. J. COOGAIV, Lincoln, Illinois, has been in the re- 
tail coal business for eight years and previously worked 
for eight years in the mines. He w^as formerly with the 
Latham Coal & Mining Co. He Was born April 29, 1888, 
at Lincoln. 

JOHN J. CORDES has been in business as a retail coal 
merchant for nineteen years at German Valley, Illinois. He 
was born there November 27. 1875. 

LYMAN D. CORTELYOU, retail coal merchant at Abing- 
don, Illinois, represents the Purity Coal Co. He has been 
doing business for nine years. He was born at Trenton, 
New Jersey, January 26, 1864. 

H. B. COYLE, Manager of the Coyle Grain & Coal Co. 
at Gridley, Illinois, has been in the business for nine years. 
Recently he sold out the grain business and is now 
handling coal exclusively. He was born at Gridley March 
28, 1890. 

JAMES A. CREAMER, Tolono, Illinois, has been in the 
retail coal business eleven years, formerly with Edwards & 
Creamer. He was born at Tolono February 25, 1870. 

JOHN S. CRTJGAR is General Manager and Treasurer of 
the Lovington Coal Mining Co., Decatur, Illinois, and has 
been connected with the coal mining industry for sixteen 
years. He is interested in the Phoenlx-Jellico Coal Co. 
and was formerly with the Rock Springs Coal Co. and the 
Naugatuck Coal Co. He was born at Montgomery, Ohio, 
October 8, 1881. 

J. AV. ClTRivuTT, retail coal merchant at Greenfield, 
Illinois, has been in the business for twelve years. He was 
born at Greenfield in 1850. 

H. E. CURTIS, Manager for H. E. Curtis & Co., Tiskilwa, 
Illinois, has been connected with the coal business for thir- 
ty-one years. He was born at Sheffield, Illinois, sixty 
years ago. 

CHARLES F. DACY is Manager and half owner in the 
business of the Dacy Lumber Co., Woodstock, Illinois, and 
he has been in the retail coal business fourteen years. He 
was born in Woodstock February 8, 1870. 

31. E. DANAHAY of M. E. Danahay & Son, Eureka, Illi- 
nois, was born in 1861 in Eureka and has been in the 
coal business thirty years, succeeding his father, who 
started the business in 1870. His son, D. M. Danahay, is in 
the sei-vice of his country. 

J. O. DANIEL, Watseka, Illinois, is Manager, Secretary 
and Treasurer of Tlie Peoples Grain & Lumber Co. and has 
been connected with the coal business for seven years. He 
was born at Judson. Indiana, December 25, 1871. 



SAMUEL DAVIS, retail coal merchant at Herbert, Illinois,, 
has been in the business over twenty yeais. formerly with 
the firm of Reed & Davis. He was born in England in 1842. 

L. B. DE FOREST has been in the retail coal business at 
Oneida, Illinois, since 1881. He was born at Lima, New 
Tork, July 30. 1852. 

HERMAN DENZEL, President of the Highland Park Fuel 
Co., 112 North First St., Highland Park, Illinois, has been 
in the business for six years. He w^as born in Germany 
March, 1870. 

JOHN P. DETIENNE, Zion City, Illinois, is Manager of 
the fuel departments of Zion City Institutions and Indus- 
tries. He has been connected with the coal business sixteen 
years, having been a retailer for ten years at Sherburn,. 
Minnesota. He was born in Belgium July 28, 1850. 

ROBERT DICK is President of the Pond Creek Coal Co., 
Herrin, Illinois, and of the Robert Dick Coal Co. For- 
merly he w^as with the Sun Coal & Coke Co. and has been 
connected with the coal business for over forty years. He 
was born in DuQuoin, Illinois, July 20, 1863. 

PETER R. DIEDERICH, retail coal merchant at Rochelle, 
Illinois, has been in the business for seventeen years and 
was formerly with the Neola Elevator Co. He was born 
at Lostant, Illinois, October 11, 1877. 

JOHN DONER DIFFENBAUGH is the owner of the Dif- 
fenbaugh Coal & Ice Co. at Monmouth, Illinois, and has been 
in the business twenty-nine years. He forinerly was Vice 
President of the Sipher Lumber & Coal Co. and was born 
November 8, 1865, at Monmouth. Mr. Diffenbaugh has held 
a number of positions of trust and honor in his community. 

JOHN SIPHER DIFFENBAUGH, Monmouth, Illinois, is- 
associated as Manager ■with his father, John D. Diffenbaugh, 
in the Diffenbaugh Coal & Ice Co., with which he has been 
connected for seven years. He -was born at Monmouth, 
August 1, 1892. 

OSCAR L. DODGSON is Manager for the retail coal firm 
of L. P. Dodgson & Son at McLean, Illinois, and has been 
in the business twenty-two years. He was born in Carroll- 
ton, Illinois, September 29, 1886. 

D. H. DOLDEN, General Manager of the Hinckley Grain 
Co. at Hinckley, Illinois, has been in the business for thir- 
teen years, formerly with the Neola Elevator Co. He was 
born at Kings, Illinois, November 25, 1879. 

STEPHEN A. DRAKE, Canton. Illinois, is President of 
the Canton Coal Co. and has been in the retail business for 
thirty years. He was born at Canton, May 18, 1864. 

JOHN W. DUNCAN is senior member of the firm of Dun- 
can Bros, at Palinyra, Illinois, and has been in the busi- 
ness for twenty-nine years. He was born at Girard, Illi- 
nois, October 26, 1865. His brother, Joseph B. Duncan, was 
also born in Girard July 9, 1867. 

GEORGE F. ECKERT, Manager and partner in the coal 
firm of Hall «& Eckert at Woodstock, Illinois, has been 
connected with the retail coal business for sixteen years. 
He was born at "Woodstock February 14, 1864. 

CLARENCE F. EDINGER, Wilmette, Illinois, is President 
of Edinger & Co., retail coal inerchants at Wilmette and 
Evanston, Illinois. He has been in the business for eleven 
years, and has served as a Director of the Chicago Coal 
Merchants' Association. He was born at White Haven, 
Pennsylvania, July 4, 1877. 

A. H. EINHAUS, Quincy, Illinois, has been in the retail 
coal business for sixteen years. He was born in Quincy 
October 4, 1870. 

A. W. EISENMAYER is President of the Granite City 
Lime & Cement Co. at Granite City, Illinois. He was born at 
Claremont, Illinois. July 12, 1866. 

E3IIL A. EKSTRAND, Ludlow, Illinois, has been in the 
retail coal business for over twenty years. He was born 
in Illinois in 1860. 

SAMUEL W. ELDRED, Quincy, Illinois, is a salesman of 
the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co. and has been 
connected with the coal industry for thirty years. He was 
formerly with the Wabash Coal Co. as Treasurer and Man- 
ager. Mr. Eldred has served as a member of the Executive 
Board of the Illinois Coal Operators' Association. He w^as 
born at Carlinville, Illinois, September 26, 1860. 

V. C. ELMORE, Ashland, Illinois, manages his own busi- 
ness and also that of Elmore & Lemmon, coal merchants. 
Retail offices are maintained by the companies at Ashland, 
Sinclair, Manchester, Roodhouse, Barrow, Hillview, Grand 
Pass, Pleasant Hill and Nebo, all in the state of Illinois. Mr. 
Elmore was born near Ashland October 18, 1847. and has 
been engaged in the coal business for over twenty years. 

AV. A. ENGLAND is the proprietor of the Havana Coal 
Co. at Havana, Illinois, having bought out Edward Fields in 
May, 1917. He was born at Havana in 1875. 



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ED. E. EVAAS, Streator, Illinois, has been in the coal 
business for twenty-seven years, formerly with the Rich- 
ards iSL- Evans Coal Co. He was born in Streator March 24, 
1874. 

ROnERT .1. FAIRB.\TRX, Galesburg. Illinois, is Secretary 
and Treasurer of tlie Star Coal Co. and also of the Coal 
Creek Mining- Co. He is interested in the Acme Coal Co. 
at Streator, Illinois, and was formerly connected with that 
concern, from 1892 to 1909. He was born at Streator Novem- 
ber 16. 1874. 

ALBERT F. FIELD, retail coal merchaiat at Woodstock, 
Illinois, has been doing' business there for forty-three 
years. He was born January 20, 1841, In Vermont. 

T. M. FOLEY, Kankakee, Illinois, is President of the 
Kankakee Ice, Feed & Fuel Co. and has been in the business 
for eight years. He was born at Joliet, Illinois, September 
29, 1869. 

.JOSEPH L. FRESE is the proprietor of the Riverside 
.Coal Yards at Quincy, Illinois, and has been in the retail 
business there for five years. He was born in Quincy March 
21, 1880. 

DR. EDGAR E. FYKE, Centralia, Illinois, is General Man- 
ager of the Marion County Coal Co. He also is Treasurer 
of the Odin Coal Co., Odin, Illinois. He has been in the 
coal business for ten years. He was born December 23, 
1868, at Odin, Illinois. 

MARTIN A. GARRISON, retail coal merchant at Enfield, 
Illinois, has been doing- business for over thirty years. He 
was formerly with the Illinois Coal & Iron Co. He was 
born at Enfield, February 20, 1852. 

DENNIS S. GENT, Marion. Illinois, is Secretary and Treas- 
urer of the Crab Orchard Coal Co. He is also interested 
in the Blackburne Coal Co. and formerly was with Ed- 
wards & Bradford at Sioux Citj', Iowa. He was born at 
Marion, January 28, 1891, 

CHARLES H. GIBBS. Princeton, Illinois, is a salesman 
for Williams & Peters and has been in the coal business 
for twenty years. He was formerly with P. B. Newell & 
Co. and F. N. Pease & Co. He was born in Chenango 
Co-anty, New York, October 9, 1854. He has a wide ac- 
quaintance among- Illinois, Iowa and Western Indiana re- 
tailers. 

JACOB R. GIEBELHAITSEN, President and Manager of 
the Giebelhausen Coal Co., East Peoria, Illinois, has been 
in the retail business for twelve years. He was born in 
Illinois September 3, 1885. 

RUDOLPH GODOWSKY, retail coal merchant at Macomb, 
Illinois, has been in the business for ten years. He was 
born In Russian Poland in 1873, and was six years old on 
his arrival in the United States. 

SAMITEL HENRY GOODALL of Marion, Illinois, is Gen- 
eral Manager of the Economy Coal Co. and for over twenty 
years has been connected with the coal business. For- 
merly he was with the Crab Orchard Coal Co., the Chicago 
& Big Muddy Coal & Coke Co., the Carterville District Coal 
Co., and the Illinois Hocking Washed Coal Co. He was 
born at Marion February 7, 1866. 

J. MARK GRAHAM, retail coal merchant at Kirkwood, Illi- 
nois, has been in the business for eleven years. He was 
born at Biggsville, Illinois, September 6, 1858. 

LYMAN M. GRAHAM, Bloomington, Illinois, is Secretary 
and Treasurer of the McLean County Coal Co. and has 
general supervision of the business. He opened the books 
for the company in 1867 and except for one year and a half 
he has been connected with it ever since, filling every posi- 
tion, from office boy to President. Mr. Graham was born 
in Brown County, Ohio, December 27, 1845. 

G. S. GREER is Buyer and Manager for the coal firm of 
Greer & Vance at Seaton, Illinois. He has been in the busi- 
ness for two years and formerly was with A. L. Duncan & 
Sons. He was born at Seaton July 9, 1893. 

PETER GRIEVE, JR., CoUinsville, Illinois, is District 
Superintendent for the Consolidated Coal Co. and has been 
thirty-three years with his present company. He -was born 
in CoUinsville December 27, 1874. 

G. B. GRIFFIN is senior partner in the firm of G. B. & 
C. M. Griffin, dealers in grain, poultry, "wool and coal at 
Charleston, Illinois. He has been in business twenty-two 
years. 

F. A. GRIMES, Sterling, Illinois, is President and Man- 
ager of the Moses Dillon Co , one of the oldest firms 
in the county in the lumber, coal and grain business. He 
has been connected with the trade for twenty-eight years. 
He was born at Gilman, Illinois, November 26, 1870. 

JOHN GROOM, Belleville, Illinois, is the President of the 
Grooi-n Coal Co. and has been engaged in the business for 
eleven years, having been connected formerly with the Con- 
solidated Coal Co. He was born in Belleville in 1858. 



WILLIAM PECK H.\llBERTON, Mt. Carmel, Illinois, has 
been in the retail coal business for about forty years. He 
was boi-n in New York City March 3, 1S47. 

WILLIAM D. HALL is the proprietor of the W. D. Hall 
lumber and coal business at Harvard, Illinois. He also is 
a member of the firm of Hall «& Eckert at Woodstock, Illi- 
nois. Mr. Hall has been in the business for forty-three 
years. He was born at Walworth, Wisconsin, September 
3, 1850. 

ROBERT L. HALLETT is President and Treasurer of the 
Tri-City Coal Co.. wholesale coal merchants at Rock Island, 
Illinois. He has been connected with the coal business for 
twenty years and formerly was with the following con- 
cerns: New Kentucky Coal Co.. Chicago Fuel Co., Hudson 
Coal Co. and Ender Coal cSr Coke Co. He was born at 
Wyandotte, Kansas, August 11, 1877. 

F. W. MAX HAMMERSCHMIDT, President of the Ham- 
merschmidt & Pranzen Co. at Elmhurst, Illinois, has been 
a retail coal merchant seventeen years. He formerly was 
with the City Fuel & Supply Co. at Wheaton, Illinois. He 
was born at Naperville, Illinois, December 6, 1864. 

AVILLIAM HAMMERSCHMIDT. President and Treasurer of 
the Lombard Brick & Tile Co., Lombard, Illinois, was born 
in Naperville, Illinois, October 10, 1853, has been buying coal 
in the Chicago market over forty years, and has been in the 
coal business for himself since May, 1892. He has served as 
Treasurer of the Illinois and T\^isconsin Retail Dealers' Asso- 
ciation. Mr. Hammerschmidt is a well-known and success- 
ful coal merchant, has been Supervisor of the County in 
which he resides twenty-seven years, and is no-w represented 
in the Service by two sons. 

CHARLES HANAN has been a retail coal merchant for 
nineteen years at Macomb, Illinois. He -was born at White 
Cloud, Kansas, July 28, 1870. 

HENRY PAI:l HANSEN. Oak Park, Illinois, has been in 
the retail coal business nine years. He was born in Ger- 
inany in 1881. 

WILLIAM J. HARRIS is a retail coal merchant who has 
been in the business for about sixteen years at Watseka, 
Illinois, He was born September 12, 1871, at Culver, Indi- 
ana. 

JAMES HADRICK HARSHMAN, Oregon, Illinois, is the 
proprietor of the J. H. Harshman Coal Co. He has been 
in the retail business for five years, formerly -with the In- 
diana Coal Co, and H. D. Haight & Co. He was born in 
Maryland April 25, 1857. 

FRED WILLIAM HELLER is Secretary-Treasurer and 
General Manager of the Jerseyville Ice & Fuel Co. at Jer- 
seyville, Illinois, and has been connected -n^ith the business 
for five years. He was born at Jerseyville, April 1, 1876. 

J. A. HENEHY is Manager for the Plainfield Grain Co. 
at Plainfield, Illinois, which has other yards at Caton 
Farm, Frontenac, Normanto-wn and Wolfs, Illinois. 

E. B. HERSCH of Hersch Bros., Polo, Illinois, was born in 
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, April 29, 1852, and has 
been in the coal business about twenty years. 

A. J. HERSCH of Hersch Bros., Polo, Illinois, -was born in 
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, November 15, 1866, and 
has been in the coal and lumber business since 1893. 

WILLIA3I HERTMAN., Mascoutah, Illinois, is Superin- 
tendent of the Kolb Coal Co. and has been connected with 
the coal industry for over thirty-one years. He formerly 
was ^vith the Southern Coal, Coke & Mining Co. and with 
the Missouri & Illinois Coal Co. He has served as State 
Inspector of Mines for the Ninth Illinois District. He was 
born at Belleville, Illinois, November 18, 1872. 

R. C. HILL, Manager of The Scranton & Big Muddy Coal 
Mining Co. at Marion, Illinois, has been in the business 
sixteen years. He "was formerly -with the Galatia Coal Co. at 
Galatia, Illinois. He was born in Salina County, Illinois, 
June 25, 1875. 

HENRY ANTOXE HILL3IER is Secretary and Treasurer 
of The H. A. Hillmer Co., retail coal merchants at Freeport, 
Illinois. He is Vice President of the Hoefer Coal Co., 
Dixon, Illinois, and formerly -was connected with Smith 
& Porter and H. J. Porter at Freeport. He has been con- 
nected with the coal trade since 1890 and passed practically 
all his life at Freeport. 

-WILLIA3I M. HINMAN, Adair, Illinois, is Manager for the 
Farmers' Elevator & Produce Co. and has been in the coal 
business for nine years. He was born at Chariton, Iowa, 
January 4, 1866. 

JOHN A. HOFFMANN is Manager for Hoffmann Bros., 
retail coal merchants at Wilinette, Illinois. He has been 
in the coal business for twenty-one years. He was born 
January 22, 1865, at Gross Point, Illinois. His partner, 
Philip Hoffmann, was born at Gross Point October 12, 1862. 

A. H. HOLCOMB, Secretary-Treasurer of the Holcomb- 
Dutton Lumber Co. and a partner in Holcomb Bros,, Syca- 
more, Illinois, wa.s born in Sycamore July 7, 1875. 



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S. A. HOL.COMB. Sycamore, Illinois, is partner in the 
firm of Holcomb Bros, and President of the Holcomb-Dut- 
ton Lumber Co., both of Sycamore. He has been in the 
coal business for twenty-six years and formerly was wath 
Shurtleff & Holcomb. He w^as born in Sycamore April 11, 
1867. 

C. O. HOLMHKRG. 223 Highland Avenue, Rockford, Illi- 
nois, is proprietor and Manager of the Highland Lumber & 
Fuel Co. and has been in the business for three years. He 
was born in Sweden April 9, 1873. 

WALTER EARL, HOOTS is General Sales Agent for the 
Macon County Coal Co., Decatur, Illinois, and formerly 
was with the Manufacturers & Consumers Coal Co., as 
Northwestern Sales Agent, with headquarters at Waterloo, 
Iowa. He has been four years in the business. He was 
born at Arthur, Illinois, November 10, 1893. 

JOHN H. HOWARD, Sales Manager of the Decatur Coal 
Co., 620 W. North St., Decatur, Illinois, has been in the coal 
business for fourteen years. He was born at Kenney, 
Illinois, June 7, 1870. 

FRAXK Hl'BEXET, retail coal merchant at Joliet, Illinois, 
has been in the business for twenty-seven years. He was 
with Hunter & Curtis from 1886 to 1890. He is a native of 
Sweden and was born December 30, 1862. 

WILLIAM HLBERS is President of the Rock Island Fuel 
Co. at Rock Island, Illinois, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for thirty-eight years. He was born in Germany 
November 5. 1855. Mr. Hubers is one of the substantial and 
respected members of the coal trade. 

GUY LAiVDOlV HUMPHREYS is Mining Engineer and 
Surveyor for the Toluca Coal Co. of Toluca, Illinois, and is 
doing similar work for other concerns. He has been con- 
nected with the coal business for thirty years, formerly 
with the coal mining department of the Atchison, Topeka & 
Santa Fe Railroad, acting as Chief Engineer for the com- 
pany's coal properties. He was born at Auburn, New York, 
in 1862. 

ELMER F. HUNTER, Chillicothe, Illinois, is General 
Manager for H. & -E. F. Hunter and their affiliated com- 
panies and has been in the coal and lumber business for 
twenty-five years. He has served as a Director of the Illi- 
nois and Wisconsin Retail Coal Dealers' Association. He 
was born at Wheatland, Illinois, November 14, 1861. 

E. M. HUNGERFORD, retail merchant at Loda, Illinois. 
has been in the coal business for over forty years. He 
was born in Ohio in 1848. 

CHARLES W. HUSKINSON, 1125 Easton St., Alton, Illi- 
nois, is Secretary and Treasurer of the Mississippi Valley 
Coal Co. He has been connected with the coal business 
for thirteen-years. He was born at Alton July 29, 1869. 

LEONARD WARD INGHAM of Clinton, Illinois, is Presi- 
dent of the Durham Coal Co., Galatia, Illinois. He was born 
at Waynesville, Illinois, November 25, 1880. Mr. Ingham Is 
an attorney-at-law by profession. 

D. P. J.VCKSON of Sesser, Illinois, is Superintendent of 
the Sesser Coal Co. and has been connected with the coal 
business for twenty-seven years. He was formerly with 
the Livingston Coal Co. He was born February 19, 1875, 
at Alton, Illinois. 

J. H. JAC'OBSEN, Brocton, Illinois, has been in the retail 
coal business there for twenty-three years. He was born 
in Macon County, Illinois, December 19, 1871. 

LOUIS J. JACaUOT.' retail coal merchant at Warsaw, Illi- 
nois, has been in the coal business fourteen years. He for- 
merly was connected with the Warsaw Hay, Grain & Coal 
Co. He was born February 27, 1865, at Warsaw. , 

OTTO JAEGER, proprietor of the Peoples Coal Co. at 
Chicago Heights, Illinois, has been in the business for fif- 
teen years, formerly with the Chicago Heights Coal Co. He 
was born in Germany July 14, 1877. 

MORTIMER M. JAMES, owner of the James Elevator at 
Greenup, Illinois, has been in the coal business for twenty- 
nine years. He was born at Ladoga, Indiana, November 
18, 18G1. 

CHARLES EMMET JETER, a partner in the firm of Jeter 
& Jeter at Piano. Illinois, has been in the coal business for 
nineteen >ears. He w'as born in Roanoke, Illinois, March 3, 
1875. 

MORGAN AV. JENKINS of Washington. Illinois, has been 
engaged in the retail coal business sixteen years. He w^as 
born in Washington November 27, 1861. 

■WILLI.\M H. JENKINS of Danville, Illinois, has been in 
the retail coal business for the last twenty-one years and 
for seventeen years previously he was a coal miner in Ohio, 
Kentucky. Illinois and Missouri. He was born in Wales 
March 15, 1855. 

.VXEI, JOHNSON, Kewanee, Illinois, is the owner of the 
Kewanee Ice & Fuel Co. and has been in the business for 
four years. He was born in Sweden March 5, 1868. 



FRANK E. JOHNSON, owner of the Johnson Fuel Co., 
"Heat Dealers," Galesburg, Illinois, has been in the retail 
business for seventeen years, formerly with James C. 
Simpson & Co. He was born at Galesburg in 1868. 

GEORGE HENRY JOHNSON, President and General 
Manag-er of the Consumers Coal & Ice Co., Peoria, Illinois, 
has been seven years in the business. He was formerly 
with the Maplewood Colliery Co. He was born in Norway 
June 10, 1884. 

VERNER JOHNSON, Rockford, Illinois, is Secretary of 
the Johnson Lumber & Fuel Co. and has been in the busi- 
ness for eighteen years, formerly with the Seventh Street 
Fuel Co. at Rockford. He was born October 25, 1871, in 
Sweden. 

A. C. JOHNSTON, senior partner of the A. C. Johnston 
& Son, has been in the retail coal business for twenty-five 
years at Joliet, Illinois. He was born October 14, 1849. 

L. D. JONES, Secretary of the West Side Coal & Mining 
Co. at Coulterville, Illinois, has been connected with the 
coal industry for twenty-six years, formerly with the 
Coulterville Mining Co. He was born in Coulterville 
February 11, 1869. 

FRANK E. JORGENSEN, Gillespie, Illinois, is Chief Engi- 
neer for the Chicago & Northwestern Railway coal prop- 
erties and has been connected with the business for thir- 
teen years. He was born at West Side, Iowa, September 

29, 1880. He formerly "was Chief Engineer for the Consoli- 
dated Coal Co. at Buxton, Iowa. 

JOHN KALLGREN, President of the Streeter-Kallgren 
Lumber Co. at Grant Park, Illinois, has been in the business 
for twenty-three years. He was born October 2, 1857, in 
Sweden. 

GEORGE F. KA.RBER, Rosiclare, Illinois, has been in the 
retail coal business at Rosiclare for five years. He was born 
at Karber's Ridge, Illinois, August 2, 1882. 

FRED R. KENT is the owner of the business of E. Kent 
& Co. at Clinton, Illinois. He has been in the retail busi- 
ness for over thirty years. Emmett Kent, who died March 

30, 1890, established the business in 1859. Fred R. Kent 
was born at Clinton, September 30, 1862, and is one of the 
well-known coal merchants of the state. 

ROY HARRY KENTFIELD, Master Mechanic at Gilles- 
pie, Illinois, for the Superior Coal Co., has been connected 
with the business for eleven years. He was born at Givin, 
Iowa, November 18, 1887. 

WILLIS D. KILGORE is Manager of the Kilgore Coal Co. 
at Danville, Illinois, and has been connected \vith the 
business since 1902. He was formerly with the Kelly 
Coal Co. and was born at Eugene, Indiana, September 18, 
1880. He is Secretary-Treasurer of the Grape Creek Valley 
Mining Co. 

WILLIAM RICHARD KING is a retail coal merchant at 
Keithsburg, Illinois, who has been in the business for 
twenty-seven years. He was born October 27, 1854, in New 
York City. 

GUSTAF F. KIRCHHOFF, junior partner of Kirchhoff 
Bros, at Hampshire, Illinois, has been connected with the 
coal business for eighteen years. He was born at Leyden, 
Illinois, November 3, 1869. 

HERMAN H. KIRCHHOFF, senior partner in the firm 
of Kirchhoff Bros, at Hampshire, Illinois, has been in the 
coal business since 1886, formerly with C. A. Franzen & 
Co. at Pingree, Illinois. He was born at Leyden, Illinois, 
January 27, 1861. 

CORNWALL E. KIRKPATRICK is Manager of the coal 
business of C. E. Kirkpatrick & Co. at Anna, Illinois, and 
has been in the trade for thirty-six years. He was born at 
Point Pleasant, Ohio, January 10, 1852. 

JOHN.KLASNER, 111 Henry St., Alton, Illinois, is a retail 
coal merchant who has been in the business for sixteen 
years. He was born October 8, 1874, at Alton. 

FRED R. KLUCKHOHN is the proprietor of the Fred R. 
Kluckhohn Coal Co. at Naperville, Illinois, which he took 
over May 31, 1917, as successor to C. J. Keller. Mr. Kluck- 
hohn was born at Reddick, Illinois, November 21, 1891. 

F. KOHL, Centralia. Illinois, is President of the Marlon 
County Coal Co. The coal business is a side line with him, 
but his father was the pioneer in developing the coal 
mining industry in that field. Mr. Kohl was born in Cen- 
tralia in September, 1865, and is in the banking business. 

WILLIAM G. KORRELL, retail coal merchant at Mel- 
rose Park, Illinois, has been engaged in the business for 
nineteen years. He was born at Proviso, Illinois, January 
2, 1872. 

"W. E. KREIDER has been a retail coal merchant at 
Tonica, Illinois, for twenty-six years. He was born at 
Wenona, Illinois, November 9, 1865. 



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■WALTER C. KRIECKHAUS is Superintendent of the Car- 
terville & Big' MuiUly Coal Co. at Herrin. Illinois, with wliich 
he has been connected for two years. He was formerly 
receiver for the Watson Coal Co. He was born in St. Louis, 
Missouri, Seiiteniber 25, 1882. 

TELESl'HORE I.AFO.MJp senior member of the firm of 
T. Lafond & Son, Kankakee, Illinois, has been in the retail 
coal business over twenty years. He was born in Canada, 
April 22, 1847. His son, Sylva Lafond, is the junior mem- 
bei- of the firm. The latter was born December 22, 1874. 

HE^'RY LAXDEAU is the proprietor of a retail coal 
business at Mendota, Illinois, and has been there for over 
twenty-two years. He was born July 28, 1861, in New 
York City. 

CHARLES LOUIS LEITNER. Pekin, Illinois, is President 
of the German Coal Co. and has been in the retail business 
ten years. He was born in Illinois November 29, 1870. 

R. ALFRED LIGHT has been in the retail coal busi- 
ness at Christman, Illinois, for twelve years. He was born 
at Christman in 1874 and is well known in the trade. 

WILLIAM L. LIMAGE, Salesman and Manager for the 
coal firm of Limage Bros, at Hanover, Illinois, has been 
connected with the business for eighteen years. He was 
born at Hanover, August 25, 1866. 

Al'GUST C. LOHMAN'X, Secretary and Treasurer of the 
Abbey Coal Corp. at Collinsville, Illinois, has been in the 
business for eleven years, formerly with the Collinsville Ice 
& Fuel Co. He was born September 22, 1883, in Madison 
County, Illinois. 

FRANCIS A. LOXGXECKERi, retail coal merchant at 
Kinderhook, Illinois, has been in the business for over 
thirty years. He was born at Kinderhook August 6, 1861. 

C. H. LUCAS is a partner in the National Fuel Co. at 
Galesburg, Illinois, and Manager of one of its coal yards. 
He was formerly connected with the Spoon River Coal Co. 
and has been in the business for fifteen years. He was 
born in Illinois in 1872. 

A. J. LUjVDAHL is President of the Lundahl Bros. Fuel 
& Contracting Co., Moline, Illinois, and has been in the 
retail coal business nine years. He was born in Moline April 
14, 1880. 

R. H. LUXDAHL is Secretary of the Lundahl Bros. Fuel 
& Contracting Co., Moline, Illinois. He has been connected 
with the retail trade for nine years. He was born at Mo- 
lino October 31, 1888. 

W^ E. LYON, Carthage, Illinois, is the owner of the busi- 
ness of W. E. Lyon & Co. and has been in the retail trade 
for sixteen years. He was born April 5, 1872, at Burlington, 
Iowa. 

JOHX R. 3IacFARLAND, General Manager of Sales for 
the O'Gara Coal Co., Chicago, Illinois, resides at Wilmette, 
Illinois. He has been engaged in the coal business for 
twenty-five years, formerly with Coxe Bros. & Co. and the 
Weave)' Coal Co. He was born in Chicago June 24, 1874. 

GRAXT MADEX, retail coal merchant at Winchester, 
Illinois, has been in the business for eight years. He was 
born at Oregon, Illinois, February 28, 1865. 

RALPH C. MAXXIXG, retail coal merchant at Warren- 
ville, Illinois, has been in the business for eleven years. 
He was born in Warrenville June 5, 1879. 

C. L. 3IARKEE is proprietor of the Markee Fuel Co. at 
Moline, Illinois, having purchased the Moline Fuel Co. 
February 1, 1917. He has been connected with the coal 
business for sixteen years, formerly with Butzer & Markee 
at Hillsdale, Illinois. He was born at Erie, Illinois, July 
16, 1876. 

ELI MASOX, Athens, Illinois, began his career in the 
coal industry when he was a boy of eleven years in Eng- 
land, where he was born in 1860. He is now General Super- 
intendent for the Athens & Dawson Coal Co., Athens, Illi- 
nois, and was formerly with the following: Citizens Coal 
Co., Sangamon Coal Co., Clear Lake Coal Co. and Wabash 
Coal Co. He says that boys In the mines of England saw 
daylight only once a week, ■when mother called them for 
Sunday dinner. 

JOHX T. MAULE, sole owner of the John T. Maule Coal 
Co., 37 Missouri AVe., East St. Louis, Illinois, has been in 
the coal business thirteen years, formerly with the F. 
Maule Coal Co. nine years. He has served as Secretary 
of the East St. Louis Retail Coal Dealers' Association. He 
was born September 3, 1890, in Belleville, Illinois. He is 
the third generation of the Maule family to be in the coal 
business. 

T. P. MAUTZ, retail coal merchant at Stewardson, Illi- 
nois, has been doing business for thirty years. He ■was 
born in this country in 1860. 

WILLIAM LE-WIS MoCLOUD, retail coal merchant at Shel- 
don, Illinois, has been in the retail trade for seventeen 
years, formerly as a traveling salesman for H. W. Lynch 
of Peoria. He -was born at AVorthington. Ohio, September 
19, 1859. 



■WILLIAM J. McCOV owns a retail coal yard at Thom- 
son, Illinois, and has been in th'e busine&s for fifteen years. 
He was born at Princeton, Iowa, December 18. 1871. 

JAMES McCREDIE, Aurora, Illinois, has been in the coal 
business eighteen years. He was born in Wigtonshire, 
Scotland. October 4. 1859. His son. James David McCredie, 
was born in Earlville, Illinois, January 22, 1892, and formerly 
managed the business at Aurora. He was graduated from 
Cornell University in 1915, and admitted to the bar at 
Chicago, after which he learned the coal business, working 
for his father. He enlisted in the U. S. Navy in May, 
1917, was in training at Newport, R. I., and is now on the 
United States battleship New York in foreign service. Mr. 
McCredie is a 33° Mason and is Deputy Grand Commander 
of the Grand Commandery, Knights Templar, of Illinois. 

JOHX McDERMAID, 212 N. Madison Street, Rockford. Illi- 
nois, is a retail coal merchant who has been doing business 
for twenty-one years. He was born in Scotland in 1842. 

D. C. McDILL, coal merchant at Biggsville. Illinois, has 
been in the business for thirty-four years. Formerly he 
was manager for J. C. McDill, but since 1916 has been in 
business for himself. He was born August 9, 1847, at 
Biggsville. 

LEOXARD IRASOX McFARLIXG, President of the firm 
of McFarling & Sons, Marshall, Illinois, has been in the 
coal business for about two years. He was born in Clark 
County, Illinois, January 12, 1868. 

EDWIX B. MeKOAVX, retail coal merchant at 1401 Second 
Avenue, Rock Island, Illinois, has been in the business for 
twenty-nine years, formerly with E. G. Frazer. He was 
born at Davenport, Iowa, March 17, 1858. 

HARRY MoMAXUS. retail coal merchant at Kinsman, Illi- 
nois, has been in the business for fourteen years. He was 
born at Peoria, Illinois. 

WILLIAM HEXRY MoXEES, Sidell. Illinois, is a retail 
coal merchant who has been in the business fourteen years 
at Hildreth. Illinois. He was born in "V^ermilion County. 
Illinois, July 30. I860. 

H. G. MEIERKORD is Manager of the C. H. Meierkord 
Coal. Wood & Ice Co. at Quincy, Illinois, and has been 
in the retail business for himself for eight years. He was 
born at LaGrange. Missouri. January 27, 1868. 

B. B. METCALF, Manager for E. J. Metcalf, retail coal 
merchant at Normal, Illinois, has been in the business for 
five years. He was born at Normal October 16, 1891. 

HEXRY MEYER has been in the retail coal business for 
three years at Pecatonica. Illinois. Formerly he was for 
fifteen years with "W. J. Bucklin. He was born at Nort- 
moor, Germany, January 24, 1880. 

ED'WARD MICHAELIS, Belleville, Illinois, is President 
of the Pittsburgh Mining Co. and has been connected with 
the coal industry for seventeen years, formerly with the 
Lenz Coal & Mining Co., filling the position of Superintend- 
ent. He ■was born at Belleville in September. 1881. 

XEAL 3IIKESELL, Rock Island. Illinois, is Sales Manager 
for the Rock Island Fuel Co. and has been connected with 
the business for fourteen years. He was born February 19, 
1883. at Troy, Ohio. 

A. JUDSON MILES, retail coal merchant at Mt. Carroll, 
Illinois, has been in the business for seventeen years. He 
was born in Mt. Carroll in 1870. 

ALBERT H. MILLER, 511 Bonnie Brae, River Forest, Illi- 
nois, is Secretary-Treasurer of the Union Coal Co. of Dan- 
bury, Connecticut, and has been interested in the coal busi- 
ness for sixteen years. He was born at Terryville, Connec- 
ticut, January 23. 1864. 

FRED A. MILLER, Manager F. A. Miller Lumber Co., 
Gibson City. 111., 'was born in Germania August 7. 1881, 
and has been retailing coal for three years. 

JOSEPH E. MILLER has for twenty-five years conducted 
his retail coal business at Milledgeville, Illinois. He was 
born in Pennsylvania October 16, 1861. 

RALPH B. MITCHELL, Johnston City, Illinois, is Gen- 
eral Superintendent of the Ernest Coal Co. and of the 
Marion & Pittsburgh Coal Co. He has been connected with 
the coal business for thirteen years and formerly was with 
the Franklin Coal & Coke Co. and the Cambria Coal Co. 
He was born at Plains, Pennsylvania, February 5, 1886. 

GEORGE S. MOXSER is President of the Wenona Coal 
Co. at Wenona, Illinois, and has been in the business for 
thirty-six years. He was born at Wenona October 3, 1866. 
The company was established by his father, Edward L. 
Monser, who sunk the mine about thirty-six years ago. 

WILLIAM E. MOXSER is Vice President of the Wenona 
Coal Co. at Wenona, Illinois, and has been its Secretary 
and Treasurer for twenty-seven years. He has been with the 
same company for t'wenty-nine years. The mine was sunk 
by his father, Edward L. Monser, in 1882. He ■was born in 
Wenona August 1, 1869. 



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CLAUDE LEAVETTK 3IOORE, senior member of the firm 
of C L. & H. C. Moore, retail coal merchants at Kankakee, 
Illinois has been in the business for fourteen years. He 
was born at Kankakee May 21, 1859. Mr. Moore is con- 
sidered an authority on bookkeeping and cost of handling 
coal at retail. 

GILBERT G. MOORE is Manager of the Lone Star Coal 
Co at Carriers Mills, Illinois, and has been in the business 
for six years. He was born in Dubois County, Indiana, 
January 18, 1884. 

DAV'ID J. MORRIS, retail coal merchant at Big Rock, 
Illinois, has been in the business for twenty-six years. He 
was born at Delafield, "Wisconsin. April 27, 1863. 

HOWARD W'. MORRIS, President of the Sharon Coal & 
Brick Co. at Georgetown, Illinois, has been in the business 
for eleven years and is also engaged in selling coal lands. 
He was born at Colonia, Indiana, April 17, 1871. 

FRANK MOSHER, Senior partner in the coal firm of 
Mosher & Embree, DeKalb, Illinois, has been in the retail 
business for about twenty-seven years. He has served as 
President of the Illinois and Wisconsin Retail Coal Dealers' 
Association. He was born in DeKalb County, Illinois, July 
4, 1865, and is well-known in both coal and lumber circles. 

THOMAS MO"\VE is Superintendent of the Peoples Coal 
Co. at Lebanon, Illinois, and has been engaged in the busi- 
ness for eight years. He was born at Birkers Station, Illi- 
nois, April 18, 1879. 

EDAVARD MURPHY, retail coal merchant at Lexington, 
Illinois, has been in the business for twenty-five years. He 
was boin at Lexington October 8, 1860. 

GRANVILLE J. MURPHY of Mound City, Illinois, is one 
of the oldest retail coal merchants in southern Illinois, hav- 
ing been in the business for over thirty years continuously. 
He is President of the Mound City Ice Mfg. & Coal Co., 
which he organized about twenty years ago. He was born 
at New Madrid, Missouri, April 23, 1859. His son, L. A. 
Murphy, was born at Mound City, July 20, 1880, and has 
been associated for twenty years in the business, of which 
he is in active management. 

ELIZABETH W. jVEHRHOOD, 106 Sixth Avenue, Sterling, 
Illinois, is the Owner and Manager of the Peoples Ice & 
Coal Co. Miss Nehrhood has been in the business four years 
and has been very successful. 

FRED D. NELLIS. Secretary and Treasurer of the Fred 
D. Nellis Coal Co., Cairo, Illinois, has been connected with 
the coal business twenty years, formerly as a member of the 
firm of McCarthy & Nellis. He was born in Cairo July 2, 
1876. Mr. Nellis is City Commissioner and County Treasurer 
and has extensive farming interests. 

THOMAS ASHCROFT NICHOLSON is the President and 
General Manager of the Nicholson Bros. Coal Co. at Nash- 
ville, Illinois, and has been in the business for eleven 
years. He was formerly with the Nicholson Mining & Mfg. 
Co. of Henderson, Kentucky. He was born at Philipsburg, 
Pennsylvania, December 25, 1886. 

AUGUST NOVOTNY of LaGrange, Illinois, is the proprie- 
tor of the Spring Valley "Water, Ice & Coal Co. and has been 
in the business for three years. He was born in Bohemia 
August 28, 1873. 

"WESLEY J. OTT, "Walnut, Illinois, has been in the retail 
coal business at "Walnut forty-four years, formerly with 
C. H. Adams & Co. and with Ott & Hockenburj'. He was 
born in Frederick County, Maryland, June 21, 1836. 

CHARLES V. PARKER, President of the Chas. "V. Par- 
ker Co., coal merchants at Harrisburg, Illinois, has been 
in the retail business for eleven years. He was fcorn in 
Hardin County, Illinois, March 23, 1872. 

ROBERT H. PATCH, Manager for the coal firm of Patch 
Bros, at Glen Ellyn, Illinois, has, been connected with the 
business for seven years. He was born at Towanda, Penn- 
sylvania, November 17, 1867. 

J. H. PATTERSON, President of the J. H. Patterson Co., 
Marengo, Illinois, coal merchants, has been engaged in the 
business thirty-two years and his company no'w operates six 
coal yards in Northern Illinois. He was born in Marengo 
May 6, 1860. 

WARREN PEN"\VELL, Secretary-Treasurer of the Penwell 
Coal Mining Co., Pana, Illinois, has been in the coal busi- 
ness for over twenty-eight years. He was born in Pana 
February 6, 1869. 

IIERM.VN C. PERRY. Hillsboro, Illinois, is General Su- 
perintendent of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad coal 
properties and for thirty-two years has been connected with 
the coal business, formerly with Donk Bros. Coal & Coke Co. 
He has been Illinois State President of the United Mine 
Workers of America. He was born at Hunter, Ohio. 



EDGAR THOMAS PETTYS, 507 West Park St., Urbana, 
Illinois, is Commission Salesman for the Sharon Coal & 
Brick Co. and has been connected with the coal business 
for five years. He was formerly with the Moore & Pettys 
Coal Co. He was born in Iroquois County, Illinois, Sep- 
tember 4, 1855. 

FRED S. PFAHLE, Belleville, Illinois, is General Su- 
perintendent of the Southern Coal, Coke & Mining Co. and 
has been connected with the industry for thirteen years. 
He has served as First "Vice President of the Illinois Min- 
ing Institute. He was born August 18, 1883, at North Mc- 
Gregor, Iowa. 

CHARLES A. PIERCE, owner of the business of the C. 
A. Pierce Lumber Co. at Le Roy, Illinois, has been con- 
nected with the business for eighteen years. He was born 
at West Port, Ne^v York, January 14, 1868. 

JOSEPH C. PIERCE has been a retail coal merchant at 
Malta, Illinois, for twenty-nine years. He was born April 
23, 1844, at Grahamsville, New York. 

JOHN LOUIS PIPE, Quincy, Illinois, is a retail coal mer- 
chant who has been connected vv^ith the business for twenty- 
seven years. He formerly was with E. W. Trowbridge at 
Quincy and with the Wabash Coal Co. for eleven and six 
years respectively. He was born at St. Louis, Missouri, 
August 18, 1877. 

ROBERT POGUE is senior partner in the Pogue Lumber 
Co. at Paw Pa\v, Illinois, which company has a retail yard at 
Waterman, Illinois. He has been in the business thirty-four 
years, formerly with M. J. Pogue & Sons and with Pogue 
Bros. Lumber Co. He was born in Oswego, Illinois. Janu- 
ary 9. 1862. 

CHARLES POINTON, 1028 North Richland St., Belleville, 
Illinois, is Secretary and Sales Agent for the New National 
Coal & Mining Co. and has been in the business for six 
years. He ■was born in Belleville July 12, 1884. 

J. V. PRICE, coal merchant at Casey, Illinois, has been 
in the business for thirty-one years, and formerly was con- 
nected with the firm of Sanford Price & Co. He was born 
in Licking County, Ohio. 

LEE W. RAILSBACK is Manager of the coal firm of Rails- 
back Bros, at Weldon, Illinois. He has been identified with 
the business for fifteen years and formerly was with B. T. 
Railsback Sons. He w^as born at Hopedale, Illinois, August 
13, 1879. 

ROY J. RAILSBACK, Hopedale, Illinois, has been in the 
retail coal business all his life and is the President and 
Manager of B. T. Railsback Sons at Hopedale. He vv^as 
born at Hopedale, December 1, 1877. 

"WILLIAM S. RANKIN, retail coal merchant at Windsor, 
Illinois, has been in the I'etail trade for twenty years. He 
was born at Windsor in 1866. 

D. EUGENE RAYMOND, Dixon, Illinois, is Manager of 
the business of D. B. Raymond & Son, and has been in the 
coal trade since October, 1903. He was born at Tecumseh, 
Michigan, in July, 1861. D. B. Raymond, senior member 
of the firm, died at the age of eighty-two in October, 1915. 

AVILLIA3I REEB, Belleville. Illinois, is Secretary and 
Treasurer of the Lattmann-Reeb Coal Co. and has like- 
wise been interested in the Reeb Coal Co., which was re- 
cently sold to the Radium Coal Co. Mr. Reeb has been in 
the coal business for over thirty years. He was born at 
Belleville August 15, 1865. 

CLAUS F. REIMERS is senior partner of the Reimers 
Feed & Coal Co. at 2231 B St., Granite City, Illinois, and has 
been in the business for five years. He was born in 
Germany, March 7, 1855. 

HENRY "VV. REIMERS is a junior partner of the Reimers 
Feed & Coal Co. at Granite City, Illinois, and has been 
connected with the business for five years. He -n-as born at 
Watertown. North Dakota, October 26, 1888. 

WILLIA3I REIN"WALD, retail coal merchant at Carmi, 
Illinois, has been engaged in the business for nine years. 
He was born at Burnt Prairie, Illinois, October 27, 1861. 

C. "W. RENNER, owner of Renner's coal yard at Mt. 
Pulaski, Illinois, has been three years in the business. He 
was born at Mt. Pulaski in 1877. 

EUGENE E. RESLER, Manager of the Heaton Farmers' 
Grain Co. at Hoopeston, Illinois, has been in the business 
for three years. He was born at Odin, Illinois, March 4, 
1886. 

FREDERICK W. REtiTER is executive head of the coal 
firm of Hazen & Renter at Dewey, Illinois, and has been 
in the business for eight years. He was born in Germany 
March 21, 1889. 

O. H. RHODES, Vienna, Illinois, is a inember of the firm 
of Rhodes & Son and has been engaged in the retail coal 
business for thirteen years. He was born January 19, 1862, 
at Wabash, Indiana. 



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H. CLAIR Itl.V'GLB is Manager for William Ringle & Co., 
coal merchants at Cambridge, Illinois. He has been in the 
business for eleven years. He was born in Cambridge, July 
3, 1883. 

BEN D. ROBERT.S, 324 Sumner Street, Streator, Illinois, 
is Vice President and General Manager of the Heenanville 
Coal Co. Formerly he was connected with the following: 
Starr Coal Co., Oglesby Coal Co., Virden Coal Co., and 
has served as State Inspector of Mines in Illinois. He was 
born in Wales in 1858. 

F. H. ROCKAVELL, Rock Island, Illinois, is President of 
the Rockwell Ice & Fuel Co. and has been in the business 
nine years. He was born in Geneseo, Illinois. 

HERMAN J. ROHR, Alexis, Illinois, is the owner and 
Manager of Rohr's coal mine and has been in the business 
since 1899. He was a member of the firm of Cook & Rohr 
from that year until 1906, when Mr. Cook retired. Mr. 
Rohr was born in Germany February 8, 1863. 

RALPH A. ROLLiO, Murphysboro, Illinois, is a civil engi- 
neer for the Sunnyside Coal Co. and other concerns. He 
has been connected with the coal industry for ten years. 
He was born at Streator, Illinois, September 21, 1882. 

CLYDE P. ROSS, Kenilworth, Illinois, is Contracting Man- 
ager connected with the Roberts & Schaefer Co. of Chicago. 
He was born at Rockford, Illinois, December 3, 1882. 

HORACE B. ROWE, SR., Kenney, Illinois, is President 
of the Kenney Elevator Co. He has been in the grain busi- 
ness for twenty-five years and in the coal business for 
seven years. He was born at New Haven, Connecticut, in 
18152. 

HORACE B. ROWE, JR., is Manager of the Kenney Ele- 
vator Co. at Kenney, Illinois, and has been in the coal 
business for twelve years. He formerly was with the 
Hartsburg Grain, Coal & Lumber Co. and the Colfax Grain 
Co. Pie was born at New^ Haven, Connecticut, September 10, 
1878. 

CHARLES ROWLAND, Belleville, Illinois, is Mine Boss 
for the Oakdale Coal & Mining Co. and has been engaged 
in the coal mining industry for fifty-six years, starting in 
England, where he was born June 14, 1846. Formerly he 
^vas Mine Manager at the Walnut Valley mine. He also 
served three years as Mine Inspector. 

CARROLL A. RL'CKEL is the Owner and Manager of the 
retail coal business of A. D. Ruckel & Son at White Hall, 
Illinois, and he has been in business sixteen years. He was 
born at White Hall April 9, 1872. The business was estab- 
lished about the year 1900 by A. D. Ruckel, his father, who 
died June 7, 1911. 

ERNST RLEHL has been engaged in the retail coal 
business for thirty-eight years, during the past twelve years 
at Chatsworth, Illinois. He formerly was connected with the 
following concerns: E. Ruehl & Co., Storm Lake, Iowa; 
Crocker Elevator Co., Decatur, Illinois; Shellabarger Eleva- 
tor Co., Decatur, Illinois, and the Maroa Lumber Co., Maroa, 
Illinois. He was born in Decatur, Illinois, September 9, 1863. 

WILLIAM H. RUSSELL, retail coal merchant at Gillespie, 
Illinois, has been in the business for eleven years. He was 
torn in Iowa. 

C. H. RLSSITM, a coal merchant at Heyworth, Illinois, 
has been in the retail business for five years and was at 
one time a member of the firm of Casey & Russum. He 
was born in DeWitt County, Illinois, September 28, 1873. 

\sr. J. SACKMAN, Waukegan, Illinois, is Secretary-Treas- 
urer of the North Chicago Lumber & Coal Co. and has 
been engaged in the business for twelve years. He w^as 
born in Waukegan December 7, 1874. 

CASPER F. SALM is Sales Manager for the Jones & 
Adams Coal Co., 1028 Jefferson Building, Peoria, Illinois, and 
has been in the business for eight years. He -was born at 
Peoria, March 3, 1889. He has many friends in the trade. 

WILLIAM M. SANPORD, Freeport, Illinois, is senior 
member of the Sanford & Zartman Lumber Co. and is in 
charge of the fuel department. He has been in the busi- 
ness for twenty-three years, part of the time with the Taylor 
Coal Co. He has served as President of the Illinois and 
Wisconsin Retail Coal Dealers' Association for two terms 
and has been a member of the Board of Directors for three 
years. He was born at Y/atertown, Wisconsin, April 
17, 1868. 

ALBERT H. SCHAEFER, retail coal merchant at Marine, 
Illinois, has been in business for seven years. He was 
born at Marine in 1867. 

FRED T. SCHERER, Ottawa, Illinois, is the owner of 
the retail coal business which he has been engaged in for 
twenty-eight years. Formerly he was President of the La- 
Salle County Coal Bureau. He was born at Ottawa in 
August, 1865. His son, Fred Scherer, Jr., has managed the 
■office for six years. 



BRUNO SCHETTLER, General Manager of the Benton 
Coal Co. at Benton, Illinois, has been in the coal business 
for twenty-seven years. He was formerly connected with 
the Peabody Coal Co., the Jones & Adams Coal Co., and 
the Illinois Collieries Co. He was born in Sa.xony, Ger- 
many, March 25, 1877. 

EILERT W. SCHMIDT, retail coal merchant at 113 Henry 
St., Alton, Illinois, has been identified witli the business 
for eleven years, having formerly been connected with the 
Dorsey Fuel Co. He was born July 27, 1847, in Germany. 

W. E. SCOTT has for eight years been a retail coal 
merchant at Denver, Illinois. He was born at Denver July 
3, 1878. 

HER3IAN L. SEEKAMP, Chief Electrician for the Superior 
Coal Co., at Gillespie, Illinois, has been connected with the 
business for fifteen years. Formerly he was with the 
Madison Coal Corp., the Staunton Mt. Olive Coal Co. and the 
Black Diamond Coal Co. He was born at Alton, Illinois, May 
26, 1876. 

LOUIS \V. SENSENEY of Auburn, Illinois, is President 
of The Auburn & Alton Coal Co. and also President of the 
Niantic Mining Co. He has been engaged in the coal indus- 
try for over twenty years. He was born at Bloomington, 
Illinois, May 31, 1869. 

CLAUDE H. SEY'aiOUR is head of the coal firm of C. H. 
Seymour, 110 Douglas Ave., Elgin, Illinois, and has been 
engaged in the retail business for nine years. He was 
born at Fredonia, Kansas, May 25, 1882. Mrs. W. H. Sey- 
mour, widow of W. H. Seymour, who for twelve years was 
in the retail coal business at Elgin, is a partner in the firm. 

J. M. SEY3IOUR, Benton, Illinois, is President of the 
Franklin County Mining Co. Mr. Seymour was a pioneer in 
the development of coal mines in Franklin County, Illinois, 
and has opened up and equipped five large mines in this 
field since 1903. The following are the mines and the com- 
panies with which he has been connected: Dering Coal Co., 
No. 11, at West Frankfort, Illinois; Benton Coal Co., Hart- 
Williams Coal Co., Middle Fork Mining Co., now owned by 
the United States Fuel Co., and the Franklin County Mining 
Co., mines all near Benton, Illinois. He was born at Knob- 
noster, Missouri, October 21, 1869. 

GLENN A. SHAFER is Superintendent of the Pana Coal 
Co. at Pana, Illinois, and has been connected with the coal 
business for eleven years. He has been Mining Engineer 
with the following companies: Centralia Coal Co. at Cen- 
tralia. Bell & Zoller Mining Co. at Zeigler, Moweaqua Coal 
Mining Co. at Moweaqua, and Assumption Coal & Mining Co. 
at Assumption, all of Illinois. Mr. Shafer was born in As- 
sumption September 23, 1888. 

SILAS AMBROSE SHAFER, Assumption, Illinois, is Presi- 
dent and General Manager of the Assumption Coal & Min- 
ing Co., Inc., and holds similar positions with the Pana 
Coal Co. of Pana, Illinois, and the Moweaqua Coal Mining 
& Manufacturing Co. of Moweaqua, Illinois. Mr. Shafer has 
attended every convention of the coal miners and operators 
in Illinois and took a leading part on the side of the opera- 
tors In settling the strike in September, 1906. He has 
been identified with the coal industry for over thirty years. 
He was born near Lancaster, Ohio, November 7, 1851. He 
has been a member of the Executive Board of the Illinois 
Coal Operators' Association since its organization, repre- 
senting the Fourth District. 

AVILLI.Y3I F. SHAMBO, Aurora, Illinois, has filled the posi- 
tion of Manager of the Fox River Supply Co. ten years, hav- 
ing previously held the office of Treasurer four years. He is 
a Director of the Illinois and Wisconsin Retail Coal Dealers' 
Association and President of the Kane County Fuel Mer- 
chants' Bureau. Mr. Shambo was born in Aurora September 
25, 1862. 

E. L. SHAVER is a member of the firm of Putnam & 
Shaver, coal merchants at Martinton, Illinois, and has been 
in the business for four years. He was born in Illinois 
August 13, 1886. 

CHARLES SHELBY' has been in business for about fifteen 
years as a retail coal merchant at Paxton, Illinois. He was 
born in Plattsville, Ontario, September 17, 1864. 

GEORGE E. SHOEMAKER of the Shoemaker-Place Fuel 
Co., at Freeport, Illinois, has been for about two years in 
the retail business, prior to which he ■was engaged in coal 
mining, owning a half interest in one mine. He was born 
in Pennsylvania in 1855. 

CHARLES H. SIMONDS is the sole owner of the Simonds 
Coal & Ice Co. at Momence, Illinois, and has been ten years 
in the business. He was born in Momence. 

ROY' C. SIMPSON, North Chillicothe, Illinois, was born in 
Milton, Iowa, January 12, 1889, and has been in the coal 
business three years. 

ALBERT FRANCIS SMITH, Carbondale, Illinois, Is Man- 
ager and principal shareholder in the firm of A. F. Smith 
& Co. He has been in the retail coal business for eleven 
years. He was born at Houston, Missouri, November 21, 
1873. 



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KARL SMITH, retail coal merchant at Virginia, Illinois, 
has been in the business for thirteen years, formerly with 
his father. He was born February 24, 1881, at Jacksonville, 
Illinois. 

J AV SMITH is Manager of the Hebron Lumber Co., 
Hebron Illinois, which is a branch of the Tibbetts-Cam- 
eron Lumber Co. of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He has been 
connected with the business for fourteen years. He was 
born at Hebron February 11, 1879. 

JOSEPH C. SNYDER has been a retail coal merchant at 
Fulton. Illinois, since 1881. He was born in Fulton November 
11, 1857. 

MICH.-VEI., SP-'VRKS, retail coal merchant at St. Francis- 
ville, Illinois, has been in the business for seven years and 
is forty-six years old. He was born in Illinois. 

EDWARD H. ST.ASSEN is Manager and partner in the 
coal business of D. Stassen & Son at Peotone, Illinois, 
which was established in 1881. He became a member of the 
firm in 1902. He was born at Peotone May 28, 1872. D. 
Stassen, founder of the business, passed away December 
16, 1916. 

JVMES STAA'IVERS STEELE is Mine Superintendent for 
the St Paul Coal Co. at Granville, Illinois. He has been 
in the coal mining industry for about forty-three years 
and formerly was connected with the Spring Valley Coal 
Co. at Spring Valley, Illinois. He was born at Boness, 
Scotland, January 3, 1866. 

AL'Gl'ST STEINER of the coal firm of Aug. Steiner & 
Son Homewood, Illinois, has been in the retail coal busi- 
ness between thirty and thirty-five years, formerly with 
Otto H. Hedrich & Co. and the Mitchell & Dillon Coal Co- 
Chicago. He has the honor of being Homewood's first retail 
coal merchant. He was born April 15, 1832, in Germany. 

ALBERT F. STEVENS has been the Owner, and Manager 
of a retail coal business at Sandwich, Illinois, for nine years. 
He has been connected with the coal trade for twenty-one 
years, twelve years with the Alexander Lumber Co. and E. 
boan and the last nine years for himself. He was born at 
Clinton. "Wisconsin, August 24, 1866. 

ALLISTER KNOX STEAV.VRT, JR., 1113 Troy Road, Ed- 
wardsville, Illinois, Northern Division Engineer for the 
Madison Coal Corp.. was born December 1, 1887, in Wash- 
ington. Missouri. Previous to his present position he was 
Mining Engineer six years for the Willis Coal & Mining Co. 

HENRY WYLIE STEWART, Monmouth, Illinois, is Treas- 
urer of the Silver Creek Colliery Co. and has been in the 
business for six years. He was born at Bloomington, Indi- 
ana, August 29, 1882. W. W. McCullough is Vice President 
and General Manager of this company. 

■\\aLLI.4.M AUGUSTUS STOECKLE owns his retail coal 
business at Sterling, Illinois, where he has been in business 
ten years. He was born in Sterling October 6, 1868. 

GEORGE W. STOUT of Jacksonville, Illinois, has been 
in the retail coal business for twenty-two years. He was 
born near Jacksonville February 23, 1858. 

DONALD STUART STRATTON, 947 South Boulevard, Oak 
Park, Illinois, is Manager of the local division of the Con- 
sumers Co. of Chicago, with offices at 103 Marion St., Oak 
Park. He has been connected with the coal business for 
ten years. He was formerly Secretary of Delos Hull & 
Co., Oak Park. He was born at Conotton, Ohio, January 
9, 1877. 

ELROY C. STREETER, Secretary and Treasurer Streeter- 
Kallgren Lumber Co., Grant Park, Illinois, has been in the 
business sixteen years. He was born at Grant Park June 
7. 1862. 

EDAV.\RD SUPPIGER is Secretary and 'treasurer of the 
Helvetia Fuel & Supply Co. at Highland, Illinois, and has 
been connected with the business for eight years. He was 
born at Highland January 12, 1872. 

I,OX'IS EDWARD SUTTON, Canton, Illinois, is Manager 
for the coal firm of Sutton & Moore. Formerly he was with 
the firm of J. L. Sutton & Son and has been in the business 
for twenty-one years. He was born at Canton February 
12, 1875. 

WILLI.\M SWORDS, Director of the Crescent Coal Co., 
1100 W. Washington St., East Peoria. Illinois, has been 
connected with the business for ten years and is engaged 
in handling stripped coal. He was born in Peoria Febru- 
ary 8, 1881. 

BENJAMIN B. TAYLOR, Catlln, Illinois, is President and 
Manager of the Taylor-English Coal Co. and President of the 
Indiana Semi-Block Coal Co., the Danville Collieries Coal Co., 
and the Chicago Collieries Co. He has been connected with 
the business eleven years. He was born in Catlin January 4, 
1878. 

BENTLEY W. TAYLOR is President of the Farmers 
Grain, Fuel & Supply Co. at Macomb, Illinois, and has been 
connected with the business for two years. He was born 
at Oxford, Pennsylvania. 



FRANK B. TAYLOR is an Electrical Engineer for The 
Assumption Coal & Mining Co., at Assumption, Illinois, and 
has been connected with the business for fifteen years. 
He was born at Mason City, Illinois, November 25, 1873. 

HEBER L. TIBBITS is President and Manager of Tibbits, 
Inc., retail lumber and coal merchants at Sycamore, Illinois, 
and has been in the business fourteen years. Formerly he 
was with the Tibbits-Cameron Lumber Co. at Milwaukee, 
Wisconsin. He was born at Andover, New Brunswick, June 
3, 1872. 

■WALTER B. TIFFANY, Cerro Gordo, Illinois, is Manager 
of the Cerro Gordo Grain & Coal Co. and has been in the re- 
tail coal business twelve years. He formerly was with the 
Farmers' Elevator Co. at Oneida, Illinois. He was born in 
Livingston County, Illinois, June 2, 1862. 

MARIEN F. TOBERMAN, Manager of the M. P. Tober- 
man Grain Co., Fillmore, Illinois, has done a retail business 
for thirty years. He was born at Fillmore July 15, 1861. 

BEN. I. TOBIAS, Manager of the H. A. Robinson Fuel 
Co., 601 South Water Street, Peoria, Illinois, has been in 
the coal business for nine years. He was born at Peoria, 
June 24, 1891. 

FRANK L. TORRANCE, retail coal merchant at Abingdon, 
Illinois, has been in the business twenty-six years. He w^as 
born in Warren County, Illinois, August 29, 1869. 

F. M, TYLER, retail coal merchant at Elmwood, Illinois, 
has been engaged in the business for thirteen years. He 
was born May 8, 1852. 

EARLE W. VANCE is a member of the coal firm of Greer 
& Vance at Seaton, Illinois, and has been in the business 
for two years. He was formerly with A. L. Duncan & 
Sons. He was born at Seaton May 26, 1886. 

HERBERT J. VOS is the Secretary and Manager of the 
Antioch Lumber & Coal Co. at Antioch, Illinois. He was 
formerly Manager for the Wilbur Lumber Co. in the yard 
at Silver Lake, Wisconsin, and has been in the business nine 
years. He was born in Burlington, Wisconsin, March 1, 1892. 
JOSEPH R. WACiNER, retail coal merchant at Metamora, 
Illinois, has been in the business for sixteen years. He 
was born in 1867 at Spring Bay, Illinois. 

RUFUS WALKER of Rufus Walker & Sons, Moline, 
Illinois, has been in the retail business twenty-nine years. 
He W'as born December 10, 1839, in Williamstown, Vermont. 
His son, F. B. Walker, has been connected with the business 
during most of the time since it was established. He "was 
born in Edgington, Illinois. November 27, 1865. 

DANIEL WARD, Secretary of Harrison, Ward & Co., 
Clinton, Illinois, has been in the coal business for three 
years. He was born at Bloomington, Illinois, September 
28, 1859. J. A. Harrison, President of the company, has 
been in the business for many years. 

ROBERT RUSSELL WARD, Benton, Illinois, is Treasurer 
of the Franklin County Mining Co.; is interested likewise 
in the Benton Coal Co., of which he formerly was the Sec- 
retary; and also assisted in the development of the Middle 
Fork Mining Co., which he sold to the United States Steel 
Corporation. He was born at Benton August 9, 1879. 

W^. ALFRED WEEKS is managing partner of The Weeks 
Coal Co. at Sterling, Illinois, and has been in business fifteen 
years. Formerly he was with the Moses Dillon Co. He was 
born in Lee, Illinois, July 10, 1884. 

P. E. WTEISSENBORN of Staunton, Illinois, has been in 
the coal industry for forty-eight years and is the Super- 
intendent for the Consolidated Coal Co. of St. Louis. He 
was born at Belleville, Illinois, in 1860. 

JOHN WICKLUND is Manager of the Plow City Fuel Co., 
253 Second St., Moline, Illinois, and has been connected 
with the business for three years. He formerly was with 
the Twin City Coal Co. for ten years as Manager and book- 
keeper. He was born in Sweden March 26, 1877. 

D. D. WILCOX, Gillespie, Illinois, is Assistant Superin- 
tendent of the Superior Coal Co. and has been connected 
with the business for fifteen years. He formerly was with 
the Consolidated Coal Co. at Buxton, Iowa. He is Vice 
President of the Illinois Mining Institute. He w^as born 
at Oskaloosa, Iowa, July 12, 1886. 

S. E. W'lLKINSON, Secretary of the Kankakee Ice, Feed & 
Fuel Co. at Kankakee, Illinois, has been in the business 
for eight years. He was born May 22, 1886, at Sheldon, Illi- 
nois. 

W. M. WILLETT, 36 Lincoln Way, Aurora. Illinois, is 
General Manager of the Illinois Commercial & Mining Co., 
whose business is primarily gas and coke ovens, the latter 
being located at Joliet, Illinois. The company purchased 
the Rex mine at Ethel, West Virginia, in order to furnish 
coal for the manufacture of coke. 

BENJAMIN S. WILLIAMS is a retail coal merchant at 
Sheffield, Illinois, who has been in the business for twenty- 
six years, formerly with B. F. Williams & Son and B. S. 
Williams & Co. He was born at Sheffield in April, 1867. 



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FREDERICK AVILMS of Quincy. Illinois, is President of 
the Wabash Coal Co.. which was organized by him in 1880 
and of which he has served as President and General Man- 
agrer ever since. He has been connected with the coal in- 
dustry for forty-seven years, and formerly was Cashier of 
the Western Coal & Mining Co. at Springfield. Illinois, be- 
coming- the Mana.srer in 1S75. He was l)orn in Prussia, 
October 25. 1842, and raised in Illinois. 

AV. S. AVILSOX. President of the Ritchey Coal Co. at 
Plnckneyville, Illinois, is also interested in the Bessemer 
Coal & Mining- Co. and has been in the business for over 
twenty years. He was fornierl.v Vice President of the Scott- 
Wilson Coal Co. and the New Ohio Washed Coal Co. and has 
been President of the White Walnut Coal Co., the Carter- 
Tille Mining: Co. and the Bessemer Coal Co. He has served 
on the Executive Committee of the Illinois Coal Operators' 
Association and President of the Coal Operators of the 
Seventh Illinois District. He was born at Brandenburg-, 
Kentucky, October 26, 1852. 

JOHX AV. -WIXE, retail coal merchant at Mount Morris, 
Illinois, has been in the business for sixteen years. He 
\\as formerly with the Buser Concrete & Construction Co. 
He was born in North Hampton, Ohio. December 27, 1873. 

RICHARD B. AVIXX is Owner and Manager of the Peoples 
Coal Yard at White Hall, Illinois, and has been in the busi- 
ness for six years. He was born December 8, 1843, in 
Greene County, Illinois. 

AV. C. AVOLF, 24 First National Bank Building, Belleville. 
Illinois, is Secretary and Treasurer of the Radium Coal 
Co. and is an expert in general mining engineering and 
surveying. He has been in the coal mining business for 
ten years. He was born at Freeburg, Illinois, December 17, 
1880." 

BEDER "WOOD, JR., is Manager of the Beder Wood's 
Sons Co. at Moline, Illinois, and has been connected with 
the coal business nine years, formerly with Beder Wood. 
He was born at Moline September 8, 1889. 

AVILL.IAM HEXRY W'OODRrFF is a partner in the 
Woodruff-Castle Co., wholesale and retail coal merchants at 
Quincy, Illinois. He has been in the business for sixteen 
years. He was born at Quincy and is one of the progressive 
coal merchants in that city. 

HAROLD D. WRIGHT, Sales Agent in charge of the Lin- 
coln, Illinois, office of the Jones & Adams Coal Co. until he 
entered the United States service in May, 1918, has been 
connected with the business for nine years, formerly ^vith 
the Latham Coal Co. He was born at Lincoln in 1891. 



R. M. AVRIGLEY, Secretary and Treasurer of the Cutter- 
Wrigle.v Coal Co. at Peoria, Illinois, has been in the busi- 
ness for seven years. He formerly was connected with 
Sprague & Wrigley, Columbus Junction, Iowa. He has 
served as chairman of a special committee to supervise the 
coal industry for Peoria and confer with the Fuel Adminis- 
tration. He \vas born in Peoria February 17, 1885. 

WILLIAM AVYKLE of Mahomet, Illinois, has been en- 
gaged in the retail coal business for twenty-seven years 
at Mahomet. He was born July 28, 18G3. at Peoria. Illinois. 

C. H. WTk'XNE is Manager of the Goodell Ice & Fuel Co. 
at Beardstown, Illinois, and has been in the coal business 
for nine years. He was born at Columbus, Ohio, April 21, 

1874. 

LEONARD B. YEAST has been in the retail coal busi- 
ness at Macomb, Illinois, for nine years. He was born 
November 12, 1879, at Good Hope, Illinois. 

J. EDWARD YOCH, President International Coal & Min- 
ing- Co.. East St. Louis, Illinois, was born in Belleville, 
Illinois, March 12, 1882, and has been in the coal business 
eighteen years. Mr. Yoch filled most acceptably the posi- 
tion of Treasurer of the Fifth and Ninth Districts, Coal 
Operators' Association of Illinois, from 1910 to 1916. 

C. E. AXD C. L. YORK are members of the retail coal 
firm of York Bros, at Jacksonville, Illinois. They have 
been in the business for eighteen years, formerly with J. 
W. York. Both -were born in Jacksonville. 

HIRAM M. YOUIVG, Taylorville, Illinois, is Assistant to 
the Vice President of the Peabody Coal Co., in charge of 
operation. He has been in the coal industry for thirty- 
two years. He formerly was with the Girard Coal Co. as 
Secretary and Treasurer; Victor Coal Co, Pawnee. Illinois, 
as Superintendent; Bear Grass Coal Co. of Jew-ett, Texas, 
as Treasurer: Peabody Coal Co. of Ohio, as Vice President. 
He was born at Mount Joy, Pennsylvania, October 31, 1868. 

EDWARD A. ZEISLER, Rushville, Illinois, is Manager 
and Secretary of the C. L. DeWitt Coal Co., in which he 
owns a half interest. He has been in the business for two 
years. He was born at Jlemphis, Tennessee, January 24, 
1887. 

SAMUEL THEODORE ZELLER, member of the coal firm 
of Zeller & Son at Geneva, Illinois, has been in the retail 
business for four years. He was born at Lewisburg-, Ohio, 

April 16, 1884. 



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INDIANA 



INDIANA, both as a producer and consumer of fuel, 
takes high rank among the eastern North Central 
states in the coal trade history of the country. A 
producer early in the last century, the development of 
its mining resources has encouraged a healthy growth 
of its manufacturing enterprises until today the state is 
dotted with cities that have made places for them- 
selves in the commercial annals of the times. While 
the events of the past two and one-half years have 
widened the market for domestic consumption for In- 
diana coal within its own borders, its use in railroad 
and general industrial activities has been its chief con- 
tribution to the economic expansion of the state. 

The Indiana coal measures, underlying the south- 
western part of the commonwealth and extending from 
Warren county on the north to the Ohio river on the 
south and eastward to Perry county, form the eastern 
edge of the great interior eastern coal basin of Illinois, 
Indiana and western Kentucky. The total area of the 
Indiana beds is estimated at 6,500 square miles and is 
distributed through 26 counties, in 18 of which coal 
is produced upon a commercial scale. According to 
G. H. Ashley, of the United States Geological Survey, 
the Indiana measures have an approximate thickness 
of 1,300 feet. "Of this 1,300 feet there are 600 feet of 
barren beds at the top, then a 500-foot interval which 
contains most of the workable coals, followed in de- 
scending order by 200 feet or more of rocks consisting 
mainly of sandstone." 

As a general commercial proposition, the third, 
fourth, fifth and sixth vein coals come into the great- 
est present-day prominence. Fourth vein, which has 
been exploited to a great extent in the Clinton district, 
is in high favor, not only for general domestic and 
steam purposes, but as a gas coal. Brazil block has 
long held a special place in the esteem of coal con- 
sumers, particularly in agricultural communities, 
while the many uses — both steam and domestic — to 
which the other coals forming the major workable de- 
posits in tbe Indiana coal measures are put are very 
well known to the buying public. Cannel coal is also 
mined in several places in Indiana. 

While coal has been found in at least 20 different 
horizons and as many as 17 beds have been passed 
through in one 800-foot vertical drill, exclusive of 



the Minshall and Brazil Block veins, commercial op- 
erations are confined to five horizons. The stratigraphy 
of the Indiana measures may be graphically illustrated 
by the following condensation of a tabulation appearing 
in Bulletin 381 of the Survey: 

INTERVALS AND THICKNESS, IN FEET, OF PRINCIPAL 
COALS. 



Coal VII 4% 

Space 55 

Coal VI 

Space 50 

Coal Va 1.5 



Clinton Vigo 
District. County. 



Space 

Coal V 

Space 

CoallVa 

Space 

Coal IV 

Space 

Coal Ilia 

Space 

Coal III 

Space 

Minshall . . . . 

Space 

Upper Block. 

Space 

Lower Block. 



20 

6 
60 

1 
30 

4 
45 

2 

40 
6 



5 
50 

50 
1.5 
35 
5 
60 
2 
35 
4 
30-40 
1.5-2.5 
25-40 
6.5-7 
110* 
4* 
30* 
3* 
30* 
4* 



West 

Terre 

Haute. 

5 
50 


45 

1 
30 

5 
63 

2 
45 

5 
30 

2 
25 

6 



Sullivan Northern 



Countj'. 

3-4 

30-55 

4.5-7 

45 

2-3 
30-35 

5-6 
65-85 
1.5-3 
25-45 

0-5 

30-45 

1 

20-25 

5-7 



Knox. 

3 

40 

5.5 

50 

3 
30 

7 
75 

1 
25 

4 



*Northeastern Vigo County. 
Wash- 
ington- Central 

Davies Gibson AVarwick Evans- Western 

Counties. County. County. ville. Kentucky 

Coal VII 3.5 2.5-3 3 2-7 

Space 15 .5-10 . 15 3-40 

Coal VI 0-4.5 0-3 0-9 

Space '. .. 80 65-90 60 SO 

Coal Va 2 0-1 0-1 

Space 35 50 25 25 ' 25 

Coal V 4-7 6 4-9 4 5 

Space 90 90 45-50 45 

Coal IVa 1.5 0-1 .5-1 ■ 

Space 35 20 45 40 

Coal IV 1 4 2.5 3 

Space 40 . . 40* 

Coal Illa 1.5 .. 0* 

Space 40 . . 35* 

Coal III 2 .. 0-3* 



*Central Warwick County. 

The coal resources of the state first began to attract 
attention about 1804, when the public land surveys 
showed a number of outcrops. Perry County coal was 
part of the first cargo taken by Eobert Fulton in the 
maiden trip of the steamer "Orleans" down the Ohio 
river in 1811. It seems reasonably certain that coal 
was mined for local consumption in the state between 



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COAL MEN OF AATl^RICA 



1811 and 1837, Avheu the American Caunel Coal Co. 
inaugurated the commercial mining history of the state 
with tlie opening of a mine at Cannelton in Perry 
county. Tliis coal, niine<l on the bluffs along the Oliio 
and Wabash rivers, was loaded directly into hoats for 
shipment down the Ohio (hiring the first decade of the 
company's ojicrations. 

The lirst oMicial government recognition of the Indi- 
ana industry appears in the census for 1840, when the 
state was credited with an output of 9,682 tons. Prog- 
ress for the next 25 years was steady, but slow, marked 
increases in production not appearing until towards the 
close of the Civil War. Discovery that the block coal 
mined in the Brazil and Terre Haute districts could be 
used in l)last furnace work gave the industry its first 
big impetus, while the rapid expansion in railroad con- 
struction which began at about the same time made 
possible a wider distribution of the coal which encour- 
aged the operators to increase their facilities for pro- 
duction. Since that time the advance of Indiana in 
importance has been persistent, the upward swing tem- 
porarily checked at times only by labor troubles or gen- 
eral commercial depression. Detailed production fig- 
ures since 1883, the first year in which the output passed 
the 2,000,000 ton mark, are shown in the following 
table : 

Year. Ton. 

1900 6,484,086 

1901 6,918,225 

1902 9,446,424 

1903 10,794,692 

1904 10,842,189 

1905 11,895,252 

1906 12,092,560 

1907 13,985,713 

1908 12,314,890 

1909 14,834,259 

1910 18,389,815 

1911 14,201,355 

1912 15,285,718 

1913 17,165,671 

1914 16,641,132 

1915 17,006,152 

191b 20,093,528 



Year. Ton. 

1883 2,560,000 

1884 2,260,000 

1885 2,375,000 

1886 3,000,000 

1887 3,217,711 

1888 3,140,979 

1889 2,845,057 

1890 3,305,737 

1891 2,973.474 

1892 3,345,174 

1893 3,791,851 

1894 3,423,921 

1895 3,995,892 

1896 3,905,779 

1897 4,151,169 

1898 4,920,743 

1899 6.006.523 



The distribution of the product of the Illinois mines 
is, from the point of view of heavy tonnages, highly con- 
centrated. Approximately 97 per cent, of the total 
1915 output was either consumed within the state, sold 



to the railroads or shipped to points in the neighboring 
state of Illinois. Of the shipments to Illinois over 76 
per cent, are consumed at points within the Chicago 
switching district. Exclusive of the major distribu- 
tion above set forth the Indiana ])roduct finds a 
market, under normal conditions, in ten other western 
and southern states. The details of this distribution 
are as follows: 

Used in Indiana (6,394,019) : At the mines, 425,- 
352; locally, 547,761; shipped intrastate, 5,420,906. 
Shipped to Illinois : 4,044,528 ; Iowa, 149,046 ; Kansas, 
149; Michigan, 6,086; Minnesota, 72,934; Missouri, 
12,632; Nebraska, 2,833; North Dakota, 3,255; South 
Dakota, 3,897; Tennessee, 33; Wisconsin, 128,190; 
a total of 4,423,583 ; railroad fuel, 6,188,550. 

The per capita consumption of bituminous coal with- 
in the state is 4.24 per ton, against a country average of 
2.04. This per capita is exceeded only by Illinois, Dela- 
ware and Montana. Combining anthracite and bitu- 
minous figures the per capita for Indiana is the same as 
for Pennsylvania, 4.45 tons, and is exceeded only by 
Delaw^are, Illinois, Montana and the New England 
states. The consumption upon the square mile basis is 
460 tons. Although as shown in the distribution fig- 
ures, 38 per cent, of the output of the state is consumed 
within its own borders, that tonnage represents less than 
40 per cent, of the total coal bituminous requirements 
of Indiana. Approximately 55 per cent, of the coal 
burned in Indiana comes from the eastern states of the 
Appalachian coal measures. West A^irginia alone con- 
tributes, under normal conditions, over 25 per cent, of 
the fuel used by Indiana. Study of the detailed figures 
following throws an interesting light on the troubles ex- 
perienced by Indiana under the famous lake Priority 
Order No. 1 of the summer of 1917, showing, as they do, 
that over 50 per cent, of the potential sources of supply 
for the state were affected, adversely to Indiana's inter- 
ests, by the order in question. Detailed figures on the 
consumption and origin of fuel consumed follow: 
Illinois, 825,601 ; Indiana, 6,394,019 ; Kentucky, 2,886,- 
806; Maryland, 6,947; Ohio, 350,251; Pennsylvania, 
855,259; Tennessee, 22,590; A^irginia, 152,291; West 
Alrginia, 4,072,001; lake coal, 551,000; total, 16,- 
116,765; Pennsylvania anthracite, 600,000; grand to- 
tal, 16,716,765. 



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WALTER A. BLEDSOE, Terre Haute, Indiana, 

President Walter Bledsoe & Co., Terre Haute, is also Secretary of the 
Fayette Realty & Development Co., and has been in the coal business 
twenty-five years. He was formerly with the New Pittsburgh Coal & 
Coke Co. and the Indiana Southern Coal Co., filling the position of 
General Sales Agent. Mr. Bledsoe is one of the best known of Indiana 
operators and has a wide and favorable acquaintance in the coal trade. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 




ALFRED M. OGL.E, Terre Haute, Indiana, 

President Vandalia Coal Co., Terre Haute, Indiana, was 
born at Stamford, Connecticut, September 28, 1882, and has 
been in the coal business for fourteen years. He also or- 
ganized the Indiana Coke & Gas Co., Vigo Mining Co., and 
the Atlas Mining Co. Mr. Ogle is one of the most promi- 
nent of the Indiana coal operators. He is now connected 
with the United States Fuel Administration. 





BERNARD R. BATTY, Indianapolis, Indiana, 

Vice President and Sales Manager of the Vandalia Coal 
Co. at Indianapolis, Indiana, has been connected with the 
coal business for twenty-three years, formerly as a jobber 
and with the Island Coal Co., which was merged with the 
Vandalia Coal Co. in 1905. He was born in Indianapolis 
March 1, 1S79, and has many warm friends in the trade. 



HARRY W. REDMAIV, Chicago, Illinois, 

Northwestern Sales Agent for the Vandalia Coal Co., 1500 
Old Colony Building, Chicago, Illinois, was formerly with 
the Victoria Coal Mining Co., the Shirley Hill Coal Co. and 
the Monon Coal Co., and has been in the coal business fifteen 
years. He was born near Casey, Illinois, November 23, 1876. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





GEORGE H. RICHARDS, Terre Haute, Indiana, 

President of Richards & Sons, Terre Haute, Indiana, was 
born at Bristol, Eng-land, May 11, 1873, and has been in 
the coal business for twenty-six years. He is also General 
Manager of the Lower Vein Coal Co. and a Director of the 
Willow Creek Coal Co. 



CLEMENT J. RICHARDS, Terre Haute, Indiana, 

Vice President of Richards & Sons, Terre Haute, was born 
in Shelburn, Indiana, December 5, 1881, and has been in the 
coal business eighteen years. He is also President of the 
Willow Creek Coal Co. and Treasurer of the Warren Coal 
Co. 





FRANK W. RICHARDS, Terre Haute, Indiana, 

Secretary and Treasurer of Richards & Sons, Terre Haute, 
Indiana, was born in Woodhouse, England, November 3, 
1874, and has been in the coal business for twenty-one 
years. He is also Vice President of the Lower Vein Coal 
Co., Secretary of the Willow Creek Coal Co. and Secretary 
of the Warren Coal Co. 



BERNARD J. RICHARDS, Terre Haute, Indiana, 

Director of Richards & Sons, Terre Haute, Indiana, was 
born at Woodhouse, England, July 24, 1876, and has been 
in the coal business for nineteen years. He is also General 
Manager of the Willow Creek Coal Co. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





EDWARD SHIRKIE, Terre Haute, Indiana, 

"Was born in Scotland January 11, 1859, and has been 
engaged in the coal business forty-three years. Mr. Shirkie 
is President of the Bickett-Shirkie Coal Co. He started 
with his father to operate a coal mine and in 1884 opened 
the first shipping' mine in the Clinton field and has been 
in that field ever since that time. Mr. Shirkie is a member 
of the Indiana Coal Operators' Association and the Inter- 
national Railway Fuel Association. 



JOHN S. SHIRKIE, TeiTe Haute, Indiana, 

President of the West Clinton Coal Co., Terre Haute, 
Indiana, -was born in Carbon, Indiana, May 4, 1878, and has 
been in the coal business twenty-three years. He -was 
formerly connected with the Retlaw Mining Co. and W. S. 
Bogle & Co., Inc , and has served as member of the Indiana 
Coal Operators' Association. 



HUGH SHIRKIE, Terre Haute, Indiana. 

President of the Shirkie Coal Co., 
Terre Haute, was born in Elyrshire, 
Scotland, January 13. 1862, and has 
been in the coal business forty-three 
years. He is President of the Glendale 
Coal Co. and the Glenco Coal Co. Mr. 
Shirkie vs^as formerly connected vi^ith 
the firms of Shirkie & Sons, Bruletts 
Creek Coal Co., Dering Coal Co., ICelly 
mines and Oak Hill Coal & Mining' Co. 
He served as President of the Indiana 
Coal Operators' Association for two 
years and as Vice President for a 
period of eleven years. 




STEWARD SHIRKIE, Terre Haute, Indiana, 

General Manager and Treasurer of the West Clinton Coal 
Co., Terre Haute, Indiana, ■was born in Carbon, Indiana, 
April 3. 1873, and has been in the coal business twenty- 
seven years. He was formerly connected with the Oak 
Hill Mining Co.. Dering Coal Co., Indiana Bituminous Coal 
Co. and others and 'with his brother started the West 
Clinton Coal Co. in 1912. He is a member of the Indiana 
Bituminous Coal Operators' Association. 



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WILLIAM M. ZELLER, Brazil, Inainua, 

President of Zeller, McClellan & Co., Inc., and also of the 
American Coal Mining- Co., Brazil, Indiana, is also inter- 
ested in the Brazil Collieries Co. and has been in the 
business for thirty-nine years. Formerly he was connected 
with the following: Superior Block Coal Co., Clay County 
Block Coal Co., Zeller & Zigler Coal & Mining Co., Zeller & 
McClellan Coal & Mining Co. He was born in 1861 at Har- 
mony, Indiana. 



^VILLIAM J. SNYDER, Brazil, Iiuliniin, 

Secretary and Treasurer of the American Coal Mining Co. 
and of Zeller, McClellan & Co. at Brazil, Indiana, has 
been nineteen years in the coal business and is a member 
of the Indiana Coal Operators' Association. He was born 
at Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, August 16, 1863. Mr. Snyder 
has a wide acquaintance in the coal trade. 





HOMER BEESON TALLEY, Terre Haute, Indiana, 

President of the Coal Bluff Mining Co., Terre Haute, 
Indiana, was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, September 4, 
1877, and ha.-^ been in the coal business sixteen years. He 
is also President of the Coal Creek Coal Co., and Treasurer 
of the Port Harrison Mining Co. He has served on the 
Executive Committee of the Indiana Bituminous Coal 
Operators' Association and Indiana Coal Trade Bureau's 
Executive Committee. 



ARCHIBALD D. SPEARS, Clinton, Indiana, 

Secretary-Treasurer of The Ferguson-Spears Coal Co. at 
Clinton, Indiana, has been in the business for twenty-one 
years. He was born in Butler County, Pennsylvania, June 
20, 1880. Formerly he was mining engineer for the Clinton 
Coal Co. E.nd others. He is a member of the Indiana Coal 
Operators Association. 



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AXDREW J. COCHRAX, Indianapolis, Indiana, 

JIanager of the Cochran Coal Co., Indianapolis, Indiana, 
has been in the business for fourteen years, formerly with 
the New Linton Coal Co. He was Modoc for Indiana, Order 
of KoKoal. He was born at Macon City, Missouri, Maj' 6, 
1867. Mr. Cochran has a host of friends in the trade. 



PRANK L. FENSTEMACHER, Indianaiiolis, Indiana, 

Well-kno'W'n wholesale coal salesman of Indianapolis, -was 
formerly Assistant Manager of Sales with the Oliphant- 
Johnson Coal Co. For five years Mr. Fenstemacher was 
General Manager of the Findlay Ice & Fuel Co., Findlay, 
Ohio, and for fifteen years Sales Agent for the Sunday Creek 
Coal Co. in Ohio and at Indianapolis. He was born at 
Carroll, Ohio, December 3, 1864, and has inany warm friends 
in the coal trade. 





EMMA EDITH GATES, IndianaiioIi.s, Indiana, 

Proprietor of the E. E. Gates Coal Co., Indianapolis, In- 
diana, has been in the retail business for twenty years. 
She was formerly with the C. Ehrlich Coal Co. and the Star 
Elevator Co. Mrs. Gates was born at Mattoon, Illinois, 
March 26, 1869. She has many friends in the trade and has 
built up a very successful business. 



JOHIV A. GEORGE, Indianapolis, Indiana, 

President and Treasurer Indianapolis Coal Co., 234-240 
Newton Claypool Building. Indianapolis, was born in Colum- 
bus, Indiana. October 9. 1S69. and has been in the retail 
coal business twenty-seven years. The first nine years of 
his business experience was in Columbus. He is a Director 
of the Vandalia Coal Co., a well-known Indiana mining 
corporation. He was one of the organizers and the first 
President of the Indianapolis Retail Coal Merchants' Credit 
Association, was the first President of the Indiana Retail 
Coal Merchants' Association, and has been one of the 
Indiana Directors of the ;Michigan-Ohio-Indiana Coal 
Association. 



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FRED GOEPPEU, Indianapolis, Indiana. 

A well-known Indianapolis retail coal merchant with a yard 
located at West Michigan Street and the C, I. & W. Ry., 
was horn in Germany June 2, 1S69, and has been in the 
retail coal business in Indianapolis twenty-four years. His 
son, Fred A. Goepper, Jr., aged 23 years, is associated with 
him. 



ARCH GROSSMAN, Indianapolis, Indiana, 

President of the Cedar Creek Coal Co., 414 Merchants' Bank 
Building, Indianapolis, has been in the coal business for 
thirteen years, formerly with the New York Coal Co. He 
is a Director of the National Coal .lobbers' Association and 
of the Indiana Coal Jobbers' Association. He has served as- 
KoKoal Skout in Indiana. He was born at Columbus, Ohio, 
May 31, 1S87, and is one of the most popular coal salesmen 
in Indiana. 





ELLSWORTH E. HELLER, Indianaiiolis, Indiana, 

Manager for E. E. Heller & Co., Indianapolis, Indiana, has 
been in the retail coal business for fifteen years. He served 
for three years as President of the Indianapolis Retail Coal 
Merchants' Credit Association and is a member of the Board 
of Governors. He is Chairman of the Seventh district of 
the Indiana Coal Merchants Association. He was born June 
18, 1863, in Payette County, Indiana, and is a leading coal 
merchant of Indianapolis. 



DONALD READ LINDLEY, Indianapolis, Indiana. 

Vice President of the Bicknell Coal & Mining Co. and Treas- 
urer of the Pike County Coal Co., Merchants Bank Building, 
Indianapolis. Indiana, was formerly connected with Lind- 
ley, Schmid & Co. Mr. Lindley was born February 16, 1886, 
at Evansville, Indiana, and is well known in the trade. 



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OTIS D. MAURER. Indianapolis, Indiana, 

Manager of The Ehrlich Coal Co. at Indianapolis, Indiana, 
has been connected with tne coal business for sixteen years. 
He was born August .31. 1876, at Brazil, Indiana, and has 
manv friends in the trade. 



A. B. MEYER, Indianapolis, Indiana, 

President of A. B. Meyer & Co., Indianapolis, Indiana, has 
been identified with the coal business for forty years. He is 
a Director of the United Fourth Vein Coal Co. and formerly 
was President of the Western Coal Dealers' Association. He 
has also been a Director and Vice President In the Michigan- 
Ohio-Indiana Coal Dealers' Association. He was born at In- 
dianapolis in 1853. Mr. Meyer is very highly regarded in the 
trade. 



F. A. KROEFF, Ft. \Vayne, Indiana, 

Vice President of Niezer & Co., Ft. 
"Wayne, and Manager of the coal de- 
partment, has been connected with the 
retail business six years. The com- 
pany operates a branch coal yard at 
Monroeville, Indiana. He was born in 
Sheboygan, Wisconsin, October 27, 
1875. 




FRANCIS B. RAGAN, Indianapolis, Indiana, 

General Sales Agent and Manager Ragan-McAbee Coal Co., 
Indianapolis, has been fourteen years in the business, for- 
merly as Indiana Sales Agent of the C. W. Johnson Coal Co. 
of Chicago and as General Sales Agent of the Consolidated 
Indiana Coal Co. and the Red Jacket Coal Co. He was born 
at Greencastle, Indiana, December 25, 1866. D. H. McAbee 
is Secretary and Treasurer of the company. He was for- 
merly State Factory Inspector for ten years. 



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S. p. REED, Ft. AVayne, Iiuliann, 

Of Reed Bros. Coal & Peed Co. at Ft. Waj'ne, Indiana, is an 
equal partner in the business with which he has been con- 
nected for eight years. He has served as Secretary of the 
Ft. Wayne Coal Club. He was born May 28, 1883, at Ft. 
Wayne. 



JARED J. REED, Ft. ^Vayne, Indiana, 

A partner in Reed Bros. Coal & Feed Co. at Fort Wayne, 
Indiana, has been in the retail business nine years. He has 
served as Secretary of the Ft. Wayne Coal Club. He was 
born January 10, 1885, at Ft. Wayne. 





HENUV W. BERMiXG, Ft. Wayne, Indiana, 

President and Manager of the Walton Avenue Coal Co. at 
Ft. Wayne, Indiana, has been in the retail coal business for 
four years, succeeding- Fred Goette, Sr., who formerly op- 
erated the business. Mr. Berning was born at Ft. Wayne, 
August 8, 1890. 



FRED H. GOETTE, JR., Ft. A\ aync, Indiana, 

Secretary and Treasurer of the Walton Avenue Coal Co. at 
Ft. Wayne, Indiana, has been in the business four years. 
He was born at Ft. Wayne August 8, 1898. He is a son 
of the previous owner, Fred Goette, Sr. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



INDIANA — Indianapolis 



ROBERT AI.UAG, Secretary and Treasurer of the F. W. 
Aldagr Co. at Indianapolis. Indiana, has been connected with 
the retail coal business nine years. He was born in Indi- 
anapolis August 12. 1SS5. 

FRED A. BEHREAT of the firm of Stuckmeyer & Co.. 
coal mercliants at Indianapolis. Indiana, has lieen in the 
business for seventeen years. He was born at Indianapolis 
October 22. 1873. 

ARTHVR E. BR.-VDSHAW. 407 Odd Fellows' Building-, In- 
dianapolis. Indiana, is President of the Indianapolis Mortar 
& Fuel Co., which he established sixteen years ago. He 
is a native of Indiana. He has served as Treasurer of the 
Michig-an-Oliio-Indiana Coal Dealers' Association and Presi- 
dent of the Indianapolis Coal Merchants' Credit Association. 

HEXRY E. BRl'XER, Indianapolis, Indiana, is owner of 
the Bruner Coal Co. and has been in the business for seven- 
teen years. He was formerly with the Great Western Coal 
& Coke Co. at Chicago, the Central States Fuel Co. and 
Sunflower Coal Co., Dugger, Indiana. He was born at Hope, 
Indiana, February 6, 1870. 

1VAL.TER BURROWS. 4260 Cornelius Ave., Indianapolis, 
Indiana, is President of the Gem Coal Co. and has been in 
business four years. He was born in Sheffield, England, 
June 26, 1856. His sons, Walter Burrows, Jr., and William 
S. Burrows, are Treasurer and Secretary respectively of the 
company. 

HORACE G. CASADAY is sole owner of the Casaday Coal 
Co. at Indianapolis, Indiana, and has been connected with 
the business for thirteen years. He acquired the interest 
of Frank E. Casady four years ago. He was born in June, 
1872, at Rushville. Indiana. 

CLIFFORD CHRISTENA, Indianapolis, Indiana, is owner 
of the Home Coal Co. and has been in the retail business 
for nine years. He was formerly with the Garstang Fuel 
Co. and the F. E. Janes Coal Co. He was born July 11, 
1889, at Indianapolis. 

HARA'EY COONSE, Indianapolis. Indiana, is Secretary 
and Treasurer of the Coonse & Caylor Ice Co. and has been 
in the retail coal business sixteen years, formerly with the 
Aldag-Coonse Co. He was born in Indiana March 24, 1870. 

AXTHOXY S. COST owns the Union Coal & Coke Co. at 
Indianapolis, Indiana, with offices in Merchants' Bank Build- 
ing, and has been in the business for sixteen years. He 
was born December 18, 1844, in Green County, Ohio. 

FREDERICK E. DAITNER is President of the Dauner Coal 
Co. at Indianapolis. Indiana, and has been engaged in the 
coal business for sixteen years. He is also President and 
Treasurer of the Victor Colliery Co., Wellston, Ohio, and 
Secretary and Director of the Sunlight Coal Co., Indianap- 
olis. He was formerly with the Harmon & Black Coal Co. 
at Chicago. He was born February 3, 1873, at Grayville, 
Illinois. 

CHARLES B. DAVIS, Indianapolis, Indiana, is the Man- 
ager and Owner of the Davis Coal & Block Co. and has 
been engaged in the business for eight years. He was born 
July 30, 1883, at Mount Carmel, Indiana. 

FRANK M. DELL is a retail coal merchant at 1001 South- 
eastern Ave., Indianapolis. Indiana. He was born at 
Lafayette, Indiana. Mr. Dell is the dean of Indianapolis 
coal merchants and is highly respected in both the trade 
and the community. 

GEORGE E. ELKINS is Sales Agent for the Bickett Coal 
& Coke Co. at Indianapolis, Indiana, and has been con- 
nected with the coal business for seventeen years, for- 
merly with the Manufacturers' Coal Co. He is also inter- 
ested in the Northwestern Coal Co. He was born In In- 
diana in 1875. 

CHARLES N. ELLIOTT, Indianapolis, Indiana, is Secre- 
tary of the Indian Creek Coal & Mining Co. and of the 
S. W. Little Coal Co. He is Secretary-Treasurer of the 
Knox County Fourth Vein Coal Co. He is likewise inter- 
ested in the Indiana Fuel Supply Co. and the Peoples Coal 
& Cement Co. He has been in the coal business for thirteen 
years and was born at Terre Haute, Indiana, October 4, 
1872. 

ANSEL FATOUT Is Secretary and Manager of the Free- 
man-Fatout Coal Co. at Indianapolis, Indiana, and has been 
in the business for twenty-one years, formerly with the 
Fauvre Coal Co. He was born February 23, 1872, at Indian- 
apolis. 

FRANK F. FITCH, Indianapolis, Indiana, is Manager of 
the coal department of the City Ice & Coal Co., with which 
he has been connected for twenty years. He was born in 
Lexington, Kentucky, March 30, 1865. 

JOHN \V. FREDERICK, Indianapolis, Indiana, is a retail 
coal merchant who has been doing business for fifteen 
years. He was born at Vandenburg, Germany, June 14, 
1846. 



A. C. GOLL, General Manager of the Commercial Fuel 
Co., Indianapolis, Indiana, has been in the business for 
eight years. 

MORTON L. GOl'I,D, Indianapolis, Indiana, is President 
and Manager of the Linton Coal Co. and has been connected 
with the coal business for twenty-three j'ears. He was for- 
merly with the following: L. T. Dickason Coal Co., Shirley- 
Hill Coal Co., Gould Coal Washing & Mining Co. He has 
served as Vice President of the Indiana Bituminous Coal 
Operators' Association. He was born at Terre Haute 
April 8, 1864. 

IRA J. GHOVER is President and General Manager of the 
Grover Coal Co. at Indianapolis, Indiana, and has been en- 
gaged in the business for fifteen years. He was born at 
St. Louis, Missouri, August 14, 1872. 

SAM A. HARRAH, Indianapolis, Indiana, is the owner of 
the Harrah Coal Co. and has been a retailer for four years. 
He was born in Indiana February 28, 1891. 

JOSEPH L. HOGL'E, Indianapolis, Indiana, is the owner 
of the J. L. Hogue Fuel & Supply Co. and has been in the 
retail business for six years. He formerly was with the 
Riverside Coal Co. He was born in Shelby County, Indiana, 
January 18, 1870. 

CHARLES H. HORNE is Manager of the Casady Coal Co. 
at Indianapolis, Indiana, and has been in the business for 
five years. He was born in Cloverdale, Indiana, June 21, 
1874. 

A3IOS B. KEEPORT is President of the A. B. Keeport Co. 
at Indianapolis. Indiana, and has been in the retail coal 
business for seventeen years. Harry A. Rogers is Secre- 
tary-Treasurer of the company. 

HOWARD N. KINGSBURY, 5932 Lowell Ave., Indianapolis, 
Indiana, is President of the Kingsbury-Shepherd Coal Co. 
He has been seventeen years in the business, formerly with 
the Marion Coal Co. as Manager. He was born at Indian- 
apolis September 19, 1878. 

F. SMITH KIRTLEY, Indianapolis, Indiana, is General 
Manager of the Hoosier City Coal Co. and has been in busi- 
ness eight years. He was born September 19, 1S68, at Mt. 
Auburn, Indiana. 

FRANK E. MALOTT, Indianapolis, Indiana, Secretary and 
Treasurer of The Malott Coal & Lime Co., has been in the 
business for about nineteen years. He w^as born at Bedford, 
Indiana, April 5, 1867. He has served a term as Secretary 
of the Indianapolis Coal Merchants' Association. 

WILLIAM P. MALOTT is President of The Malott Coal & 
Lime Co. at Indianapolis, Indiana, and has been identified 
with the business for nineteen years. He was born at Bed- 
ford, Indiana, February 16, 1840. 

JOHN ROBERT MORRIS is General Manager of the J. R. 
Morris Coal Co., Indianapolis, Indiana. Formerly he was in 
the retail business as the Morris Coal Co., and was salesman 
for the Powhatan Coal Co. and the Ohio & Michigan Coal Co., 
as well as Manager of the Indianapolis oflice of the Brothers 
Valley Coal Co. His present company was organized No- 
vember 8, 1915. He was born at Ft. Wayne, Indiana, Novem- 
ber 6, 1883. 

SAUL MUNTER, 340 West Michigan St., Indianapolis, In- 
diana, is the owner of the Central Coal Co. and has been In 
the retail business seven years. He was born at Attica, In- 
diana, in 1870. Mr. Munter is President of the Indiana Re- 
tail Coal Merchants' Association. 

BANUS E. NEAL is Treasurer and Sales Manager of the 
Indian Creek Coal & Mining Co., the S. W. Little Coal Co. 
and the Riverview Coal Co., Indianapolis, Indiana. He 
has been in the coal business for fifteen years and formerly 
was with the Summit Coal & Mining Co. He was born at 
Farmersburg, Indiana, August 1, 1878. 

ARTHUR E. NELSON is District Sales Agent for the Con- 
solidated Indiana Coal Co., Indianapolis, Indiana. He was 
formerly with the Chicago Coal Co. and has been in the 
business for thirteen years. He was born in Chicago, Illi- 
nois, March 6, 1886. 

"WALTER F. O'DONNELL, Indianapolis, Indiana, is Secre- 
tary of the Manley-O'Donnell Fuel Co. and has been in the 
coal business for fourteen years. He was born at Cincin- 
nati, Ohio, in 1874. 

ISAAC E. PARKER, Indianapolis. Indiana, is Manager of 
Sales for Indiana for the Worth-Huskey Coal Co. of Chicago. 
He has been connected with the coal business for fifteen 
years, formerly with the Carnegie Coal Co. of Pittsburgh, 
Pennsylvania, and the R. J. Kroger Co. of Cincinnati, Ohio. 
He w^as born December 7, 1869, in Arba, Indiana. 

JULIUS W. PINNELL is General Manager of J. W. Pinnell 
& Co. with general offices at Indianapolis, Indiana, and op- 
erating a dozen lumber and coal yards throughout the state 
of Indiana. He has been in the business for thirty-six years 
and was born at Lebanon. Indiana, October 30, 1858. 



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CHARLES ROSCOE auiCK, Indianapolis, Indiana, is Man- 
ager of the coal department of the Brannum-Keene Lumber 
Co. and has been in the business five years. He was born 
at Frankton, Indiana, September 2, 1882. 

GROA'ER C. RADER of the Grover C. Rader Co.. whole- 
sale coal, Indianapolis, Indiana, has been twelve years in the 
coal business. He was born September 18, 1884, in Clay 
City, Indiana. 

RAY T,. REED is Vice President of Walter Bledsoe & Co., 
Indianapolis, Indiana. He has been in the coal business for 
eleven years, formerly with the Bering- Coal Co. and the 
Brazil Block Coal Co. He was born November 17, ISSS, in 
Newton, Illinois. 

ALEXANDER RtlMPLER, 1227 State Life Building-, Indian- 
apolis, Indiana, is Manager of the Indianapolis branch of the 
Logan Pocaliontas Fuel Co. He was formerly with the 
Madison Coal Co.. St. Louis, Missouri, and the Luhrig Coal 
Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. He has been in the coal business for 
twenty-one years. He was born at Chicago, Illinois, Sep- 
tember 13, 1874. 

HERMAN H. SCHULZ, formerly Secretary and Treasurer 
of the Balke & Strauss Co. at Indianapolis, Indiana, has 
been in the coal business for twentj'-six years. He has 
served as President of the Retail Coal Merchants' Credit 
Association at Indianapolis. He was born at Aurora, Indi- 
ana, in June, 1867. 

JAMES B. SHEPHERD is Secretary and Treasurer of the 
Kingsbury-Shepherd Coal Co. at Indianapolis, Indiana. He 
was formerly with the Marion Coal Co. and has been eight 
years in the business. He was born at Ripley, Ohio, Septem- 
iDer 24, 1884. 

S. C. SILCOX, Indianapolis, Indiana, has been in the retail 
coal business for f-vv-enty years. He was born in Indiana 
September 13, 1853. 

ENOS R. SNYDER, Indianapolis, Indiana, has been in the 
retail coal business for twenty years. He claims to have 
made yellow paint famous by having his wagons of that 
color, and owns the original yellow coal wagon. He was 
born February 29, 1880, at Indianapolis. 

FRED D. STILZ. Secretary-Treasurer Irvington Coal & 
Lime Co., 5603 Julian Avenue, Indianapolis, Indiana, has 
been engaged in the business since April 1, 1916. He was 
born in Indianapolis April 23, 1870. Mr. Stilz was formerly 
engaged in the real estate business. 

ARTHUR E. STRICKLAND, Indianapolis, Indiana, is In- 
diana Sales Agent for the Jones & Adams Coal Co. He has 
been in the business for eleven years, formerly -with the 
Borderland Coal Sales Co. and the American Coal & Coke 
Co. He was born October 22, 1883, at Greenfield, Indiana. 

CHARLES H. ST"UCKMEYER, head of the firm of Stuck- 
meyer & Co., retail coal merchants at Indianapolis, Indiana, 
has been connected with the trade for seventeen years. He 
has been a resident of Indianapolis sixty-six years and was 
born August 10, 1850, at Cincinnati, Ohio. 

E. J. SIJPFEL is Traffic Manager and Salesman for the J. 
R. Morris Coal Co., Indianapolis, Indiana. He has been three 
years in the business and formerly was with the Ragan-Mc- 
Abee Coal Co. He was born at Utica. Nebraska, in 1889. 

H.\RVEY D. TRIMBLE is Secretary and Treasurer of the 
Dauner Coal Co., Indianapolis, Indiana, and has been fifteen 
years in the coal business. He also fills the position of Sec- 
retary of the Victor Colliery Co., Wellston, Ohio. JHe was 
born August 10, 1883, at Princeton, Illinois. 

CHARLES D. TROWBRIDGE, Indianapolis, Indiana, Is 
Southwestern Sales Agent for the White Oak Coal Co. He 
has been in the coal business for over twenty years, for- 
merly with the following concerns: C. D. Trowbridge Coal 
Co., as President and General Manager; American Coal & 
Mining Co., as President and General Manager; Stone-Brown 
Co., as Sales Manager; Bugbee Coal Co., as President, and 
Bonham Coal Co. as Vice President. He was born January 
1, 1863, at Utica, Ohio. 

R. ROY YEAGLEY, Secretary Indiana Retail Coal Mer- 
chapt.';' .Association, with headquarters at 606 Fidelity Trust 
Building, Indianapolis. Indiana, was born in Denniso'n. Ohio. 
March 19, 1S80, and has had six years' coal experience, first 
witli the firm of Grant & Yeagley at Logansport, Indiana, 
and later supplemented by his coal association work. The 
association of which Mr. Yeagley is Secretary is a very 
a.ggressive organization of retailers. 

GEORGE D. YEAZEL. Secretary of the United Fourth Vein 
Coal Co., Indianapolis, Indiana, has been connected with the 
coal business for fourteen years. He was born at Davton, 
Ohio, in 1875. 



INDIA N A — Fort Wayne 

JOHN JOSEPH AUTH is President and Manager of The 
Auth Coal Co. at Ft. Wayne, Indiana, and has been in the 
retail business five years. He was born at Ft. Wayne Feb- 
ruary 2, 1870. 

CONRAD BAUSS is Managing Partner in the Maumee 
Valley Coal Co., Ft. Wayne, Indiana. He has been in the 
retail coal business for fourteen years. He was born De- 
cember 30, 1863, in Germany. 

O. R. BROKA'W, Secretary of the Phil. Gloeckner Coal Co., 
Ft. Wayne, Indiana, was born in 1881 at Ft. Wayne. 

LYNN ELLIOTT BUNTING, Ft. Wayne, Indiana, salesman 
for the General Hocking Fuel Co , was born at New Castle. 
Indiana, July 28, 1886, and has been in the coal business for 
ten years. He was formerly with the C. M. Anderson Coal 
Co. 

PHILIP GLOECKNER, 405 Shoaff Building, Ft. "^ayne, 
Indiana, is President and Manager of the Phil. Gloeckner 
Coal Co. He was formerly with Kelly's Creek Colliery Co. 
and the Chesapeake & Ohio Coal & Coke Co. He has been 
thirteen years in the business and was born in Chicago, 
Illinois, January 23, 1884. Mr. Gloeckner is one of t'ne best 
known coal salesmen in Indiana. 

GEORGE H. KRUDOP, retail coal merchant at Ft. Wayne. 
Indiana, has been in the business for oyer thirty years, 
formerly with C. P. Krudop. whom he bought out in 1890. 
He was born at Ft. Wayne May 12, 1869, and has held many 
offices in retail coal associations. 

AUGUST J. LASSUS, President and Manager of the Wm. 
Kaough Coal Co. at Ft. Wayne, Indiana, has been in the re- 
tail business for nine years. He was b.orn at Louisville, ' 
Ohio, November 6, 1882. 

SHIRLEY NELSON LONGSWORTH, Secretary and Treas- 
urer of The Auth Coal Co. at Ft. Wayne. Indiana, has been 
in the retail coal business for seven years. He was for- 
merly with the Home Supply Co. of Ft. Wayne. He served 
as a Director in the Michigan-Ohio-Indiana Retail Coal 
Dealers Association from 1915 to 1918. He was born at Van 
Wert, Ohio, December 20. 1877. 

C. P. 3IILLIKIN, Treasurer of the Phil. Gloeckner Coal 
Co. at Ft. Wayne, Indiana, was born at Warren, Ohio, in 
1885. 

CHARLES E. MOELLERING, President and General Man- 
ager of the Pioneer Coal Co., Ft. Wayne, Indiana, was born 
in Ft. Worth September 12, 1870, and started in business 
with his father January 26, 1886. On May 10, 1904, they, 
took over the coal yards and equipment of the Pioneer Coal 
Co. and have built up this business until it is now the 
largest and best coal plant in their part of the state. Mr. 
Moellering is the originator of the plan of the present suc- 
cessful state organization by districts, having introduced 
same in the builders' supply line. He has been interested in 
public and patriotic affairs and untiring in association 
work. He is the President of the Ft. Wayne Coal Club. He 
is also President and Treasurer of the Moellering Construc- 
tion Co., President of William Moellering Sons, and Treas- 
urer of the Moellering Brick Co. 

EUGENE H. OLDS is President and Manager of the Olds 
Coal Co. at Ft. Wayne, Indiana. He .was born at Ft. 
Wayne January 14, 1873. He is a member of the Ft. Wayne 
Coal Club. 

AV. J. RODENBECK, Secretary The Home Supply Co., Ft. 
Wayne, Indiana, was born in Dayton. Ohio. May 12, 1874, 
and started in the coal business this year. 

C. A. SEIBEL is proprietor and Manager of the Dunn 
Coal Co. at Ft. Wayne, Indiana, and has been in the retail 
business for four years. He was born at Ft. Wayne June 
13, 1883. 

CLIFF H. TAYLOR, Manager of the Evans Coal Co. at 
Ft. Wayne, Indiana, has been sixteen years in the business. 
He was formerly with the Sunday Creek Coal Co., Litz- 
Smith Fuel Co. and the Borderland Coal Sales Co. He was 
born in Muncie, Indiana, in 1878. Mr. Taylor has a wide 
acquaintance among the Indiana coal trade. 

AVILLIAM BI. AVELLS, retail coal merchant at Ft. Wayne, 
Indiana, has been in the business for thirty-four years, for- 
merly at Fredericktown, Ohio, from 1885 to 1900. He was 
born February 22, 1859, in Fredericktown. 



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INDIANA — Terre Haute 



JOHN R. ALiVEY, Secretary-Treasurer of the Smith-Alvey 
Coal Co., Terre Haute. Indiana, has been in tlie retail busi- 
ness for six years. He was formerly with the Alvey Bros. 
Coal Co. He was born April 9, 1887, at Terre Haute. 

IRA AV. ATKN, Secretary and Treasurer of The Rowland 
Block Coal & Clay Co., The Ohio & Indiana Collieries Co., 
Power Collieries Co. of Indiana, and Rowland-Power Col- 
lieries Co., and Secretary Rowland-Power Consolidated Col- 
lieries Co., Terre Haute, Indiana, has been connected witli 
the coal industry for about fifteen years, formerly with the 
Roberts Coal Co., Crescent Coal Co., and Glen Roy Coal 
Co., Jackson, Ohio. He was born February 14, 187S, in Jack- 
son. 

JOHN LAKE CRAAVFORD is President of the Crawford 
Coal Co., Terre Haute. Indiana, and has been in the retail 
business twenty-one years. He was born in Terre Haute 
in 1872. 

CLIFFORD E. FORSYTH, General Superintendent Rock 
Creek Coal Co. and President Terre Haute Coal & Supply 
Co.. Terre Haute. Indiana, has been in tlie coal industry sev- 
enteen years. He was formerly with the Ehrmann Coal Co. 
and the Clay County Block Coal Co. He has served as Presi- 
dent of the Retail Coalmen's Club of Terre Haute. He was 
born August 3, 1882. in Vigo County, Indiana. Harry G. 
Sparks is Secretary-Treasurer and "William H. Forsythe 
General Manager of tlie Terre Haute Coal & Supply Co. 

GEORGE H. GFROERER. late of Terre Haute, Indiana, 
was Sales Agent for the United Fourth Vein Coal Co. for 
about thirteen years. Formerly he was with the Chicago 
& Eastern Illinois Railway and with the Chicago, Terre 
Haute & Soutlieastern Railway. He served as KoKoal 
Sachem for Terre Haute. He was born May 9, 1871, at 
Cincinnati, Ohio, and died April 10, 1918. He had many 
friends in the trade. 

OTTO HEVDEX, Terre Haute, Indiana, is Secretary and 
Treasurer of the Parke County Coal Co., Rosedale, Indiana, 
and has been connected with the coal industry for thirty- 
four years. He was born July 7, 1839, in Germany. 

C. H. JOXES of Terre Haute, Indiana, Is President of the 
Calora Coal Co. and of the LeMoir Coal Co. He has been in 
the coal business for thirty-six years, formerly with the 
Pittsburgh Coal Co. and the Winifrede Coal Co. He was 
born October 26, 1859, at Cincinnati, Ohio, and is w^ell known 
in the coal trade. 

CHARLES F. THORP, Treasurer of the Sugar Valley Coal 
Co., West Terre Haute, Indiana, was born at Terre Haute, 
Indiana, November 22, 1868, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for twenty-two years. He was formerly connected 
with the Island Valley Coal Co. and Victoria Coal Co. 

WILLL-OI L. WILLIAMSON, Secretary and Treasurer of 
the Xeutral Coal Producers Co., Terre Haute, Indiana, was 
born in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1873, and has been in the 
coal business for twenty-one years. 

ISAAC HERBERT WOOLEY, General Manager of the 
Interstate Mining Co.. Terre Haute, Indiana, ^vas born in 
England January 24, 1867, and has been in the coal business 
for thirty-three years. He was formerly connected with 
the Currysville Coal Co., Dering Coal Co., Southern Indiana 
Coal Co. and Kettle Creek Mining Co. 

W. PALL ZIMMERMAN, Secretary and Treasurer of the 
Hall-Zimmerman Coal Co.. Terre Haute, Indiana, was born 
in Brazil, Indiana. September 14, 1875, and has been in 
the coal business for twenty-one years. He is also Presi- 
dent of the Zimmerman Coal Co. Mr. Zimmerman w^as for- 
merly connected with the Otto Creek Coal Co. and is a mem- 
ber of the Indiana Bituminous Coal Operators' Association 
and the Indiana Coal Trade Bureau. 



INDIANA 



WILLIAM AHLBORN is the President of Wm. Ahlborn 
& Co. at Hammond, Indiana, and has been engaged in the 
retail coal trade nineteen years. He -svas born in Germany 
March 25, 1S73. 

ROBERT ALEXANDER, retail coal merchant at Buck 
Creek, Indiana, has been in the business for thirteen years. 
He was born in Canada in 1857. 

RUSSELL C. ALLEN owns the retail coal business of J. L. 
Allen & Son at Covington, Indiana, and has been in the 
business for eleven years. He -was born at Covington 
February 22, 1881. 

TOM A. ALLEN, retail coal merchant at Linden, Indiana, 

has been doing business for five years. He was born at New 
Richmond, Indiana, July 27, 1876. 

LINCOLN G. ANDERSON, Martinsville, Indiana, has been 
in the retail coal business for seven years. He was born In 
Monroe County, Indiana, September 21, 1864. 



AV. N. ANDKR.soN, coal retailer at Kouts, Indiana, has 
been in the business thirty-eight years. He was born in 
Kouts December 19, 1S49. 

JOSEPH G. APPLEG.VTH is the Office Manager of the 
Princeton Coal Co. of Princeton, Indiana. He has been con- 
nected with the retail coal business for thirty years, for- 
merly with C. O. Godfrey, James Townsend, S. W. Little 
Coal Co. and Princeton Coal & Mining Co. He was born at 
Albion, Illinois, October 10, 1867. 

JOHN B. ARCHHOLD. President of the John Archbold Coal 
Co. at Evansville, Indiana, has been in the coal business for 
over forty years. He was born in England. 

WAID CARLETON ARNOLD, Warsaw, Indiana, repre- 
senting the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Coal Co. and 
the D. D. Sclienck Co., Toledo, Ohio, was born in Pomeroy, 
Ohio, October 23, 1876, and has been in the coal business 
thirteen years. He was formerly connected with The Colum- 
bus & Hocking Coal & Iron Co. of Columbus, Ohio. 

ROBERT AV. BAILEY' is Vice President and General Man- 
ager of the J. W. Bailey Co., coal merchants at Anderson, 
Indiana, and has heen connected with tlie coal business for 
eight years. He was born August 22, 1887, at Portsmouth, 
Indiana. 

LEAVIS J. BALDWIN, proprietor of the Twin City Ice & 
Fuel Co. at Gas City, Indiana, has been in the retail coal 
business for about eighteen years. He was formerly with 
the Consumers Ice & Fuel Co. and the Sterling Ice & Fuel 
Co. at Marion, Indiana. He was born at Marion in 1875. 

ERNEST L. BARRIER is Secretary and Treasurer of the 
New Jersey Coal & Transfer Co., South Bend, Indiana. He 
has been connected with tlie coal business ten years, for- 
merly with Loughman & Loughman. He was born in Cen- 
terville, Michigan, June 14, 1887. The President of the com- 
pany is John H. Barbier, born in Edwardsburg, Michigan, 
September 13, 1895. 

JAMES R. BARR, partner in the Richland Grain Co. at 
Earl Park, Indiana, has been connected w^ith the coal busi- 
ness for thirty-three years. Formerly he was with the 
Wilson-Barr Co., the Caldwell-Barr Co., the McCray-Morri- 
son Co. and James Ross. He was born in Canada in 1863. 

ROBERT WILLIAM BARR is Manager of the retail coal 
business of Ross, Ross & Barr at Chalmers, Indiana. He 
has been connected with the trade for twenty-five years. 
He was born at Ormstawn, Quebec, January 12, 1862. 

ABNER J. BARRETT, retail coal merchant at Rochester, 
Indiana, has been in the business thirty-six years, selling 
the first coal ever sold in Rochester. He w^as born in 1850 
In Fulton Countj-, Indiana. 

A. J. BARRICK is Mine Foreman for the United Fourth 
Vein Coal Co. at Jasonville, Indiana, and has been in the 
coal industry for thirty-six years, formerly with the Jason- 
ville Coal Co. and other concerns. He was born in Clay 
County, Indiana, May 21, 1858. 

C. E. BASH is President and Manager of C. E. Bash & Co. 
at Huntington, Indiana. He w^as born at Roanoke, Indiana, 
in 1856. He has been doing a retail business for about one 
year. 

LUTHER B. BEACH, senior partner and Manager of the 
firm of Beach & Simmers at Albany, Indiana, has been en- 
gaged in the retail coal business for eleven years. He was 
formerly with J. R. Beach & Son. He was born in Boone 
County, Indiana, July 1, 1881. 

J. W. BECKMAN, Hammond, Indiana, is Secretary and 
Treasurer of The Beckman Supply Co. and has done a 
retail coal business for eleven years. He was born in 
Germany September 11, 1868. 

GEORGE B. BEHNKE is Manager for Ed. Behnke & Son. 
Gary, Indiana, and has been connected w^ith the retail coai 
business for ten years. He was born December 16, 1887, at 
Clarke Station, Indiana. 

GEORGE A. BELL is Manager and President of the B*I1 
Coal Co. at Marion, Indiana. He has been fifteen years In 
the retail business and was born in Brooklyn, New York. 

HARRY J. BERNSTEIN, retail coal merchant at Marion, 
Indiana, has been in business fourteen years, and is owner 
of the Ohio Coal Co. He was born in Russia. 

ALVA A. BETTERTON, Owner and Manager of the Dale- 
ville Grain & Coal Co. at Daleville, Indiana, has been in the 
business four years. He was born at Daleville in March, 
1892. 

ALLEN L. BOYD, Manager and Treasurer of the W. Wil- 
son Lumber Co. at LaPorte, Indiana, has been in the busi- 
ness for thirty-one years. He was born September 17, 1869, 
at LaPorte. 

CHARLES WESLEY BRADFIELD of Petersburg, Indiana, 
is the owner of "The Posey Mine," which he operates. He 
has been in the coal business for twenty-eight years. He 
was born November 4, 1870, at Petersburg. 



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JAMKS \V. BRIDWELL is Owner and Manager of the J. 
W. Bi-idwell Coal Co. at Evansville, Indiana, and has been 
in the retail coal business for four years. He has been a 
Director of the Indiana Retail Coal Merchants' Association 
and President of the Retail Coal Men's Association of Evans- 
ville. He was born at Evansville April 28, 1870, and was in 
the government service for twenty-three years. 

ISRAEL BROXSTEIX is Manager for Peter Bronstein & 
Co., retail coal merchants at Huntington, Indiana, and has 
been connected with the business for six years. He was 
born in Russia November 10, 1890. 

PETER BRONSTEIN is President and Treasurer of Peter 
Bronstein & Co., coal merchants at Huntington, Indiana, 
and has been six years in the retail trade. He was born 
August 1, 1866, in Russia. 

WILLIAM BRONSTEIN, Secretary of Peter Bronstein & 
Co., Huntington, Indiana, has been five years in the coal 
business. He was born in Russia March 10, 1895. 

GEORGE E. BRUNER is President and General Manager 
of the Bruner Coal Co. at Kokomo, Indiana, and has- been 
in the retail business for twelve years. He has served as 
Treasurer of the Indiana Retail Coal Merchants' Association. 
He was born in Montgomery County, Ohio, July 14, 1863. 

OMER D. BLLLERDICK, retail coal merchant at Rich- 
mond, Indiana, has been in the coal business for ten years, 
formerly with H. C. BuUerdick & Son. He was born at 
Richmond May 15, 1886. 

ED\VARI> \V. BITRT is Manager of the Eaton Coal Co. at 
Eaton, Indiana, and has been in the retail business for two 
years. He was born at Shideler, Indiana, in 1873. 

E. L, CARROLL, senior member of the coal firm of E. L. 
Carroll & Son at Decatur, Indiana, has been in the retail 
business for thirty-six years. He was born at Huntsville, 
Ohio, February 8. 1858. 

W. O. CARTWRIGHT, retail coal merchant at Anderson, 
Indiana, has been in the retail business for eight years. 
Formerly he traveled for the Taylor Coal Co. of Lafayette, 
Indiana. He was born in Madison County, Indiana, Decem- 
ber 28, 1860. 

GEORGE N. CASH is Secretary and Treasurer of the El- 
wood Coal & Fuel Co. at Elwood. Indiana, and has been in 
the retail business for sixteen years. He was born June 
9, 1841, in Palmyra, Wisconsin. 

CLYDE J. CASTETTER of the firm of Clyde J. Castetter 
& Co., Goshen, Indiana, has been in the retail coal business 
six years. He was born in Goshen October 29, 1870, and is 
a well-known retailer in that section. 

JOHN CHESTERFIELD, Brazil, Indiana, is Superintendent 
of the Otter Creek Coal Co. and has been engaged in the 
coal business for thirty-six years, formerly with Zeller, 
McClellan & Co. He was born in Clay Countv, Indiana, in 
1867. 

ROY C. CLAirSER is Manager of the firm of W. H. Clauser 
& Son at Delphi, Indiana, and has been in the retail coal 
business fourteen years. W. H. Clauser, senior member, 
died August 30, 1914. Roy C. Clauser was born February 23, 
1886. in Carroll County, Indiana. 

FRED C. CLINE, Manager of the C. & O. Coal Co. at 
Jonesboro, Indiana, has been connected with the business 
for seven years. He was formerly with J. S. Neill and A. 
H. Cline. He was born in Jonesboro September 27, 1878. 

CARL A. CLOSSON, Logansport, Indiana, is Manager of 
the coal business of the E. D. Closson Estate, and is also 
interested in a retail yard at Matthews, Indiana. He has 
been connected with the coal business for eleven years and 
formerly was Secretary and Treasurer of the Logansport 
Coal Dealers' Association. He was born October 10, 1884, at 
Logansport. 

E. T. COCHR.AN, retail coal merchant at Auburn. Indiana, 
has been in the business for twelve vears. He was born 
May 13, 1859, at Auburn. 

W. Q.. COLLINS, President and General Manager of the 
W. Q. Collins Grain & Lumber Co. at Lake, Indiana, has 
been in the retail business for seven years. He was born 
October 18, 1878, in Indiana. 

JAMES H. CORNELIUS is General Superintendent of the 
Panhandle Coal Co. at Bicknell, Indiana, and has been con- 
nected with the business for sixteen years. Formerly he 
was with the Cornelius Coal Co. He was born April 24, 
1884, at Columbus. Indiana. 

E. E. CORNTHW'AITE of Cicero, Indiana, has been in the 
retail coal business for sixteen years. He was born July 
11, 18B3, at Collinsville, Ohio. 

BLEL AV. COW'LEY, partner in the firm of Wier & Cowley 
at Ligonier, Indiana, has been in the retail coal business for 
forty-eight years. He was born in LaGrange County, In- 
diana, in 1844. 

D.VNIEL A. CROMER is the sole owner of the Sedalia 
Lumber & Coal Co. at Sedalia, Indiana, and has been in the 
business five years. He was born at Flora, Indiana, in 1882. 



FRANK P. DALTON is Vice President of the Dalton Coal 
Co. at Gary, Indiana, and has been in the business for eight 
j^ears. He was formerly with the Lill-Robinson Coal Co. 
and the City Fuel Co. of Chicago. 

JOSEPH A. DALTON, Secretary of the Dalton Coal Co. 
at Gary, Indiana, has been in the retail business for seven 
years, having formerly been connected with the Chicago 
offices of the Globe Coal Co. and the Miami Coal Co. 

■WILLIAM A. DALTON, President and Treasurer of the 
Dalton Coal Co. at Gary, Indiana, has been eight years in 
the retail business. He was born August 25, 1878, In Chi- 
cago, Illinois. Formerly he was with the Baltimore & Ohio 
Railroad in the coal traffic department and as coal and coke 
agent at Chicago. He is a District Chairman of the Indiana 
Retail Coal Merchants' Association. 

G. C. DAVIS, Tipton, Indiana, was born in California and 
has been in the coal business for sixteen years. He was 
formerly connected with the firm of Fox & Davis. 

J. M. DAVIS is President and Manager of the Davis Coal 
Co. at Shelby, Indiana, and has been in the business foi 
thirteen years, formerly with the Davis-Caster Coal Co. 
He was born in Bath County, Kentucky, March 15, 1860. 

J. O. DAVIS, Secretary of the Greenfield Ice & Fuel Co. 
at Greenfield, Indiana, has been five years in the retail coal 
business. He was born January 30, 1881, at Greenfield. 

HERBERT H. DEAM is Secretary and Treasurer of the 
Studebaker Grain & Seed Co. at Bluffton, Indiana, and has 
been in the business for twenty-six years. He has served 
as President of the Michigan-Ohio-Indiana Retail Coal Deal- 
ers Association for two years. He was born at Bluffton May 
25, 1S62. and has been active in the grain and lumber asso- 
ciations. 

FRANK D. DEARING. retail coal merchant at Anderson, 
Indiana, has been in the business for fourteen years. He 
was born April 24, 1874, at Florida, Indiana. 

JOHN E. DEATON, senior partner of John E. Deaton & 
Son at Sidney, Indiana, has been in the retail coal business 
for thirteen years. He was born October 16, 1862. in Clark 
County, Ohio. 

J. B. DECAMP, Brazil, Indiana, Is General Manager and 
operator of the DeCamp Coal & Clay Co. He has spent 
thirty years in the coal industry as a miner and for six 
years has been in the retail business. He was born at 
Brazil in 1870. 

A. DECKER, Manager of the Home Grain Co. at LaGrange, 
Indiana, has been in the retail coal business for nine years. 
He was born October 9, 1857, at Nottawa, Michigan. 

G. L. DELLINGER, retail coal merchant at Charlestown, 
Indiana, has been in the business for three years. He was 
born at JefCersonville, Indiana, December 2, 1892. 

■\VILLIAM A. DEPOY has been in the retail coal business 
for four years at Converse, Indiana. He -wa.s born May 9, 
1872, in Ohio. 

EDWARD M. DIBOS, proprietor of the business of J. J. 
Dibos & Son at Hammond, Indiana, has been connected with 
the firm for twenty-eight years and has owned the business 
for thirteen. He has served as Secretary of the local coal 
dealers' association. He was born in Morton Grove, Illi- 
nois, November 9, 1887. 

CLAUDE J. DILLON, Secretary Ohio Fuel & Supply Co., 
Van Buren, Indiana, was born in Van Buren, Indiana, 
October 4, 1895, and has been in the coal business for six 
years. 

JAMES L. DILLON, Manager of the Ohio Fuel & Supply 
Co., Van Buren, Indiana, was born in Indiana in 1890, and 
has been in the coal business for eleven years. 

WILLIAM F. DINGEL is President and Treasurer of the 
Dingel Coal & Lumber Co. at Newcastle, Indiana, and has 
been in the retail business for eleven years. He was born 
October 16, 1863, at Washington, D. C. 

CLEM E. DOANE is President of the Boonville Mining 
Co. at Boonville, Indiana, and has been engaged in the coal 
business for seventeen years. He is also interested in the 
Fox Hill Coal Co. and the Ebony Block Coal Co. He was 
formerly with the Patoka River Coal & Coke Co. and the 
Cypress Creek Coal Co. He was born at Jasper, Indiana, 
October 13, 1875. 

ROBERT F. DUNN has been doing a retail coal business 
at Russiaville, Indiana, for seventeen years. He was born 
at Fishers, Indiana, May 14, 1860. 

EDWARD R. DYE of Monticello. Indiana, is President, 
Treasurer and General Manager of the United Fourth Vein 
Coal Co. of Indianapolis. He has been in the coal business 
for eighteen years, formerly with Hunter W. Finch & Co., 
Chicago. He was born at Piedmont, West Virginia, October 
31, 1861. 



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I. S. UllAl'KU, Manager of the Draper Coal & Ice Co. at 
Sullivan. Indiana, has been thirty-one years in the retail 
coal business, formerly with the I. S. Draper Co. and the 
Old Famous Fuel Co. He was born February 20, 1864, in 
Sullivan County, Indiana. W. M. Draper is senior member 
of the company. 

I»I. A. KUERH.VRU, Troy, Indiana, was born at Troy, In- 
diana, February 10, 185.5, and has been in the coal business 
for nineteen years. 

IJAAVRE^X•E A. EBNER, President and General Manager 
of the Ebner Ice & Cold Storage Co., Vincennes, Indiana, 
was born in Vincennes, Indiana, May 7, 1872, and has been 
in the coal business for twenty-five years. He is also 
interested in the retail coal business at Seymour, Indiana. 

ER.NEST ELLIS, Secretary-Treasurer of Ellis Bros., retail 
coal merchants at Kokomo, Indiana, has been in the busi- 
ness for tliirteen years. He was formerly with Hunter W. 
Finch & Co. of Chicago. He was born at Kokomo January 
8, 1877. 

LEAVIS FELCH;, senior member of the firm of Lewis Felch 
& Son at New Harmony, Indiana, has been in the business 
for t\s'enty-four years. He was born at New Harmony No- 
vember 20, 1851. Nelson Felch, his son, is junior member 
of the firm and was born August 12, 1877, at New Harmony. 

HULBERT 31. FERGUSON, President Clinton Coal Co. and 
Ferguson-Spears Coal Co. at Clinton, Indiana, has been in 
the coal business twenty-seven years, formerly with the 
Ehrman Coal Co.. \\here he began as office boj'. He bought a 
small mine in 1894, which was his first mining venture, and 
organized the Clinton Coal Co. in 1901. He was born in 
Clay County, Indiana, October 3, 1869. Mr. Ferguson has 
served as Mayor of his city and taken an active interest 
in all civic movements. 

P. J. FIXGER is Secretary and Treasurer of Finger Bros. 
P. & K. Coal & Coke Co. at Ne\v Albany, Indiana, and has 
been connected with the business for twenty-six years. He 
was born at New Albany April 25, 1877. 

FRAXK H. FOE is the owner of the Bourbon Luniber & 
Coal Co. at Bourbon, Indiana, and has been in the business 
for fifteen years, formerlj' managing the North Liberty 
Lumber & Coal Co. He was born May 8, 1871, at Hamilton, 
Ontario. 

N. B. FORD, Manager of the Crabbs Reynolds Taylor 
Co., West Point, Indiana, was born at West Point, Indiana, 
in 1880, and has been in the coal business for sixteen years. 
He was formerly connected with W. B. Foresman. 

ORA FORSYTH, Secretary-Treasurer of the Noblesville 
Fuel & Supply Co. at Noblesville, Indiana, has been con- 
nected with the business for six years. He was born at 
Franklin, Indiana, September 24, 1872. 

C. T. FOSTER of the firm of C. Y. Foster & Son, retail 
coal merchants at Carmel, Indiana, has been in the business 
for nineteen years. 

ARTHl'R E. FRETAGEOT, retail coal merchant at New 
Harmony, Indiana, has been in the business for eighteen 
years, formerly with his father, A. H. Fretageot. He was 
born December 12, 1873, at New Harinony. 

L. E. FRICKE, a partner in the firm of L. E. Pricke & 
Co., Evansville. Indiana, has been in the wholesale coal 
business two years. He was born May 16, 1866. 

"WILLIA3I GALE, retail coal merchant at Cumberland, 
Indiana, has been in the business for twenty-three years. 
He was born at Cumberland in 1864. 

AARON GARDNER is an equal partner in the firm of 
Gardner & Lewis of Cottage Grove, Indiana. He is also 
interested in the Kitchel Elevator Co. at Kitchel and Boston, 
Indiana. Mr. Gardner has been in the coal business for 
sixteen years and was born in Cedar County, Iowa, March 

I, 1860. 

TH03IAS GILLESPIE, Mine Superintendent at Bicknell, 
Indiana, is also interested in a inine at Edwardsport. Indi- 
ana, and formerly was connected with the following: Lynan 
Coal Co., Knox Coal Co., Knox Coal Mining Co. and Glen- 
dale Coal Co. He was born at Lanarkshire, Scotland, July 

II, 1878. Mr. Gillespie worked as a miner in Scotland and 
has been in the business in America for thirteen years. 

BENJAMIN D. GLASSCOCK, member of the firm of J. W. 
& B. D. Glasscock, wholesale and retail coal merchants at 
Muncie, Indiana, has been fifteen years in the business. He 
was born at Hillsboro, Ohio, September 25, 1872. Mr. Glass- 
cock is a Director of the Indiana Retail Coal Merchants' 
Association. 

PHILIP GOETHALS is a partner in the firm of Goethals 
& Makank, Mishawaka, Indiana, and has been in the retail 
coal business for three years. He was born July 18, 1867, in 
Belgium. 

W. J. GOODRICH has been in the retail coal business fo; 
eleven years at Roval Centre, Indiana, where he was born 
April 3, 1876. 



CHAS. V. GRAFT, Winchester, Indiana, was born In 
Miami County, Indiana, in 1877, and has been In the coal 
business for sixteen years. He also operates a retail coal 
yard at Parker. 

C. AA'. GRANT, retail coal merchant at 1337 Toledo Stri'ct, 
Logansport. Indiana, was born in Columbia City, Indiana, 
November S. 1873. .and has been in the coal business six 
years. The firm was originally Grant & Yeagley. 

WALTER A. GREINER is Manager for Robert McKim & 
Co., wholesale coal merchants at Madison, Indiana. 

D. E. GROW, retail coal merchant at Rensselaer, Indiana, 
has been doing business for eleven years. He was born 
in Rensselaer May 4, 1874. 

CHARLES 31. HA3I, Manager of the C. M. Ham Lumber & 
Coal Co. at Paoli, Indiana, has been in the business for six- 
teen years. He was born at Paoli February 6, 1863. 

H. 3IONROE HARD3IAN, President and General Manager 
of Staples & Hardman, South Bend, Indiana, has been in the 
coal business for sixteen years. He was born January 16, 
1869, at South Bend. Isaac W. Stajiles is a silent member 
of the firm. He was born November 27, 1873, at Kingsbury, 
Indiana. 

S. B. HARLAN, Manager of the Concrete Fuel Co. at And- 
erson, Indiana, has been engaged in the business for four 
years. He was born October 19, 1884, at Alexandria, Indi- 
ana. 

ABRAHA3I HARSH, owner of A. Harsh Coal & Supply Co. 
and President and Manager Tiger Coal & Supply Co., Rich- 
mond, Indiana, was born in Wooster, Ohio, October 6, 1856. 
He is Vice President of The Cliff Wood, Coal & Supply Co., 
Lima, Ohio. He was formerly with Parry & Harsh at Lucas, 
Ohio, and Howe & Harsh at Lima. 

JOSEPH HARTLEY is the proprietor of the retail coal 
business of Jos. Hartley & Son at East Chicago, Indiana, 
which he has conducted for thirteen years. He was born in 
Sheffield, England, in 1861. 

LLOYD HAWKINS is owner of the Culver City Grain & 
Coal Co. at Culver, Indiana, and has been in the business 
four years. He was born February 18, 1884, at Culver. 

HARVEY HAWLEY, Manager of the Miami County 
Lumber Co. at Peru, Indiana, has been in the business for 
sixteen years. He -wa.s born February 16, 1876, in Miami 
County. 

CONRAD S. HEET, Richmond, Indiana, is Secretary, 
Treasurer and Manager of Hackman, Klehfoth & Co., and 
has been connected with the coal business for twenty-two 
years. He vyas born September 19, 1876, at Hamilton, Ohio. 

ED. 31. HEISE is President of Heise Bros., Orleans, In- 
diana. He has been in the retail coal business for twenty 
years. He was born in Indiana March 8, 1858. Albert Heise 
is Secretary and Treasurer of the concern. 

JOHN 3IARSHALL HENDERSON, retail coal merchant at 
Idaville, Indiana, has been in the business for sixteen years, 
formerly with the firm of Joseph Henderson & Son. He 
was born in White County, Indiana, March 5, 1875. 

ORON 31. HENDRICKSON, Manager of O. M. Hendrickson 
& Co., Rochester, Indiana, has been in the retail coal busi- 
ness for nine years. He was born at Kewanna, Indiana, 
February 19, 1877. 

J. C. HENDRIX, Manager of Hendrix & Son, retail coal 
merchants at Tangier, Indiana, has been in the business for 
eight years. He was born February 18, 1867, at Putnam- 
ville, Indiana. 

A. VERNON HENRY is Manager of the East Side Fuel 
Co., Connersville, Indiana, and has been in the retail coal 
business for six years. He was born at Connersville, Feb- 
ruary 11, 1888. 

D. HERBERT HERBSTER, Elkhart, Indiana, is Secretary 
and Manager of the Isbell Lumber & Coal Co. He has been 
in the retail coal business for seven years. He vv^as born 
at Beavertown, Pennsylvania, April 9, 1887. 

VICTOR D. HERRENBRIXK, Treasurer of the John Arch- 
bold Coal Co. at Evansville, Indiana, has been in the retail 
coal business for eighteen years. He w^as born at Evans- 
ville. 

J. J. HIGGINS is President of the Higgins-Martin Coal 
Co. at Clinton, Indiana, and has been engaged in the busi- 
ness for thirteen years, formerly with the Oak Hill Coal & 
Mining Co. He was born in Ohio in 1849. 

L. A. HILLIGOSS is the owner of the retail business of 
Hilligoss & Son at Shelbyville. Indiana, and has been en- 
gaged in the coal trade for twenty-five years. He owns a 
small yard at Morristown, Indiana. He was born in 1863 
in Rush County, Indiana, and is one of Indiana's best known 
retailers. His son, Russell B. HiUigos, is associated with 
him. 

RICHARD 31. HINSHAW, retail coal merchant at Monti- 
cello, Indiana, has been in the business for nine years. He 
was born in White County, Indiana, April 2, 1861. 



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DAN'A HOCH, retail coal merchant at Mulberry, Indiana, 
has been engaged in the business for seven years. He was 
born at Hamilton, Indiana, May 15, 1882. 

SAMUEL, HOLDEN, Brazil, Indiana, is Superintendent of 
stripping pit for the Clay Products Co. and has been con- 
nected with the coal business for thirty-four years. For- 
merly he was with the following concerns: Mcintosh Coal 
Co., Weaver Coal & Coke Co., Continental Clay & Mining 
Co., American Sewer Pipe Co. He was born April 21, 1870, 
at Knightsville, Indiana. 

AVIIiLIAM E. HOUCK is proprietor of the Newcastle Coal 
Agency at Newcastle, Indiana, and has been in the business 
for six years. He was born July 4, 1880, in Illinois. 

GAIiVS LINCOLN HO^VELL, Westville, Indiana, was born 
in La Porte County, Indiana, January 24, 1860, and has been 
engaged in the coal business for four years. 

DAVID INGLE, President of the Ayrshire Coal Co., Evans- 
ville, Indiana, has been engaged in the retail business for 
over twenty years and is also interested in the following: 
Glen Ayr, Green Valley and Tecumseh Coal & Mining com- 
panies. He was born in Evansville, October 5, 1875. David 
Ingle, Sr., who founded the Ayrshire Coal Co., died October 
18, 1909, at Oakland City, Indiana. 

WILL W. IRELAND is a retail coal merchant at Browns- 
town, Indiana, and has been doing business for five years. 
He was born at Brownstown, September 19, 1885. 

ROY H. JACKSON is a mining engineer for the Ayrshire 
Coal Co. at Oakland City, Indiana, and has been connected 
with the industry for eleven years. He was born June 11. 
1886, at Terre Haute, Indiana. 

RICHARD M. JOHNSON, 816 South Michigan St., South 
Bend, Indiana, has been in the retail coal business for four- 
teen years. He was born at Grovertown, Indiana, April 21, 
1871. 

CHASTINE JOHNSTON, proprietor and Manager C. John- 
ston Coal Co.. Auburn, Indiana, was born in St. Joe, Indiana, 
November S, 1879, and has been two years in the retail coal 
business. Mr. Johnston also opened a coal yard in Garrett, 
Indiana, in October, 1918. 

C. B. JOHNSTON of the firm of C. B. Johnston & Son at 
Remington, Indiana, is the senior partner and half owner. 
He has been in the business for forty-two years. He was 
born June 16, 1848, at Branch Hill, Ohio. His son, "W. E. 
Johnston, has been associated in the business for twenty- 
six years. He was born December 7, 1874. The business 
was formerly carried on at Washburn, Illinois, and Arrow- 
smith, Illinois. 

DAA^ID JONES, Gas City, Indiana, is sole owner of the 
David Jones Coal Co. and has been in the retail coal trade 
for eleven years. He was born at Llanelly, Wales, January 
29, 1863. 

LEAVIS KANOUSE is senior member of the retail coal 
firm of Kenouse & Phillips at South Bend, Indiana. He 
has been in the business for thirty-nine years, formerlj' 
with the Powell Coal Co. and Buckley, Kanouse & Co., at 
Paris, Illinois. He was born in 1852 at Shelbyville, Indiana. 

IRA KATj'FFMAN is Secretary and Treasurer of the Con- 
sumers Coal & Supply Co. at Elkhart, Indiana, and has been 
engaged in the retail business for thirteen years. He was 
born at Nevada, Missouri, in 1S72. 

HARRY WILLIAM KELLEV is the owner of the Linder 
Coal Co. at Angola, Indiana, and has been in the retail busi- 
ness for nine years. He is Chairman of the Executive Board 
of the Michigan-Ohio-Indiana Retail Coal Dealers' Associa- 
tion and formerly was connected with the New York Central 
Railroad. He was born October 21, 1872, in Kilkeel, County 
Down, Ireland. 

JOHN E. KELLY is Superintendent and Manager of the 
Big 4 Coal Co. at Boonville, Indiana. He has been in the coal 
business twenty-six years, formerly with Kelly & Nestos. 
He was born at Boonville February 2, 1870. 

M. A. KENNER, Huntington, Indiana, has been in the coal 
business for eleven years, with the firm of C. E. Bash & Co. 
He was born at Huntington January 14, 1877. 

Hl'GO P. KEPPEN, retail coal merchant at Michigan City, 
Indiana, has been in the business for six years. He was 
born in 1876 in Iowa. 

THEODORE S. KERNS is Secretary and Manager of the 
coal business of Kerns & Healey, Logansport, Indiana. He 
has been in the trade for fifty years and was formerly with 
the Indiana Coal & Fuel Co. He was born at Cincinnati, 
Ohio, July 5, 1843. B. W. Healey Is President and Treasurer 
of the concern. 

ELI W. KIMBROUGH, partner in the C. & O. Coal Co., 
Jonesboro, Indiana, is thirty years of age and was born in 
Grant County, Indiana. 

EDWIN KIRKP.VTRICK owns the Kirkpatrick Grain Co. 
at Shirley, Indiana, and has been five years in the coal 
business, formerly with the Haywood Grain Co., Cyclone, 
Indiana. He was born at Sugar Grove, Indiana, ' February 
10, 1873. 



"WALTER E. KLEHFOTH is Secretary and Treasurer of 
the Klehfoth-Niewoehner Co. at Richmond, Indiana. He 
has been connected with the retail coal business for eight 
years, formerly Avith Hackman, Klehfoth & Co. He was born 
February 5, 1886. at Cincinnati, Ohio. Lewis C. Niewoehner 
is President of the company. 

GEORGE KLITCH of Ewing, Indiana, has been in the re- 
tail coal business for eight years. He was born at Sey- 
mour, Indiana, March 15, 1856. He formerly was with the 
United Fourth Vein Coal Co. and the Davis Coal Co. 

CHRISTIAN KNOEPFLE is a retail coal merchant at 
Bremen, Indiana, and has been in the business for six years. 
He was born April 23, 1855, in Germany. 

JOHN G, KRATLI, retail coal merchant at Knox, Indiana, 
was born in Switzerland, February 21, 1842, and has been in 
the business most of his active life. 

JOHN P. KRIEGBAUM, Treasurer of Kriegbaum Bros., 
Inc., at Huntington, Indiana, has been in the retail coal 
business for over twenty years. He was born at Cedar- 
ville, Ohio, August 13, 1865. 

W. S. LASLEY, senior member of TV. S. Lasley & Son, 
Gessie, Indiana, has been in the retail coal business for six 
years. He was born March 15, 1856, in Scott County, Ken- 
tucky. 

EDAVARD LEE, SR., is head of the firm of E. Lee & Son 

at Crawfordsville, Indiana, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for thirty years. He was born in New York City 
March 1, 1850. 

WILLIAM H. LEE, retail coal merchant at New Albany, 
Indiana, has been in the business for over twenty years. He 
was formerly with the Winslow Gas Coal Co. He was born 
in Floyd County, Indiana. 

OTTO LEFFORGE, retail coal merchant at Rossville, In- 
diana, has been seven years in the business. He was born 
in 1880 at Oaklandon, Indiana. 

W. A. LEWIS, Manager of the Central Coal Co. at Elwood, 

Indiana, has been in the business for three years. He was 
born June 22, 1869, at McKeesport, Pennsylvania. 

DR. W. A. LINE, French Lick, Indiana, has been in the 
coal business twenty years, supplying- the home trade. He 
was born in Orange County, Indiana, January 12, 1844. 

J. F. LilNGEMAN is senior member of the firm of Linge- 
man, Adams & Co., coal merchants at Brownsburg, Indiana. 
He was born in Indiana in 1854 and has been engaged in 
the coal business for twenty-six years. 

HARRY W. LITTLE, 510 Old State Bank Building, Evans- 
ville, Indiana, is Secretary and Treasurer of S. W. Little 
Sons & Co. and has been connected with the coal business 
sixteen years. He is also Secretary of the Southern Indiana 
Coal Bureau and Assistant District Representative of the, 
United States Fuel Administration for Southern Indiana. 
He was born in Evansville in 1875. 

ORLANDO HENRY LITTLE, President of the O. H. Little 
Fuel Co., Richmond, Indiana, has been in the retail coal 
business for thirteen years. He was born in 1865 in Ran- 
dolph County, Indiana. 

JOSEPH E, LLOYD is Manager of and partner in the E. T. 
Slider Co., Louisville, Kentucky, with offices at New Albany,' 
Indiana. He has been connected with the coal business for 
twenty years, formerly with E. T. Slider, l''ew Albany. He 
was born December 18, 1871, at New Albany. 

W. A. LORD has been in the retail coal business at Mays, 
Indiana, since November, 1907. On March 13, 1918, he and 
his son, Fred S. Lord, formed the firm of W. A. Lord & Son. 
Both are natives of Rush County, Indiana, the father born 
in 1857. 

EH A. LUGINBILL is Secretary and. Manager of the Berne 
Grain & Hay Co. at Berne, Indiana, and has done a retail 
coal business for ten years. 

HARRY BALDWIN LYMAN, coal merchant at LaFayette, 
Indiana, was engaged in the business for about thirty years, 
succeeding his father, E. B. Lyman, who established it over 
fifty years ago. Mr. Lyman was born in LaFayette Septem- 
ber 24, 1868, and died December 19, 1916. The present owner 
is G. Edwin Lyinan, who has been connected with the trade 
for six years. He was born June 3, 1893, at LaFayette, and 
his associate is Charles Patton, who has been with the firm 
for twenty years. 

JOHN LYNCH, retail coal merchant at Highland, Indiana, 
has been doing business for seventeen years. He was 
born in Wood County, Ohio, September 25, 1861. 

R. L. 3IAGEE, Manager for H. Kittinger. Winamac, 
Indiana, was born at Winamac, Indiana, March 28, 1860, 
and has been in the coal business for thirty-one years. 

HARRY A. M.\RTIN, Owner of the coal business of Martin 
& Martin at Newcastle. Indiana, has been connected with 
the retail coal trade eighteen years. He was born October 
20, 1858, in Mt. Vernon, Ohio. 



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JOSEPUrS MAIITIX is Manager of the retail coal firm of 
Hardison & JMartin at Geneva, Indiana, and has been in the 
business for sixteen years. He was born at Geneva .Tune 17, 
1881. 

GEORGE MATHAS, head of the firm of Geo. Mathas & 
Son at Montezuma, Indiana, has been in the retail coal 
business for fifteen years. He was born ,Tuly 25, 1864, at 
Montezuma. 

HARRY AV. jrATTERS is Vice President and Secretary of 
the J. WooUey Coal Co. at Evansville, Indiana. He has been 
in the coal business for twenty-six years. He was born 
December 5. ISfi,'!, at Vincennes, Indiana. He is interested 
also in the "tt^arrick Coal Mining Co. 

SAMl'EL, J. MATTHEAVS, Manager of Elliott & Co., 
Tipton, Indiana, was born at Peru, Indiana, in 1870, and 
has been engaged in the coal business for twenty-two 
years. He was formerly connected with the firm of Wees- 
ner, Matthews & Co. 

LAPE PE^X•E MAUCK is Secretary and Treasurer of the 
Owensville Lumber & Coal Co. at Owensville, Indiana, and 
has been in the business for six years. He w^as b^rn April 
19, 181(4, at Owensville. 

J.\MES H. McCLELLAjVD of Brazil, Indiana, is Treasurer 
of the Sunbeam Coal Co. and was formerly President of the 
Brazil Block Coal Co. He was born in Poland in 1855 and 
has been in the coal business for over forty years. Mr. 
McClelland is one of the best known operators in the block 
field of Indiana. 

H. S. McCOY is the owner of the Osgood Grain Co. at Os- 
good, Indiana, and has been in the retail coal business for 
four years. 

AVILLIAM F. MoCURDY is a retail coal merchant at Ridge- 
ville, Indiana, who has been engaged in the business for 
twenty-one years. He was born in 1867. 

JOHIV M. McGVriRE is a retail coal merchant at LaFayette, 
Indiana, who has been In business for himself thirteen years 
and has spent thirty-five years, all told, in various connec- 
tions with the trade. He was formerly with Wm. Taylor & 
Co. and William Taylor & Son, Brockenbrough & Murphy, 
Martin & McGuire and Parke County Coal Co. He was born 
at LaFayette July 26, 1859. 

J. E, McIIiWAIlV is owner of the coal business of Ed. Mc- 
Ilwain at 'Kirklin, Indiana, and has been connected with the 
retail trade for six years. He ■was born at McCords, Indiana, 
March 1, 1875. 

E. B. 3IcQ.UADE, General Superintendent Indian Creek Coal 
& Mining Co., Vincennes, Indiana, w^as born In Indiana and 
has been in the coal business for twenty years. He also 
has coal interests in Westphalia, Indiana. 

C. D. MEEKER is Secretary of the Monticello Lumber & 
Coal Co. at Monticello, Indiana. He served as President of 
the Indiana Retail Lumber Dealers' Association in 1913. He 
was born at Dayton, Ohio, August 31, 1857. 

LOUIS H. MEYER, Manager of the Meyer Coal Co. at 
New Albany, Indiana, has been in the coal business for six- 
teen years, formerly with the New Albany Coal Co. He 
was born February 22, 1869, at New Albany. 

ARTHUR U. MILUER is owner of the Miller Lumber & 
Coal Co. at Nappanee, Indiana, and has been in the retail 
business for fourteen years. He was born in Elkhart 
County, Indiana, in August, 1877. His partner is Lenus 
Miller. 

VERIV M. MILLER, Manager of the Veedersburg Lumber 
Co., Veedersburg, Indiana, was born in Veedersburg, 
Indiana, October 18, 1876, and has been in the coal business 
for eleven years. 

WALTER J. MONDHANK is Manager of the Butler Mill- 
ing Co. at Butler, Indiana, and has been in the coal business 
for eight years. He formerly was with the Platte City 
Milling Co. at Platte City, Missouri. He was born in Lan- 
caster, Ohio, September 23, 1876. 

WILLIAM LOVELL MORRIS, Secretary and Manager of 
the Citizens Coal & Supply Co. at Logansport, Indiana, has 
been in the retail business for ten years and was formerly 
with Walter J. Scully, owner of the United Coal Yards. He 
was born at New London, Indiana, in 1862. 

J. W. MORRISOIV is Secretary-Treasurer of the Hunting- 
ton Lumber Co. at Huntington, Indiana, and has been con- 
nected with the coal business for fifteen years. He was 
formerly with N. P. Sailing at Anderson, Indiana. He was 
born in Ohio November 3, 1880. 

A. B. BIOSHER, Manager of A. B. Mosher & Co., coal mer- 
chants at Columbia City, Indiana, has been engaged in the 
business for sixteen years, formerly as a member of the 
firm of Mosher & Granil. He has served on the executive 
committee of the Third District of the Indiana Coal Oper- 
ators Association. He was born in Whitley County, Indiana, 
October 3, 1853. 



CL.VY E. MOSS is General Superintendent of the United 
Fourth Vein Coal Co. at Linton, Indiana. He has been con- 
nected with the coal industry for twenty-three years. He 
was born in Indiana April 16, 1878. 

ARCHin.\I,D K. MURRAY of Muncie, Indiana is partner 
and Manager of the firm of Stafford & Murray, who have 
yards at Medford and Raymond, Indiana. He has been ten 
years in the coal business. He was born in Scotland De- 
cember 20, 1876. 

WILLIAM J. aiYERS, Decatur, Indiana, has been in the 
retail coal business for sixteen years. He was born in 
Wayne County, Ohio, May 21, 1839. 

JAMES IS. IVEEDLER is Manager of the Willman Lum- 
ber Co. at Hartford City, Indiana, and has been connected 
w^ith the retail coal business for sixteen years. He was 
born at Des Moines, Iowa, May 29, 1876. 

FRANK B. NEESE, Mine Superintendent for the J. K. 
Dering Coal Co. at Clinton, Indiana, has been connected 
with the coal industry for over twenty years, formerly 
with the Miami Coal Co. and the O'Gara Coal Co. He was 
born at Brazil, Indiana. 

MATHIAS NEUDORF, retail coal merchant at Merrillville, 
Indiana, has been in the business for five years. He was 
born at St. John, Indiana, November 15, 1864. 

CALVIIV NICEU3I, senior member of the firm of Niceum & 
Harlan at Swayzee, Indiana, has been in the retail coal 
business for ten years. He was formerly with the Niceum 
Milling Co. and with Wright & Niceum. He was born 
January 19, 1851, in Darke County, Ohio. 

ORREN M. NICEUM, General Manager of the Grant 
County Lumber Co., Swayzee, Indiana, has been in the re- 
tail coal business eighteen years. He was formerly with 
the Niceum-Henley Co. and the Niceum Milling Co. He 
was born in 1867 in Wabash County, Indiana. 

A. C. NICHOLSON, Treasurer of the Washington-Wheat- 
land Coal Co., Wheatland, Indiana, was born in Knox 
County, Indiana, in December, 1857, and has been in the 
coal business for fifteen years. 

LEWIS C. NIEWOEHNER is President of the Klehfoth- 
Niewoehner Co., 222 Kinsey St., Richmond, Indiana. He 
has been in the coal business for two years. He was born 
January 27, 1886, at Richmond. 

C. H. OMSTEAD, President of C. H. Omstead & Son at 
LaGrange, Indiana, has been five years in the retail coal 
business. He was born at LaGrange. M. H. Omstead is the 
other member of the firm. 

CHARLES A. OPP, proprietor of The Opp Coal Co. at 
Aurora, Indiana, has been connected with the coal business 
for twelve years. He formerly was a member of the firm 
of Bosse & Opp. He was born at Farmers Retreat, Indiana, 
January 16, 1866. 

J. J. OVERMEYER, retail coal merchant at Kouts, In- 
diana, has been in business for six years. He was born 
at Somerset, Ohio, in 1874. 

AVILLIAM OVERMIRE, Yorktown, Indiana, is a native 
of Indiana, having been born at Yorktown, September 4, 
1863, and has been in the coal business for seven years. 

GEORGE H. PALMER, retail coal merchant at Sheridan, 
Indiana, has been doing business for sixteen years. He was 
born in Indiana in 1860. 

JOHN H. PANABAKER, General Manager of the firm of 
Sam Panabaker & Son at Kokomo, Indiana, has been con- 
nected with the coal business for fifteen years. He has 
served as a Director of the Indiana Retail Coal Merchants' 
Association. He was born February 19, 1882, in Cass County, 
Indiana. 

W^ARREN W. PEARSON, Upland, Indiana, was born in 
Fisher, Illinois, July 27, 1880, and has been In the coal 
business for sixteen years. 

JAMES H. PERSONS, President and General Manager of 
the Queen Coal & Mining Co. at Jasonville, Indiana, has been 
in the coal industry for thirteen years. He was born July 
27, 1858. at Wellston, Ohio. 

HENRY C. PETERS, "The Coal Man" at Crown Point, 
Indiana, has been in the retail business for nine years. He 
was born in Chicago, Illinois, October 1, 1876. 

HARLEY PHEND, Manager Phend Bros., Nappanee, In- 
diana, was born in Nappanee January 3, 1870, and has been 
in the coal business a quarter of a centurj^ William Phend, 
his partner, was born June 13, 1868. 

CHARLES MONROE PIERCY, Kokomo, Indiana, has been 
in the retail coal business for eleven years. He was born 
February 11, 1853, in Ohio. 

TE3IPLE G. PIERSON, Manager of the J. L. Pierson Lum- 
ber Co. at Spencer, Indiana, has been connected with the 
retail coal business for eight years. He was born Febru- 
ary 3, 1875, at Freedom, Indiana. 



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JACOB FRA^'KIiIN PLICE, retail coal merchant at Markle, 
Indiana, has been in the business for twenty-three years. 
He was formerly with Sharick & Plice at Nankin, Ohio, but 
bought out his partner. He was born at Polk, Ohio, January 
15, 1859. 

MARTIN liUTHER PL,OTT, retail coal merchant at Leb- 
anon, Indiana, has been doing business there for fifteen 
years, selling strictly for cash. He was born August 3, 
1853, at Roanoke, Virginia. 

ELIJAH POAVERS is General Manager of the Peacock Coal 
Co. at Boonville, Indiana. He has been connected with the 
business for sixteen years, formerly with the T. D. Scales 
Coal Co. and the Cypress Creek coal mines. He was born 
February 3, 1886, in Warrick County, Indiana. 

O. H. RABE is a Director of the Beckman Supply Co. at 
Hammond, Indiana, and has been connected with the retail 
coal business for fifteen years. He was born May 2, 1875, 
at Chicago Heights, Illinois. 

ALFRED P. RANDOI^PH, retail coal merchant at LaFay- 
ette. Indiana, has been engaged in the business for sixteen 
years. He was born at Newburg, Pennsylvania. 

WILBUR LIAL RAAVLINGS is a retail coal merchant of 
Michigan City, Indiana, who has been doing business for 
thirty-seven years. He was born at Jeffersonville, Indiana, 
January 12, 1858, and is the pioneer coal merchant of his 
city. 

MALCOLM REED, Secretary-Treasurer of the Rose Hill 
Coal Co. at Linton, Indiana, has been in the business six 
years, formerly with the Twin Oaks Coal Co. He was born 
at Brazil, Indiana, March 29, 1874. He worked in the mines 
at Morris Run, Pennsylvania, when fourteen years old. 

DAVID H. REESE, retail coal merchant at Angola. Indi- 
ana, has been in the business for seven years. He ^vas born 
in Williams County, Ohio, September 13, 1866. 

OSBORNE G. REILLY, clerk in the office of E. T. Slider 
at New Albany, Indiana, has been in the coal business for 
twenty-five years. He was born August 11, 1872, at New 
Albany. 

THOMAS \V. RICHARDSON is President of the Rose Hill 
Coal Co. at Linton, Indiana. He was formerly President of 
the Twin Oaks Coal Co., which he organized. He was born 
near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1871. He began working 
in the coal mines at Washington, Indiana, at the age of 
nine years. 

SCHtiYLER ROSE, South Bend, Indiana, has been in the 
coal business for twenty years. He formerly was with the 
Powhattan Coal Co. at Toledo, the Pittsburgh-Buffalo Coal 
Co. at Detroit and the Commercial Coal Co. at Detroit, as 
Sales Manager, and Hunter W. Finch & Co. at Chicago. He 
was born at South Bend February 22, 1S68. 

J. N. RUSSELL, Tipton, Indiana, was born in Warren 
County, Ohio, February 25, 1859, and has been in the coal 
business eighteen years. 

HUGH E. RUTLEDGE, retail coal merchant at Martins- 
ville, Indiana, has been engaged in the business for sixteen 
years. He was born in Morgan County, Indiana, September 
19. 1870. 

ALBERT R. SAILOR, Manager and President of A. R. 
Sailor Coal Co., coal merchants, Flkhart, Indiana, has been 
eight years in the retail business. He was born January 1, 
ISSO, in southwestern Indiana. 

JAMES W. SALE, President of the Studebaker Grain & 
Seed Co. at Bluffton, Indiana, was formerly connected with 
the Studebaker-Sale Co. and has been in the retail coal 
business for twenty-eight years. He was born August 1, 
1858, at North Manchester, Indiana. 

NIELS P. SALLING, Anderson, Indiana, has been engaged 
in the retail coal business at Anderson nineteen years. He 
is also interested in yards at Huntington and Muncie, In- 
diana. He was born in Denmark. 

EUGENE G. SARGEANT is President and General Man- 
ager of the Sargeant Coal Co. at Newburgh, Indiana, and 
has been in the retail coal business for over twenty years. 
He is a Director of the Evansville Coal Exchange. He was 
born at Newburgh July 18, 1870. 

H. E. SCHEID, retail coal merchant at Covington, Indiana, 
has been doing business for six years. He was born Decem- 
ber 1, 1878, at Eaton, Ohio. 

J. B. SCHLOOT, Secretary, Treasurer and Purchasing 
Agent of the Ayrdale Coal Co. at Linton, Indiana, has been 
connected with the business for six years. He was born at 
Linton in 1871. 

NICHOLAS SCHREPFERMAN is President of the Schrep- 
ferman Coal Co. at Brazil, Indiana, and has been in the 
coal industry for twenty-six years. He was born in Ger- 
many December 1, 1861. 



WILLIAM SCONCE has been in the retail coal business 
for four years at Crawfordsville, Indiana, and is the pro- 
prietor of the South Side Lumber & Coal Co. He formerly 
was with the Burnet-Lewis Lumber Co. of Indianapolis. He 
was born in Bartholomew County, Indiana, Februarj' 4, 1864. 

FINLEY T. SEMON, Vernon, Indiana, was born in Ripley 
County, Indiana, and has been in the coal business for the 
past fourteen years. 

FOREST SHACKEI-FORD, associated with Mark Shackel- 
ford in the ownership of the Ladoga Coal Co., Ladoga, In- 
diana, was born in Montgomery County in 1868. He has 
been in the coal business four years. 

MARK SHACKELFORD, associated with Forest Shackel- 
ford in the ownership of the Ladoga Coal Co., Ladoga, In- 
diana, was born in Montgomery County, Indiana, in 1865. 
He has been in the coal business four years. 

LA'MAN E. SHAAV is the Owner and Manager of the 
Bloomington Coal Co. at Bloomington, Indiana, and has 
been in the retail business for seven years. He ■was born 
in 1869 in Indiana. Ray E. Fultz, his assistant, is now in 
the service of his country. 

WILLIAM R. SHAW is Manager of the Urmston Grain Co. 
at Orestes, Indiana, and has been connected with the coal 
business for fifteen years. He was formerly in business for 
himself. He was born September 1, 1874, at Orestes. 

SHAAV & SHAAV, Crawfordsville. Indiana, is composed of 
James O. and Melville F. Shaw, \vlio have been in the re- 
tail coal business for twenty-one years. Both were born at 
Battle Ground. Indiana, the former in 1854 and the latter 
in 1856. 

IRA^IN SHEAKS, Indiana Harbor, Indiana, has been in 
the retail coal business for five years. He was born at 
Walkerton. Indiana, October 8, 1879. 

DORA W. SHERRY is General Manager of "W. H. Sherry 
& Son, coal merchants at Connersville, Indiana, and has 
been in the coal business eleven years. He is a member of 
the Michigan-Ohio-Indiana Retail Coal Dealers' Association 
and the Indiana Retail Coal Merchants' Association. He 
was born March 18, 1878, at Connersville. 

J. E. SHIELDS, retail coal merchant at Hope, Indiana, has 
been in the business for about forty years. He was born in 
North Carolina in 1854. 

ANSON R. SHIREMAN, President and Manager of A. R. 
Shireman & Son, retail coal merchants at Martinsville, In- 
diana, has been in business forty years. He was born at 
Martinsville February 4, 1854. Howard F. Shireman, Secre- 
tary and Treasurer, was born November 15, 1881. 

GEORGE AV. SHUPP, retail coal merchant at North Man- 
chester, Indiana, has been twenty-six years in the business, 
formerly with Young ■ Shupp and S. P. Young. He was 
born at Bucyrus, Ohio. 

ROSCOE T. SIMMERS, junior partner of Beach & Simmers 
at Albany, Indiana, has been connected with the coal busi- 
ness for five years. He was born January 17, 1885, in Allen 
County, Indiana. 

EDWARD T. SLIDER, New Albany. Indiana, has been in 
the coal business, wholesale and retail, for twenty-eight 
years. He is also interested in a plant at Louisville, Ken- 
tucky. He was born March 4, 1866, at New Albany. Mr. 
Slider is one of the most successful of retail coal merchants. 

EPHRAIM K. SMITH, retail coal merchant at Middle- 
town, Indiana, has been in the business eleven years, for- 
merly with Daniels & Pickering Co. He was born near 
Newcastle, India,na, June 5, 1875. 

O. O. SMITH, Richmond, Indiana, is Western Manager for 
the Bewley-Darst Coal Co. of Knoxville, Tennessee, and has 
been in the coal business fifteen years, formerly with the 
Marmet Coal Co. and the Chesapeake & Ohio Coal & Coke 
Co. He was born November 5, 1876, at Pomeroy, Ohio, and 
is -widely known in the coal trade. 

W. B. SMITH, retail coal merchant at Jolietville, Indiana, 
has been in the business for eighteen years. He was born 
November 14. 1S70, at Jolietville. 

WILLIAM M. SMITH, Manager for W. M. Smith & Co., 
Logansport, Indiana, has been fifteen years in the retail 
coal trade. He was born August 23, 1849, in Pulaski County, 
Indiana. 

AVILLIA3I SNAVELY, retail coal merchant at Syracuse, 
Indiana, has been in the business for sixteen years. He 
was born April 15, 1868, at Syracuse. 

MYRON B. SNYDER, Waynetown, Indiana, was born in 
Franklin County, Indiana, November 30, 1889, and has been 
engaged in the coal business for six years. 

GEORGE W. SPENCER is the owner of the G. W. Spencer 
Coal Co. at Garrett, Indiana, and has been in the retail busi- 
ness for nine years. He was born at Somerset, Ohio, June 8, 
1859. 



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PKRRY K. Sl'H.V(;i K is Secretary. Treasurer and Man- 
ager of the Syracuse Lumber & Coal Co. at Syracuse. In- 
diana, having an interest in the Home Lumber & Coal Co. 
at Buchanan. Michigan. He was formerly connected with 
the Terry-Sprag'ue Co.. and has been in the business for 
eleven years. He was born at Fremont, Indiana. Decem- 
ber 11. 1870. 

LA ROY SPRING, South Bend, Indiana, is a traveling 
salesman for the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co. 
and has been connected with the business for six years. He 
was born at Geneva, Ohio, June 1, 1876. 

\V. 1>. Sl'RlXfiER, retail coal merchant at Fortville, Iiuli- 
ana. has been two years in tlie business. 

FR.\XK STAFFORD is a retail coal merchant at Bluffton, 
Indiana, and has been in the business for seven years. He 
was born June 7, 1879, in Wells County, Indiana. 

EM^SAVORTH B. STECK, Manager for E. B. Steck & Son, 
Jluncie. Indiana, has been in the retail coal business for 
fifteen years. He was born at Newcastle, Indiana, August 
15, 1S6L 

HAXS STOL.L.EY, West Lebanon. Indiana, was born in 
Illinois January 5, 1871, and has been in the coal business 
for three years. 

ERVIX STI'C'KY, Manager of the Berne Lumber Co. at 
Monroe. Indiana, has been six years in the retail coal busi- 
ness. He was born June 12, 1889, at Berne, Indiana. 

SAMUEl, C. STULTZ, Secretary Clinton Coal Co., Clinton, 
Indiana, has been connected with the coal business seventeen 
years. He was born October 23. 1868. in Clinton and was 
formerly connected with the Massachusetts Mutual Life 
Insurance Co. 

ARTHUR G. TAYLOR, retail coal merchant at Creston, 
Indiana, has been in the business for fourteen years. He 
was born July 26, 1880, at Creston. 

A. O. TOYVNSLEY, retail coal merchant at Burnetts Creek. 
Indiana, has been in the business for eleven years. He 
was born in Carroll County, Indiana, March 17, 1882. 

CHARLES ARTHUR TOWSLEY is Secretary, Treasurer 
and Manager of the Claypool Lumber & Coal Co. at Clay- 
pool, Indiana, and has been connected with the business 
for two years. He was born February 20, 1871, at White 
Pigeon, Michigan. 

CLAREXCE F. TROY'ER is Manager of the Mlddlebury 
Grain Co. at Mlddlebury. Indiana, and has been connected 
with the business eight years. He was born in LaGrange 
County, Indiana. December 16. 1886. 

AVILLIAJI HEXRY TUTHILL is a retail coal merchant at 
Crown Point, Indiana, who has been doing business for ten 
years. He was born at Crown Point, March 11, 1878. 

J. F. TWEEDY has been in the retail coal business at 
Carthage, Indiana, for two years. He was born July 7, 
1866, in Rush County, Indiana. 

CHARLES HARRY UHL, proprietor of the Independent 
Coal Co. at Logansport. Indiana, has been in the retail coal 
business four years. He Avas born February 25. 1875, in 
Logansport. 

JULIUS A. UNDERWOOD, Manager of the Jamestown 
Lumber Co. at Jamestown. Indiana, has been in the coal 
business for twenty-one years. He was born at Austin, 
Texas, November 16, 1875. 

LAMBERT M. VAN HART, Manager of L. M. Van Hart & 
Co., Connersville, Indiana, has been in the wholesale and 
retail coal business twenty-three years, formerly with the 
C. G. Blake Co. He is Secretary-Treasurer of Wolf Creek 
Coal Co. and of the Altro Coal Co., and Vice President of the 
Colvan Mining Co. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 
19, 1877. 

CHARLES W. VERNON, Anderson. Indiana, is the owner 
of the retail coal business of E. G. Vernon & Son and has 
carried it on since 1895. It was established in 1868 by E. 
G. Vernon. Charles W. Vernon was born at Anderson Aug- 
ust 2, 1872. 

JOSEPH L. VICKERY, retail coal merchant at Sheridan, 
Indiana, was born in Sheridan December 31, 1865. and has 
been in the business sixteen years. 

S. C. WALLACE is a partner in the coal firm of Wallace 
& Painter at Edwardsport, Indiana. He has been in the 
business for thirteen years, formerly with Ruby & Wallace. 
He was born in Orange County, Indiana. 



S.VMUEL AV. WALTS, General Manager of the River Coal 
& Supply Co., New Albany, Indiana, has been in the retail 
coal business for eleven years and is well known in the 
trade. 

ARTHUR D. W.VSMUTH, Manager for A. Wasmuth & Sons 
Co. at Andrews, Indiana, has been connected with the retail 
coal business for over twenty years. The company also 
operates a yard at Roanoke. Indiana. Mr. Wasmuth was 
born at Roanoke. 

CECIL C. AVELLS. Manager of the Scottsburg Elevator 
at Scottsburg, Indiana, has been connected with the coal 
business for twenty-three years, formerly with the Scotts- 
burg Grain Exchange. He was born in Indiana Novem- 
ber 22, 1875. 

A. C. AVILKERSON, President and Manager of the Wilker- 
son Ice & Fuel Co. at Huntington, Indiana, has been in the 
retail business for eleven years. He was born in 1847 in 
Allen County, Indiana. 

JOHN T. AVILSON is the proprietor of a retail coal busi- 
ness at Larwill, Indiana, and has conducted it for seventeen 
years. He was born at Larwill October 16, 1852, and was 
the first coal merchant in the town. 

HARRY D. AA'INNIE is Secretary-Treasurer of the Russia- 
ville Lumber & Coal Co. at Russiaville, Indiana, and has 
been connected with the company for six years. He re- 
ceived a commission August 15, 1917, at Fort Benjamin 
Harrison, as Lieutenant in the Officers' Reserve Corps. 

AA'. H. AA'INNIE is President of the Russiaville Lumber & 
Coal Co. at Russiaville, Indiana, and has been connected 
with the coal business over twenty years. He was formerly 
with the New Richmond Lumber Co., Stockwell Lumber Co. 
and the Sedalia Lumber & Coal Co. He was born at Jack- 
son, Michigan, May 2, 1863. 

ORIEN AA'OLF is Manager for J. G. Wolf & Sons, Marlon, 
Indiana, and has been connected with the coal business for 
fifteen years. He is a son of J. G. Wolf, formerly head of 
the firm, who died April 6, 1912. Orien Wolf was born In 
1869 at Morristown, Indiana. 

B. B. AVOODS of Cicero, Indiana, is Secretary and Treas- 
urer of the Cicero Lumber Co. and has been eleven years 
in the retail coal business. He was born at Michigan City, 
Indiana, December 19, 1869. 

JOHN C. AVRIGHT, Boonville, Indiana, has been connected 
with the coal industry for nineteen years, formerly as a 
miner. For six and a half years he was a mine inspector for 
the Indiana Industrial Board, but is at present employed as 
mine boss. He was born in Hamilton County. Illinois. No- 
vember 9, 1S74. 

LEWIS S. AVRIGHT is senior member and buyer of the 

firm of Wright & Niceum, retail coal merchants at Swayzee, 
Indiana, and has been in the business for eight years. He 
was born at Swayzee September 28, 1866. 

E. J. AVYATT is President and Treasurer of the Wyatt 
Coal Co. at Auburn, Indiana, and has been connected with 
the retail trade for fifteen years, formerly with the firm 
of ■Wyatt & Baker. He was born April 26, 1862, In DeKalb 
County, Indiana. 

ARTHUR AATTLIE, Manager of the Elwood Lumber Co. 
at Elwood, Indiana, has been in the retail coal business for 
sixteen years. He was born at Stellarton. Nova Scotia, 
November 13, 1874. 

GEORGE AVASHINGTON YARNELLE. Manager Of the 
Yarnelle Lumber & Coal Co.. Wabash, Indiana, was born 
in Wabash, Indiana, August 5, 1889, and has been in the 
coal business for eleven years. 

FREDERICK J. YESBERA is the owner of the Yesbera 
Coal Co. at Auburn, Indiana, and has been in the business 
for about nine years. He was born at TVest Unity. Ohio, 
October 25, 1858. 

A. J. ZI3IMER3IAN, retail coal merchant at Remington. 
Indiana, was in the coal business fourteen years, recently 
selling out to the Citizens Coal & Ice Co., Ward Lewis, 
proprietor. Mr. Zimmerman was born in Woodford County, 
Illinois, April 22, 1852. 

AV. PAUL ZIMMERMAN is President of the Zimmerman 
Coal Co. at Brazil. Indiana. He is also Secretary and Treas- 
urer of the Hall-Zimmerman Coal Co. Mr. Zimmerman 
has been in the coal business for over twenty years. He 
was born at Brazil September 14, 1874. 



11.5 



IOWA 



ALTHOUGH Iowa was among the earliest pioneer 
states in the production of coal west of the Mis- 
sissii)])i river, the ready absorption of its out- 
put by interests within its own- borders and its geo- 
graphic location with respect to other coal producing 
areas have combined to localize its distribution to such 
an extent that only a very small percentage of its an- 
nual coal product reaches the general channels of in- 
terstate commercial fuel distribu.tion. The wealth and 
resources of the state have made it a most tempting 
field to producers in other states and its ready accessi- 
bility from the point of view of transportation has drawn 
domestic coal from every major producing state east 
of the Mississippi, except Alabama, and fropi Colorado 
and Wyoming. At the same time the industrial de- 
mand has proven a strong attraction for Illinois and, 
to a lesser degree, Indiana and other states lying in 
proximity to the King of the Corn Belt. 

The Iowa coal fields, located in the central and south- 
ern portions of the state, form the northeastern section 
of the western interior coal region. The coal bearing 
area within the state covers approximately 20,000 
square miles, "of which 13,000 may be considered po- 
tentially productive under present conditions and con- 
siderably more in future periods when the fuel sup- 
plies of the world shall have suffered greater depletion." 
The coal measures of the state are separated into the 
Missouri and the Des Moines groups. The upper, or 
Missouri gToup, is of little present importance. The 
greater part of the coal production of the state comes 
from the lower part of the Des Moines group, where the 
beds average about five feet in thickness. Included in 
the Des Moines group is the well known Mystic or Cen- 
terville bed. With the exception of the Nodaway thin 
vein in Adams, Page and Tajdor counties, which enjoys 
a local market of some value, the iipper Missouri, or 
upper group, yields little coal of present-day impor- 
tance. 

"The more iuiportant producing areas of Iowa," says 
the United States Geological Survey, "are: (1) The 
northern, including Webster, Boone and neighboring 
counties, and yielding four per cent, of the total output ; 
(2) the north central, including Polk, Jasper and 
Dallas counties, and producing 29 per cent, of the out- 
put, chiefly from Dallas county; (3) the soiith central, 
including ]\Iarion, Jlahaska, ]\Ionroe and adjacent coun- 



ties, and producing 43 per cent, of the total output; (4) 
the southeastern, including Wapello, Van Buren, and 
adjacent counties, and yielding four per cent, of the 
total — in all of these areas practically all of the coal 
mined comes from the lower part of the Des Moines 
group; (5) the south central, including Appanoose and 
Wayne counties, and producing 19 per cent, of the 
state's total — the coal mined is from the Mystic or 
Centerville bed; (6) the southwestern, including 
Adams, Taylor and Page counties and yielding one-half 
of one per cent, of the total — this product is from the 
Nodaway bed of the Missouri group." 

The first record of Iowa production appears in the 
United States Census for 1840, when the state was cred- 
ited with a total output of 400 tons. With the excep- 
tion of an insignificant loss in 1860, the production 
showed a slow but 'steady increase until 1873 when the 
output had reached 336,000 tons. There was a jump to 
799,936 tons the following year and in 1875 the total 
was 1,231,547 tons. The record continued upon a 
fairly even tenor until 1881, when the output totaled 
1,960,000 tons. The next year saw a rapid increase, the 
tonnage being 3,920,000 tons. Production figures since 
that date are shown in the following" table : 



Year. Ton 

1883 4,457,540 

1884 4,370,566 

1885 4,012,575 

1886 4,315,779 

1887 4,473,828 

1888 4,952,440 

1889 4,095,358 

1890 4,021,739 

1891 3,825,495 

1892 3,918,491 

1893 3,972,229 

1894 3,967,253 

1895 4,156,074 

1896 3,954,028 

1897 4.611,865 

1898 4,618,842 

1899 5,177,479 



Year. Ton. 

1900 5,202,939 

1901.... 5,617,499 

1902 5,904,766 

1903.... 6,419,811 

1904 6,519,933 

1905 6,798,609 

1906 7,266,224 

1907 7,574,322 

1908.' 7,161,310 

1909 7,757,762 

1910 7,928,120 

1911 7,331,648 

1912 7,289,529 

1913 7,525,936 

1914 7,451,022 

1915 7,614,143 

1916 7,260,800 



The proximity of Iowa to the Illinois fields and its 
general accessibility, as before mentioned, to other pro- 
ducing. areas to the east, and the coal producing states 
to the west and south on the one hand and the state and 
railroad market for the Iowa coal on the other, serve to 



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confine the distrihution of the Iowa product to outside 
uiarketj: to a limited area. In l!)ir) the railroads and 
Iowa users consumed approximately 95 per cent, of the 
total output, leaving only about five per cent, for ship- 
ment to nmrkets into the six states bordering upon 
Iowa. In detail these distribution figures are as 
follows: Tsed in Iowa — Mines, 1-±8,159 ; local, 503,- 
286: intrastate, 2,136,125; total, 2,786,570, or 37 per 
cent. Interstate— Illinois, 17,700; Kansas, 40,092; 
Minnesota, 12,557; Missouri, 174,164; Nebraska, 143,- 
108: South Dakota, 24,120; total, 411,741, or 5 per 
cent. Kailroads, 4,415,832, or 58 per cent. Grand total, 
7,614,143. 

Iowa's per capita consumption is : Bituminous coal, 
2.83 tons: anthracite. .13 ton; total per capita, 2.96 
tons : consumption per square mile, 128 tons. 



During the year in question, 44.5 per cent, of the coal 
consumed in Jowa came from the neighboring state of 
Illinois. The 37 per cent, of the production used of 
Iowa coal within the state represented 40.6 per cent, of 
the coal fuel requirements of the state. Eleven states 
Mere called upon to contribute the remaining 18 per 
cent. In addition, 310,000 tons of Pennsylvania an- 
thracite were shipped into loM'a. The sources of supply 
called upon to meet the bituminous requirements to be 
as follows: Arkansas, 16,537 tons; Colorado, 12,660; 
Illinois, 3,053,413 ; Indiana, 149,046 ; Iowa, 2,786,570 ; 
Kentucky, 335,431 ; Maryland (includes Maryland-Ken- 
tucky consumption), 5,898; Missouri, 22,729; Ohio, 
1,666; Pennsylvania, 66,973; Virginia, 1,500; West 
\^irginia, 159,444; Wyoming, 16,418; lake, 248,000; 
total, 6,876,285. 



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IOWA 




ELMER A. BUTLER, Sioux City, Iowa, 

Proprietor of the Day Coal Co., Sioux City, Iowa, was born 
in Fort Atltinson, Wisconsin, January 25, 1863, and has been 
in the coal business for twenty-six years. He was formerly 
connected with the firm of L. G. Everist for eleven years. 



H. E. HAAKINSOIV, Sioux City, Iowa, 

President of the H. E. Haakinson Coal 
Co., Sioux City, Iowa, was born in 
Christiania, Norway, April 5, 1861, and 
has been in the coal business for thir- 
teen years. He is a member of the Re- 
tail Coal Dealers' Association of Minne- 
apolis. 



W. W. ALBRIGHT, Lewis, Iowa, was born in Ohio in 1850, 
and has been in the coal business twenty-nine years. 

B. B. AIVDERSON, Estherville, Iowa, was born in Wyom- 
ing- County, New York, October 2, 1859, and has been in the 
coal business for himself for the past twenty-six years. 

\VM. C. ARTHUR, Davenport, Iowa, who for the past 
twenty-five years has been a well known coal salesman in 
Iowa, was born in Pennsylvania. March 17, 1861. He has 
been connected with the Atlas Coal & Coke Co., The White- 
breast Fuel Co., Williams & Peters, Fowler & Wilson, Won- 
derland Coal Co., and Mitchell & Dillon Coal Co. During- 
1917 he joined the sales force of the Lincoln Highway Tire 
Co. of Fulton, Illinois. 

T. I. BACHUS, Manager of The Eagle Lumber & Coal Co., 
Fayette, Iowa, was born at New Windsor, Illinois, February 
3, 1860, and has been in the coal business for twenty-six 
years. 

M. M. BARISH. Secretary and Treasurer Parish Bros. Coal 
Co., Sioux City, Iowa, was born in Russia July 25, 1887, and 
has been in the coal business for twelve years. E. Parish Is 
President of this company. 

AVALTER BARRON, Pit Foreman and part owner of the 
Hopkins Coal Co., Colfax, Iowa, has -worked in different 
capacities in Iowa mines for thirty-six years. 

AVILLIAM J. BECKWITH, Manager of Beckwith & Inglis, 
Wyoming, Iowa, was born in Delaware County, New York, 
June 1, 1868, and has been in the coal business for seven 
and a half years. He "was formerly connected with the firm 
of Inglis Bros. 

\V. M. BEGGS, Manager of the Beggs Coal Co., Mystic, 
Iowa, is a native of Scotland, having been born there Feb- 
ruary 21, 1867, and has been in the coal business for twenty- 
four years. 

SMITH B. BELLAMY of the S. B. Bellamy Lumber Co., 
Nashua, Iowa, was born at Nashua, April 6, 1871, and has 
been in the coal business for himself for fourteen years and 
previous to that was associated -\vith his father. His brother, 
J. B. Bellamy, has also been connected with them most of 
the time. 

GEO. H. BICKEL, member of the firm of Bruner & Bickel, 
Vinton, Iowa, was born in Norway, Iowa, November 18, 1884, 
and has been engaged in the coal business for eight years. 

W. H. BLAKE of Grout & Blake, Winterset, Iowa, was 
born at Cisnie, Illinois, January 6, 1881, and has been in the 
coal business for five years. 

"W. H. BLAKELY, Norway, Iowa, was born in Wyoming-, 
Iowa, July 10, 1869, and has been in the coal business for 
the past twenty-one years. 

FRED O. BLOCK, Secretary and General Manager of the 
W. G. Block Co., Muscatine, Iowa, was born in Muscatine, 
Iowa, and has been in the coal business for sixteen years, 
associated with his father, operating several successful 
yards in various cities. 

GEORGE H. BRUNER, member of the firm of Bruner & 
Bickel, "Vinton, Iowa, w^as born in Lee County, Illinois, No- 
vember 26, 1875, and has been in the coal business for ten 
years. 

OSCAR F. BURKLAND, Creston, Iowa, was born in Lan- 
caster. Missouri, and has been in the coal business thirteen 
years, having been formerly connected -with the Cline & 
Shaw Fuel Co., St. Louis Coal Co. and the Prairie Block Coal 
Co. 

JAMES CAMERON, Keokuk. Iowa, member of the firm of 
James Cameron Sons, is a native of Keokuk, and has been 
in the coal business for sixteen years. 

GEORGE CAPEL, Oskaloosa, Iowa, was born at Frost- 
burg, Maryland, December 19, 1877, and has been in the coal 
business thirteen years. He was formerly connected with 
Bennett & Capel and the Central Coal Co. 

CYRIL T. CARNEY, General Superintendent of the Wright 
Coal Co. and Scandia Coal Co. at Carney, Iowa, was born in 
Grinnell, Iowa, March 3, 1889, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for six years. He is also interested in the Carney Coal 
Co., Carney Cherokee Coal Co., The Saylor Coal Co. and John 
A. Logan Coal Co., and has served as a member of the 
Executive Board of Iowa Coal Operators' Association. 

KRIEGH GERALD CARNEY, Manager of The Saylor Coal 
Co., Carney, Iowa, was born in Grinnell, Iowa, February 23, 
1891, and has been in the coal business for the past six 
years. He is also interested in the Wright Coal Co. 

A. W. CARLSON, JR., Secretary and General Manager of 
the Dallas Coal Co., Des Moines, Iowa, was born at Des 
Moines, Iowa, May 8, 1884, and has been in the coal business 
for the past thirteen years, having formerly been connected 
with the Maple Block Coal Co., Delaware Coal Co. and Zim- 
belman Coal Co. 



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II.VMJLKY C. C.VVIXESS, Manager of the Spahn & Rose 
Luinlier Co.. Afton, Iowa, was formerly in the coal business 
for three years at Fairfield, Iowa. He was born August 28. 
1892. 

CLARK E. CHALKER, Clinton, Iowa, son of George N. 
Chalker, was born in Clinton, Iowa, July 1, 1873, and has 
been associated with his father for thirty-two years and 
has been managing the business during recent years. 

GEO. N. t'HVLKER, Clinton, Iowa, was born in Michigan 
.luly 14, 1842, and has been in the coal business thirty-three 
years. He has been a successful as well as one of the best 
known retail coal merchants in his section of the country. 

C. S. COLBl'RX, Manager of Colburn Bros., Waverly, Iowa, 
has been engaged in the coal business for four years. 

GEO. O. rOBVR.V, Marshalltown, Iowa, was born in Mar- 
shalltown December 3, 1875, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for thirteen years, succeeding the Brown Fuel & Lime 
Co. in HUO. 

ORRIN \V. COLLINS, Ft. Dodge, Iowa, was born in Mus- 
catine, Iowa, December 4, 1882, and has been in the coal 
business for fifteen years. He is well and favorably known 
in the trade and was formerly connected with the Sam Mc- 
Clure Coal Co. for three years. 

CHAS. J. COXNELL, Secretary and Treasurer of the Con- 
nell-Cowan Lumber Co., Cedar Falls, Iowa, was born in 
Cedar Falls November 28, 1880, and has been in the retail 
coal business for the past six years. 

L.AXGDOX J. CVMMINGS, Clinton, Iowa, was born in 
Caledonia County, Vermont, November 16, 1845, and has been 
in the retail coal business for thirty-one years, succeeding 
W. G. Cummings, who died May 10, 1911. 

"WILLIAM B. CURXES of the Curnes Grain Co., Osceola, 
Iowa, is a native of Iowa, having been born there February 
11, 1867, and has been in the coal business for the past eight 
years. 

A. M'. DAHL, Clinton, Iowa, was born in Denmark in the 
year 1868, and has been in the coal business for fourteen 
years. He has also taken an active part in civic affairs and 
has been Councilman in the Sixth, now serving his second 
term. He is Past President of the Lyons Commercial Club. 

C. H. D.ALBEY of F. Dalbey & Sons, Churdan, Iowa, was 
born in Olin, Iowa, September 18, 1886, and has been in the 
coal business for the past six years. 

J. P. DAl'BEXBERGER, McGregor, Iowa, was born in 
McGregor, Iowa, March 3, 1862, and has been in the coal 
business for nineteen years. 

MARK P. DERBY, President of The Derby Mills Co., Bur- 
lington, Iowa, was born in Burlington, Iowa, February 5, 
1852, and has had a successful career in the retail coal busi- 
ness for the past twenty-one years. 

XEVl'TOX M. DERBY, Secretary-Treasurer of The Derby 
Mills Co., Burlington, Iowa, was born in Burlington, Iowa. 
.August 23, 1887, and has been in the retail coal business for 
the past thirteen years. 

WILLIAM HENRY DESSEL, Secretary, Treasurer and 
Manager of the Dessel Lumber Co., Holstein, Iowa, was 
born at Holstein, Iowa, September 14, 1887, and has been in 
the coal business for eight years. 

CLEMENT H. DEL'R, Missouri Valley, Iowa, was born in 
Onondaga County. New York, October 18, 1856, and has been 
in the coal business for thirty-eight years. 

D. J. EBERHART, Newton, Iowa, was born at Catasauqua, 
Pennsylvania, January 29, 1853, and has been in the coal 
business for forty years. 

I. C. EDMONDS, President of the Edmonds-Londergan 
Co . Marcus, Iowa, was born at Clinton, Iowa, in 1878, and is 
interested in yards at Matlock, Marcus, Edna, Hinton, 
Archer, Iowa, and Steen, Minnesota. He also owns three 
banks and a considerable amount of real estate. 

A. H. EA'AN.S, Owner and Manager of the A. H. Evans 
Co., Keokuk, Iowa, was born in New Jersey August 28, 
1840, and has been in the coal business twenty-six years. 
Mr. Evans is one of the most favorably known retailers in 
his section. The firm was formerly The Chisholm & Evans 
Co., which w^as succeeded by himself, although there was no 
change in management. 

O. F. EVANS, Manager of the City Fuel Co., Clarinda, 
Iowa, was born at Huntsville, Missouri, July 28, 1889, and 
has been in the coal business thirteen years. He is also 
interested in the Connelsville Coal & Mining Co., and was 
formerly connected vv^ith the Manufacturers Coal & Coke 
Co. He is now in the service of his country. 

ISA.AC EVANS, President Blount-Evans Coal Mining Co., 
Des Moines, Iowa, was born in Llandovery, "Wales, March 4, 
1854, and has been in the coal business twenty-eight years. 
The Blount-Evans Co. has been in the wholesale and retail 
coal business in Des Moines for twenty-eight years. Mr. 
Evans was formerly connected with the Evans Coal Mining 
Co., Iowa Coal Mining Co., West Riverside Coal Mining Co., 
and Center Coal & Mining Co. 



SARAH HARRIS EVANS, President of the Central Coal 
Co., Lockman, Iowa, was born in Pomeroy, Ohio, January 
31, 1870, and is the wife of T. L. Evans of the same com- 
pany. 

THOMAS LINCOLN EVANS, Secretary and Treasurer of 
the Central Coal Co., Lockman, Iowa, was born in Pomeroy, 
Ohio, April 14, 1865, and has been in the coal business for 
twenty-two years. He was formerly connected with the 
American Coal Co., Smoky Hollow Coal Co. and has been a 
member of the Iowa State Board of Mine Examiners. 

GEORGE J. FINCK, Branch Manager of the firm of Harris 
& Dillavou, Burlington, Iowa, was born at San Francisco, 
California, January 13, 1875, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness fifteen years. He was formerly with the Hosford Coal 
Co. and with James Frame at Burlington, and was located 
at Denver, Colorado, two years. He also is President of the 
Cave Coal Co. and a stockholder in the Modern Coal Co. 
at Sesser, Illinois. 

JOHN WESLEY FLEMING, Manager and Secretary of the 
Osceola Lumber Co., Osceola, Iowa, wa,s born at Osceola, 
Iowa, February 23, 1870, and has been in the coal business 
for the past tw'enty-three years. He was formerly connected 
with W. B. Ballew Lumber Co. and Hawkeye Lumber Co. 

C. S. FOWLER of the Fowler Coal Co., Clinton, Iowa, was 
born at Sturgis, Michigan, March 17, 1890, and has been in 
the coal business for six years. He was formerly connected 
with the firm of Fenlon & Fowler. 

R. A. PRAZIER, Manager of R. A. Frazier & Son, Nevada, 
Colorado, and Morrison, Iowa, "was born at Zanesville, Ohio, 
September 22, 1848, and has been in the coal business forty- 
four years, having been formerly connected with the firm 
of "Walton & Frazier, Thomasboro, Illinois. 

GEORGE A. FRENCH of the George A. French Co., Chero- 
kee, Iowa, was born in Buchanan County, Iowa, March 17, 
1874, and has been in the coal business for thirteen years, 
having been formerly connected with the Western Elevator 
Co. 

AUGUST C. FREUND, Lowden, Iowa, principal of the firm 
of A. Freund & Co., was born July 7, 1860, and has been in 
the retail coal business since 1883. 

OTIS ALBERT GABLE, Manager of John E. Gable & Co.. 
Oxford Junction, Iowa, was born at Lost Nation, Iowa, June 
16. 1879, and has been in the coal business for twelve years. 

J. H. GILCHRIST of the Gilchrist Coal & Feed Co., Ames, 
Iowa, was born in Ames, Iowa, February 8, 1886. He has 
been in the coal business for seven years and was formerly 
with B. A. Lock'wfood Co., Des Moines, Iowa. 

FRANK LEE GITCHELL of Gitchell Bros., Arlington, • 

Iowa, was born at Center Point, Iowa, May 24, 1870, and 

has been in the retail coal business for the past twenty- 
eight years. 

THOS. GORDEN of the Gorden-Elder Fuel Co., Mason 
City, Iowa, "was born at Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin. November, 
1859, while his partner, G. N. Elder, "was born in Blairsville. 
Pennsylvania. August 20, 1859. They are successors to the 
Wallace Williams Coal Co. 

J. T. GRANT, successor to C. A. Grant & Son, Rolfe, 
Iowa, was born in Oilman. Iowa. February 11, 1873, and has 
been in the coal business twenty-seven years. 

ED"V\'ARD M. GRAY, Vice President and Manager of the 
Des Moines Coal Co., Des Moines, Iowa, was born at Coal 
Valley, Illinois, August 31, 1866, and has been in the coal 
business forty-one years. He is also interested in the Des 
Moines Sand & Fuel Co. and was formerly associated "with 
the Keystone Coal Co. He has served as Secretary and 
Treasurer of the Iowa Coal Operators' Association. 

GEORGE GREGORY, Marshalltown, Iowa, proprietor of 
the Gregory Coal, Coke & Lime Co., "was born In Marshall 
County, Iowa, November 8, 1862, and has been in the coal 
business for thirty-six years. Mr. Gregory is one of the 
most prominent dealers in Iowa and has also been active In 
promoting every movement that was for the benefit of the 
coal trade or his city. He has also taken an interest in coal 
association affairs and was President of the Io"wa and Ne- 
braska Coal Dealers' Association, also the Northwestern 
Retail Coal Dealers' Association. 

CHAS. E. GRIFFITH of Griffith Bros., Red Oak, Iowa, was 
born in Burlington, Iowa, in 1874, and has been in the coal 
business for fourteen years. 

WILLIS G. HASKELL, President of "W. G. Haskell Co., 
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was born in Iowa, June 5. 1857. and has 
been actively identified with the coal business for twenty- 
five years, being one of the best known coal men in the 
"West. He has served as President of the Northwestern Coal 
Dealers' Association, Postmaster of Cedar Rapids, State Sen- 
ator, and in addition many other offices of honor in both the 
trade and community. 



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FRED H. HENRY, Belle Plaine, Iowa, was born in Belle 
Plaine June 2, 1868, and has been in the coal business for 
the past thirteen years, being one of the best known retail- 
ers in that section. 

RALPH E. HOPKINS, General Manager of the Hopkins 
Coal Co., Colfax, Iowa, was born at Pueblo, Colorado, July 
27, 1881. and has been with the present company for the past 
four years. 

MELVILLE P. HUGHES, Clear Lake, Iowa, salesman for 
the Chicago, Wilmington & Franklin Coal Co., was born 
in Chicago, Illinois, September 4, 1891, and is a son of Wm. 
H. Hughes, one of the best known coal salesmen in the 
West. He has been in the coal business for the past seven 
years and formerly traveled for the Pittsburgh & Ashland 
Coal & Dock Co. and the Monon Coal Co. 

"WILLIAM HENRY HUGHES, Des Moines. Iowa, Iowa rep- 
resentative of the Chicago, Wilmington & Franklin Coal Co., 
was born at Hamilton, Ontario, November 7, 1861, and has 
been in the coal business for twenty-five years. Mr. Hughes 
is one of the best and most favorably known coal salesmen 
in the Northwest and formerly represented the General Wil- 
mington Coal Co. and the Monon Coal Co. as Northwestern 
Sales Manager. 

W. B. INGVOLDSTAD, President of the Ingvoldstad Lum- 
ber Co., Inc., Decorah, Iowa, was born in Decorah, Iowa, 
June 21, 1875, and has been in the coal business for the past 
eleven years. 

HENRY C. JEFFERS of the City Fuel Co., Shenandoah, 
Iowa, was born in Ireland in 1850, and has been engaged in 
the coal business for fifteen years. 

LARS JOHNSON, Exline, Iowa, Manager of the Iowa Block 
Coal Co., was born in Sweden September 13, 1880, and has 
been in the coal business twelve years. He is also inter- 
ested in the Caldwell Coal Co. of Exline, Iowa. ' 

JOHN L. JONES, President of the Regal Coal Co., Oska- 
loosa, Iowa, was born in Wales June 1, 1872, and has been 
in the coal business eighteen years. He was formerly con- 
nected with the Lost Creek Fuel Co., The Fraker Coal Co., 
and the LaKonta Coal Co., and is also interested in the 
Sheriff Coal Co. 

v. V. KECK, Manager of the Citizens Lumber Co., Washta, 
Iowa, was born in Benton County, September 5, 1880, and 
has been in the coal business for sixteen years, also handling 
lumber and cement. 

EVAN H. KELLY, Secretary and Treasurer Kelly Lumber 
Co., Sigourney, Iowa, was born in Burlington, Iowa, March 
9, 1882, and has been in the coal business for ten years. Mr. 
Kelly was formerly connected with A. M. Neas & Son. 

ARCHIBALD C. KESSLER, Waterloo, Iowa, was born in 
Dodgeville, Wisconsin, March 14, 1876, and has been in the 
coal business for eleven years. Mr. Kessler is also Vice 
President of the Friend Lumber Co., Waverly, Iowa, and was 
formerly connected with C. W. Chapman Lumber Co., Cedar 
Falls, Iowa, for four years. 

C. E. KJTTLESON, Manager of The Lumber & Grain Co., 
St. Ansgar, Iowa, was born at St. Ansgar, Iowa, December 5, 
1864, and has been in the coal business for seven years. 

HARRY H. KRUMMANN, President and General Manager 
of the Brown Coal Co., Sioux City, Iowa, was born in Sioux 
City, Iowa, February 17, 1872, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for sixteen years. Mr. Krummann was formerly en- 
gaged in the banking business for about tvi^elve years. 

JOSEPH PERRY LANGFORD, Sales Manager of the W. G. 
Block Co., Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was born in Albany, Illinois, 
August 2, 1888, and has been in the coal business eleven 
years. He was formerly connected with the Purity Coal Co., 
Chicago, and is favorably known in that territory. Mr. 
Langford enlisted in the United States Navy May 15, 1918. 

T. \\-. L.iVRGE, DeWitt, Iowa, was born at DeWitt, Iowa, 
March 7, 1866, and has been in the coal business for twenty- 
five years. He was formerly connected with the firms of 
Small & Large and T. W. Large & Bro. 

WT>I. LINNEVOLD, Secretary and Manager of the Nordness 
Creamery Co., Decorah, Iowa, was born at Decorah, Iowa, 
December 13, 1876, and has been in the coal business for the 
past twenty-one years. 

WALTER A. LINTON, President and Manager of the Rose- 
land Fuel Co., Ottumwa, Iowa, was born at Ainsworth, Iowa, 
October 25, 1879, and has been in the coal business for six- 
teen years. Mr. Linton has taken an active interest in local 
coal associations, having held several offices, and has acted 
as a Director in the Northwestern Association. 

ROY G. LIVINGSTON, President and Manager of the Shen- 
andoah Fuel Co., Shenandoah, Iowa, was born in Alta, Illi- 
nois, July 31, 1880, and has been in the coal business for ten 
years. He was formerly connected with A. T. McMaster 
Coal Co., Peoria, Illinois. 



DAVID LODWICK, Secretary and Treasurer of the Dia- 
mond Block Coal Co., Mystic, Iowa, was born in Wales in 
1864, and has been in the coal business thirty years, asso- 
ciated with his brother. 

LEWELYN LODWICK, Diamond, Iowa, was born in Wales, 
August 20, 1856, and has been in the coal business for nearly 
thirty years. Mr. Lodwick is a well known Iowa operator 
and is President and Manager of the Appanoose Coal & Fuel 
Co., Diamond, Iowa, Treasurer of the Lodwick Bros. Coal 
Co., and President of the Winifred Coal Co., Mystic, Iowa. 

J. J. 3IATHEWS, Cherokee, Iowa, was born at Lyons, Iowa, 
December 17, 1862, and has been in the coal business for 
twenty-six years. He is one of the best known retail coal 
merchants in his section of the state. 

FRANK AMBROSE McCOLE, Manager of the W. G. Block 

Co., Mason City, Iowa, was born at Chilton, Wisconsin, May 
11, 1880, and is one of the most active and popular coal 
salesmen in the Northwest. He formerly traveled in Iowa, 
representing the Johnston City Coal Co. and the Hart-Wil- 
liams Coal Co. 

JOHN H. McKLVEEN, Manager and partner in the firm of 
J. H. McKlveen & Co., Prairie City, Iowa, was born at Chari- 
ton, Iowa, September 10, 1887, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for eleven years. Samuel McKlveen, Chariton, Iowa, 
is also a partner and has been a retailer in Chariton for 
about twenty-six years. 

D. A. BIILLER, Manager and Treasurer of the Milton 
Lumber Co., Milton, Iowa, was born in Milton June 3, 1872, 
and has been in the coal business nineteen years. 

TH03IAS JAMES 3IULGREW, President and Manager of 
the Thomas J. Mulgrew Co., Dubuque, Iowa, was born in 
Dubuque May 8, 1867, and has been in the coal business 
thirty-one years. He started with Hansen & Linehan of 
Dubuque and has been in business for himself t-wenty-five 
years, and is one of the best known coal men in his section. 

HENRY W. NESLER, Manager of the Equity Shipping 
Association of Dyersville, Iowa, was born in New Vienna, 
Iowa., October 29, 1881, and has been in the coal btisiness 
two years. 

BENJAMIN SEDGWICK NOBLE, Ida Grove, Iowa, was 
born in Iowa February 17, 1864, and was formerly connected 
with W. A. Noble & Co. He has been in the coal business 
for twenty-four years. 

CARL E. NORTON, Manager of the Farmers Elevator & 
Supply Co., Nora Springs, Iowa, was born at Waukon, Iowa, 
September 1, 1890, and has been in the coal business for the 
past six years. 

OAKES BROS., retail coal merchants of Iowa City, Iowa, 
is composed of John P. Oakes, who vs^as born in lo-vva City, 
Iowa, April 9, 1866. and Perry C. Oakes, born at Iowa City 
July 15, 1870. The firm has been in business fifteen years. 

THOMAS W. OAKES, partner in the firm of Smith & 
Oakes, Clinton, Iowa, was born in Ireland, December 25, 
1851, and has been in the coal business for fifty-two years, 
having been connected with several firms before organizing 
the present company. 

W. W. OLIVER, Secretary and General Manager of the 
Centerville Block Coal Co., Centerville, Iowa, was born at 
Crookham, England, October 30, 1843, and has been in the 
coal business for forty-three years. In 1880 he organized 
the Diamond Coal Co., 'which 'was consolidated in 1894 with 
the Centerville Coal Co., which was later merged into the 
present firm. 

EUGENE PAINE, Iowa City, Iowa, was born in Orange 
County. Vermont, March 6, 1839, and has been in the retail 
coal business for half a century. He opened a yard in Iowa 
City in 1868 on the present site of the Chicago, Burlington 
& Quincy Railroad's passenger station. He 'was a member 
of the Army of the Potomac 1861-1865. 

JOHN W. PLONALP, Storm Lake, Iowa, was born in In- 
diana in 1855, and has been in the coal business for t'wenty- 
six years. He formerly -was connected with Plonalp & Wil- 
son. 

LUCIUS RANDALL ROSEBROOK, Manager of the Excel- 
sior Coal Co., Oskaloosa, Iowa, is one of the pioneer coal 
men of Iowa. He was born at Lancaster, New Hampshire, 
March 7, 1848, and has been in the coal business for the past 
thirty-six years. During that time he has been identified 
with several leading companies and has made many friends 
throughout the trade. 

A. C. SAX, Bloomfield, Iowa, a member of the firm of Sax 
Bros., was born at Saratoga, New York, March 9, 1840. and 
has been in the retail coal business for the past ten years. 

F. A. SAX of Sax Bros., Bloomfield, Iowa, was born May 
30, 1875, in Iowa and has been in the coal business for ten 
years. 

GEORGE H. SAX of Sax Bros., Bloomfield, Iowa, was born 
October 16, 1877, in Iowa and has been in the coal business 
for ten years. 



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H. H. SHERIFF of the Sheriff Coal Co., Oskaloosa, Iowa, 
was born at IMuscatine, Iowa, in 1861, and has been in the 
coal business for the past twenty-six years. He was one of 
the stockholders and directors of the Maple Coal Co., Oska- 
loosa, Iowa, and one of the stockholders and directors of 
the Greenridge Fuel Co. 

SAMliEL, T. SLADE, Secretary of the Des Moines Coal Co., 
Des Moines, Iowa, was born at Alden, New York, in 1853, 
and has been in the coal business for twenty-one years. He 
was formerly connected with Saylor Coal Co., Scandia Coal 
Co. and the Maple Block Coal Co. 

CHAS. E. SMITH, Western Sales Manager of the Carter 
Coal Co., Marshalltown, Iowa, was born at Whitewater, Wis- 
consin, February 19, 1881, and has been in the coal business 
for sixteen years. He was formerly connected with the 
Gregory Coal, Coke & Lime Co. and the Clark Coal & Coke 
Co. of Peoria. 

EDGAR A. SMITH, junior partner of the firm of E. J. 
Smith & Son, Whiting-, Iowa, was born in Iowa April 15, 
1869, and has been associated with his father, Edmund J. 
Smith, in the coal business for twenty-one years at Whit- 
ing-, Iowa. 

EDMUND J. SMITH, senior partner of the firm of E. J. 
Smith & Son, Whiting-, Iowa, -was born in Wisconsin April 
27, 1844, and has been in the coal business for twenty-one 
years. He was formerly connected with the firms of Wil- 
liams & Peters, Reiss Coal Co., Peabody Coal Co., Bell & 
Zoller and Old Ben Corp. 

IRA HERBERT SMITH, member of the firm of Smith & 
Oakes, Clinton, Iowa, -was born in Clinton January 23, 1863, 
and has been in the coal business for twenty-seven years. 
The firm is well and favorably kncw-n in the trade. 

EDAVARD M. SOBODA Of the Cedar Rapids Fuel Co., 
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is a native of Chicago, Illinois, having 
been born there February 18, 1867. For seventeen years he 
has been connected with the E. E. Pinney Coal Co. 

E. A. TAPPAIV, Belle Plaine, Iowa, was born in Tama 
County, Iowa, November 17, 1868, and has been in the coal 
and grain business for the past thirteen years. 

CHAS. E. TAYLOR, Manager of the Emmetsburg Coal & 
Supply Co., Emmetsburg, Iowa, was born in Wisconsin in 
1853, and has been in the coal business for fourteen years, 
being formerly connected -with the firm of Moore Bros. 

T. "W. TRI3IBL.E of Trimble & Van Reenen, Bedford, Iowa, 
is a native of Illinois and has been in the retail coal busi- 
ness for the past two years. 

JACOB JOHN VAN EIZENGA, Orange City, Iowa, was 
born in The Netherlands August 24, 1864, and has been in 
business for himself for the past three years. Previous to 
that he was for twelve years with Van Pelt & Van Eizenga 
and seven years with F. M. Slagle & Co. 



GEO. F. WAGNER, Storm Lake, Iowa, was born at Cal- 
vary, Wisconsin, March 28, 1877, and has been engaged In 
the coal business for twenty-one years. 

PRANK J. WARD, Secretary and General Manager of the 
Eclipse Lumber Co., Clinton, Iowa, is a native of Iowa, hav- 
ing been born at Waukon. He has been engaged in the coal 
business for a period of twenty-one years. 

JAMES F. AVEART. President of the Weart cfe Lysaght 
Co., Cherokee, Iowa, was born in Hopewell, New Jersey, May 
7, 1870, and has been connected with the coal business for 
twenty-four years, being widely known throughout the 

West. 

AVALTER R. AVEBB, President of Webb Bros. Co., Sioux 
City, Iowa, was born in Quebec, Canada, August 31, 1846, 
and has been in the coal business for twenty-nine years. 

AVM. A. AVHITING, Washington, Iowa, was born at Cale- 
donia, Illinois, August 3, 1860, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for twenty years. He was formerly connected with 
Chas. Whiting, Roscoe, Illinois. 

GEORGE F. AVICKHAM, Manager of the Fenlon-Wickham 
Coal Co., Council Bluffs, Iowa, was born at Council Bluffs, 
Iowa, July 23, 1877, and has been in the coal business for 
seventeen years. Mr. Wickham is one of the best known 
and most popular coal men in the Missouri River territory. 

R. AV. AVILIilS of the Citizens Coal Co., Mason City, Iowa, 
was born in Iowa and has been in the coal business for 
five years. 

NATTIE AVILSON, LeClaire, Iowa, was born in LeClaire 
December 22. 1858, and has handled farm implements and 
hardware, adding coal some four years ago. 

AV. AV. AVILSON, Washington, Iowa, was born at Washing- 
ton, Iowa, December 18, 1866, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness eleven years. 

H. M. YOUNG, member of the firm of Young Coal Co., 
Waterloo, Iowa, was born in Waterloo. Iowa, February 18, 
1888, and has been associated with his brother in this com- 
pany for five years. 

J. A. YOUNG of the Young Coal Co., Waterloo, Iowa, was 
born at Waterloo, Iowa, June 7, 1883, and has been engaged 
in the coal business for fourteen years. Mr. Young has been 
a Director In the Northwestern Coal Dealers' Association. 

EDGAR JONES VREELAND, Manager of the Coal Hill 
Coal Co., Des Moines, lo-wa, is a native of Illinois, having 
been born in 1874, and has been in the coal business for the 
past eighteen years. 



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KANSAS 



KA]S^SAS, from the point of view of production, 
ranks second of the three states underlaid with 
the coal measures of the western interior region 
and recent figaires (191G) show that it is pressing Iowa 
closely for first honors in this field. Serious lahor trou- 
bles during the past decade have operated to interfere 
seriously with the natural increase in production in 
Kansas, whereas the competing state of Iowa has been 
singularly free from prolonged shutdowns arising from 
that cause. 

The Kansas coal measures are in the eastern portion 
of the state and underlie approximately 20,000 square 
miles, 75 per cent, of which is estimated by the United 
States Geological Survey to be "probably more or less 
productive."' There are three fields of major impor- 
tance. Cherokee and Crawford counties, in the south- 
eastern corner of the state, constitute the most impor- 
tant district. The coal in this field varies from three 
to 10 feet, with an average thickness of 40 to 42 inches. 
The output of these two counties represents over 90 
per cent, of the total production of the state. 

The second field of major commercial importance is 
in the northeastern part of the state adjacent to Leav- 
enM'Orth and Atchison. This is the only district in 
_ which deep mining is carried on in the western interior 
coal region. Shafts in this field are sunk to depths of 
from 700 to 1,150 feet. Prodiiction in the Leaven- 
worth-AtchisSn district represents approximately six per 
cent, of the total output of the state. The third field 
of note is the Osage in Osage and adjacent counties. 
This bed, lying stratigraphically 2,000 feet above the 
Cherokee coal, has a vein 30 to 22 inches thick and 
yields approximately three per cent, of the total output 
for the state. Although all of the production in the 
Leavenworth-Atchison district is credited to Kansas, 
the workings at Leavenworth extend under the Mis- 
souri river into Missouri and it is e.stimated that 75 
per cent, of the coal hoisted at the liCavenworth tip- 
ples is actually mined in Platte county, Missouri. 

Kansas made its entrance into the ranks of coal pro- 
ducing states in 1869, when its output totaled 36,891 
tons. Actual production statistics between 1870 and 
1880 have not been published, but the reports as gath- 



ered by the United States Geological Survey since 1882 
show the following yearly output: 

Year. Ton. Year. Ton. 

1882 750,000 1900 4,467,870 

1883 900,000 1901 4,900,528 

1884 1.100,000 1902 5,266,065 

1885 1,212,057 1903 5,839,976 

1886 1,400,000 1904 6,333,307 

1887 1,596,879 1005 6,423,979 

1888 1,850,000 1906 6,024,775 

1889 2,221,043 1907 7,322,449 

1890 2,259,922 1908 6,245,508 

1891 2,716,705 1909 6,986,478 

1892 3,007,276 1910 4,921,451 

1893 2,652,546 1911 6,178,728 

1894 3,388,251 1912 6,986,182 

1895 2,926,870 1913 7,202,210 

1896 2,884,801 1914 6,860,988 

1897 ■ 3,054,012 1915 6,824,474 

1898 3,406,555 1916 6,881,455 

1899 3,852,267 

In 1915 40 per cent, of the total production was used 
liy the rail carriers. Approximately 28 per cent, of the 
production, or over 59 per cent, of the consuming 
requirements of the state was used locally. Four neigh- 
I'oring states took 26 per cent. In detail the distribu- 
tion was as follows: Used in Kansas — Mines, 184,071; 
local, 105,531; Kansas, 1,591,123; total, 1,879,725, or 
28 per cent. Interstate — Arkansas. 13,669 ; Missouri, 
926,480; Nebraska, 774,937: Oklahoma, 75,162; total, 
1,790,248, or 26 per cent.; railroads, 3,154,501, or 46 
per cent. ; total. 6,824,474. 

The per capita consumption of bituminous coal for 
the year was 1.65 tons; anthracite, .01 ton; total, 1.66 
tons. LTpon a square mile basis the figure was 39 tons. 
Some coal fronx the strip pit fuel of the Cherokee- 
Crawford field is in demand Ijy the zinc smelting inter- 
ests about Pittsburg because of its non-coking quali- 
ties. A small portion of the shaft mine coal has been 
manufactured into coke for use at local smelters. In 
detail the fuel requirements and sources of supply are 
as follows: Arkansas, 114,812; Colorado, 340,779; 
Illinois, 414,467 ; Indiana. 149 ; Iowa, 40,092 ; Kansas, 
1,879,725; Kentucky, 54,871; Missouri, 167,483; New 
:\Iexico, 98,103; Oklahoma, 12,038; Pennsylvania, 
1,333; West Virginia, 390; Wyoming, 38,540; total, 
3,162,782; Pennsylvania anthracite, 25,000; grand to- 
tal. 3.187,782. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





ARTHUR H. FRENCH, Pittsburg. Kansas, 

General Manag^er, Secretary and Treasurer of the J. J. 
Stephenson Coal Co., Pittsburg, Kansas, was born In 
Cherokee County, Kansas, November 6, 1880, and has been 
in the coal business for nineteen years. He is also inter- 
ested in the Pittsburg-Scammon Coal Co., of which he is 
Secretary and Treasurer, and the J. J. Stephenson & Son 
Coal Mining Co., of which he is Secretary. He was for- 
merly with the Central Coal & Coke Co., Wear Coal Co., 
and is a member of the Southwestern Interstate Coal 
Operators' Association and Kansas Employees Association. 



JAMES HAMILTON, Weir, Kansas, 

President and Treasurer of the Hamilton Coal & Mercantile 
Co., was born in Beith, Scotland, March 5, 1864, and has been 
in the coal business thirty-eight years. This firm is the 
oldest coal producer in Kansas, having been organized by 
William Hamilton, father of James Hamilton, forty years 
ago. Mr. Hamilton is also President of the Southern Kansas 
Coal Co. He was previously connected with the Hamilton & 
Braldwood Coal Co. and at one time was Superintendent of 
the Kansas state mines at Lansing. He has an individual 
membership in the Chamber of Commerce of the United 
States of America. 



KANSAS 



B. D. BENNETT, Ottawa, Kansas, was born in the state 
of Illinois April 11, 1S61, and has been in the coal business 
twenty-six years. 

O. S. Cl'MMINGS, Manager of the Florence Grain & Coal 
Co., Florence, Kansas, was born in Lyndon, Kansas, 
February 11, 1889, and has been in the coal business for 
six years. He was formerly connected with the Aves 
Lumber & Coal Co., Florence, Kansas. 

FLOYD E. rJOUBLEDAV, Owner and Manager of the 
Doubleday Coal Co., Pittsburg, Kansas, was born In Penn 
Yan, New York, June 23, 1859, and has been in the coal 
business for thirty-six years. He was formerly connected 
with the Oswego Coal Co., Rogers Coal Co., Kansas & 
Texas Coal Co. and Central Coal & Coke Co. 

GUILFORD DUDLEY, President of the McCleery-Dudley 
Lumber Co., Topeka, Kansas, was born in Topeka, Kansas, 
February 9, 1879, and has been in the coal business for three 
and a half years. 

T. P. FAIR of the T. P. Fair Lumber Co., Great Bend, 
Kansas, was born in Pennsylvania August 11, 1837, and 
■was engaged in the coal business for thirty-five years. 
He was formerly a member of the firm of Edwards ^. Fair 
for thirty years and for five years prior to his death In 
1916 was located at Great Bend ^vith the company bearing 
his name. 

J. D. FELL, Manager of the Chicago Lumber & Coal Co., 
Concordia, Kansas, was born in Prescott, Ontario, January 
6, 1861, and has been in the coal business for thirty-three 
years. He was formerly connected with Howell Bros. 

B. E. FRIZZELL of the firm of Frizzell & Smith, Halstead, 
Kansas, has been engaged in the coal business for six 
years. 

A. M. GRIFFETH, Manager of the Barnard Lumber Co., 
Barnard, Kansas, was born in the state of Illinois, Septem- 
ber 19, 1859, and has been in the coal business for twenty- 
one years. He was formerly connected with Baker Bros. 
Lumber Co. 

F. HAVEMANN, Manager of the Treat & Shaffer Co., 
Hays, Kansas, has been In the coal business for thirty-six 
years. 



W^ILLIAM N. HA^WLEY of the Hawley Lumber Co., 
Herington, Kansas, was born at Pekin, Illinois, August 26, 
1859, and has been in the coal business for twenty-six years. 

E. F. HENNEY, Horton, Kansas, was born in Dover, 
Illinois, November 7, 1862, and has been In the coal business 
for twenty-two years. 

ADOLPH HUMBURG, Bison, Kansas, Manager of The 
Humburg Lumber Co., ■was born at Hermann, Missouri, 
November 27, 1886, and has been in the coal business for 
thirteen years. 

CASSIUS MONT JACKSON of the Southwestern Coal Co., 
Wichita, Kansas, was born at Clyde, Kansas, April 9, 1883, 
and has been in the coal business for six years. He was 
formerly with the Swastika Fuel Co. The Southwestern 
Coal Co. maintains division offices at Wichita, Dallas, Mc- 
Alester, Hastings, and Amarillo. 

LEO G. JOHNSON, Superintendent The Western Fuel Co., 
Osage City, Kansas, was born in Osage City, Kansas, 
August 14, 1891, and has been in the coal business for six 
years. He is a member of the General Scale Committee of 
South Western Interstate Coal Operators' Association. 

HUGH LAWLOR of the Central Coal & Material Co., To- 
peka, Kansas, was born in Wakarusa, Kansas, April 9, 1864, 
and has been in the coal business for five years. 

RALPH J. LAWRENCE, General Manager of the Carney- 
Cherokee Coal Co., Pittsburg, Kansas, was born at Fair- 
view, Pennsylvania, November 13, 1877, and has been In the 
coal business for six years. He formerly was connected 
with the Carney Coal Co. 

HENRY E. LEONHORDT, General Manager and Treas- 
urer of the Kiowa Lumber Co., Kiowa, Kansas, was born 
in Germany August 21. 1881. and has been in the coal 
business for sixteen years. He was formerly connected 
with the J. W. Metz Lumber Co. 

THOMAS J. MACREDIE, Clearwater, Kansas, was born 
in Scotland, April 18, 1843, and has been in the coal business 
for thirty-four years. 

J. T. MARTIN, La Cygne, Kansas, was born in England 
November 6, 1842, and has been in the coal business for 
about twenty-one years. Mr. Martin is the owner of the 
Martin coal mine. 



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JOHN McALiEER, Wichita, Kansas, salesman for the West- 
ern Coal & Mining- Co., Kansas City, Missouri, was born in 
Providence, Rhode Island. June 24, 1S70, and has been in the 
coal business twenty-five years. He was formerly connected 
with the South Omaha Ice & Coal Co., Bolen Coal Co., Cen- 
tral Coal & Coke Co., the Fidelity Coal & Mining Co., and 
Macliie-Clemens Fuel Co., making his headquarters at 
Wichita, Kansas, for twenty-three years and covering Ne- 
braska, Southwestern Missouri, Oklahoma and Kansas. He 
is well known throughout the trade. 

HENRY L. McCURDy, Stafford, Kansas, was born in Inde- 
pendence, Missouri, November 3, 1861, and has been in the 
coal business covering a period of eighteen years. 

GEO. T. McGRATH, President of the Geo. T. McGrath 
Coal Co., Pittsburg, Kansas, was born in the state of 
Pennsylvania in the year 18G0 and has been in the coal 
business thirty-six years. He was formerly connected with 
the Central Coal & Coke Co. of Kansas City. Mr. 
McGrath has acted as State Mine Inspector and has filled 
many positions of trust and has done much to build up 
the mining industry, and while in the State Legislature 
used his influence to help enact safety mining laws. He Is 
a Avell-known and highly respected citizen in the com- 
munity as -well as throughout the trade. 

GEO. C. MOSES of Geo. C. Moses & Son, Junction City, 
Kansas, was born at Canton Center, Connecticut, November 
29, 1856, and has been in tlie coal business about twenty- 
six years. 

J. P. J. NELSON, Scott City, Kansas, was born at Lake 
Geneva, Wisconsin, June 27, 1848, and has been in the coal 
business for eighteen years at Scott City, Kansas. 

E. NETTLEBL.ADE of the Black Diamond Coal Co.. 
Osage City, Kansas, was born in Sweden, September 19, 
1870, and has been in the coal business for nineteen years. 

FRANK C. NICHOLS, Secretary-Treasurer of the Nevius 
Coal Co., Pittsburg, Kansas, was born in Emporia, Kansas, 
December 28, 1S77, and has been in the coal business twenty- 
one years. He was formerly connected with the Kansas & 
Texas Coal Co. 

JACK W. NICHOLSON of the firm of Nicholson Bros., 
Ellis, Kansas, was born at Ellis, Kansas, July 18, 1887. This 
firm has been in the coal business for thirty-six years. 

RALPH A. NICHOLSON, member of the firm of Nicholson 
Bros., Ellis, Kansas, was born in Ellis, Kansas, November 
13, 1888, and with his brother, Jaclv W. Nicholson, owns 
the firm of Nicholson Bros. 

A. F". NIEMOLLER, Manager of H. NiemoUer & Sons, 
Wakefield, Kansas, was born in Holland, Dubois County, In- 
diana, June 17, 1868, and has been in the coal business for 
thirteen years. 

JAMES S. PATTON, President of the Patton Coal & 
Mining Co., Prontenac, Kansas, was born in Livonia, 
Indiana, December 22, 1863, and has been in the coal 
business for twenty-one j^ears. 

HERMAN LOUIS POPP3IEYER of the Topeka Goal Co., 
Topeka, Kansas, was born in Topeka, Kansas, July 20, 1874, 
and has been in the coal business for twenty years. 

AV ALTER S. RANDLE Of W. S. Handle & Son, Hutchinson, 
Kan.sas, was born in Illinois in May, 1S57, and has been in 
the coal business thirty-one years. He acted as Treasurer 
and member of the Executive Committee of the Kansas and 
Missouri Association. Frank S. Randle, a son. is Manager 
of the company. 

JOHN H. RUST, Altamont, Kansas, was born in Cam- 
bridgeshire, England. December 19, 1851, and has been in 
tlie coal business thirty-three years. 

■ LEWIS S. SCHAVAB, President Weir Junction Coal Co., 
Cherokee, Kansas, was born in Henry County, Illinois, June 
27, 1876, and has been in the coal business for twenty- 
t>vo ye.ars. 

E. B. SHAFFER, Ma'dison, Kansas, was born in Sedgwick, 
Kansas, March 2, 1879, and has been in the retail coal 
business for nine years. 

CHARLES E. SHAW, Salina, Kansas, was born in Owego, 
New York, June 3, 1853, and has been in the coal business 
for twenty-four years. 

DON I. SHEPHERD, St. John, Kansas, was born in St. 
John, Kansas, in August, 1887, and has been in the coal 
business for ten years. 

■.JAMES C. SHIMER,- Manager of J. C. Shinier & Son, 
Topeka, Kansas, was born at Indianapolis, Indiana, Septem- 
ber 26, .1864, and has been in the coal business for thirty-one 
years. He was formerly connected with McNeely & Shimer 
for a year. 



BOYD V. SLOAN, Hiawatha, Kansas, was born at Huron, 
Kansas, August 29, 1876, and has been engaged in the coal 
business for seven years. 

C. A. SMITH, partner in the firm of Frizzell & Smith, Hal- 
stead, Kansas, has been in the coal business for about six 
years, associated with B. E. Frizzell. 

CHARLES FRANCIS SPENCER, President of the Pitts- 
burg & Midway Coal Mining Co., Pittsburg, Kansas, and the 
Spencer-Newlands Coal Co., operating in Mulberry, Kansas, 
also General Manager of the Columbus Coal Co., of Colum- 
bus, Kansas, was born in Columbus in 1S73, and has been in 
the coal business twentj'-six years. 

CHARLES EDMUND STEVENS, Junction City, Kansas, 
was born in Madison County, Illinois, September 21, 1872, 
and has been in the coal business for fifteen years. 

N. O. SWANSON, Vice President and General Manager of 
the Leidigh & Havens Lumber Co., Kansas City, Missouri, 
was born at Stanton, Iowa, September 7, 1878, and has been 
in the coal business for twenty-one years. 

CHARLES F. TULLOCH, junior member of the firm of 
TuUoch Coal Co., Topeka, Kansas, was born in Westplialia, 
Kansas, October 29, 1889, and has been in the coal business 
for ten years, associated with his father, John C. Tulloch. 

JOHN C. TULLOCH of the TuUoch Coal Co., Topeka, Kan- 
sas, was born in Iowa in 1859. and has been in the coal 
business for about twenty-eight years. He previously was 
with the firms of Webster-Tulloch Co. and the Green Coal 
Co. 

J. H. TURNER, Wichita, Kansas, was born in Norwich, 
England, in the year 1876, and has been in the coal business 
for sixteen years. 

CLIFFORD W. WATERMAN, President and General 
Manager The Barton Ridge Coal Co., Mulberry, Kansas, 
was born in Mulberry, Kansas, February 12, 1878, and has 
been in the coal business for nineteen years. He was 
formerly connected with the Western Coal Mining Co., The 
Fleming Coal Co., and branches of the Fleming Coal Co. 

N. O. W^AYMIRE, Garfield, Kansas, was born at Saybrook, 
Ohio, September 20, 1849, and was in the coal business for 
about eleven years. For several years he served in the 
capacitj' of Director in tlie Missouri and Kansas Coal Deal- 
ers' Association. Mr. Waymire has now retired from active 
business. 

JOHN AVEBER, General Manager of the retail yards of 
Weber & Co., Salina, Kansas, was born at Dubuque, Iowa, 
December 10, 1877, and has been in the coal business for 
sixteen years. He was formerly connected with the Weber 
& Peirano Co. and is now President of the Kansas Retail 
Coal Dealers' Association. 

JAS. B. WELCH of J. Welch & Sons, Leavenworth, 
Kansas, was born in Leavenworth, Kansas, and has been 
in the coal business for twenty-two years. Mr. Welch is 
a well-known coal merchant in Leavenworth and vicinity. 

AV ALTER W. WESSEN of the Wessen Coal Co., Topeka, 
Kansas, was born in Topeka, .Kansas, August 22, 1880, and 
has been engaged in the coal business for four years. He 
was previously connected -with the A. F. .Wessen Coal Co., 
and has also acted as Secretary-Treasurer of tlie Topeka 
Coal Dealers' Association. 

JOHN U. W^HILLANS, Manager of Whiilans & Co., Linds- 
borg, Kansas, was born in Wisconsin, August 1, 1859, and 
has been in the coal business for eleven years. 

JAMES HUPPORD WOLFE, Lewis, Kansas, was born in 
Fremont, Ohio, October 31, 1863, and was engaged in the 
coal business for fourteen years. His death occurred March 
29, 1917. For a period of two years James R. Wolfe, a son, 
was associated with his father in the coal business. 

CHAS. A. WRIGHT, Atchison, Kansas, has been engaged 
in the coal business for twenty-five years. 

HARRY W. YOUNG, Manager of Young & Sons, Hutchin- 
son, Kansas, was born at Moulton, Iowa, October 12, 1883, 
and has been in the coal business for nineteen years. 

H. H. ZIEGENBUSCH, member of the firm of Edwards & 
Ziegenbusch, EUinwood, Kansas, was born at EUinwood, 
Kansas, in the year 1878. W. R. Edwards and B. K. Ed- 
wards are also members of this companj', which succeeded 
the old firm of Edwards & Fair. 

CLAYTON M. ZI3IMERMAN, Newton, Kansas, was born 
in Newton, Kansas, in the year 1882, and has been in the 
coal business for thirteen years. He was formerly con- 
nected with M. M. Zimmerman Coal Co. 



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KENTUCKY 



WHILE Kentucky was among the first states to 
enter the American coal producing ranks, it 
is during the last decade that it has made its 
most marked strides. Prom 1906 to 1916 its total out- 
put rose from 9,653,647 to 25,393,997 tons. While, 
from a tonnage point of view, this is exceeded by certain 
of the larger coal producing regions, measured upon a 
percentage basis, the increase of over 260 per cent, 
establishes a record approached by no other state. In 
fact, during the same period but three other states, 
North Dakota, Utah and Virginia, were able to double 
their production and the increases in the states just 
named, both from the percentage and from the actual 
tonnage basis, do not ' begin to measure up with the 
Kentucky achievements. 

From the point of view of the annual wealth con- 
tributed by Mother Earth to Kentucky's material ad- 
vancement and prosperity, coal is outranked only by 
tobacco. While from a monetary point of view the value 
of the coal production in 1915 was only 77 per cent, of 
that of the toljacco crop, the real significance of the 
contribution made by coal appears when it is shown 
that the per ton value of the fuel was only a fraction 
over $1, while that of the tobacco was slightly under 
$156. 

Even this record, remarkable as it might seem to the 
outsider who has not fully appreciated the major part 
played by the coal industry in upbuilding the commer- 
cial gi-eatness that has made the United States the lead- 
ing nation of the world, does not tell the entire tale. 
The wonderful strides made during the past decade do 
not mark the zenith or begin to approach it of the coal 
possibilities of the Blue Gra.ss State. The great eastern 
field, which has been the scene of the greatest commer- 
cial activities during the past seven years, still awaits 
expanded transportation facilities to fully test its values. 
Greater plans for the further early exploitation of the 
coal resources of Kentucky are under way than in any 
other state east of the Mississippi river. During the 
first quarter of 1918 announcement was made of the 
purchase of 25,000 acres of undeveloped lands in the 
state and a few days after this news had been made 
public, the f iirther . announcement was made that other 
interests were planning large expenditures for the im- 
mediate development of another tract of 30,000 acres. 

Geologically speaking Kentucky is uniqu.e. It is the 



only state in the Union "which has within its borders 
areas belonging to any two of the great coal fields." 
The eastern field, ^^■hieh has been the scene of the great- 
est exploitation during the past ten years, is underlaid 
with tlie coal measures of the great Appalachian region. 
The western field forms the southeastern part of the 
eastern interior coal basin of Illinois, Indiana and west- 
ern Kentu.cky. The coal-bearing areas of this part of 
the state are estimated to contain 6,400 square miles, 
while those of the eastern field are estimated to contain 
10,270 square miles. The chief characteristics of the 
two fields are thus described by the Geological Survey: 

"From a practical standpoint, the eastern Kentucky 
coal field is a unit, unless the Middlesboro-Harlan field, 
cut off by the Pine Mountain fault, be excepted. The 
coals belong to the Allegheny formation and to the 
Pottsville group. The Pottsville, which at the Ohio 
river has a thickness of only a few hundred feet and 
carries five coals, is in the southeastern corner of the 
state, about 5,000 feet thick and cari'ies nearly 50 coals, 
of which a dozen or more are locally of workable thick- 
ness and quality. The eastern Kentucky coals are most- 
ly high-gi-ade gas or coking coals, with some cannel 
coal. In the Jellico coal field, the Jellico and the Blue 
Gem beds are both thin, the latter being successfully 
mined where averaging only 22 inches. On the other 
hand some of the beds show eight and nine feet or more 
of workable coal. 

"The workable part of the western district of Ken- 
tucky is confined for the most part to two beds, desig- 
nated as Nos. 9 and 11 by the Geogr-aphical Survey of 
Kentucky. Of these No. 9 (equivalent to No. 5 of the 
Illinois field) is the more persistent and furnishes prob- 
ably 75 per cent, or more of the total production of the 
western counties of the state. It underlies the whole 
or portions of eight counties, including all of the field 
except its eastern portion and the southern or south- 
western edge and a few other places where it has been 
cut out by irregularities in the structure which near the 
west and south borders of the field is seriously affected 
by faults. The bed has an average thicloiess of about 
five feet and only rarely thickens out to more than five 
feet six inches or thins down to less than four feet six 
inches. Over a broad zone it lies within 300 feet below 
the siirface and the mining is done by shaft. Bed No. 
11 lies from 40 to 100 feet above No. 9 and is the next 



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important bed in western Kentucky. It is much more 
regular than Ko. 9, but usually where worked has a 
thickness of six feet or over. Another bed lying about 
25 feet above Xo. 11 is known as No. 12, It is mined 
in Webster, Hopkins, j\IcLean and Muhlenberg coun- 
ties. In the central portion of this field this bed attains 
a thickness of from three to six feet. Other beds be- 
sides these three are mined at several localities in the 
district, notably what is supposed to be No. 6 and also 
No. 5." 

The earliest records of Kentucky production date 
back to 1837 and state that coal was mined "on the 
right side of the Cumberland river below the mouth 
of Laurel.'" While the exact location of this operation 
is not known, it was evidently in either Laurel or 
Pulaski counties in the eastern field. A report of the 
State Geological Survey, published in 1838, also is 
authority for the statement that these mines shipped 
five boat loads of coal to Nashville in 1828 and prob- 
ably from 25 to 35 boat loads per annum between 1829 
and 1834. Between 1834 and 1837 shipments ran be- 
tween 75 to 100 boat loads, "or about 3,500 bushels a 
year. The coal was for the most part consumed in the 
salt works and iron furnaces convenient to the rivers, 
the only means of transportation." During the early 
period under review the production, according to esti- 
mates based upon available data, ranged from 2,000 to 
10,000 tons. The 1840 Census placed the output for 
that year at 23,527 tons. The next authentic figure ap- 
pears in the Census for 1860, when production had 
reached 285,760 tons. Ten years later the after-effects 
of the Civil War were reflected in the drop to 150,582 
tons, but by 1880 the output was approaching the 
1,000,000-ton mark, the actual figures being 946,288 
tons. Production since that date is shown in detail in 
the following table: 



Year. Ton. 

1881 1,232,000 

1882 1,300,000 

1883 1,650,000 

1884 1,.550,000 

1885 1,600,000 

1886 1,550,000 

1887 1,933,185 

1888 2,570,000 

1889 2,399,755 

1890 2,701,496 

1891 2,916,069 

1892 3,025,313 

1893 3,007,179 

1894 3,111,192 

1895 3,357,770 

1896 3,333,478 

1897 3,602,097 

1898 3,887,908 



Year. Ton. 

1899 4,607,255 

1900 5,328,964 

1901 5,469,986 

1902 6,766,984 

1903 7,538,032 

1904 7,576,482 

1905 8;432,523 

1906 9,653,647 

1907 10,753,124 

1908 10,246,553 

1909 10,697,384 

1910 14,623,319 

1911 14,049,703 

1912 16,490,521 

1913 19,616,600 

1914 20,382,763 

1915 21,361,674 

1916 25,393,997 



The diversified uses to which the product of the Ken- 
tucky mines may be put has given the producers of the 
state a wide market for the distribution of their output. 
Despite the fact that Kentucky coals are welcomed in 



over half the states of the Union, next to the total of 
the other states, the home territory remains the second 
largest customer, using 21 per cent, of the total output. 
This home consumption satisfies over 85 per cent, of the 
bituminous coal requirements of the commonwealth. 
The railroads absorb 22 per cent, of the production. 
Shipments to the Great Lakes, which accounted for only 
three per cent, of the output in 1915, have been and are 
a growing factor in the marketing of the coal from the 
southeastern field. 

In the interstate distribution "the best developed 
markets for the coal from western Kentucky are to the 
south and southwest, particularly in the Mississippi 
Valley," but recent changes in the currents of coal 
traffic have also permitted a heavier movement north- 
bound to Chicago territory and operators in the west- 
ern Kentucky field have been contending for a readjust- 
ment of rates, which they claim would permit a wider 
distribution of coal from their field into northern and 
northwestern territory. Into these markets the eastern 
field has been a shipper of importance, the movement 
at and through Chicago during the calendar year of 
1915 alone amounting to 1,738,915 tons, against 760,- 
108 tons in 1914. In 1916 this particular movement 
had risen to 2,513,403 tons, an increase of over 230 per 
cent, over 1914, and it was only persistent car shortages 
and embargoes that interfered with the march of prog- 
ress in 1917. In detail, the distribution of the product 
of the state as a whole for 1915 is shown in the table 
following. During that particular year about 65 per 
cent, of the production of the state was from the eastern 
field, which first exceeded the western field in total 
production in 1911: 

Used in Kentucky: Ton. 

Used at mines 495,313 

Sold to local trade 586,864 

Made into coke at mines 458,105 

Shipped to Kentucky points 2,888,773 

Total used in Kentucky - 4,429,055 

Shipped to other States: 

Alabama 86,966 

Arkansas 56,913 

Florida 17,268 

Georgia 800,822 

Illinois 864,047 

Indiana 2,886,806 

Iowa 335,431 

Kansas 54,871 

Louisiana 215,007 

Michigan 1,061,640 

Minnesota 345,333 

Mississippi •. 630,518 

Missouri 478,164 

Nebraska 92,091 

North and South Carolina 143,660 

North Dakota 418 

Ohio 1,359,813 

Pennsylvania *79,125 

South Dakota 89,220 



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Tennessee 1,560,776 

Texas 40,112 

Virginia 2,064 

West Virginia 87 

Wisconsin 379,644 

Total shipped to other States 11,580,796 

Shipped to Great Lakes tor cargo 702,000 

Used by railroads 4,649,823 

Total production 21,361,674 

■■Includes Kentucky coal exported by rail to Canada. 

The per capita consumption in the state (1.64 tons 

bituminous coal and .01 ton anthracite), while by no 

means at the bottom of the list, is considerably under 

the averao"e for the country as a whole. On the other 



iiand its square mile consuni])tion of 128 tons exceeds 
the national average by a margin of five tons. The 
antliracite consumption, 20,000 tons, all hough above 
that in a number of other states, is small. Kentucky 
looks to bituminous coal for its major fuel requirements 
niiil. as before stated, calls upon its own mines for more 
than So ])er cent, of its total consumption. E.xclusive of 
a small tonnage of ^Maryland coal, reported from Iowa, 
the total bituminous consiimption of the state for 1915 
was 5,100,321 tons, distributed as follows: Illinois, 
11,807: Kentucky, 4.429.0r)5; Ohio. 371, which includes 
some coal consumed in South Dakota ; Pennsylvania, 
131.101: Tennessee, 185,580; West Virginia, 443,407; 
total. 5,196.231. 



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JLSTUS S. STEARNS, Ludingtoii, Michigan, 

President Stearns Coal & Lumber Co., Stearns, Kentucky, 
making- his home and headquarters at Ludington, Michigan, 
was born April 10. 1845, in Chautauqua County, New York, 
and has been in the coal business for the past ten years. 
Mr. Stearns has had for many years extensive interests in 
the salt and lumber trade and his company is now taking 
an equally prominent place In the coal industry. 



JOHN E. BtlTLER, Stearns, Kcntuclcy, 

President and General Manager Fidelity Coal Mining Co., 
Stearns, Kentucky, was born in Canada August 1, 1873, 
and has been in the coal business sixteen years. Mr. Butler 
is also General Manager of The Stearns Coal & Lumber Co. 
and of the Kentucky & Tennessee Railway Co. He served 
as President of the Kentucky Mining Institute for the years 
1916-1917. 





ROBERT L. STEARNS. Stearns, Kentuclcy, 

Managing Director of the Stearns Coal & Lumber Co. of 
Stearns, Kentucky, was born in Conneaut, Ohio, March 14, 
1872, and has been in the coal business for eleven years. 
Under Mr. Stearns' management this company has made 
rapid growth and is one of the important producers of 
Kentucky coal. 



K. W. DYAS, Stearns, KentueliT, 

Sales Manager of the Stearns Coal & Lumber Co., Steams, 
Kentucky, was born in Crittenden, Kentucky, September 19, 
1882, and has been in the coal business for seven years. 
He is also a Director in the Fidelity Coal Mining Co. of 
Exodus, Kentucky. 



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WILLIAM ARRIXGTOX WICKLIFFE, Greenville. Kentucky, 

Born in South Carrollton, Kentucky, February 16, 1860, has 
been in the coal business fourteen years. He is President 
of the Greenville Coal Co., also President of the W. A. Wick- 
liffe Coal Co., which company he organized in 1904, and a 
large stockholder in the Nelson Creek Coal Co. He is 
President of the Ohio Valley Coal Operators' Association, 
also a member of the West Kentucky Conservation Associa- 
tion. Mr. Wicklifte is well known in banking circles In 
Kentucky, being- President of the First National Bank, 
Greenville, which is one of the largest banks in the state. 
For man.v years he has been engaged in the practice of law 
with the firm of Jonson, Wickliffe & Jonson. 





CLARENCE MARVIIV MARTIjV, Greenville, Kentucky, 

"Vice President and General Manager Greenville Coal Co., 
Greenville, Kentucky, also General Manager W. A. Wick- 
liffe Coal Co., was born in Greenville .July 19, 1878, and has 
been in the coal business fifteen years. He has served on 
the Executive Board of the Western Kentucky Coal Opera- 
tors' Association, Ohio Valley Coal Operators' Association. 
and the West Kentucky Conservation Association. 



MAT LEE WICKLIFFE, Greenville, Kentucky, 

Secretary-Treasurer Greenville Coal Co., Greenville, Ken- 
tucky, also Secretary-Treasurer W. A. Wickliffe Coal Co., 
was born in Greenville August 9, 1888, and has been in the 
coal business ten years. He is a member of the Western 
Kentucky Coal Operators' Association, Ohio Valley Coal 
Operators' Association, and the West Kentucky Conserva- 
tion Association. 



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A\ILL,IAM S. SPEED, Louisville, Kentucky, 

President North Jellico Coal Co., Louisville, Kentucky, ■was 
born in Louisville, Kentucky, September 10, 1873, and has 
been in the coal business for sixteen years. He Is also 
Vice President of the Pioneer Coal Co. and President of the 
Beaver Dam Coal Co. 



PREnERICK ai. SACKETT, Louisville. Kentuclty, 

Vine President North Jellico Coal Co., Louisville, Kentucky, 
was born at Providence, Rhode Island, December 8, 1868, 
and has beein in the coal business for twenty-one years. He 
is also President of the Pioneer Coal Co. and Vice President 
of the Beaver Dam Coal Co. 





F. D. AVOOn, Louisville, Kentucky, 

President and General Manager Kentucky Rock Asphalt Co., 
Louisville, Kentucky, was born in Sauk Rapids, Minnesota, 
May 5, 1876, and has been in the coal business twenty-four 
years. He was until recently President and General Man- 
ager of the Wallins Creek Coal Co., and was interested in 
the "Wallins Creek Sales Co. He was formerly with the 
Elk Coal Co., Terry's Fork Coal Co., Pittsburgh Coal Co., 
Straight Creek Mineral Co , and others. He has held posi- 
tions of honor in the coal associations of his state. 



TIPTON LOUIS YOinVG, Louisville, Kentucky, 

Vice President-Treasurer Wallins Creek Coal Co., Louis- 
ville, Kentucky, was born in Lexington, Kentucky, Decem- 
ber 31, 1871, and has been in the coal business thirty-four 
years. He is Sales Manager of the Wallins Creek Sales 
Co., and was formerly with the Louis des Cognets & Co. 
and the Lexington Coal & Coke Co., and holds positions of 
honor in the coal operators' associations of the state. 



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ALBERT J. EARLEY, Louisville, Kentucky, 

Louisville Manager Central Coal & Iron Co., Speed Building', 
Louisville, Kentucky, was born in Louisville September 7, 
1883, and has been in the coal business twenty years. Mr. 
Earley has spent his entire business life with this company, 
having- started as office boy and having been promoted 
steadily to his present position. 



LOUIS A. POWELL, Louisville Kentucky, 

Manager Federal Coal Co., Louisville, Kentucky, was born 
in Louisville, Kentucky, December 1, 1888, and has been in 
the coal business for eleven years. He was formerly con- 
nected with the Louisville Coal & Coke Co., White Oak Coal 
Co. and the Continental Coal Corp. 





KENNETH U. MEGtJIRE, Louisville, Kentucky, 

President Harlan Coal Co., Louisville, Kentucky, was born 
in New Orleans, Louisiana, January 31, 1880, and has been 
in the coal business for thirteen years. He is interested in 
the Harlan Coal Co., the Harlan Coal Mining Co., the Ken- 
tucky Headwaters Coal Co., the Paint Cliff Mines Co., Am- 
burgy Coal Co.. and others. He was formerly with the Snead 
& Meguire Coal Co. Mr. Meguire has served as President 
of the Kentucky Mining Institute, Vice President Kentucky 
Mine Owners' Association and has been active in other or- 
ganizations. 



R. C. TWAY, Louisville, Kentucky, 

President R. C. Tway Coal Co., Louisville, Kentucky, was 
born in Louisville, Kentucky, October 21, 1881, and has 
been in the coal business ten years. He is also President 
of the R. C. Tway Mining Co. and the James Coal Co. He 
Is a member of the Harlan County Coal Operators' Asso- 
ciation and the Southern Appalachian Coal Operators' Asso- 
ciation. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





JOHN P. GORMAN, Lexington, Kentucky, 

General Manager of the Hazard Coal Co., Lexington, Ken- 
tucky, and General Superintendent of the Tennessee-Jellico 
Coal Co., was born in Houtsdale, Pennsylvania, January 7, 
1877, and has been in the coal business since he was eight 
years of ag-e. Mr. Gorman is also President of the Marian 
Coal Co. and General Superintendent of the Block Coal & 
Coke Co., and has interests in the Comargo Coal Co. He is 
a member of the Executive Board of the Hazard Coal Oper- 
ators' Exchange, and is one of the best known Kentucky 
operators. 



LESLIE I. COLEMAN, Knoxville, Tennessee, 

Vice President and General Manager of the Tennessee- 
Jellico Coal Co., Knoxville, Tennessee, was born March 4, 
1860, in Falmouth, Kentucky, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness about thirty-two years. He is also Vice President and 
General Manager of the Block Coal & Coke Co., President 
and Treasurer of the Comargo Coal Co.. and Vice President 
Hazard Coal Co. and Tennessee Jellico Coal Corp. Mr. 
Coleman has been a Director of the Executive Committee 
and member of the Traffic Committee of the Southern Appa- 
lachian Coal Operators Association and is one of the best 
known coal operators in the South. 



JOHN W. WILLIAMS, Coxtou, Ky., 

President and General Manager Lick 
Branch Coal Co., Coxton, Kentucky, 
was born in Mahanoy City, Pennsyl- 
vania, February 22, 1872, and has been 
in the coal business thirty-five years.- 
He was previously connected with the 
Proctor Coal Co.. Red Ash. Trosper 
Coal Co., Trosper, and tlie Wallins 
Creek Coal Co., Wallins, all of Ken- 
tucky. 



DOAER AVILI>IAMS, Coxton, Ky,, 

Secretary-Treasurer Lick Branch Coal 
Co., Coxton, Kentucky, was born in 
Soddy, Tennessee, April 13, 1874, and 
has been in the coal business seven 
years. He Avas formerly with the Wal- 
lins Creek Coal Co. 



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CLAUDE LOGAjV RYLEY, Lexington, Kentucky, 

Owner of C. L. Ryley Coal Co.. Lexington, Kentucky, was 
born in Troy, Kentucky, May 19, 1869, and has been in the 
coal business for twenty-one years. The firm is composed 
of Mr. Ryley and his son, C. Reginald Ryley. Mr. Ryley is 
also President of the Payette Coal, Grain & Feed Co., and 
was formerly connected with the firm of Ryley & Collins 
and the White Ash Coal Co. He is the coal member of the 
Rotary Club in Ijcxington, and is w^ell and favorably known 
throughout the trade. 



C. REGINALD RYLEY, Lexington, Kentucky, 

Assistant Manager C. L. Ryley Coal Co., Lexington, Ken- 
tucky, was born in Woodford County, Kentucky, July 15, 
1897, and has been associat_ed with his father, C. L. Ryley, 
in the wholesale coal business for about three years. 




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AVILIilAM DIXON COIL, Madisonville, Kentucky, 

President Coil Coal Co., Madisonville, Kentucky, also Presi- 
dent of the Sunset Coal Co., was born in Hopkins County, 
Kentucky, May 27, 1867, and has been in the coal business 
for twenty-three years. He was previously connected with 
the Rose Creek Coal Co. Mr. Coil is a member of the 
Western Kentucky Operators Association. Both companies 
of which he is President are members of the West Ken- 
tucky Conservation Association. 



HOYT H. COIL, Madisonville, Kentucky, 

General Manager Coil Coal Co., Madisonville, Kentucky, was 
born in Hopkins County. Kentucky, August 1, 1891, and has 
been in the coal business eight years. He is General Man- 
ager of the Sunset Coal Co., interested in the Peerless Min- 
ing Co. and holds a position of honor with the West Ken- 
tucky Conservation Association. 



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E. P. NICHOLSON. Middlesboro, Kentucky, 

President Low Ash Mining- Co. and Manager of tlie Home 
Run Coal Co., Middlesboro, Kentucky, was born in Pulaslti, 
Virginia, April 27, 1872, and has been in the coal business 
for nineteen years. He is also President of the Central 
Coal & Feed Co. and was formerly with the Lick Fork Coal 
Co., the West Virginia Coal Co., and the Nicholson Coal Co. 



FREDERICK DEMPSTER HART, JR., Middlesboro, Ky,, 

Vice President and General Manager Low Ash Mining Co. 
and President of Home Run Coal Co., Middlesboro, Ken- 
tucky, was born in Detroit, Michigan, April 10, 1872, and has. 
been in the coal business thirteen years. He is also 
Interested in the Central Coal & Feed Co. He -was formerly 
with the Wallsend Coal & Coke Co., National Coal & Iron 
Co. and Appalachian Washed Coal Co. Mr. Hart was edu- 
cated as an electrical and mechanical engineer. 





AV ALTER S. HARKINS, Prestonsburg, Kentucky, 

Of Harkins & Harkins, Prestonsburg, counsel for many coal 
companies in Floyd County and Eastern Kentucky, was born 
in Prestonsburg September 25, 1857. In addition to acting 
as counsel Mr. Harkins was one of the pioneers in the 
buying and selling of coal and mineral lands in Kentucky 
and in the course of thirty years or more has handled many 
large sales and leases. Personally he is one of the largest 
individual owners of coal and mineral properties in Ken- 
tucky, interested in several banks, and still in active practice 
in both State and United States courts. 



JOSEPH D. HARKINS, Piestonsbuis, Kentucky, 

Of Harkins & Harkins. Prestonsburg, counsel for coal coin- 
panies, -was born in Prestonsburg April 24, 1884. Since- 
entering- the firm he has taken an active part in the purchase 
and sale of coal and mineral lands. The firi-n is connected 
with every branch of the coal industry except the actual 
iTiining of coal, and their services, because of their practical, 
as -well as legal, knowledge of the mining laws and condi- 
tions, are much sought after. 



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A\' ALTER S. AVELLS, Prestonsburg, Kentucky, 

Late General Manager Middle Creek Coal Co., Prestonsburg, 
Kentucky, was born in Paintsville, Kentucky, August 5, 
18SS, and had been in the coal business eight years 
up to the time of his death, October 16, 1918. He 
was president of the Black Diamond Coal Co., Salt Lick 
Coal Co., Beaver-Elkhorn Coal Co., and the Lorain-Elkhorn 
■Coal Co. He served as Vice President of the Kentucky 
Mining Institute and Secretary-Treasurer of the Big Sandy 
Coal Mining Institute. 



GEORGE BOOTOIV ARCHER, Prestonsburg, Kentucky, 

Secretary-Treasurer of the Middle Creek Coal Co.. Prestons- 
burg, Kentucky, was born in Prestonsburg, Kentucky, May 
30, 1892, and has been in the coal business for about seven 
years. He is a Director in the following companies: Beaver- 
Elkhorn Coal Co., Lorain-Elkhorn Coal Co., Black Diamond 
Coal Co., and Salt Lick Coal Co. 



J. W. ALLEY, Prestonsburg, Ky., 

President-Manager Prestonsburg Coal 
Co., Inc., Prestonsburg, Kentucky, was 
born in Virginia, October 8, 1862, and 
has been in the coal business twenty- 
seven years. He w^as formerly v^-ith 
the Virginia Pocahontas Coal Co. and 
the Virginia Iron, Coal & Coke Co. Mr. 
Alley installed tlie plant of the Stone- 
•wall Coal & Coke Co. and has been 
in the Big Sandy field ten years. 




TH03IAS JEPPERSOIV ASHER, A\ asioto, Kentucky, 

Was born in Redbird, Clay County, Kentucky, May 21, 1848, 
and has been associated with the remarkable development 
of Kentucky coal lands. 



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J. D. CAIN, Middlesboro, Kentucky, 

Assistant State Inspector of Mines, Middlesboro, Kentucky, 
was born in Illinois December 27, 1S60, and has been in 
the coal business thirty-one years. He was formerly con- 
nected with the Lady Ensley Coal, Iron & Railway Co., 
Richmond Coal Co., R. O. Campbell Coal Co., "Wilhoit Coal 
Co., and the Blackwood Coal & Coke Co. Mr. Cain is consid- 
ered one of the best posted coalmen in Kentucky and an au- 
thority on eastern Kentucky coal properties. 



C. R. COLEMAN, Stanford, Kentucky, 

Vice President and General Manager Coleman Mining- Co., 
Inc., Cary, Bell County, Kentucky, w^as born in Maysvllle, 
Pennsylvania, December 16, 1862, and has been in the coal 
business for thirty-one years. Mr. Coleman enjoys an en- 
viable reputation in the coal trade and is the guiding spirit 
of the company. They operate an absolutely modern plant 
equipped with the latest mining machinery, producing abovit 
five hundred tons per day. Mr. Coleman vs'as formerly with 
the Lexington & Carter County Mining Co. and the Man- 
chester Coal Co. 




\VILL,IAM E. DAVIS, Lexington, Kentucky, 

Vice President and General Manager Midland Mining- 
Co., Lexington, Kentucky, was born in Knoxville, Ten- 
nessee. December 7. 1877, and has been in the coal 
business nineteen years. He is Vice President of the 
East Tennessee Coa! Co. and a Director of the Kenmont 
Coal Co.. Kentucky Block Coal Co., Kentucky Jewel Coal 
Co.. and Elk Fork Coal Co. He sold recently his interest 
in the First Creek Coal Co. of which he was President and 
General Manager. He is the pioneer of the Hazard coal 
fields in Kentucky and has equipped and operated some of 
the best properties in that field. 



W. J. BROWN, JR., Lenuut, Ky., 

Was born in Bristol, Virginia, and is 
in charge of the Daniel Boone Coal Co., 
Lennut, Kentucky, kno-wn as the Haz- 
ard field. This company has recently 
completed the opening of anpther n-iine 
on Lotts Creek, having a dailj' capacity 
of 3,000 tons, equipped with all modern 
electrical equipment. 



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^\1^^,IAM t;iiAHV>i uimav. 

(ireenville, Kentucky, 

President W. G. Duncan Coal Co., was 
born September 4, 1S51, in Hollytown, 
Scotland, and has been eng-aged fifty- 
two year.s in the coal industry. He is 
one of Kentucky's best Isnown opera- 
tors. 




DAMEL, BOONE LOGAN, Piiu'viUe, Kentucky, 

President Wliite-L.og- Jellico Coal <^o.. Elk Coal Co.. Terry's 
Fork Coal Co , Dorton Branch Coal Co., and Sti-aight Creek 
Mineral Co... was born in Carter County. Kentucky, April 23, 
1858, and by reason of a quarter of a century's experience 
in mining- coal is considered one of the leading- operators 
of Kentucky. He was at one time with the Wallsend Coal 
& Coke Co. 



EDWARD .1. HAKETT, Louisville, Ky., 

Born in Leitchfield, Kentuckj'. Decem- 
ber 3, 1866, has had twenty very active 
years In both mining- and selling coal. 
He is President of the Caledonia Min- 
ing Co.. Treasurer of the D. J. Mackey 
Co.. and Secretary and Treasurer of the 
Fork Ridge Mining- Co., of the Big Four 
Coal Co.. and of the Big Muddy Min- 
ing Co.. all operating- companies, and 
Treasurer and Manager of the Edward 
J. Hackett Coal Co., a retail company. 




J. li. MANIMIVG, Middles Ixuo, Kciifuekj , 

President Manring Coal Exchange, Middlesboro, Kentucky, 
was born in the state of Ohio in 1872 and has been in the 
coal business for twenty-two years. He is also President 
of the Winona Coal Co. and was formerly with the Fork 
Ridge Coal Co. and the Sterling Coal Co., as well as a 
member of the Southern Appalachian Coal Operators Asso- 
ciation. Mr. Manring is Mayor of Middlesboro and one of 
the best known operators in the eastern Kentucky field. 



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WHITE LiAXE MOSS, Pineville, Kentucky, 

President of the White Moss Coal Co., Pineville, Kentucky, 
was born in Pineville, Kentucky, September 4, 1883, and 
has been in the coal business twelve years. He was for- 
merly with the Continental Coal Corp , White Star Coal 
Co., Straight Creek Coal Mining- Co., Moss & Sons Coal Co., 
and Poplar Hignite Coal Co. He has served as President 
of the Kentucky Mining Institute and as member of 
Executive Committee, Southern Appalachian Coal Operators' 
Association, and has many warm friends in the coal trade. 



J. L. MORG AN, Pikeville, Kentucky, 

Manager of the Allegheny Coke Co., 
Hellier, Kentucky, is a well known 
coal operator, having spent many years 
in the coal business. He has been in 
the Big Sandy Valley for twelve years 
and was formerly in the Pocahontas 
field of West Virginia. 




GEORGE MORIIV SHOEMAKER, Evart.s, Kentucky. 

President and General Manager The Red Dragon Coal Co., 
Evarts, Kentucky, was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 
June 21, 1871, and has been in the coal business thirty-three 
years. He is also General Manager of the Bailey's Creek 
Coal Co., Harlan, Kentucky. He was formerly with the La- 
Follette Coal, Iron & Railway Co. and the New River Col- 
lieries Co. He has been chairman of the Executive Board 
of the Southern Appalachian Coal Operators Association. 
He is a member of the American Institute of Mining Engi- 
neers. 



CHARI,ES M. RIKER, Paducah, Ky., 

General Manager and Treasurer Eureka 
Coal & Coke Co., Paducah, Kentucky, 
was born in East Orange, New Jersey, 
February 15, 1876, and has been in the 
coal business nineteen years. He is 
General . Manager of the Carbondale 
Coal & Coke Co., and President of the 
C. M. Riker Coal Co. (mines of St. 
Charles, Kentucky). He wias previous- 
ly with the Pennsylvania Coal Co., Erie 
Coal Co., and West Kentucky Coal Co. 



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HARRISOIV LaF AYETTE TUCKER, KookKOit, Kentucky, 

President-General Manager Rockport Coal Co.. Rockport, 
Kentucky, was born in Union County, Tennessee, July 12, 
1874, and has been in the coal business for twenty-seven 
years. He 'was formerly with the Chas. F. Keeler Coal Co., 
W. S. Bogle Coal Co. and the Grant Coal Mining- Co., and is 
Secretary-Treasurer and Commissioner of Western Ken- 
tucky Coal Operators Association. 



CAI'T. \\ . C. TUCKER, Boii!i:iiii. Kentucky, 

General Superintendent of the \Visconsin Steel Co., Benham, 
Kentucky, was born in Columbus, Mississippi, January 20, 
18C4, and has been in the coal business for thirty-six years. 
Capt. Tucker is -widely known for his ability in the survey 
and development of coal lands and has a splendid reputa- 
tion in the eastern Kentucky field. 



J. ALBERT SMITH, Central City, Ky., 

General Manager Gibraltar Coal Min- 
ing Co., Central City, Kentucky, was 
born in Lynnville, Tennessee, August 
11, ISSl, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness thirteen years, all the time with 
this company. He is also interested in 
the Mercer Coal Co. and the Brown 
Coal Co., Memphis. He is Vice Presi- 
dent of the W'estern Kentucky Opera- 
tors' Association and a member of the 
"West Kentucky Conservation Asso- 
ciation and the Ohio Valley Coal Op- 
erators' Association. 



B. W. WHITFIELD, Kitts, Kentucky, 

President- Clover Fork Mining Co., 
Kitts, Kentucky, ^vas born January 24, 
1865, and has been in the coal business 
for twenty-six years. Mr. Whitfield 
was formerly connected -with several 
companies in Alabama and later oper- 
ated the Left Fork Coal Co., -which -was 
afterwards sold to the Continental 
Coal Co. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



KENTUCKY — Louisville 

JOHX HEMtV BICKKL, JR., Louisville, Kentucky, was 
born in Louisville September 28, 1873, and has been in the 
coal liusiness eleven years. He was formerly with the 
East Kentucky Mining: Co. and the W. G. Duncan Coal Co. 

AVILIilAM V. Bl'RWIXKLE, President Walnut Coal Co., 
Inc.. Louisville, Kentucky, was born in Louisville, Kentucky, 
October 13. 18S2, and has been in the coal business twelve 
years. He is also interested in the James Coal Co. and was 
formerly connected with the Joseph Walton Co. and R. C. 
Tway Coal Co. E. E. Weber is Treasurer of the company. 

CH.VRLES I.. CRTJSH, President Atlas Coal Co., Louisville, 
Kentucky, was born in Louisville, Kentucky, February 16, 
1867, and has been in the coal business for twenty-three 
years. He was formerly with the Pacific Coal Co., and has 
held positions of honor with the coal organizations of the 
state, and is well known throughout the trade. 

GEORGE E. DAVIS, Manag-er of the Consolidation Coal 
Co., Louisville, Kentucky, was born in Richmond, Virginia. 
June 26, 1870, and has been in the coal business covering a 
period of ten years. Mr. Davis was formerly in the railroad 
service and has many friends in the trade. 

LEOjV FRAXKEI,, President Frankel Coal Co., Louisville, 
Kentucky, was born in Louisville, Kentucky, September 28, 
1878, and has been in the coal business for seventeen years. 

WIM/IAM B. GATHRIGHT, Sales Agent and Assistant 
Manager of tlie St. Bernard Mining Co., Louisville. Kentucky, 
was born in Indianapolis. Indiana, in ISSl, and has been in 
the coal business thirteen years. 

C. D. HAUGER, President Mannington Coal Co., Louis- 
ville, Kentucky, was born in Washington County, Indiana, 
July 18, ISSl, and has been in the coal business two years. 

KARL JUXGBM'TH, .IR., of the Harlan Coal Co., Louis- 
ville, Kentucky, was born in Louisville, Kentucky, July 20, 
1876, and has been in the coal business for fifteen years. Ho 
is also interested in the Harlan Coal Mining Co., and was 
formerly with the Smokeless Fuel Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. 

E. MAXXING, Secretary-Treasurer Harlan Coal Co., Har- 
lan Coal Mining Co., and Treasurer Kentucky Headwaters 
Coal Co.. Louisville, Kentucky, has been in the coal busi- 
ness four years. He was formerly connected with The Snead 
& Meguire Coal Co. 

W. S. HloU.VlVEI.]), President Drabelle Yager Coal Co., 
Louisville, Kentucky, was born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 
1881, and has been in the coal business for eleven years. 

CHARLE.s .F. O'COjVXOR, Manager of the Pittsburgh Coal 
Co., Louisville, Kentucky, was born in Louisville May 4, 
1867, and has been in the coal business thirty-five years. He 
was formerly M'ith the O'Neil Coal & Coke Co., later merged 
into the present company. 

FRED ^V. OTT. JR., Traffic Manager R. C. Tway Coal Co., 
Louisville, Kentucky, was born in Louisville, Kentucky, 
December 1, 1888, and has been in the coal business cover- 
ing a period of six years. 

LOUIS A. SHAFER, Sales Manager James Coal Co., Louis- 
ville, Kentucky, was born in Louisville, Kentucky, March 
16, 1871, and has been in the coal business for twenty-eight 
years. He is also interested in the R. C. Tway Coal Co., and 
was formerly connected with the Southern Coal & Coke Co., 
Straight Creek Coal & Coke Co., Asher Coal Agency, Jellico- 
Laurel Coal Agency, Louisville & Nashville Railroad Coal 
Agency and others. Mr. Shafer is considered one of the 
best retail coal salesmen in the state and is widely known 
throughout the trade. 

ROBERT A. AVATSON, Manager of the Byrne & Speed 
Coal Co, and the Jellico-Laurel Coal Agency, Louisville, 
Kentucl^y. was born in Louisville, Kentucky, December 12, 
18G8. and has been in the coal business for thirty years. 

DR. ROBERT WEDEKIND. Louisville, Kentucky, Presi- 
dent of the Tennessee Jellico Coal Corp., Block Coal & 
Coke Co.. Hazard Coal Co, and the Tennessee Jellico Coal 
Co., was born in Louisville, Kentucky, March 7, 1871, and 
has been in the coal business for twelve years. Dr. Wede- 
kind is the lai'gest farm land owner in the state. 

KENTUCKY 

H.VRRA' AV. ABBOTT, Manager of The M. M. Allen Supply 
Co., Newport, Kentucky, was born in Covington, Kentucky, 
December 25, 1875, and has been in the coal business for 
eleven years. 

VAN Bl'REX ALEXANDER of Alexander Bros., Cadiz, 
Kentucky, was born in Cadiz, Kentucky. January 22, 1876, 
and has been in the coal business for sixteen years. He 
was formerly with Alexander Bros. & Sands. 

F. J. ALSOP, General Manager Alsop Bros.. Hawesville, 
Kentucky, was born in Hawesville in 1879 and has been in 
the coal business seventeen years. He was formerly with 
Aubiir Ash & Penley Co. 



SAM J. ALA'ES, Henderson, Kentucky, was born in Hen- 
derson County, Kentucky, August 1, 1847, and has been in 
the coal business for twenty-six years. He was formerly 
with the Coreydon Mining Co. 

GEO. C. ATKINSON, President St. Bernard Mining Co., 
Earlington, Kentucky, was born in New Jersey May 15, 1852, 
and has been in the coal business since 1871. He is also 
President of the Victoria Coal Co. and one of the largest 
coal operators in Kentucky, his father being a pioneer in 
the development of that state. 

THOMAS MARSHAL BARROAV, Owensboro, Kentucky, 
was born in Clark County. Kentucky, in 1873, and has been 
in the coal business for seventeen years. 

J. AV. BASTIN, Secretary-General Manager Nelson Creek 
Coal Co., Nelson, Kentucky, was born in Lincoln County, 
Kentucky, September 18, 1862, and has been in the coal 
business for thirty-six years. He is also interested in the 
Bevier Coal Co., Cleaton, Kentucky, and was formerly with 
the Laurel Coal Co. and the New Laurel Coal Co., Pittsburg, 

PERCY D. BERRA%, Vice President and Treasurer Provi- 
dence Mining Co., Providence, Kentucky, was born in Madi- 
sonville, Kentucky, November 24, 1874, and has been in 
the coal business twenty-seven years, the company for- 
merly being known as the Providence Coal Co. Mr. Berry 
is serving as a Director in the Kentucky Mine Owners' As- 
sociation and the Ohio Valley Coal Operators' Association. 

ALEXANDER BLAIR, General Manager Pittsburgh Coal 
Co., Henderson, Kentucky, was born in Scotland October 
16, 1859, and has been in the coal business for twenty 
years. 

LINDSAY R. BLANTON, Richmond, Kentucky, was born 
in Richmond, Kentucky, April 25, 1890, and has been in 
the coal business all his life. The firm bearing Mr. Blan- 
ton's name started business in 1885 and he has been its 
Manager for eight years or more. 

C. G. BOAA'MAN, President Daniel Boone Coal Co., Haz- 
ard, Kentucky, was born in Estell County in 1864. Mr. 
Bowman is a man of means and is well and favorably 
known in Kentucky, having been engaged in the lumber 
industry as well as coal business for many years. 

HENRY L. BRADLEY, Manager of Bradley Bros., Padu- 
cah, Kentucky, was born in Paducah in 1872 and has been 
in the coal business for twenty-one years. 

AV. AV. BRIDGES, President Black Diamond Coal & Min- 
ing Co., Drakesboro, Kentucky, was born at Boxville, Ken- 
tucky, March 12, 1873, and has been in the coal business 
for twenty-six years, with the one company. 

AVILLIAM A\'ILSON BROADDUS, President W. W. 
Broaddus & Co., Richmond, Kentucky, was born in Madison 
County, Kentucky, January 17, 1876, and has been in the 
coal business twenty-three years. He was formerly with 
L. R. Blanton fourteen years. 

A. V. BROAVN, Secretary-Treasurer Golden Ash Coal Co.. 
WilliaiTisburg, Kentucky, was born in Osgood, Indiana, June 
14, 1884, and has been in the coal business for fifteen years. 
He is also Auditor for the Southern Mining Co. and is inter- 
ested in the New Caryville Coal Co. and the Gatliff Coal Co. 

CHARLES D. BURDICK, Auditor and Assistant Treas- 
urer West Kentucky Coal Co., Sturgis. Kentucky, was born 
near Uniondale, Pennsylvania, August 19, 1874, and has 
been in the coal business for twenty-seven years. He 
was formerly with the Hillside Coal & Iron Co. and the 
Pennsylvania Coal Co. at Scranton, Pennsylvania. 

GEORGE S. CHOAA'NIjVG. President of Hall & Chowning, 
Shelbyville, Kentucky, was born in Shelbyville, Kentucky, 
September 7, 1876, and has been in the coal business for 
fifteen years. Mr. Chowning is one of the most popular 
retailers in that section. 

J. J. CHRISTIE, General Manager Marrowbone Mining 
Co., Plkeville, Kentucky, was born i'n the state of Pennsyl- 
vania and has been in the coal business about all his life. 
He is President of the Mossy Bottom Mining Co. and Gen- 
eral Manager of the Natts Creek Mining Co. 

GEORGE THOAIAS CLARK of The George T. Clark Coal 
& Sand Co., Russell ville, Kentucky, was born in Russellville 
March 27, 1865, and has been in the coal business for fifteen 
years. 

EDAA'ARD R. CLAYTON, Secretary of the Harlan County 
Coal Operators' Association. Harlan, Kentucky, was born 
in Grafton, West Virginia, January 10, 1876, and has been 
in the coal business for nineteen years. He ^vas formerly 
connected with the Maryland Coal Co., Wendel, West 
Virginia, The Harlan Coal Co., Louisville, Kentucky, and 
the Wallins Creek Coal Co., Louisville, Kentucky. He is 
Secretary of the Harlan County Coal Operators' Association, 
and on February 1. 191S, was appointed a District Repre- 
sentative of the I'nited States Fuel Administration, with 
headquarters at Knoxville, Tennessee. 

S. H. CRAIN, Grain Coal Co., Flemingsburg, Kentucky, 
■was born in Fleming County, February 9, 1864, and has 
been in the coal business for sixteen years. He was for- 
inerly with the CoUins-Crain Co. 



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B. C. n-V\"inS()X, Si'cretar,\- -Treasurer TTniontown Coal 
& Mining- Co., Uniontown, Kentucky, was born in Hawes- 
ville, Kentucky, April t!, 18C5, and has been In the coal 
business for thirty-one years. He was formerly connected 
with B. C. Davidson & Sons and B. C. Davidson Coal Co. 

J. EARLE DAVIS, Shelbyville. Kentucky, was born in 
Shelby County, Kentucky, and ha.s been associated witli 
Curtis P. Hall in the retail coal business for the past year 
under tlie name of Hall & Davis. 

HAUUV AV. UICKEUISOIV of the Reliance Coal & Coke Co., 
Cincinnati, Ohio, was born in Kenton County, Kentucky, 
January 18, 1890, and has been in the coal business for six 
years. He is also interested in the Lincoln Coal Co. of Cin- 
cinnati, and was formerly witli tlie Marmet-Halm Coal & 
Coke Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. 

^V1LHA3I C. DODSOX. Paris, Kentucky, is a native of 
Kentucky, born June 11, 1861, and has been in the coal 
business for over seventeen years. He is a well known 
retailer in that section. 

AV. H. DOITGI-AS of tlie firm of W. H. Douglas & Son, 
Richmond, Kentucky, was born in Madison County, Ken- 
tucky, January 20, 1860, and has been in the coal business 
for six years. 

\VIL,LIA3I TRU3IAX DRURY, Morganfield, Kentucky, was 
born in Waverly, Kentucky, October 15, 1871, and has been 
in the coal business for eight years. He was formerly with 
the River & Rail Coal & Coke Co. and the Drury Coal Co. 
Mr. Drur.v has 2,020 acres of undeveloped coal lands. 

HARRY DRAPER EASTON, General Superintendent Fed- 
eral Coal Co., Inc., successors to Continental Coal Corp., 
Straight Creek, Kentucky, was born in Mehoopany, Penn- 
sylvania, in 1S7S, and is an authority on the coal 
industry and the author of books and articles on the sub- 
ject. Mr. Easton is a Professor of Mining Engineering- 
and has been instructor in this branch in several univer- 
sities. 

ISAAC J. EXGLE, Lexington, Kentucky, member of the 
firm of Shepherd. Eng'le & Given, was born in Richmond, 
Kentucky, about thirty-six years ago. He was formerly 
connected with John B. Payne and Louis des Cognets & Co., 
and has been in the coal business tor about thirteen years. 

DR. C. AV. EA^YNS, General Manager Colonial Coal & 
Coke Co., Prestonsburg, Kentucky, was born in Pottsville, 
Pennsylvania, fifty-nine years ago, and has been in the 
coal business sixteen years. He was formerly with the 
Henry Clay Coal Co. Dr. Evans gave up the medical pro- 
fession for the coal industry and has been in the Big- Sandy 
field since 1905. 

SA3IUEL, MILTOIV FREESE, Treasurer The Kentucky 
Block Cannel Coal Co., Cannell City, Kentucky, was born 
in Louisa, Kentucky, March 27, 1873, and has been in the 
coal business for fourteen years. 

H. H. PUNK, Sutton, Kentucky, General Manager of The 
Funk Coal Co., was born in Pennsylvania in 1851 and has 
been in the present company about two years. 

SHELBY' GISH, President Central Coal & Iron Co., Central 
City, Kentucky, was born near Central City, Kentucky, in 
the year 1877, and has coal interests in the Gish Cannel 
Coal Co., McHenry Coal Co., Jellico Coal Co., Consolidated 
Coal Co., Five J Coal Co. and the Central Coal & Iron Co. 

JAMES G. GIVEJV, member of the firm of Shepherd, Engle 
& Given, Lexington, Kentucky, -was born in Lexington, Ken- 
tucky, about forty-four years ago. He was formerly con- 
nected with George Land and the Pluto Coal Co. and has 
Iseen in the coal business for about twenty-six years. 

WALTER SCOTT GLORE, Danville Ice & Coal Co., Dan- 
ville, Kentucky, was born in Louisville, Kentucky, January 
12, 1878, and has been in the coal business for twenty-one 
years. He is interested in the Kentucky-Tennessee Prop- 
erty Co. and the Virginia Mining Co. 

JOHN H. GRIFFITT, Superintendent Marrowbone Mining 
Co., Lookout, Kentucky, was born In Marmet, West Vir- 
ginia, in the year 1865, and has been in the coal business 
for thirty-seven years. He -was formerly connected with 
the Solvay Collieries Co., Kingston, West Virginia. 

B. P. GRIGSBA', SR., President of Grigsby & Co., Bards- 
town. Kentucky, was born in Bardstown, Kentucky, May 
30, 1847, and has been in the coal business for twenty-eight 
years. His sons. B. P. Grigsby, Jr., O. E. Grigsby and 
R. W. Grigsby, are associated -with him in the business. 
James Carothers, Jr., has also been with the company for 
twenty-eight years. 

S. B. GRUBBS, Warsaw, Kentucky, was born in Florence, 
Boone County, Kentucky, July 14, 1846, and has been in 
the coal business for twenty-eight years. 

ELZO GUTHRIE, President Republic Coal Co., Harlan, 
Kentucky, was born in the state of Alabama, January 19, 
1872, and has been in the coal business for twenty-one 
years. He -was formerly with the Alabama Coal Co. 



CURTIS P. HALL, Slielby v iUe, Keiituclty, was born in 
Shelby County, Kentuclvy, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness under the firm name of Hall & Davis since January 1, 
1917, whicli firm succeeded Hall & Crume. 

EA i^REiri: >ioi)()A\ i<:i,i. HARJIAIV, Vice President and 
General Manager Allburn Coal & Coke Co., McCarr, Ken- 
tucky, was born in Ennis, West Virginia, September 22, 
1890, and has been in the coal business for nine years. He 
was formerly with the Premier Pocahontas Collieries Co. 

R. F. HASKINS, General Manager Diamond Block Coal 
Co., Hazard, Kentuclvy, was born in Virginia and has been 
in the coal business for fifteen years. He is interested in 
tlie Acme By-Products Coal Co., Fleming, Kentucky, and 
was ijreviously connected witl-i the Majestic Collieries Co. 
and the Vulcan Coal Co. 

J. T. HATFIELD, Secretary-Treasurer Hatfield Coal Co., 
Covington, Kentucky, was born in Lincoln, Illinois, Febru- 
ary 25, 1866, and has been in the coal business for thirty- 
six years. He started in business for himself at the age of 
sixteen years. He is President of the Great Kanawha River 
Improvement Association and is interested in the Pomeroy 
Dock Co., Pittsburg Mining Co., Tliomas & Hartweg Lands 
Co., West Virginia Washed Coal Co., Plymouth Coal & Min- 
ing- Co., Coalburgh-Kanawha Mining Co., E. J. Hickey Trans- 
portation Co., Atlas Coal Co., P. & K. Finger Bros. Coal 
Co., Madison Coal & Supply Co., and several other firms. 
He is well and favorably known throughout the trade. 

AV. B. HILL, Litchfield, Kentucky, was born in Kentucky 
March 4, 1850, and has been in the coal business for three 
years. He was formerly connected with the Rockport Coal 
Co. 

ROGER AA'. HENDERSON. Purchasing Agent Stearns Coal 
& Lumber Co., Stearns, Kentucky, was born in California, 
Kentucky, February 23, 1888, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for twelve years. 

AVILLIAHI H. HOGE of the Hoge Coal Co., Frankfort, Ken- 
tucky, was born in Staunton. Virginia, November 8, 1863, 
and has been in the coal business twenty-one years. He was 
formerly with Black & Hoge. The Hoge Coal Co. is suc- 
cessor to Black & Hoge, one of the oldest coal companies 
in Frankfort. 

NORMAN A. HOLT, Secretary The Holt Coal Co., Central 
City, Kentuckj', was born at Snow Shoe, Pennsylvania, De- 
cember 20, 1875, and has been in the coal business for six- 
teen years. He was formerly with W. F. Holt. Mr. Holt 
is a mei-nber of the Western Kentucky Coal Operators' 
Association, Ohio Valley Coal Operators' Association, and 
the Western Kentucky Conservation Association. 

RODGER D. HOLT, Clay, Kentucky, Manager of the Clay 
mines of the Cliity Consolidated Coal Co., was born in 
Franklin, 'I'ennessee, in 1891, and has been in the coal 
business eight j'ears. He is also interested in the mines at 
Cliffy, Tennessee. 

JESSE C. HOSKINS, President and General Manager of 
the Magnet Coal Co., Hosman, Kentucky, was born in Ten- 
nessee, August 22, 1857, and has been in the coal business 
for twenty-five years. He is interested in the Imperial- 
Jellico Coal Co., Rockhold. Kentucky, and was formerly 
connected with the Emlyn Coal Co. 

CHARLES HUDDLESTON, Fulton, Kentucky, was born 
in Fulton County, Kentucky, October 24, 1876, and has been 
in the coal business for eleven years. 

ROBERT JAMESON, General Manager of Thomas Jam-ron 
& Son, Beattyville. Kentucky, was born In Beattyville, Ken- 
tucky, in 1892, and has been in the coal business sixteen 
years, associated with Thomas Jameson, who has been in 
the coal business forty-one years. Mr. Jameson is President 
of the Jameson Coal Co., and Secretary and Treasurer of 
The Relco Coal Mining Co. at Idamay, Kentucky. They no-w 
operate five mines. 

THOMAS JABIBSON of the Thomas Jameson & Son Coal 
Co., Beattyville, Kentucky, has been in the coal business for 
forty-one years and is at present operating five mines. He 
is associated with his son, Robert Jai-neson. 

THOMAS E. JENKINS of the West Kentucky Coal Co.. 
Sturgis, Kentucky, was born in Wayland, Ohio, October 6, 
1876, and has been in the coal business for twenty-three 
years. He was formerly with Jenkins & Bailey in Ohio, 
Economy Coal Co., and the Illinois Coal Operators' Liability 
Co. 

DAVID JOHNSON of The Shelby Coal Mining Co., Shel- 
biana, Kentucky, was born in Ohio, December 23, 1874, and 
has been in the coal business for sixteen years. 

C. A. KENNEY of Kennev & Marimon, Nicholasville, Ken- 
tucky, -was born at Clear Creek, Illinois, June 10, 1862, and 
has been in the coal business for thirteen years. 

AVILLIAM T. KING, Manager William T. King & Son, 
Lewisport, Kentucky, was born in 1855, and has been in the 
coal business for a period of ten years. 

SHELBY KINKEAD, Manager of the Kinkead Coal Co., 
Lexington, Kentucky, was born in Lexington, Kentucky, in 
the year 1S54, and has been in the coal business for thirtj^- 
six years. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



C. KIRKPATRICK, Secretary-Treasurer Kirk Coal Co., 
Beech Creek, Kentucky, was born in Muhlenberg- County, 
Kentucky, in the year 1888, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for nine years. He was formerly connected with the 
Beech Creek Coal Co. 

GEORGE \V. LAND of George Land & Bro., Lexington. 
Kentucky, was born in Lexington February 22, 1869, and 
has been in the coal business twenty-six years. This firm 
is well and favorably known throug-hout the trade. 

W. R. liAlVDRUM, Secretary of the Kentucky-Harlan Coal 
Co., Harlan, Kentucky, was born in Laurel County, Ken- 
tucky, June 27, 1889, and has been in the coal business for 
eight years. He was formerly connected with tlie Clear 
Fork Coal & Coke Co., Pineville Coal Mining Co., and the 
Catrons Creek Coal Co. 

.STERLING S. LANIER, JR.. General Manager of the Nor- 
ton Coal Mining Co., Nortonville, Kentucky, was born in 
Birmingham, Alabama, September 23, 1888, and has been in 
the coal business for nine years. He was formerly with 
the Republic Iron & Steel Co. and the Monro Warrior Coal 
& Coke Co. 

W. H. LLOYD, President and Manager Morganfield Coal 
& Mining Co., Morganfield, Kentucky, was born in England 
January 25, 1859, and has been in the coal business for 
twentj'-four years. He was formerly with the Corydon Coal 
Co. 

JOSEPH E. MATTISON, Manager of St. Bernard Mining 
Co., Paducah, Kentucky, was born in Paducah, Kentucky, 
July 23, 1886, and has been in the coal business for six 
years. 

SAMUEL AVOOLDRIDGE MfCOMB of the "Wallins Creek 
Coal Co. and Wallins Creek Sales Co., Pineville, Kentucky, 
was born in Christian County, Kentucky, May 6, 1871, and 
has been in the coal business for many years. He w^as 
formerly with the Wooldridge Jellico Coal Co. and the 
Jellico B. G. Coal Co. 

C. E. McGINNIS, Secretary-Manager Lawrenceburg- Sup- 
ply Co., Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, was born in Lawrence- 
burg, Kentucky, in the year 1890, and has been in the coal 
business covering a period of two and a half years. 

WALTER J. NISBET. President Providence Mining Co., 
Providence, Kentucky, was born in Madisonville, Kentucky. 
July 6, 1872, and has been in the coal business for twenty- 
nine years. He organized this company in 1890. Mr. Nisbet 
is a member of the West Kentucky Conservation Associa- 
tion. 

GILMORE H. NUNIVELLEY, President ' The G. H. Nunnel- 
ley Co., Georgetown. Kentucky, was born in Randolph 
County, Missouri. October 14, 1852, and has been in the coal 
business for thirty-four years. 

CHARLES A, PATZOLD of The Campbells Creek Coal Co.. 
Ne^vport, Kentucky, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, December 
28, 1S64. and has been in the coal business for thirty-nine 
years continuously. He is President of the Newport Retail 
Coal Dealers Credit Association. 

S. L. PEACE of the Foulks Coal Co., Hopkinsville. Ken- 
tucky, was born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, November 11, 
1885, and has been in the coal business for eight years, 
succeeding E. L. Foulks, who died in February, 1916. at 
the age of ninety-five years. This business was estab- 
lished by Mr. Foulks in 1871 and has been in continuous 
operation since that time. 

CHARLES J. QtJIGGINS of the Valley Creek Coal Yard. 
Elizabethtown. Kentucky, was born in Elizataethtown May 
20, 1S6S, and has been in the coal business seven years. 

FRANK DILLMAN RASH, Vice President-General Mana- 
ger St. Bernard Mining- Co., Earlington, Kentucky, was 
born in St. Cliarles. Kentucky. September 1, 1878, and has 
been in the coal business for seventeen years. He -w^as 
formerly President of the Kentucky Mining Institute and 
is at present President of the Kentucky Mine Owners Asso- 
ciation, First Vice President of the Kentucky Manufactur- 
ers' and Shipping Association, and member of the Aineri- 
can Institute Mining Engineers and Kentucky Mining In- 
stitute. 

W. C. REED, member of the City Coal Co., Hickman, 
Kentucky, was born in Hickman, Kentucky, and has been 
in the coal business for three years. 

CHARLES F. RICHARDSON, President West Kentucky 
Coal Co., Sturgis, Kentucky, was born in Waterford, Ver- 
mont, November 8, 1863, and has been in the coal business 
eight years. He is also President of the West Jellico Coal 
Co. of Paducah, Kentucky. Mr. Richardson has served as 
Vice President of the Ohio Valley Coal Operators' Associa- 
tion and as Chairman of the Executive Board of the West- 
ern Kentucky Conservation Association. 

JAMES L. ROGERS, Secretary-General Manager Lam 
Coal Co., Bevier, Kentucky, was born in Ohio County, Ken- 
tucky, June 19, 1866, and has been in the coal business 
fourteen years. He is also Vice President of the Elkhorn 
Consolidated Coal & Coke Co. and a member of the West- 
ern Kentucky Coal Operators' Association and the Ohio 
Valley Coal Operators' Association. 



GEORGE E. ROPER, Manager of the Pittsburgh Coal Co., 
Paducah, Kentucky, was born July 27, 1892, and has been 
in the coal business ten years, nine years of which he has 
been connected -with the Pittsburgh Coal Co. 

CALA'ERT T. ROSZELL of Roszell Bros.. Lexington, Ken- 
tucky, was born in Lexington Marcli 31, 1875, and has been 
in the coal business twentj'-five years. He was formerly 
witli the Lexington & Carter County Mining Co. and Frost & 
Edge. 

R. M. SAL3ION, Secretary-Treasurer and General Mana- 
ger Crabtree Coal Mining- Co., Ilsley, Kentucky, was born 
in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, January 23, 1857, and has been 
in the coal business for thirty-seven years. He -was for- 
merly connected with the Hecla Coal Co. Mr. Salmon is a 
Representative from the Sixth Senatorial District and is 
well and favorably known. 

S. N. SINKHORN, Stamping Ground, Kentucky, was born 
in Lebanon, Kentucky, June 27, 1873, and has been in the 
coal business for nine years, the firm being known as 
Palmer & Sinkhorn. 

A. G. SPII,LMAN, General Superintendent St. Bernard 
Mining Co., Earlington, Kentucky, -was born in Kentucky 
January 27, 1861, and has been in the coal business for 
nineteen years. He has acted as State Mine Inspector. 

MARTIN L. SPURLING, Campbellsville, Kentucky, was 
born in Taylor County, Kentucky, June 10, 1865, and has 
been in the coal business about fourteen years. He owns 
the Campbellsville Coal Co. 

J. W. STEPHENS, Berea, Kentucky, was born at Berea, 
Kentucky, July 8, 1868, and has been in the coal business 
for twenty-one years. 

■WILLIAM STEPHENS, President and Manager Petersburg 
Coal Co., Petersburg, Kentucky, was born in Hebron, Ken- 
tucky, and has been in the coal business for two years. 

WALKER W. STEVENSON, Superintendent Kentucky Sol- 
vay Coke Co., Ashland, Kentucky, was born in New York 
September 9, 1882, and has been in the coal business for 
eight years. He was formerly with the Semet Solvay Co. 

BEN ETHAN TATE, President A.iax Elkhorn Coal Co.. Ash- 
land, Kentucky, -was born in Mt. Vernon, Illinois, September 
4, 1890, and has been in the coal business about five and a 
half years. He is General Manager of the Clere-Elkhorn 
Coal Co., Manager and Purchasing Agent of the Interstate 
Coal & Dock Co. of Green Bay, Wisconsin, and -was for- 
merly with the Tate Coal Co. 

FIELDING KENLEY TRIBBLE, Danville. Kentucky, was 
born near Danville, Kentucky, September 21, 1859, and has 
been in the retail coal business for thirteen years. 

R. L. WHEELER, President and Manager Brush Creek 
Mining- & Manufacturing- Co., Wheeler, Kentucky, was born 
in Caryville. Tennesse. .January 15, 1879, and has been in 
the coal business for fifteen years. He -was formerly with 
the Red Ash Coal Co., Remey Coal Co., The LaFoUette Coal, 
Iron & Railway Co., and others. Mr. Wheeler is a well 
known coal operator. 

N. M. WHITE, Colonial Coal & Coke Co., Prestonsburg-, 
Kentucky, was born in Ohio in 1861, and has been in the 
coal business over forty years. He -was with the Superior 
Coal Co. twenty-three years. 

EUGENE M. WILLIA3IS, Frankfort, Kentucky, was born, 
in Frankfort, October 10. 1862, and has been engag-ed in the 
coal business twenty-seven years. 

HENRY CHESTER WILLIAMSON, Superintendent Hercu- 
les Coal Co., Morganfield, Kentucky, was born in Gallitzin, 
Pennsylvania, November 13, 1885, and has been in the coal 
business for nine years. 
Kentucky. 

ROBERT G. WILMOTT, Manager of the R. G. Wilmott 
Coal Co., London. Kentucky, was born in Roclvcastle County,. 
Kentucky. November 9, 1882, and has .been in the coal busi- 
ness for seven years. 

D. T. WILSON of James S. Wilson & Bro., Paris, Kentucky, 
■was born in Bourbon County in 1853, and has been in the 
coal business for seventeen years. 

ALEXANDER HAMILTON -WOOD, General Manager and 
Secretary King- Harlan Mining Co., Kildav, Harlan Coun- 
ty, Kentucky, was born in Richmond, Virginia, September 
21, 1870, and has been in the coal business for twenty-six 
years. He was formerly connected with the Petros Coal 
Co., Big Brushy Coal & Coke Co., Brushy Mountain Coal 
Mines. Bon Air Coal Co., and Tennessee Coal, Iron & Rail- 
way Co. He was Chief State Mine Inspector of Tennessee, 
and is a member of the American Institute of Mining Engi- 
neers, enjoying a reputation in Kentucky and surrounding- 
states as a consulting and designing engineer as well as a 
coal operator. 

JOHN WRIGHT of the City Fuel Co., Hickman, Ken- 
tucky, was born in Hickman, Kentucky, and has been en- 
gaged in the coal business for a period of three years. 

EDGAR 31. YOUNG, Providence, Kentucky, was born in. 
Providence in 1887 and has been mining coal eleven years. 
He was formerly connected with the Cuckman Coal Co. and 
Highland Mining Co. 



142 



LOUISIANA 



ALTHOUGH Louisiana produces no coal within 
its liorders, it has figured long and prominently 
in coal trade histoi^. One of the earliest records 
of the American hituminoiis coal industry is of a ship- 
ment from Illinois to Xew Orleans in 1810^, down the 
Big Muddy and ^lississippi rivers. While such move- 
nients of Illinois now seem musty traditions of the past, 
the same cannot he said of the coal barges that have 
floated down the Ohio and Mississippi from the Penn- 
sylvania and western Kentucky fields. Indeed, until 
within the past two or three years, the river movement 
of coal to New Orleans, which represents the major 
factor in Louisiana consumption, far overshadowed the 
all-rail movement, emphasizing, in a striking way, the 
late James J. Hill's famous remark with reference to 
the natural flow to the Gulf. 

Before the withdrawal of the Pittsburgh barge coal 
movement the water receipts at New Orleans approxi- 
mated 1.000. 000 tons per annum. Sixty-five per cent. 
of this tonnage was floated down from Pittsburgh, the 
other 3-5 per cent, came from the western Kentucky field. 
According to testimony introduced before the Interstate 
Commerce Commission, prior to the withdrawal men- 
tioned, the land consumption was over 1,000,000 tons 



a year and the bunker and fueling tonnages approxi- 
mated 850,000 tons. Of the water-borne tonnage men- 
tioned 10,000 tons were consumed locally by the domes- 
tic trade, 650,000 tons Avent for cargo and bunker coal, 
225,000 tons was used by one railroad system and 125,- 
000 tons were shipped to points west of the city. Later 
figures compiled by the Bureau of Foreign and Domes- 
tic Commerce credit the New Orleans district with 546,- 
020 tons of fuel and bunker coal to steamships engaged 
in foreign trade in 1915, while the export figures for 
the same year show 215 tons of anthracite and 12,132 
tons of bituminous coal moving through the customs 
district. 

Taking the state as a whole, both its per capita con- 
sumption (i. e., .82 ton bituminous coal and .01 ton 
anthracite) and square mile consumption (31 tons) are 
far below the averages for the country as a whole. Ac- 
cording to the 1915 L^nited States Geographical Survey 
figures its internal domestic and industrial consump- 
tion totaled onty 1,477,886 tons of bituminous coal and 
1 5,000 tons of anthracite. Its bituminous supplies were 
drawn from five states, Alabama furnishing 717,437 
tons; Pennsylvania, 478,011; Kentucky, 215,007; Illi- 
nois, 67,338, and Arkansas, 93 tons. 



LOUISIANA 



S. C. BLACKMOX, Manager S. C. Blackmon Fuel Yard, 
Monroe. Louisiana, was born in Louisiana January 22, 1879, 
and has been in tlie coal business six years. 

BEXJAMIX CLAASSEN, SR., Vice President Cahaba Bed 
Ash Coal Co.. Xew Orleans Louisiana, -was born at New 
Orleans, Louisiana, January 29, 1849. Mr. Claassen is a very 
active man and is the moving- spirit of the company, of 
which his son, Benjamin, Jr., is President and General Man- 
ag-er. 

.JOSEPH H. DUCHAMP, Secretary-Treasurer Duchamp 
Hardware Co., St. Martinsville, Louisiana, -was born in St. 
Martinsville, Louisiana, July 20, 1882, and has been in the 
coal business for fourteen years. 

ROBERT D. REEVES, Vice President and General Mana- 
ger W. G. Coyle & Co., Inc., New Orleans, Louisiana, was 
born in Todd County, Kentucky, December 19, 1877, and has 
been in the coal business for three years. He was formerly 
with the Illinois Central Railroad and Mississippi Central 
Railroad. 

.T. CHARLES .Jl'XG. Vice President Jung & Sons Co.. New 
Orleans, Loui.siana, was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, 
October 8, 1869, and has been in the coal business for twen- 
ty-five years. He was formerly connected ^vith Jung & 
Sons. 



LOITIS A. JUXG, President Jung & Sons Co.. New Orleans, 
Louisiana, yyas born in Martinique January 9, 1844, and has 
been in the coal business for thirty-five years. He w^as 
formerly with Desforges & Jung and Jung & Sons. 

THEODORE A. JUXG, Secretary-Treasurer Jung & Sons 
Co., NeAV Orleans, Louisiana, was born in Neyy Orleans, 
Louisiana, December 10, 1870, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for twenty-one years. He was formerly with Jung & 
Sons. 

GEORGE DELBERT FREXCH, Manager of the Southern 
Coal Co., Inc.. New Orleans, Louisiana, was born in Liv- 
ingston, Kentucky, July 27, 1883, and has been in the coal 
business for three years. 

FRED W. SCHARFEXSTEIIV, Manager of Scharfenstein 
& Son, New Orleans, Louisiana, was born in New Orleans, 
Louisiana, October 23, 1890, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for eight years. 

JACOB F. SCHARFENSTEIN, President Scharfenstein & 
Son, New Orleans, Louisiana, was born in New Orleans, 
Louisiana, November 8, 1868, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for eight years. 

JOSHl'A C. WERNER, Manager of the Pittsburgh Coal 
Co., Baton Rouge. Louisiana, was born in West Elizabeth, 
Pennsylvania, February 19, 1874, and has been in the coal 
business for fifteen years. He was formerly with the Monon- 
gahela River Consolidated Coal & Coke Co. 



143 



IMARYLAND 



{Iiichidiiig Data on District of Columbia.] 



ANY attempt to use existing current tonnage fig- 
ures as the sole criterion of the position occupied 
b}' Maryhind in the biti;minous coal trade his- 
tory of the country would result in misleading conclu- 
sions because the high character and wide distribution 
of the product of the Maryland mines gives the state a 
fuel importance not equaled by some commonwealths 
outranking it upon the purely statistical tonnage basis. 
With its high gi-ade semi-bituminous or smokeless beds, 
including the well-known Georges Creek smithing coal, 
Maryland is able to effect national distribution. 

The principal coal deposits of the state lie in 
Allegany and Garrett counties, along the Penn- 
sylvania-Maryland and Pennsylvania-West Virginia- 
Maryland boundary lines. The coal measures are 
in an area estimated to contain 455 square 
miles. Next to Georgia, with its estimated area of 167 
square miles, this is the smallest coal bearing area in 
any of the producing states of the Appalachian region. 
The Maryland coal fields, with adjoining counties in 
West Virginia, make up what is known as the Cumber- 
land, or Georges Creek, region. The coals of the state 
occur in five basins, designated as the Georges Creek, 
Upper Potomac, Castleman, Lower and Upper Youghi- 
ogheny basins. Present production is largely confined 
to workings in the Georges Creek and Upper Potomac 
basins, which are a true semi-bituminous, while those 
of the other three are for the most part l)ituminous in 
character. These basins contain a number of recog- 
nized beds or seams, including the Upper Sewickley or 
Tyson seam, the Pittsburgh or Big Vein, the Bakers- 
town, Upper Freeport, Lower Kittanning or Six-foot 
and the Clarion bed. Until the early part of the present 
century practically all of the coal mined in the state 
came from the Pittsburgh seam, "but the gradual ex- 
haustion of this wonderful seam has led to the ex- 
ploitation with most satisfactory results of many of the 
small veins both above and below the chief seam. 
There is unquestionably a great future for these smaller 
seams in j\Iaryland, especially in the Upper Potomac 
basin in southern Garrett county, where they reach 
greatest thickness. The total amount of coal in these 
small seams exceeds many fold that originally contained 
in the big vein." It is estimated that the Maryland 
fields still contain 7,500, (lOO.OOo tons ol' unniined coal. 



Analysis of the average composition of coals of the 
Georges Creek basin, as made by the Maryland Geo- 
logical Survey, shows the following: 



Seam. 



Mols- Vola- Fixed 



Sul- 



tile. 


carbon. 


Ash. 


phur. 


BTU. 


20.22 


70.09 


8.86 


1.40 


14.011 


18.78 


73.13 


7.12 


1.02 


14,256 


18.64 


70.32 


9.94 


2.07 


13,973 


19.47 


68.70 


10.17 


1.73 


13,975 


19.52 


67.20 


12.01 


2.13 


13,471 


21.01 


68.83 


9.22 


1.30 


13,912 



ture. 

Tapper Sewickly ... .83 

Pittsburgh 70 

Bakerstown 1.10 

Upper Freeport.... 1.21 
Lower Kittaning... 1.26 
BrookviJle 91 

The first discovery of coal in Maryland dates back to 
1782; shipments, however, were not made until nearly 
fifty years later (1830), when small tonnages were sent 
by barge from the Georges Creek basin to points along 
the Potomac river. Six years later the first corporate 
coal mining enterprise in the state was launched. It 
was not until the construction of the Baltimore & Ohio 
Eailroad in 1842 and of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal 
eight years later that the industry secured a i^ro- 
nounced impetus. From 1842 to 1852 there was a 
steady increase in output, the annual tonnage rising 
from 2,104 tons to 812,727 tons. The 1,000,000-ton 
mark was first passed in 1865, when the output reached 
1,025,208 tons. Production rose to 2,216,300 tons in 
1869 and dropped back to 1,819,824 tons in 1870. 
The output by years since that date is shown in the 
following table : 



Year. 

1871.. 

1872.. 

1873.. 

1874.. 

1875.. 

1876.. 

1877.. 

1878.. 

1879.. 

1880.. 

1881... 

1882... 

1883... 

1884... 

1885.. . 

1886... 

1887... 

1888... 

1889.. . 

1890.. . 

1891... 

1892... 

1893... 



Ton. Year. Ton. 

2,670,338 1894 3,501,428 

2,647,156 1895 3,915,585 

3,198,911 1896 4,143,936 

2,899,392 1897 4,442,128 

2,808,018 1898 4,674,884 

2,126,873 1899 4,807,396 

1,939.575 1900..; ' 4,024,688 

2,068,925 1901 5,113,127 

2,132,233 1902 5,271,609 

2,228,917 1903 4,846,165 

2,533,348 1904 4,813,622 

1.555,445 1905 5,108,539 

2,476,075 1906 5,435,453 

2,765,617 1907 5,532,628 

2,833,337 1908 4,377,093 

2,517,577 1909 4,023,241 

3,278,023 1910 5,217,125 

3,479,470 1911 4,685,795 

2,939,715 1912 4,964,038 

3,357,813 1913 4,779,839 

3,820,239 1914 4,133,547 

3,419,962 1915 4,180,477 

3,716,041 1916 4,460,046 



144 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



lu addition to consuming 20 per cent, of its produc- 
tion within its own borders 1915 distribution figures 
show that 45 per cent, of the output was shipped all- 
rail to over 20 states. Of these interstate shipments 
by far the greater part — over 90 per cent. — were sent 
to New England, New York and Pennsylvania. Twen- 
ty-five per cent, of the total production was shipped to 
the ports of Baltimore and New York for foreign ex- 
port, for vise as bunker fuel aaid for coastwise transorta- 
tion to New England points. Less than 10 per cent, 
of the production was consumed by the railroads. In 
detail the distribution for the year was as follows : 
Used in .Maiyland. _, Ton. 

Used av mines 64,588 

Sold to local trade 38,908 

Shipped to ^Maryland and District of Columbia 
points 748,673 

Total used in iMaryland and District of Co- 
lumbia points 852,169 

Shipped to other States: 

California and Washington 10,244 

New England 030,097 

Delaware 9,327 

Illinois 20,783 

Indiana 6,947 

Iowa and Kentucky 5,898 

Michigan 48,124 

Missouri and Texas 9,090 

Montana 58 

New Jersey 33,561 

New fork *567,421 

Ohio 37,305 

Pennsylvania 505,860 

Virginia 787 

West Virginia 6,525 

Total shipped to other States (all rail) 1,892,027 

Shipped to tidewater 1,049,160 

Used by railroads 387,12] 

Total production 4,180,477 

*lncludes small quantity exported to Canada by rail. 



Considering Maryland and the District of Columbia 
as one consuming unit the total per capita consumption 
(1.93 tons bituminous coal and .86 ton antliracite) was 
slightly in excess of the per capita average for the coun- 
tr}', while the square mile consumption, 432 tons, was 
three and one-halt' times the national average. Exclu- 
sive of tidewater coal dumped at Baltimore and used in 
Cliesapeake bay, the state drew upon Pennsylvania for 
its major bituminous supplies, with West Virginia push- 
ing the home mines closely for second honors. In de- 
tail the consumption was as follows: Maryland, 852,- 
1G9; Pennsylvania, 1,514,354; Virginia, 3,913; West 
Virginia, 814,379 ; tidewater, 700,000, approximate fig- 
ures representing Maryland, Pennsylvania and West 
A^irginia coal dumped at Baltimore and used in Chesa- 
peake bay; total, 3,884,815; anthracite, 1,470,000. 

No account of the Maryland coal industry would be 
complete A\'ithoi'it at least a passing reference to the 
trade at Baltimore which consumes over 20 per cent, 
of the total fuel used within the district ifnder review, 
and, in addition, is one of the major clearing ports for 
coastwise and export fuel shipments. During 1915 the 
total coal receipts at the port were 7,657,097 tons 
(6,749,336 tons bituminous and 907,761 tons anthra- 
cite) ; in addition, coke receipts totaled 95,943 tons. 
Coastwise shipments, including foreign and domestic 
bunker coal and coal used in Baltimore harbor and 
Chesapeake bay, totaled 3,912,476 tons of bituminous 
coal and 241,689 tons of anthracite, while export tide- 
water shipments totaled 2,129,642 tons of bituminous 
coal, 3,532 tons of anthracite and 39,526 tons of coke. 
This would leave a total consumption of 1,426,175 tons 
of coal and coke, viz., 707,218 tons of bituminous, 662,- 
540 tons of anthracite and 56,417 tons of coke for Balti- 
more ; l)ut all-rail shipments to neighboring communities 
would probably reduce this total to some slight extent. 
Excluding the local bituminous consumption, 707,218 
tons, the bituminous receipts were distributed as follows: 
Foreign cargo, 2,129,642 tons; foreign hunker, 653,664; 
coastwise cargo, 1,873,552; coastwise bunker, 232,732; 
Baltimore harbor and Chesapeake bay points, 1,152,528 
tons. 



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DOUGLAS GORMAN, Baltimore, Maryland, 

President Cumberland Coal Co., Baltimore, Maryland, was 
born in Annapolis, Maryland, May 13, 1882, and has been in 
the coal business for sixteen years. He is also President of 
the Gorman Coal & Coke Co., Piedmont Mining Co., and 
the Wyanoke Coal & Coke Co. The Cumberland Coal Co., 
in addition to its largre wholesale trade, is one of the old- 
est and larg-est retail distributors of bituminous coal in 
Baltimore. 



WILI^IAM H. GORMAN, Baltimore, Maryland, 

Late President and organizer of the Cumberland Coal Co., 
Baltimore, Maryland, was born in Woodstock, Maryland, 
August 11, 1843, and had been engaged in the coal business 
for over thirty years. Mr. Gorman also organized and was 
the executive head of the Gorman Coal & Coke Co.. Piedmont 
Mining Co., and Wyanoke Coal & Coke Co. He was one of 
the substantial men in the business and financial group of 
Baltimore. His death occurred July 5, 1915. 





J. AVALBACH EDELEN, Baltimore, Maryland, 

President Enterprise Fuel Co. and Edwena Coal Mining Co., 
Baltimore, Maryland, was born in Bryantown, Maryland, 
December 10, 1875, and has been in the coal business 
eighteen years. He is Chairman of the Executive Commit- 
tee of the Baltimore Coal Exchange and is well known in 
the trade. 



J. HARRY WEST, Baltimore, Maryland, 

Vice President of the Enterprise Fuel Co., Baltimore, Mary- 
land, was born In Hagerstown, Maryland, March 22, 1873, 
and has been in the coal business fpr nineteen years. He 
is an active officer of the Baltimore Coal Exchange, Director 
National Retail Coal Merchants Association and Vice Presi- 
dent Edwena Coal Mining Co. Mr. West is highly regarded 
and has many friends in the trade. 



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JOHN K. SHAAA", Baltimore Maryland, 

President of the Century Coal Co. of 
West Virginia, Baltimore, was born 
in Cumberland. Maryland, October 7, 
1S75, and has been in the coal business 
covering a period of twenty-foun 
years. He is also President of Shaw 
Bros., the National Union Coal Mining 
Co. of Iowa and the Indian Fork Coal 
& Coke Co. Mr. Shaw was previously 
connected with the Cumberland & Elk 
Lick Coal Co. and the Londening Coal 
Co. 



BENJAMEV BISSEIiL, Baltimore, 

General Manager of The Century Coal 
Co. of West Virginia, Baltimore, was 
born in Maryland and has been in the 
coal business fifty-one years. Mr. 
Bissell has a wide and extensive ac- 
quaintance in the coal producing field. 



AVILLIAM I^. COOjVEY, Baltimore, 

Vice President and a Director of The 
Century Coal Co. of West Virginia, 
Baltimore, was born in Baltimore, 
February 2, 1S70, and has been in the 
coal business thirty-three years. He 
is also Secretary-Treasurer of the In- 
dian Fork Coal & Coke Co. of West 
Virginia and the National Union Coal 
Mining Co. of Iowa. 




JOHN J. SHEEHAN, Baltimore, Maryland, 

President Dominion Coal & Coke Co., Baltimore, Maryland, 
was born in Baltimore, Maryland, November 15, 1880, and 
has been in the coal business for eighteen years. He is 
also President of the Elk Garden Big Vein Co. and Treas- 
urer of the Big Vein Pocahontas Co., and was formerly with 
the Merchants Coal Co. and Stafford Coal Co. 




T. FRANK SHEEHAN, Baltimore, Maryland, 

Treasurer Dominion Coal & Coke Co., Baltimore, Maryland, 
was born in Baltimore, Maryland, January 29, 1882, and has 
been in the coal business for sixteen years. He is also 
interested in the Elk Garden Big Vein Coal Co., and was 
previously connected witli tlie Merchants Coal Co. 



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CHARLES P. KERCHNER, Baltimore, Maryland. 

Sole owner of Hall Bros, & Co.. Baltimore, Maryland, was born 
in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1859, and has been in the coal 
business for twenty-eight years. He was formerly con- 
nected with the Monongah Coal & Coke Co. and the Natalie 
Anthracite Coal Co. Both Mr. Kerchner and his company 
enjoy an exceptionally hig-h reputation and he has occupied 
many positions of honor in the trade. He served as Im- 
perial Modoc of the Order KoKoal. 





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AV. E. SIcCAULEY, Baltimore, Maryland, 

Resident Manager of the Brothers Valley Coal Co., Balti- 
more, Maryland, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, October 
17, 1872, and has been in the coal business for eight years. 
Mr. McCauley ^was formerly in the railroad service for 
twenty-five years, being Division Chief for the Baltimore 
& Ohio Railroad. 



CHAS. VV, HENDLEY, Baltimore, Bid., 

President C. W. Hendley & Co., Bal- 
timore, was born in Washington, Dis- 
trict of Columbia, June 20, 1878, and 
has been in the coal business twenty- 
one years. He was formerly with the 
Davis Coal & Coke Co. Mr. Hendley 
has served as Vice President of the 
Maryland Coal Jobbers Association 
and as a member of the Executive 
Committee of the National Coal Job- 
bers Association. 



MARYLAND — Baltimore 

EDWARD TAYLOR BOSWELL, General Manager Min- 
eral State Coal Co., Baltimore, Maryland, was born in 
Baltimore, Maryland, August 13, 1882, and has been in 
the coal business for eighteen years. He was formerly 
connected with the Merchants Coal Co. 

THOMAS T. BOSWELL, President Mineral State Coal 
Co., Baltimore, Maryland, was born in Danville, Virginia, 
October 13, 1856, and has been in the coal business for 
twenty-five years. He was formerly with the Merchants 
Coal Co. 

BURTON G. BUCK of Buck Bros., Baltimore. Maryland, 
was born in Baltimore in 1861 and has been in the coal 
business for thirty-six years. He was formerly with Hall 
Bros, & Co. 

W. .J. CHAPMAIV, President W. J. Chapman Coal Co., 
Baltimore, Maryland, was born in Virginia, September 21, 
1848, and has been in the coal business for forty-two years. 

THOM.\S "WEST CLAGGETT of the Philadelphia & Read- 
ing Coal & Iron Co., Baltimore, Maryland, was born in 
Maryland, August 4, 1869, and has been in the coal business 
for twenty-four years. He is one of the best known an- 
thracite sales agents in that section. 

J. A. DINNING, Sales Agent of the Keystone Coal & Coke 
Co., Baltimore, Maryland, was born in Quebec, Canada, in 
the year 1866, and has been in the coal business for fifteen 
years. 

J. FRANK FOSTER, Baltimore Manager Thome, Neale 
& Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, was born in Woodlawn, 
Maryland, January 24, 1865, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness thirteen years. 

LESLIE ROCKWELL HARRISON of Harrison & Rouse, 
Baltimore, Maryland, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, 
August 16, 1893, and has been in the coal business for four 
years. 

ROBERT HETZ, Baltimore, Maryland, was born in Balti- 
more December 4, 1852, and has been in the coal business 
fifty-two years. He was formerly connected with Geo. 
Hetz, H. Schmidt & Co. and Robert Lange. His son, John 
R. Hetz, is the tliird generation in the coal trade. 

CHARLES C. KNOBELOCH, Sales Manager The Davis 
Coal & Coke Co., Baltimore, Maryland, was born in Balti- 
more, Maryland, March 21, 1881, and has been in the coal 
business for nineteen years. 



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JOHN (". I-KWIS. I'resident The Lewis Fuel Co., Inc., 
Baltimore. Mar\l;uui, was born in Washing-ton, D. C, No- 
vember lili. 1871, aiul has been in the coal business for 
twenty-eight years. He was formerly connected with Gilmor 
Meredith & Co. and the Consolidation Coal Co. 

FRANCIS G. P.VTTKHSON. Treasurer The Lewis Fuel Co.. 
Baltimore, Maryland, was born in England August 17, 1875, 
and has been in the coal business for eleven years. He is 
also interested in the Laurel Hill Mining' Co. and was for- 
merly with the Queniahoning' Coal Co. 

REinKX B. Pt,ATT of Weston Dodson & Co., Baltimore, 
Marxiand. was Ijorn in Chester, Pennsylvania, June 13, 1SS4, 
and lias l)een in the coal business eighteen years. 

BEXJAMIX Hl"<iKR RE.VD. President Lynah & Read, Inc., 
Baltimore. Maryland, was born in Charleston, South Caro- 
lina. December l(i, 1856, and has been in the coal business 
for twenty-eight years. He is also interested in the mining of 
bituminous coal in West Virginia, being Vice President of 
the Preston Coal Co. Lynah & Read was organized in the 
year 1S!M1, although Mr, Lynah had been in the coal busi- 
ness since IStiS. Mi'. L,\nah died in 1901. 

GEO. EDWARD REAHI. of Reahl Bros., Baltimore, Mary- 
land, was born in Baltimore June 4, 1870, and has been in 
the coal business twenty-one years. 

.lOHN J. REAHI. of Reahl Bros., Baltimore, Maryland, 
was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in August, 1877, and has 
been in the coal business for eighteen years. 

HAMILTON AVEI.KS ROUSE of Harrison & Rouse, Balti- 
more, Maryland, was born July 25, 1894, at Baltimore, Mary- 
land, and has been in the coal business for four years. 

EDAVARD FITZGER.VI.D SHEA, Sales Manager Sexton 
Coal & Coke Co., Baltimore. Maryland, was born in Balti- 
more May 26, 1S93. and has been in the coal business ten 
years. He was formerly connected with the Merchants Coal 
Co., Boswell Coal Co. and Big Vein Pocahontas Coal Co. 

JAMES M. SHEA. Treasurer Wright Coal & Coke Co., 
Baltimore, Maryland, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, 
August 18, 1882, and has been in the coal business for 
twenty-one years. He is also interested in the Big Run 
Coal Co. 

AUGUSTUS L. SHUTT of A. P. Shutt & Son. Baltimore. 
Maryland, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, February 21, 
1845, and has been in the coal business for fifty years. 

ROBERT D. SILVERWOOD of the A. F. Lawrence Coal Co., 
Baltimore, Maryland, has been in the coal business for 
fifty-six years, and has served as Secretary of the Balti- 
more Coal Exchange. Mr. Silverwood w^as born in 1852. 

GORDON SMITH, Vice President Maryland Coal Co. of 
West Virginia, with offices at 1307-9 Munsey Building, Bal- 
timore. Maryland, was born in Baltimore, and has been 
eigliteen years in the coal business. 

EDWARD STABLER, JR., formerly President E. Stabler 
Jr. Coal Co., Baltimore, Maryland, was born at Sandy Spring, 
Maryland, March 16, 1836. and has been in the coal business 
sixty years. He was interested in the Short Mountain Coal 
Co. (anthracite) as Secretary and Treasurer, and President 
of the Blaen-Avon Coal Mining Co. (bituminous), both now 
out of business, and from its incorporation in April, 1903, 
to October 1, 1917, was President of the Enterprise Fuel Co., 
which bought the equipment, coal, etc., of the'E. Stabler 
Jr. Co. when it went out of business the last of October, 
1917. He made a connection with the Enterprise Co., which 
also took over the ofllce and good will, Mr. Stabler repre- 
senting the patronage. 

HENRY GEORGE VON HEINE, Baltimore, Maryland, was 
born in Baltimore March 30, 1858, and has been in the coal 
business thirty-six years. He is Vice President of the Bal- 
timore Coal Exchange and is one of tlie well known retail 
coal merchants of Baltimore. 

J. EDWARD WAESCHE, Treasurer-General Manager of 
the company bearing his name at Baltimore, Maryland, was 
born at Thurmont October 15, 1872, and has been in the 
coal business for twenty-two years. He v^as formerly with 
the Chesapeake Coal Co. 

BUSHROD M. WATTS, Baltimore, Maryland, was born in 
Maryland in 1861 and has been in the coal business for 
thirty-one years, associated with E. A. Watts. Mr. Watts 
has taken an active interest in civic affairs and is a mem- 
ber of the Baltimore Coal Exchange, serving as President 
for a period of ten years or more. He is one of the best 
known and most popular coalmen in the city. 

EDWARD A. WATTS. Baltimore. Maryland, was born in 
Baltimore in 1859 and has been in the coal business for 
thirty-one years, associated with B. M. Watts. He is a 
member of the Baltimore Coal Exchange. 

RICHARD W. W^RIGHT, President Wright Coal & Coke 
Co., Baltimore, Maryland, was born in Ireland, and has been 
in the coal business for twenty-one years. He is also 
interested in the Big Run Coal Co., and was formerly with 
J. W. Ellsworth Coal Co.. Merchants Coal Co., Boswell Coal 
Co. and the Big Vein Pocahontas Coal Co, 



MARYLAND 



JEFFERSON 1). BARCHUS. Chestertown, Maryland, was 
born in C^hestertown, Maryland, December 3, 1861, and has 
been in the coal business for thirty-six years. Mr. Barchus 
is widely known in his part of the state and is connected 
with a number of firms in various capacities aside from oper- 
ating- a successful retail business in coal. 

D. S. BOA'ER of Boyer & Heard, Hagerstown, Maryland, 
was born in Washington County, Maryland, November 3, 
1839, and has been in the coal business for fifty years. 

JOHN U. CASEY, Frostburg, Maryland, is now State In- 
spector of Mines. Mr. Casey is a well known coal man in 
his state. 

CHARLES W. CORDDRY, Treasurer The Corddry Co., 
Snow Hill. Maryland, was born in Snow Hill, Maryland, in 
1871, and has been in the coal business for nineteen years. 
Mr. Corddry served as Mayor 1914-1918. 

AVILLIAM D. CORDDRY, President The Corddry Co., 
Inc., Snow Hill, Maryland, was born in Snow Hill, Mary- 
land, July 12, 1863, and has been in the coal business since 
1888, succeeding the Snow Hill Coal & Ice Co. Mr. Corddry 
was Mayor 1902-1912. 

ALWYN M. GULP of W. S. & A. M. Culp, Chestertown, 
Maryland, \vas born in Kennedyville, Maryland, August 27, 
1870, and has been in the coal business for twenty-six years. 

DAA'ID K. CUSHWA, Hagerstown, Maryland, was born 
in Williamsport. Maryland, in 1869, and has been in the 
coal business about thirty years, associated with his broth- 
er, Victor M. Cushwa, and like his brother is very active 
in public affairs and numerous other enterprises, aside 
from the coal business. 

VICTOR M. CUSHWA, Hagerstown, Maryland, was born 
in Williamsport, Maryland, March 12, 1865, and has been 
in the coal business about thirty years, succeeding his 
father, the late Victor Cushwa. Mr. Cushwa is a public 
spirited man and is interested in numerous other enter- 
prises aside from his large interests in the coal business. 
This firm is one of the oldest coal shipping firms in Mary- 
land. 

RAYMOND G. FORD of Markell & Ford, Frederick, Mary- 
land, was born in Maryland, January 23, 1868, and has been 
in the coal business for twenty-three years. He was for- 
merly with Keller, Newman & Co. 

WILLIAM L. HAMILTON, Mt. Savage, Maryland, General 
Manager Brailer Mining Co., was born in Frostburg, Mary- 
land, August 13, 1880, and has been in the coal business 
for twenty-five years. He was formerly with the Union 
Mining Co. and the Black-Sheridan-Wilson Co. 

SAMUEL D. MARKLEY, proprietor of D. Markley Supply 
Co., LauraviUe, Maryland, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, 
August 26, 1S70, and has been in the coal business twenty- 
six years. 

ORION C. MICHAEL, Aberdeen, Maryland, was born in 
the state of Maryland and has been in the coal business 
for twenty-nine years. 

HENRY B. MYERS, President The Henry B. Myers Co., 
Annapolis, Maryland, was born in Annapolis, Maryland, May 
10, 1857, and has been in the coal business for thirty-four 
years. 

JACOB M. NEWMAN of J. M. Newman & Co., Frederick, 
Maryland, was born in Hanover, Pennsylvania, October 12, 
1843, and has been in the coal business for twenty-five 
years. 

_ JOHN L. REIFSNIDER, JR., of Smith & Reifsnider, 
V/estminster, Maryland, was born in Westminster, Mary- 
land, in July, 1873, and has been in the coal business for 
twenty-three years, associated with Joseph W. Smith, do- 
ing a prosperous business. Mr. Reifsnider is interested in 
a number of other companies. 

EDAA'IN J. ROBERTS, Manager Allegany Coal Co.. West- 
ernport, Maryland, was born in Westernport, Maryland, in 
1865, and has been in the coal business for six years. 

JOSEPH W. SMITH of Smith & Reifsnider, Westminster, 
Maryland, was born in Westminster, Maryland, in July, 1861. 
and has been in the coal business for thirty-three years 
the firm having been organized in 1863 by the uncle and 
grandfather of the members of this firm. Mr. Smith is 
prominent in his community, being interested in numerous 
other enterprises aside from a prosperous coal business. 

LAWRENCE B, TOAVERS of L. B. Towers & Bro.. Den- 
ton, Maryland, was born in Towers Wharf, Maryland, Feb- 
ruary 12, 1872, and has been in the coal business for twenty- 
four years. 



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MICHIGAN 



MICHIGAN has been in the ranks of coal-pro- 
ducers for over three-quarters of a century, hut 
it is only only within the last twenty years that 
serious and intensive development of the resources of 
the state has been undertaken and even today its prox- 
imity from a transportation point of view to the 
great surplus output of the major eastern and southern 
fields confines its mining activities to home and railroad 
consumption, while its manufacturing enterprises, par- 
ticularly in the furniture and automobile lines, have 
made it an attractive territory for sales cultivation by 
other producing fields. As a result it is as a coal con- 
sumer that it looms large in fuel history. 

The coal fields of the state, having an area of ap- 
proximately 11,000 square miles, is in almost the exact 
center of the lower peninsiila and are the only known 
fields within the drainage area of the Great Lakes. 
While the Michigan coal bearing measures are char- 
tered to underlie all or parts of Arenac, Bay, Glare, 
Eaton, Clinton, Genesee, Gladwin, Gratiot, Ingham, 
Ionia, Jackson, Isabella, Kent, Livingston, Mecosta, 
Midland, Montcalm, Newaygo, Osceola, Saginaw, Shia- 
wassee and Tuscola counties, commercial operations of 
recent years have been confined to Bay, Clinton, Eaton, 
Genesee, Ingham, Saginaw, Shiawassee and Tuscola 
counties. Of the counties just named Bay and Sag- 
inaw are of the greatest importance since their com- 
bined production represents over 90 per cent, (over 94 
per cent, in 1915) of the total output of the state. 

"According to Prof. Alfred C. Lane," says the United 
States Geological Survey, "there are seveu horizons 
where the coal occurs in workable thickness, although it 
was formerly supposed that there was only one work- 
able bed in the state. Owing to the varying character 
of the formation and the manner in which the coal beds 
run together and separate, no hard-and-fast classifica- 
tion is made, but the following, which has been adopted 
by Prof. Lane, is generally accepted as designating the 
different beds, namely: Upper Eider, Upper Verne, 
Lower Verne, Middle Eider, Saginaw, Lower Eider and 
Lower Coal. All of the coals produced in Michigan are 
of tlie dry, non-coking bituminous variety and are, as a 
usual thing, of lower grade than those coming from 
Ohio and Pennsylvania, with which they have to com- 
pete." 



Although the earliest federal government record of 
Michigan production is found in the Census for 1860, 
when the output was given as 2,320 tons, the existence 
of coal deposits in the state was known for a consider- 
able period prior to that date. Some mining is said to 
have been done in the Jackson field as early as 1835 and 
operations were started at Grand Ledge, in Clinton 
county, in 1838. As long as the Wolverine State had 
her vast forest reserves to call upon wood was the 
principal fuel used and it was only with the continued 
depletion of these reserves that attention began to be 
focused upon the coal resources of the state. Prior to 
1897, when production rose from 92,882 tons to 223,592 
tons, there had been only four years in the history of the 
coal production of the state, viz., 1880, 1881, 1882 and 
1895, when the output had exceeded 100,000 tons. As 
will be seen by the figures following, the 1,000,000-ton 
mark was first attained in 1901, and, with the excep- 
tion of the year following, production has been in ex- 
cess of that fio-ure since that time : . 



Year. 
1898.. 
1899.. 
1900.. 



Ton. 

315,722 

624,708 

849,475 

1901 1,241,241 

1902 964,718 

1903 1,367,619 

1904 1,342,840 

1905 1,473,211 

1906 1,346,338 

1907 2,035,858 



Year. 

1908.. 
1909.. 
1910,. 
1911.. 
1912.. 
1913,. 
1914.. 
1915.. 
1916..' 



Ton. 
,835,019 
784,692 
,534,967 
476,074 
,206,230 
231,786 
,283,030 
,156,138 
,180,360 



Figures for 1915 show that approximately 66 per 
cent, of the production for the year was consumed at 
the mines or by local domestic and industrial users 
within the state; approximately 34 per cent., or 394,921 
tons, went to the railroads. 

Upon a per capita basis Michigan stands sixth in 
bituminous coal consumption. This serves to offset its 
lower average on anthracite and bring the total, 3.14 
tons (2.87 tons bituminous and .28 ton anthracite), 
above the average for the country as a whole, putting it 
thirteenth in the list. . On the square mile basis its 
consumption, 192 tons, is greater by over 50 per cent, 
than the national average. In 1915 the state consunied 
10,726,284 tons of bituminous coal and 838,800 tons of 
anthracite. Over 40 per cent, of the bituminous coal 



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used was supplied by the West Virginia mines, while Source. Ton. Source. Ton. 

the home state operatioiis, with 66 per cent, of their 



production represented, furnished less than 7.5 per cent. 



Illinois 83,256 Virginia 29,205 

Indiana 6,086 West Virginia .. . 4,320,412 

Kentucky 1,061,640 Lake coal .558,000 

of the state's requirements. Exclusive of lake cargo Maryland 48,124 

coal, coal from Kentuckv, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Michigan 761,217 Total bituminous. 10,276,284 

A'irginia contriliuted mow than 85 per cent, of the total ^^^° 1,453,869 Pennsylvania an- 

hitnminous fuel used In- Michioan liouseholders and Pennsylvania ... 1,948.235 thracite 838,800 

. 1 , • 1 w -wt' -c " J- ..1 Tennessee 240 

industries. In iletail the fi2;nres lor the vear were as iincAd 

il,lJ.0,U»4 

follows : 



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JAMES ALFRED BALLARD, Detroit, Michigan, 

Sales Manager of the Semet Solvay Co. and Solvay Collieries Co., 
Detroit, was born August 10, 1874, in Syracuse, New York, and has 
been in tlie coal business fifteen years. His entire business experi- 
ence has been with this same company. 

Mr. Ballard bears an exceptional reputation in trade circles and is 
considered one of the most popular and capable men in the coal trade. 

He has served as Vice President of the Michigan-Ohio-Indiana Coal 
Association, President Detroit Coal Exchange and Imperial Modoc of 
Order KoKoal and President National Coal Association, and has been 
honored with numerous other offlces. 

He has been prominent in Masonic circles, being a Past Master, Past 
Commander and Potentate of the Mystic Shrine. 



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H. T. WILSON, Detroit, Miehigan, 

President of tlie Norfolk & Chesapeake Coal Co. and of 
the H. T. Wilson Coal Co. of Detroit, Michigan, is one of 
the well-known and successful wholesale coal merchants 
of Detroit. Mr. Wilson has been in the coal business for 
the past twenty-two years and was formerly connected with 
Little & Wilson and the Camp Branch Coal & Coke Co. 





W. H. H. DORNEY, Detroit, Michigan, 

Secretary and Treasurer of the Norfolk & Chesapeake Coal 
Co. and H. T. Wilson Coal Co. of Detroit, Michigan, was 
born at Cincinnati, Ohio, and has been in the coal business 
for twenty-seven years. Previous to going- with his present 
company he was connected with the Hull Coal & Coke Corp. 
and Red Jacket Coal Co. 



ALLEN B. MOORE, Detroit, Michigan, 

Assistant to President of the Norfolk & Chesapeake Coal 
Co. at Detroit, Michigan, was born August 13, 1879, in 
Rochester, New York, and has been in the coal business 
fifteen years. He is also Secretary and Treasurer of the I. 
T. Becker Coal Co. and Vice President of the H. T. Wilson 
Coal Co. He was formerly connected with the Consolidated 
Coal Co. of Saginaw, Michigan. 



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FORD R. CATE, Detroit, Michigan, 

President of the Cate-Churchman Coal Co., Detroit, was 
born May 21, 1879, in Milford, Michigan, and has been in the 
coal business fifteen years. Mr. Gate is one of the most 
popular Detroit wholesalers and "was formerly connected 
with the W. C. Clark Coal Co., "W. A. Gosllne & Co., and 
Houston Coal Co. Mr. Cate also successfully served as Sec- 
retary of the Ohio Retail Coal Association and President 
Detroit Coal Exchang-e. 





DOOLEY DAREWOOD DAVIDSON, Detroit, Michigan, 

Vice President Cate-Churchman Coal Co., Detroit, Michigan, 
was born November 7, 1S70. in South Point, Ohio, and has 
been in the coal business for the past eighteen years. Pre- 
vious to going with his present company he was connected 
with the National Fuel Co., Federal Creek Coal Co., Maynard 
Coal Co. and the New York Coal Co. 



ROBERT M. CHURCHMAN, Detroit, Michigan, 

Secretary and Treasurer of the Cate-Churchman Coal Co., 
Detroit, was born December 22, 1S77, in Indianapolis, 
Indiana, and has been in the coal business ten years. Mr. 
Churchman is very popular in trade circles, and previous 
to going with his present company w^as connected with 
M. A. Hanna & Co. of Cleveland. He has served as a 
Director of the Detroit Coal Exchange. 



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EI,MER C. CAI,VERT, Detroit, Michigan, 

President J. Calvert's Sons, Detroit, was born August 
17, 1869, at Cliampaign, Illinois, and has been in the coal 
business for twenty-five years, associated first with his 
father and later with his brother. This firm is one of the 
old established and substantial retail coal companies of 
Detroit. 





GEO. T. CALVERT, Detroit, Michigan, 

Late President of J. Calvert's Sons, Detroit, Michigan, 
was born February 1, 1868, at Champaign, Illinois, and was 
in the coal business for forty years until his death in 1917. 
Mr. Calvert was prominent in coal trade circles and for 
eighteen years was a member of the Executive Committee 
of the Michigan-Ohio-Indiana Coal Association, and also 
served as President. The business was established by John 
Calvert in 1876. The partnership of Geo. T. and Elmer C. 
was formed in 1893 as J. Calvert's Sons, and was later in- 
corporated under the same name. 



HOMER HILI/ER ALLEN, Detroit, Michigan, 

Manager Coal Department J. Calvert's Sons, Detroit, is one 
of the best known and best liked coal salesmen in the Mid- 
dle West. He was born May 14. 1877, in Conneaut, Ohio, 
and has been in the coal business over fifteen years. Mr. 
Allen was salesman for the W. L. Scott Co. and the Susque- 
hanna Coal Co., Erie, Pennsylvania, for twelve years, and 
represented W. A. Gosline & Co. in Michigan for three 
years. He has always taken a keen interest in any move- 
ment for the betterment of the coal trade, was an active 
charter member in the Order KoKoal, held office in that 
organization for several years, and has a large acquain- 
tance in all branches of the Industry. He is a thirty-second 
degree Mason, Knight Templar and Shriner. 



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HARRY S. AYERS, Detroit, Michii^an, 

Member of the wholesale coal firm of Ayers & Lang, Dime 
Savings Bank Building, Detroit, Michigan, was born in 
Dexter, Michigan, in 1870, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness sixteen years. He was formerly associated with W. C. 
Clark Coal Co. and O. W. Shipman Co., Detroit. He is 
President of The Purity Cannel Coal Co., Prestonsburg, 
Kentucky, Treasurer of Blue Beaver Coal Co., Prestonsburg, 
and part owner of Chat-ta-roi cannel mine at Offutt, Ken- 
tucky. 



WALTER E. LANG, Detroit, Michigan, 

Member of the wholesale coal firm of Ayers & Lang, Dime 
Savings Bank Building, Detroit, Michigan, was born in 
Detroit in 1879 and has been in the coal business five years. 
He is Vice President of The Purity Cannel Coal Co. and of 
the Blue Beaver Coal Co., Prestonsburg, Kentucky, and part 
owner of Chat-ta-roi cannel mine at Offutt, Kentucky. 





JOSEPH AVILLIAM DYKSTRA, Detroit, Michigan, 

Of J. W. Dykstra & Co., 820 Hammond Building, Detroit, 
Michigan, was born October 25, 1880. at Grand Rapids, Michi- 
gan, and has been in the coal business for seventeen years. 
He is also President of the Blue Beaver Coal Co., and was 
formerly connected with the O. "W. Shipman Co., Ayers & 
Morse Coal Co. and Jules G. Hoffman. He has also served 
as a Director of the Detroit Coal Exchange. 



ALEX. J. ZINDLER, Detroit, Michigan, 

Secretary and Treasurer of the .1. W. Dykstra & Co., coal 
merchants of 820 Hammond Building, Detroit, Michigan, 
was born May 24, 1886, at Detroit and has been in the coal 
business for the past twelve years. He is also interested 
in the Blue Beaver Coal Co. and was formerly connected 
with the Brenner Coal Co. and Jules G. Hoffman. ' 



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JAMES P. MORAIV, Detroit, Michigan, 

"Wholesale coal merchant at 1324 Penobscot Building, De- 
troit, Michigan, was born January 11, 1879, in Detroit, and 
has been in the coal business twenty-three years. He was 
formerly connected with E. J. Corbett of Detroit and Burton, 
Beidler \S: Phillips of Cleveland, Ohio, 



DAVID S. WALSH, Detroit, Michigan, 

Sales Manager J, P. Moran & Co. of Detroit, Michigan, was 
born January 31, 1870, at Detroit, Michigan, and has been 
in the coal business for the past twenty-three years. 





CHARLES J. ANDREWS, Detroit, Michigan, 

President The Morgan-Andrews Coal Co,, Majestic Building, 
Detroit, Michigan, was born December 20, 1870, at Wash- 
ington, District of Columbia, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for the past twenty years, Mr. Andrews was with The 
Turney & Jones Co. for three years and the Sunday Creek 
Co. for ten years, holding the management of their Detroit 
■offlee, and later Vice President and Manager of Sales, before 
iorming his present company. 



RICHARD L. AYLAVARD, Detroit, Blichigan, 

One of the best known and popular retail coal merchants 
of Detroit, Michigan, was born in Detroit December 1, 1869, 
and has been In the coal business there for over thirty 
years. Before going into business for himself he was con- 
nected with the firms of O. W. Shipman and Skae & Aylward 



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EDWARD J. CORBETT, Detroit, Mieliigan, 

Prominent wholesale coal merchant of Detroit, Michigan, 
was born March 23, 1865, at Groveport, Ohio, and has been 
in the coal business for twenty-six years. In addition to 
his Detroit business Mr. Corbett has coal interests in Ohio 
and West Virginia. Previous to entering business for him- 
self he was connected with the Columbus & Hocking Coal & 
Iron Co. and H. D. Turney & Co. 



ARTHUR D. CRONIJV, Detroit, Miehigan, 

President Pine Ridge Coal Co., 616 Union Trust Building, 
Detroit, was born May 3, 1S83, in Hamilton, Ontario, and has 
been in the coal busine.ss twelve years. He is interested in 
the Cronin Coal Co. and the Black Hawk Colliery Co., and 
has a wide and favorable acquaintance in coal circles. Mr. 
Cronin was formerly Sales Manager of John T. Hesser Coal 
Co., Ohio & Michigan Coal Co. and Black Hawk Colliery Co. 




JAMES PETER CUMMISKEY, Detroit, Blichigan, 

President of the Ohio & Michigan Coal Co., Inc., Detroit, was 
born January 28, 1872, in Detroit, and has been in the coal 
business thirty years. He was with O. W. Shipman for four- 
teen years before lorming his present company. Mr. Cum- 
miskey is President of the New York Clay & Mining Co., 
Michigan & West Virginia Land & Mining Co., Big Creek 
Coal Co., Black Hawk Colliery Co., J. R. Morris Coal Co., and 
a Director of the Marsh-Fork Coal Co. 



CHARLES C. COREY, Detroit, Mich. 

Wholesale coal merchant of Detroit, 
was born October 1, 1879, in Chester- 
field, Michigan, and has been in the 
coal business for the past thirteen 
years. Mr. Corey was formerly con- 
nected with the Hutchinson Fuel Co., 
Fairmont, West Virginia,, and the Sun- 
day Creek Coal Co. for eight years. 



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VENABLE JOHNSON, Detroit, Michigan, 

Manager of the Island Creek Coal Co., Ford Building, De- 
troit, was born September S. 1S77, in Petersburg-, Virginia, 
and has been in the coal business seventeen years. He 
was formerly in charge of the W. R. Johnson mines in West 
Virginia, Assistant General Manager and Treasurer of the 
Kanawha Fuel Co. at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Agent of the 
Cabin Creek Consolidated Coal Co. at Detroit, and General 
Sales Agent of the "W. R. Johnson Coal Co. 



LYDA GERTRUDE MOSHER, Detroit, Michigan, 

In the coal business under her own name in the Book 
Building, Detroit. Michigan, was born September 26, 
1888, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and has been in the coal 
business thirteen years. Miss Mosher is an unusually 
capable coal salesman and has made a success ever since 
entering the trade. She ^vas formerly connected with the 
Marine Coal Co. of Pittsburgh, Jewett, Bigelow & Brooks 
of Detroit, and in recent years was Secretary and Treasurer 
of the Southland Coal Co. 





PHILIP RAFPERTY, Detroit, Michigan, 

Western Agent of Meeker & Co., Ford Building, De- 
troit, Michigan, was born October 19, 1869, at Paterson, 
New Jersey. He has been in the coal business for twenty- 
six years, the entire time with the old established firm of 
Meeker & Co. 



EDWIN MERRILL, SMITH, Detroit, Michigan, 

Sole Owner of the E. M. Smith Coal Co., 502-503 Owen 
Building, Detroit, Michigan, is also interested in the L. Z. 
Netzorg Coal Co. of Toledo, Ohio. He was born August 24, 
1870, in Chicago, Illinois, and has been in the coal business 
twelve years. He was formerly Manager of the Detroit 
office of the W. H. Warner Coal Co. of Ohio and inter- 
ested in that company, from which he resigned April 1, 1918. 



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ARTHUR S. AINSWORTH, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 

Proprietor of Bennett Fuel & Ice Co.. was born July 31, 
1862, in Rome, Iowa, and has been in business thirty-seven 
years. Mr. Ainsworth, one of the most successful retail 
coal merchants in Michigan, has this creed in business; 
"I believe in the man who neither looks up to the rich 
nor down on the poor; who is courteous and considerate to 
women, children and old people; who is too brave to lie; 
too generous to cheat; who takes his share and lets others 
have theirs." He has served as President of the Michigan 
and Ohio Retail Coal Dealers' Association and of the Grand 
Rapids Coal Exchange. 



DEWEY BLOCKSMA, Grand Rapids, Jlichigan, 

Vice President and General Manager of the Breen & Halla- 
day Fuel Co. of Grand Rapids, Michigan, was born 
August 1, 1884, and has been in the coal business for thir- 
teen years. He was formerly connected with A. Himes 
Coal Co. Mr. Blocksma is also Manager of the Creston 
Fuel & Building Material Co. and a Director of the City Coal 
& Coke Co. 





ABRAM B. KMOWLSON, Grand Rapids, Aliehigan, 

President A. B. Knowlson Co. of Grand Rapids, Michigan, 
is one of the best known coal men in that section. He was 
born May 11, 1F51, at Albany, New York, and established 
his present business in 1876, and incorporated it in 1912, 
with W. W. Tanner Vice President, G. J. Rooks Treasurer, 
and A. B. Horner Secretaiy. Mr. Knowlson has served as 
President of the Michigan-Indiana Coal Association, Direc- 
tor of National Coal Association, President Grand Rapids 
Retail Coal Dealers Exchange, and is the dean of Grand 
Rapids coal merchants. 



EDAVARD W. STAEBLER, Ann Arbor, Miohii^an, 

Well-known retail coal merchant of Ann Arbor, Michigan, 
doing business under the firm name of Staebler & Son, was 
born December 26, 1872, at Ann Arbor, and has been in the 
coal business during his entire business life. Mr. Staebler 
is favorably known in the trade and has served as Treasurer 
of the Michigan-Ohio-Indiana Retail Coal Association for six 
terms and has also been Secretary of the Ann Arbor Coal 
Exchange for a number of years. 



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ROBERT LAKE, Jackson, Michigan, 

President of the Robert Lake Co., Jackson, Michigan, was 
born June 24, 1848. at Dorsetshire, England, and has been in 
the coal business for twenty-five years. Mr. Lake is one of 
the best known retail coal merchants in the United States 
and has served as President of the Michigan and Indiana 
Coal Association and of the Michigan-Ohio-Indiana Coal 
Association. Mr. Lake was President of the National 
Council of Retail Coal Merchants and is a Director of the 
National Retail Coal Mei'chants' Association. 



JAMES W. RYDER, Kalaniaxoo, 3Iichigan, 

President The James W. Ryder Coal Co. of Kalamazoo. 
Michigan, was born April 4, 1868, in Kalamazoo and 
has been in the coal business thirty years. Mr. Ryder 
is well and favorably known in the coal trade and does a 
large wholesale and retail business. He also has a mod- 
ernly equipped elevator and uses auto trucks for delivery. 
He has served as President, Treasurer and Director of the 
Michigan-Ohio-Indiana Coal Association. 





GEORGE E. STEERS, Kalamazoo, 9Ilchigan, 

General Manager of the Kalamazoo Ice & Fuel Co.. Kala- 
mazoo, Michigan, was born June 8, 1860, in Rochester, 
New York, and has been in the coal business since 1890. 
He has built up one of the largest retail businesses in Mich- 
igan. He has a splendid reputation in the trade and has 
served as President of the Carbon Club of Kalamazoo. 



H. A. BATTKNECHT, Muskegon, Michigan, 

Of Bauknecht Bros., well-known retail coal merchants of 
Muskegon, Michigan, was born December 29, 1872, in Muske- 
gon, and has been in the coal business since 1883. Mr. 
Bauknecht is widely known in the coal trade and has taken 
an active interest in association affairs. He has served on 
the Executive Committee of the Michigan-Ohio-Indiana 
Association and President of the Muskegon Coal Dealers' 
Credit Association. 



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OTTO LANGKA%VEL,, Muskegon, Michigan, 

Proprietor of Otto Langrkawel & Co., Muskegon, Michigan, 
was born September 29, 1877, in Muskegon, and has been 
in the coal business since 1905. He originally started in 
the wood business in 1899 and naturally progressed into 
the coal business. Mr. Langkawel has been unusually suc- 
cessful. 



MICHIGAN — Detroit 



I. T. BECKER, President of the I. T. Becker Coal Co., De- 
troit, Michigan, was born February 1, 1892, at Detroit. 
Michigan, and has been in the coal business for the past 
eleven years. Previous to engaging in the retail business 
on his own account he was traveling salesman for the H. T. 
Wilson Coal Co. and the Norfolk & Chesapeake Coal Co. 
Mr. Becker is in the service of his country. 

W. F. BElVTIiEY, Secretary of C. C. Corey, 1303 Majestic 
Building, Detroit, Michigan, was born May 26, 1887, at St. 
Thomas, Ontario, and has been in the coal business for the 
past eight years. He was formerly connected with the De- 
troit office of the Sunday Creek Co. 

\VM. E, BESANCON, retail coal merchant of Detroit, 
Michigan, was born in Michigan in 1877 and has been in the 
coal business practically all his life. After a term at col- 
lege Mr. Besancon started out to learn and know not only 
the coal business in Detroit, but just about everyone who 
was connected therewith. There are few salesmen or mine 
representatives who fail to call him "Bill." He operates 
two yards, besides doing a considerable car-lot business. 

WALTER BROOKS, Treasurer Jewett, Bigelow & Brooks, 
Penobscot Building-, Detroit, Michigan, was boj-n in De- 
troit in 1870 and has been in the coal business for over 
twenty years. Mr. Brooks is one of the highly regarded 
members of the Detroit coal trade, and his firm is a leading 
operator in the smokeless field. 

LA VERNE C. BROWIV, owner and Manager of the Pro- 
gressive Coal Co., 360 Penobscott Building, Detroit, Michi- 
gan, was born April 26, 1879, in Jackson County, Michigan, 
and has been in the coal business for fifteen years. He was 
formerly associated with J. P. Moran & Co. of Detroit for 
eleven years. 

CHARLES ALEXANDER CHAMBERS. Manager of Sales 
The Consolidation Coal Co., Detroit, Michigan, was born 
April 5. 1869, in Paris. Kentucky, and has been in the coal 
business seventeen years. Mr. Chambers was formerly 
with the Luhrig- Coal Co. and W. P. Rend. Prior to enter- 
ing the coal business he was for a number of years in the 
railroad service. 

RICHARD B. CHASE, Secretary of Jewett, Bigelow & 
Brooks, Detroit, Michigan, was born in 1870 at Medina, 
New York. Mr. Chase was formerly connected with the 
firm of Ayers & Chase until he purchased J. W. 
Bigelow's interest in Jewett, Bigelow & Brooks, who op- 
erate a number of mines in West Virginia and Kentucky. 



AtJGUSTIlV W. COONEY, President Monarch Coal Co.. 
Detroit, Michigan, was born April 11, 1873, in Detroit, and 
has been in the coal business twenty-two years. 

EDWARD CORNELIUS CROWLEY, Secretary Ohio & 
Michigan Coal Co.. Detroit, Michigan, was born August 7. 
1887, in Wayne County, Michigan, and has been in the coal 
business twelve years, the entire time with his present firm. 

JACOB H. DAVIS, President and General Manager of the 
Davis Coal & Coke Co., Detroit, Michigan, was born January 
15, 1887, in Toledo, Ohio, and has been in the coal business 
for the past eight years. 

LOUIS A. DE HAYES, proprietor of the Sterling Coal Co., 
Detroit, Michigan, was born June 9, 1884, at Detroit, and 
has been in the coal business for the past sixteen years. 

JAMES DE WOLFE, Manager at Detroit, Michigan, for 
the Pittsburgh Coal Co. and New Pittsburgh Coal Co., 
is one of the veteran and highly respected coal salesmen in 
the Middle West. Mr. DeWolfe was born July 17, 1845, at 
North Ridgeville, Ohio, and has been in the coal business 
for twenty-two years. He was with the Sunday Creek Co. 
before making, his present connection. 

EDWARD F. DELAHUNTE, General Manager of the Gen- 
eral Coal & Coke Co., Detroit, Michigan, was born Septem- 
ber 10, 1867, at Cleveland, Ohio, and has been in the coal 
business for twenty-five years. Mr. Delahunte was for- 
merly General Manager of the West Massillon Coal Co., 
General Sales Manager of Burton, Beidler & Phillips Co., and 
Local Manager Ohio & Michigan Coal Co. 

EDWARD J. DU BOIS, Vice President and Sales' Man- 
ager American Coal & Coke Co., Detroit, Michigan, was 
born in 1883 in Buffalo. New York, and lias been in the coal 
business eleven years. Mr. DuBois has also taken an active 
interest in. and is an officer of the National Coal Jobbers' 
Association. 

EL3IER FRITSCH, President B. T. Brooks & Pritsch, re- 
tail coal merchants of Detroit, Michigan, was born October 
26, 1861, in Detroit, and has been in the coal business for 
the past fifteen years. 

CORNELIUS J. W. GEERLING, Secretary and Treasurer 
the Morgan-Andrews Coal Co. of Detroit, Michigan, was 
born March 14, 1874, at Usquert, Holland, and has been in 
the coal business for twelve years. He was formerly con- 
nected with the Detroit office of the Sunday Creek Coal Co. 

RICHARD B. GERISCH, Secretary and Treasurer of the 
Gerisch Coal Co., Detroit, Michigan, was born October 18, 
1881, in Germany. He is also interested in the Alice Coal Co. 

FREDERICK D. GLEASON, Manager of the F. D. Gleason 
Coal Co., Detroit, Michigan, was born July 29, 1887, at De- 
troit, and has been in the coal business for ten years. He 
was formerly representative of the Pittsburgh-Buffalo Co. 
and has many friends in the trade. 

EDWIN GOLDBERG, proprietor Brenner Coal Co., De- 
troit, Michigan, was born August 10, 1879, at Detroit, and 
has been in the coal business for about twenty years. He 
was formerly connected with the Jonathan Creek Coal Co. 

GEORGE J. HUEBNER of the Detroit & Pittsburg Coal 
Co.. 1237 Majestic Building, Detroit, Michigan, was born in 
Detroit November 20, 1885, and has been in the coal business 
nine years. 

WALTER JAMES JAROCH, proprietor of the Wolverine 
Coal Co. at Detroit, Michigan, was born April 28, 1887, at 
Port Austin, Michigan, and has been in the coal business 
for the past four years. 

EDWARD HUNTING JEAVETT, President Jewett, Bige- 
low & Brooks, Penobscot Building, Detroit, Michigan, was 
born in 1874 and has been in the cbal business twenty-two 
years. Mr. Jewett is also interested in the J. B. B. Coal 
Co. and the Pine Ridge Mining- Co., and Is a prominent 
member of the coal trade. 

BURKE H. KEENEY, Resident Manager of the Middle 
West Coal Co., Majestic Building, Detroit, Michigan, was 
born in 1874 at Patrait, Indiana, and has been in the coal 
business for twenty years. He Avas formerly connected 
with the Bewley-Darst Coal Co. of Knoxville, Tennessee. 

HAROLD N. KING, Auditor of R. L. Aylward at Detroit, 
Michigan, was born in 1874 in England, and has been In 
the coal business for twelve years. 

JOHN F. KOENIG, President The P. Koenig Coal Co., 
Detroit, Michigan, was born January 18, 1877, in Detroit, 
and has been in the coal business all of his business life. 
This business was established in 1870 by Peter Koenig. 
father of John F. Mr. Koenig is also interested in the 
Elkhorn Coal Co. 

WM. N. KRUG, President Commercial Coal Co., Detroit, 
Michigan, was born August 27, 1867, in Detroit, and has 
been in the coal business sixteen years. 



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A. B. MJVCOI.N. Detroit Manager of the Houston Coal Co., 
Dime Bank Building', Detroit, Michigan, was born June 7, 
1S72. in Pownal, ^'e^mont. and lias been in the coal business 
the past fifteen years. Mr. Lincoln has been in his present 
position for the past twelve years and previous to that rep- 
resented the Taylor Coal Co. of Toledo, Ohio, and Jules G. 
Hoffman of Detroit. 

A. LESTER MAXCOrRT, President and Treasurer Man- 
court-Winters Coal Co. of Detroit, Michigan, was born No- 
vember 8, 1888, in Sidney, Nebraska, and has been in the 
coal business for the last three years. 

FRED J. McDOXALD, President McDonald Coal & Brick 
Co.. Detroit, Michigan, was born January S, 1864, in Detroit, 
and has been in the coal business for the past ten years. 

MARK McFADDEIV, retail coal merchant of Detroit, Michi- 
gan, !.>■■ a native of Ireland and has been in the coal busi- 
ness twenty-three years. He started with one team and 
borrowed a %vagon, and today Is using twenty-eight horses 
and five auto trucks, has a 3,000-ton coal pocket and ground 
storage for 6,000 tons. 

HUMPHREY H. McKlLLIP, proprietor International Coal 
Co., Ford Building, Detroit, Michigan, was born September 
3, 1872, in Ohio, and has been in the coal business for 
seventeen years. He was formerly connected with E. J. 
Corbett for a number of years. 

CHARLES P. MORIARITY, Northern Sales Agent of the 
Cabin Creek Consolidated Coal Co., 1228 Majestic Building, 
Detroit, Michigan, was born December 14, 1889, at Indian- 
apolis, Indiana, and has been in the coal business for the 
last five years. He is a son of Charles R. Moriarity of 
Cincinnati, Ohio, and is at present enlisted in the service 
of his country. 

ILYSSES S. MORRIS, President Superior Colliery Co., 
Hammond Building, Detroit, Michigan, was born in Colum- 
bus, Ohio, and has been in the coal business for the past 
ten years. Mr. Morris is President of the Superior Develop- 
ment Co., a subsidiary of the colliery company. He is 
Secretary-Treasurer of the Coal Operators Bureau of Colum- 
bus, Ohio, and chairman of the Jackson District Coal Asso- 
ciation of Ohio. Previous to forming his present company he 
was connected with the Clinchfield Coal Corp. 

RALPH B. NEAL, Secretary and Treasurer of the Mon- 
arch Coal Co., Detroit, Michigan, was born October 27, 1885, 
at Bay City, Michigan, and has been in the coal business 
for twelve years. He was formerly connected with "W. H. 
Peck & Co. and J. Max Bernard & Co. 

^VILLIAM A. REED, Agent Philadelphia & Reading Coal 
& Iron Co., Majestic Building, Detroit, Michigan, was born 
October 23, 1854, in Port Clinton. Ohio, and has been in the 
coal business thirty years. Mr. Reed is one of the best 
liked and most popular anthracite salesmen in the Middle 
West. 

LEWIS CHAPIN RUFFNER, Northern Sales Manager 
Cabin Creek Consolidated Coal Co., with headquarters at 
Detroit, Michigan, was born February 24, 1885. at Quijotoa, 
Arizona, and has been in the coal business for fourteen 
years. He was formerly connected with the Diamond Ice & 
Coal Co. of Charleston, West Virginia, and altogether has 
spent some twenty-three years around the coal mines of 
West Virginia. 

AVEBSTER L. SALLEE, President and General Manager 
Detroit Fuel & Foundry Supply Co., Detroit, Michigan, was 
born December 11, 1881, in Sharpville, Indiana, and has been 
in the coal business seventeen years. He is also President 
of the Kentucky Ridge Mining Co. of Pineville, Kentucky. 
He was formerly connected with the Aetna Coal & Coke Co.. 
Indiana F^uel & Supply Co., and National Coal Co. 

EW^ALD SCHEIWE, President and General Manager of 
Scheiwe Coal & Coke Co., Detroit, Michigan, was born April 
10, 1874, in Germany, and has been in the coal business for 
nine years. Mr. Scheiwe is President of the Detroit Coal 
Exchange and of the Michigan Retail Coal Dealers' Asso- 
ciation. 

FRANK GRANT SCHXERR, Western Sales Agent of J. 
S. Wentz Co., Detroit. Michigan, was born April 24, 1885, at 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for ten years. He was formerly connected \vith the 
Maryland Coal & Coke Co. 

HENRY E. SCHUMACHER of Schumacher Bros. & 
Graham, retail coal merchants of Detroit, Michigan, was 
born in 1870 in Germany, and came here as a lad of eleven 
years with his parents. He and his father, Charles Schu- 
macher, started in the retail coal business in 1892. A few 
years later Herman A. Schumacher was admitted as partner. 
In 1911 Daniel Graham was admitted to the firm. 

WALTER J. SCULLY, Sales Manager of W. H. Warner 
Coal Co. at Detroit. Michigan, was born in 1870 at Sarnia, 
Ontario, and has been in the coal business for twenty-five 
years. 

DANIEL SULLIVAN, retail coal merchant, 386 Michigan 
Ave., Detroit, Michigan, was born in Detroit June 26, 
1867, and has been in the business for thirty years. He is 
also Treasurer of the Diamond Coal & Coke Co. 



GEORGE W. SWEENEY. President United Coal Sales Co.. 
Majestic Building, Detroit, Michigan, was born July 12, 
1S74, in Detroit, and has been in tlie coal business twenty 
years. He was formerly connected with the Davis Coal & 
Coke Co. and the United Coal Co. of Pittsburgh, Pennsyl- 
vania. 

CASH WATSON TALBOT, President Talbot Lumber & 
Coal Co., Detroit, Michigan, was born February 13, 18S4, in 
Toledo, Ohio, and has been in the coal business twelve 

years. 

AVARNER R. THOMPSON, President Warner R. Thomp- 
son Co. of Detroit, Michigan, was born in Detroit July 
29, 1864, and has been in the coal business for twenty- 
eight years. He was formerly connected with Parker Bros. 
Co. for twenty-two years and later with John S. Lorimer 
Sons. 

CLARENCE A. WEINHART, Vice President of the Com- 
mercial Coal Co. of Detroit, Michigan, with his office at 
Grand Rapids, Michigan, was born in Peshtigo, Wisconsin, 
and has been in the coal business for ten years. He was • 
formerly Vice President of the Central West Coal Co. at 
Menominee, Michigan. 

RICHARD WILLIAMS, President Middle West Coal Co., 
Detroit, Michigan, was born in 1891 at Shamokin, Penn- 
sylvania, and has been in the coal business for four years. 
Mr. Williams is also Vice President of the North East Coal 
Co. of Paintsville, Kentucky, and the South East Coal Co. 
He was formerly connected with the Susquehanna Coal Co. 

C. C. WINTERS, Vice President and General Manager 
Mancourt-Winters Coal Co. of Detroit. Michigan, was born 
June 21, 1880, in Sandusky, Ohio, and has been in the coal 
business eighteen years. He is President of the Elkhorn 
Collieries Co., Vice President of the Elkhorn Coal Co., and 
President of the Sunnybrook Coal Co. He was formerly 
connected with S. J. Patterson Co. at Dayton, Ohio, the 
Middle West Coal Co. of Detroit, and the Consolidation 
Coal Co. 

NEILL WINTERS, Manager Sunnybrook Coal Co. of De- 
troit, Michigan, was born February 27, 1884, at Sandusky, 
Ohio, and has been in the coal business for twelve years. 
He was formerly connected with the Mancourt-Winters 
Coal Co. of Detroit. 

MATTHEW J. YIPE, retail coal merchant of Detroit, 
Michigan, is a native of Michigan and has been in the coal 
business fifteen years. 



MICHIGAN — Grand Rapids 



E. BOERS3IA, proprietor of the Oakdale Coal & Wood 
Co., Grand Rapids, Michigan, was born December 31, 1867, 
iTi the Netlierlands, going to Grand Rapids with his par- 
ents when eleven years old, and has been engaged in the 
grocery business for a number of years and in the coal 
business for eight years. 

WILLIAM JAMES BREEN, President Breen & Halladay 
Fuel Co. of Grand Rapids, Michigan, was born in Canada, 
July 29, 1863, and has been in the coal business for twenty- 
six years. Mr. Breen is also President of the City Coal 
& Coke Co. 

ADRIAN DE YOUNG of the De Young Bros. Fuel Co., 
Grand Rapids, Michigan, was born July 15, 1880, and has 
been in the coal business for fourteen years. 

JOHN DE YOUNG of the De Young Bros. Fuel Co., Grand 
Rapids. Michigan, ^vas born February 25, 1S77, and has been 
in the coal business for six years. 

H. R. DICKINSON, President The Valley City Coal & 
Ice Co., Grand Rapids, Michigan, was born in 1838 in 
Chenango County, New York, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for fifty-two years. 

MARTIN B. DONKER, Bookkeeper for Donker & Mol, 
Grand Rapids, Michigan, was born in Grand Rapids October 
23, 1892, and has been in the coal business for six years. 

WILLIAM DONKER of Donker & Mol. retail coal mer- 
chants of Grand Rapids, Michigan, was born November 22, 
1868, in the Netherlands and has been in the coal business 
for seven years. He is a Director of the Grand Rapids Coal 
Exchange. 

HARRY ELENBAAS, General Manager M. J. Elenbaas & 
Sons, Grand Rapids, Michigan, was born May 24, 1888, at 
Grand Rapids, and has been in the coal business for three 
years. 

GEORGE A. HARPER, Salesman for Lehigh Valley Coal 
Sales Co. at Grand Rapids, Michigan, was born June 25, 
1873, in Selkirk. Ontario, and has been in the coal business 
for twenty years. Mr. Harper is very well known and has 
many warm friends in the trade. He was formerly with 
the Buffalo office of Coxe Bros. & Co. for eight years. 



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JOHIV M. HIMES, Secretary and Treasurer of A. Himes 
Coal Co., Grand Rai^ids, Michigan, was born in 1874 at 
Oswego, New York, and has been in the coal business for 
twenty-seven years. Mr. Himes is one of the leading re- 
tailers of Grand Rapids and is very favorably known in 
coal trade circles. 

ABRAM BAYNTOIV HORNER, Secretary of A. B. Knowl- 
son Co., wholesale and retail coal merchants of Grand Rap- 
ids, Michigan, was born August 27, 1885. in Grand Rapids, 
and has been in the coal business for thirteen years. 

ALFRED HUIVT, President and Manager of the Home 
Fuel Co., Grand Rapids, Michigan, was born in Grand Rapids 
December 22, 1866, and has been in the coal business for 
seventeen years. He was formerly connected with the Cen- 
tury Fuel Co., and has always taken an interest in move- 
ments for the betterment of trade conditions. 

JOHN JASPERSE, retail coal merchant of Grand Rapids, 
Michigan, was born January 31, 1867, in the Netherlands, 
and has been in the coal business for fifteen years. 

PETER JONKMAN, Manager Welmers-Dykman Fuel Co. 
of Grand Rapids, Michigan, was born February 2, 1861, in 
the Netherlands, and has been in the coal business for 
thirteen years. The firm operate three 3'ards. Mr. Jonkman 
is a Director of the Grand Rapids Coal Exchange. 

MARTIN P. LOUWERSE, member of the firm of S. A. Mor- 
man & Co., Grand Rapids, Michigan, was born July 16, 1871, 
in Grand Rapids, and has been in the coal business twenty- 
one years. He has been ^vith this present firm since 1887. 

JOHN C. MOL,, member of the firm of Donker & Mol, 
Grand Rapids, Michigan, was born January 2, 1878, in Grand 
Rapids and has been in the coal business for nine years. 

JOHN BIOLliEMA, JR., Manager J. Mollema & Son, retail 
coal merchants of Grand Rapids. Michigan, was born June 
17, 1891, at Jamestown, Michigan, and has been in the coal 
business for eight years. 

SAMUEL A. MORMAN of S. A. Morman & Co., well-known 
coal and building material merchants of Grand Rapids, 
Michigan, was born April 13, 1858, in Grand Rapids, and 
has been in the coal trade twenty-two years. He was a 
former President of the Grand Rapids Coal Exchange. This 
company was founded in 1855 by Mr. Morman's father and 
has been highly successful ever since, in both coal and 
building material. A year ago Mr. Morman took into part- 
nership M. P. Louwerse, who has been connected with the 
firm for over thirty years, and William B. Steele. 

CLATJS F. PETERSON, retail coal merchant of Grand 
Rapids, Michigan, was born November 12, 1856, in Sweden, 
and has been in the coal business for thirty-five years. 

GERRIT J. ROOKS, Treasurer of the A. B. Knowlson Co., 
wholesale and retail coal merchants of Grand Rapids, Michi- 
gan, was born March 2S, 1867, near Holland, Michigan, and 
has been in the coal business for thirty years. 

OMGE ROTTSCHAFER, Manager Silver Creek Fuel & 
Feed Co., Grand Rapids, Michigan, was born in Holland, 
and has been in the coal business for four years. He is 
associated with his brothers, Henry, John and William, who 
are in the contracting business in Holland, Michigan. 

J. H. SMITH, Manager of the J. H. Smith Coal Co. of 
Grand Rapids, Michigan, was born In 1882 at Rochester, 
New York, and has been in the coal business for eighteen 
years. This concern handles coal at wholesale only. Mr. 
Smith was formerly with the Jones & Adams Coal Co., 
Harlem Coal Co., and the Sedalia Coal Co. 

J. G. STEELE, Manager of Steele Bros., Grand Rapids, 
Michigan, was born October 3, 1879, in Grand Rapids and 
has been in the coal business for the past five years. 

WILLIAM W. TANNER, Vice President of the A. B. 
Knowlson Co., Grand Rapids, Michigan, was born July 1, 
1857, near Lockport, New York, and has been in the coal 
business for the past twenty-three years, associated with 
A. B. Knowlson. 

ROBERT D. TEELE, Michigan Representative of the 
Buckeye Coal & Railway Co., with headquarters at Grand 
Rapids, Michigan, was born June 4, 1857, in Grand Rapids, 
and has been in the coal business thirty-five years. He 
was formerly connected with the Sunday Creek Coal Co. 
and has been in the retail business in Grand Rapids. 

I. A. VAN HEULEN, Secretary and Treasurer of the Van 
Heulen Fuel Co., Grand Rapids, Michigan, was born in the 
Netherlands in 1872, and has been in the coal business for 
twenty-five years. He was formerly connected with the 
South Grand Rapids Ice & Coal Co. 



MICHIGAN 



CHRIS ABRAHAM, retail coal merchant of Capac, Mich- 
igan, born September 22, 1875, at Mt. Clemens, Michigan, has 
been in the coal business for ten years. 



MARTIN C. ABRAHAMSON, retail coal merchant of Lud- 
ington, Michigan, was born September 21, 1881, in Norway, 
and has been in the coal business eleven j-ears. 

HENRY J. ADAMS, President and General Manager of the 
H. J. Adams Lumber & Coal Co., Jackson, Michigan, was 
born November 15, 1857, in Monroe, Michigan, and has been 
in the coal business seven years. 

GEORGE A. ALDRICH, President G. A. Aldrich & Co., 
Hillsdale, Michigan, was born in 1849 at Geneseo, New York, 
and has been in the coal business for twenty years, and is 
one of the w^ell-known retailers in Michigan. 

A. E. D. ALLAN of the Allan Coal & Lumber Co., West 
Detroit, Michigan, was born March 28, 1869, in Wales and 
has been in the coal business three years. His brother, A. 
T. Allan, is associated with him in the coal and lumber 
business. 

ARTHUR c. ATWELL, Assistant Manager Cass City 
Grain Co., Cass City, Michigan, was born August 21, 1890. in 
Evergreen Township, Michigan, and has been in the coal 
business for three years. 

AXEL L. AXELSON, Manager F. & A. Lumber Co., Crystal 
Falls, Michigan, was born February 14, 1880, at Ishpeming, 
Michigan, and has been in the coal business for six years. 

JACOB H. BAAD, retail coal inerchant of Union City, , 
Michigan, was born July 3, 1876, in Canal Dover, Ohio, and 
has been in the coal business for seven years. 

DANIEL D. BARRON, well known retail coal merchant 
of River Rouge, Michigan, was born in September, 1S66. at 
Newport, Michigan, and has been in the retail coal business 
for the past seventeen years. 

F. L. BAUER of the Hastings Lumber & Coal Co., 
Hastings, Michigan, was born in 1878, and has been in the 
coal business for three years. 

W. G. BAUER of the Hastings Lumber & Coal Co., Hast- 
ings, Michigan, was born in Hastings in 1875, and has been 
in the coal business for fourteen years. 

JESSE G. BAUKNECHT, member of the firm of Bauk- 
necht Bros., Muskegon, Michigan, was -born March 20, 1879, 
in that city and has been in the coal business for eighteen 
years. 

SIDNEY T. BEAM, senior member of E. Beam & Sons, 
Lawton, Michigan, was born December 28. 1849, in St. Joseph 
County, Michigan, and has been in the coal business for 
t'wenty years. 

SILAS A. BEMENT, managing a retail coal business at 
Ann Arbor, Michigan, was born January 9, 1876, at Leroy, 
Michigan, and has been in the coal business two years. 

HERMAN RALPH BEUHLER, Manager Ann-A Fuel Co., 
Ann Arbor, Michigan, was born in 1886 in Washtenaw 
County, Michigan, and has been in the coal business for the 
past three years. 

EUGENE M. BIGGS, Scottville, Michigan, was born May 
10, 1865, at Hudson, Ne'w York, and has been in the coal 
business for twenty years. 

RXIFUS F. BIRCH, retail coal merchant of Hudson, Mich- 
igan, was born April 12, 1858, at East Green Bush, New 
York, and has been in the coal business for twenty-eight 
years, the last eighteen of which in his present location. 

RALPH S. BISHOP of Frank Bishop & Son, retail coal 
merchants of Almont, Michigan, was born May 14, 1892, in 
Almont, and has been in the coal business five years. 

ALFRED P. BLANBY', Manager of The Bedford Coal Co., 
Alpena. Michigan, was born September 6. 1882, in Alpena, 
and has been in the coal business for eleven years. He suc- 
ceeded the old established firm of M. N. Bedford & Co. in 
1916. 

G. S. BLESCH, Manager Little Rock Coal Co., Alma, Mich- 
igan, was born June 20, 1876, in Brenton, Michigan, and has 
been in the coal business seven years. 

JOHN BOEKHOUT, retail coal merchant of Kalamazoo, 
Michigan, was born May 2, 1863, in the Netherlands and has 
been in the coal business sixteen years. 

C. L. BOELIO, retail coal merchant of Petoskey, Michi- 
gan, was born September 28, 1855, in New York state, and 
has been in the coal business ten years. 

HENRY J. BOLT, retail coal merchant of Grand Haven, 
Michigan, was born in Grand Haven October 22, 1867, and 
has been in the retail coal business for about twelve years. 

WM. R. BRADISH, a retail coal merchant of Adrian, Mich- 
igan, was born May 2, 1857, at Madison, Michigan, and has 
been in the coal business for fifteen years. 

CHARLES C. BRADLEY' of Bradley & Chubb, retail coal 
merchants of Romeo, Michigan, was born November 21, 1840, 
at Detroit, Michigan, and has been in the coal business 
for ten years. 

CHARLES THOMPSON BRADLEY, Manager Bradley & 
Chubb of Romeo. Michigan, was born November 27. 1890, 
in Romeo and has been in the coal business for the past 
six years. 



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FRED \V. BRAM.VIV. Manager Central Coal Co., Bay City. 
Micliiaran. wa.s born February 9, 1S74, in Bay City and has 
been in the coal business for seventeen years. Mr. Braman 
is Secretary of the Bay City Coal Kxchange and was for- 
nii-rly connected with F. P. Young i*t Co. for eight years. 

THOM.VS AV. HRANDON of Evart, Michigan, was born 
January 15. 1854, at Kingston, Ontario, and has been in 
the coal business for fourteen years. 

\V. EARI. RRIGGS of AV. E. Briggs & Co., Shelbyville, 
Michigan, was born July 4, 1S79, and has been in Ihe coal 
business for the past twelve years. 

C. O. BROAVN, Benton Harbor, Michigan, of the Brown 
Ice & Coal Co. of St. Joseph and Benton Harbor, was born 
October 26, 1882, in Benton Harbor. 

FRED A. BROWN, retail coal merchant of Bellevue, Mich- 
igan, was born in 1S6S in Bellevue and has been in the coal 
business for twelve years. 

OVA D. BROAVX of the Brown Ice & Coal Co., St. Joseph. 
Michigan, was born June 13, 1885, at Benton Harbor, Michi- 
g'an. and has been in the coal business for over ten years. 

AV. 31. BROW'iX, senior member of the Brown Ice & Coal 
Co., St. Joseph and Benton Harbor, Michigan, was born 
June 29, 1858, at Mokena, Illinois, and has been in the ice 
and coal business forty years. Mr. Brown is one of the best 
known retail coal merchants in Michigan and is a Director 
of the Michigan-Ohio-Indiana Coal Association, and also 
Director in the Michigan Retail Coal Dealers' Association. 

JOHX M. BUNTING, Owner and Manager City Coal Co., 
Grayling. Michigan, was born August 5, 1861, at Fenton, 
Michigan, and has been in the coal business for seven years. 

AVILLIAM H. BURNS, Vice President and General Manager 
of the Fremont Lumber & Fuel Co., Fremont, Michigan, 
was born December 16, 1873, in Muskegon, Michigan, and 
has been in the coal business sixteen years. He is also 
interested in the Home Lumber & Fuel Co., Alma, Michigan, 
and the Grant Lumber & Fuel Co., Grant, Michigan. 

li. AV. BURROUGHS, retail Coal merchant of Cement City, 
Michigan, was born April 2, 1865, in Concord Township, 
Michigan, and has been in the coal business for seven years. 

J. LEIGHTON BUSH, proprietor of J. L. Bush & Co., of 
Adrian, Michigan, was born May 24, 1882, at Clinton, Michi- 
gan, and has been In the coal business for five years. 

HERMAN S.BUURMA, Assistant Manager for S. H. Buurma 
of Kalamazoo, Michigan, was born August 12, 1895, In Kala- 
mazoo, and has been in the coal business seven years. 

SAMUEL H. BUUR3IA, retail coal merchant of Kalamazoo, 
Michigan, was born in the Netherlands August 6. 1873, and 
has been in the retail coal business eighteen years. 

EDGAR R. CALKINS, retail coal merchant of Steiner, 
Michigan, was born May 19, 1863, at Monroe City and 
has been in the coal business for twelve years. 

X. R. CANFIELD, proprietor of the Capital Coal Co., Lan- 
sing, Michigan, was born in Youngstown, Ohio, and has 
been in the coal business forty-two years. 

PHILIP CATSMAN, President of the Catsman Coal Co., 
Flint, Michigan, was born In 1879 in Russia, and has been 
in the coal business for eight years. 

SELAH A. CHAPMAN, Manager Chapman Coal Co., Eaton 
Rapids. Michigan, was born June 19, 1880, in Eaton Rapids, 
and has been in the coal business six years. He was for- 
merly with the Fred C. Cobb Co. at Charlotte, Michigan. 

CHARLES W. CHAPPLE, General Manager C. W. Chappie 
& Co., Hillsdale. Michigan, was born April 29, 1876, at 
Litchfield, Michigan, and has been in the coal business for 
seven years. 

RAYMOND C. CHASE, Secretary of Catsman Coal Co., 
Flint, Michigan, was born in 1886, and has been in the 
coal business for seven years. 

HANS J. CHRISTIANSEN, Manager of Houle Bros. Co., 
Muskegon, Michigan, was born March 1, 1881, at Muskegon, 
and has been in the coal business five years. He was a 
member of the firm of Christiansen & Wenk until they dis- 
solved partnership, when he formed his present connection. 

CALVIN D. CHURCH of Church & Church, retail coal 
merchants of Utica, Michigan, was born September 5, 1858, 
In Shelby Township, Michigan, and has been in the coal 
business for twenty-three years. 

CLARENCE A. CLARK, Manager for C. "^. Davis at 
Gladstone, Michigan, was born September 1, 1862, in West 
Henrietta, New York, and has been in the coal business for 
thirty years. 

HARRY T. CLARK, proprietor Vicksburg Lumber Co., 
Vicksburg, Michigan, was born August 1, 1879. at Cooper, 
Michigan, and has been fifteen years in the lumber business 
and fovir years handling coal. 

LEWIS HOLLAND COOK, retail coal merchant of Nash- 
ville, Michigan, was born July 3, 1882, at Marshall, Michi- 
gan, and has been in the coal business for the last three 
years. 



CHAS. COOL of the Cool Bros. Grain Co., Saline, Michigan, 
was born March 15, 1874, in Ionia County, Michigan, and 
has been in the coal business about twenty-five years. He 
worked with his uncle, E. F. Cool, at Clarksville, Michigan, 
fourteen years. In 1907 he moved to Saline and has handled 
coal continually since. 

LEAVIS COOL of Cool Bros. Grain Co., Saline, Michigan, 
was born November 15, 1870, in Ionia County, Michigan, and 
has been in the coal business about fourteen years. He 
was with Charles Cool at Clarksville three years, and has 
been at Saline nearly eleven years. 

FLOYD AV. CORLETT, President Corletl-Stone Lumber 
Co., Kalamazoo, Michigan, was born October 26, 1878, at 
Clinton, Ontario, and has been in the coal business for eight 
years. 

MERYL G. CORLETT, Manager of R. J. Corlett & Sons, 
Pittsford, Michigan, was born July 11, 1891, at Hillsdale, 
Michigan, and has been in the coal business for four years. 

ROBERT C. CORLETT, proprietor of R. J. Corlett & Sons 
of Hillsdale. Michigan, was born in Hillsdale in 1882 and is 
now interested in nine retail coal yards in that section. 

FRANK D. CORNAVELL, retail coal merchant Of Ann 
Arbor, Michigan, was born January 9, 1874, in Ann Arbor, 
and has been in the coal business for over eleven years. 

H. HOIIART CORWIN, Treasurer and Manager of the Cor- 
win Lumber Co., Jackson, Michigan, was born April 22, 1877, 
in Grass Lake, Michigan, and has been in the coal business 
twelve years. He was formerly connected with the Inter- 
state Coal & Coke Co. 

I. S. CORAVIN, Manager A. A. Corwin & Sons, Pontiac, 
Michigan, was born August 17, 1878, in Grass Lake, Michi- 
gan, and has been in the coal business over twenty years. 

R. A. COTTRELL, retail coal merchant of Marine City, 
Michigan, was born September 29. 1851, in Marine City and 
has been in the retail coal business for thirty-two years. 

B. B. CRAPO of the Crapo Lumber Co., Williamson. Michi- 
gan, was born July 5, 1864, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for sixteen j^ears. 

ARTHUR G. CRUICKSHANK, retail coal merchant of 
Port Huron, Michigan, was born July 11, 1868, at Port 
Huron, and has been in the coal business for fourteen years. 

AVILLIAM J. CRUMP of the South End Ice & Coal Co., Bay 
City, Michigan, was born February 12, 1863, at Pittsford, 
New York, and has been in the coal business for sixteen 
years. 

BURTON T. CURTIS, Manager Curtis Bros, of Reed 
City, Michigan, was born July 15, 1871, at Kalamazoo, 
Michigan, and has been in the retail coal business for the 
past eight years. 

LORENZO D. CURTIS, well known retail coal merchant 
of Edmore, Michigan, was born September 21, 1851, at 
Chatham, Canada, and has been in the coal business for 
twenty years. He sold the first bituminous coal in Edmore. 

AVILL CURTIS, member of the firm of Curtis Bros., retail 
coal merchants of Reed City, Michigan, was born in Elkhart, 
Indiana, and has been in the coal business for over thirty 
years. 

FRANK R. CUTTING, proprietor of the F. R. Cutting Co., 
Lapeer, Michigan, was born May 22, 1866, In Lapeer County 
and has been in the lumber business for twenty-seven years. 
A few years ago he bought out the Wilcox Lumber Co. and 
since then has been handling coal. 

HARRY L. DANSAND, President K. & K. Ice & Coal Co., 
Monroe, Michigan, was born in Moni'oe and has been in the 
coal business eight years. The business 'n'as started origi- 
nally bjr John Kleeman, Treasurer of the present company. 

A. M. DARLING, proprietor of the A. M. Darling Coal Co., 
I^ansing, Michigan, was born in Lansing in 1864 and has been 
in the coal business for fourteen years. 

WILLIAM p. DARLING, retail coal merchant of Kala- 
mazoo, Michigan, was born in Kalamazoo April 25, 1869, and 
has been in the coal business for twenty-seven years. 

CHARLES AVILLIAM DAA'IS, retail coal merchant of 
Gladstone, Michigan, mvh-s born June 14, 1846, in Chicago, and 
has been in the coal business thirty years. 

A. K. DEAN is President of the Central Supply Co., which 
does a retail coal business at Addison, Michigan. 

31. O. DEWEY, manufacturer and shipper of charcoal, 
Jackson, Michigan, was born August 23, 1878. in Concord, 
Michigan, and has been in the coal business fourteen years. 
He began the business April 1, 1904, as Manager for J. E. 
Bartlett Co., and April 1, 1905, bought that business and 
organized the M. O. Dewey Co. On May 1, 1916, he sold his 
interest therein and with E. A. Smith organized the Dewey- 
Smith Co., of which he was Treasurer. On May 1, 1918, 
he bought the car-lot coal, charcoal and burlap sack lines 
of the Dewey-Smith Co. and sold his interests in that 
company. 

FRED .1. DILLON, retail coal merchant of Addison, Michi- 
gan, was born December 29, 1874, at Hudson, Michigan, and 
has been in the coal business seven years. 



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FRANK A. DIMOND, Manager of George F. Dimond Co.. 
St. Johns, Michigan, was born December 21, 1883, at Peck, 
Michigan, and has been in the coal business for five years. 

GEO. A. DOCKERAY of Doclieray Bros., Rockford. Miclii- 
g-an, was born March 9, 1S62. in Orleans County, New York, 
and has been in the coal business for over twenty years. 

R. HARl.OAV DOCKERAY of Dockeray Bros., retail coal 
merchants of Rockford, Michigan, was born November 8, 
1854, in Orleans County, New York, and has been in the 
coal business for over twenty years. 

AV. J. DODGE, Manager W. J. Dodge & Co., Howard City, 
Michigan, was born July 22, 1866, at Saginaw, Michigan, and 
has been in the coal business for twenty years. 

FRANK C. DRIESHACH of F. C. Driesbach & Son, White 
Pigeon, Michigan, was born November IS, 1863, in White 
Pigeon and has been in the coal business for over thirty- 
three years. His son has been associated with him six 
years. 

A. H. DUDLEY, retail coal merchant of Jonesville, Mich- 
igan, was born at Perry, Michigan, April 5, 1854, and has 
been in the coal business for ten years. 

MILLARD DURHAM, retail coal merchant of Coopersville, 
Michigan, has been in the coal business for the past ten 
years. 

WESLEY E. DYER, Manager of the Wiselogel Co. at 
Muskegon, Michigan, was born March 1, 1867, at Albion, 
Michigan, and has been in the coal business for the past 
four years. He has served as Secretary of the Muskegon 
Coal Dealers' Credit Association. 

HENRY A. EASTON of Consumers Fuel Co., Petoskey, 
Michigan, vs^as born in 1855 in New York City. He is also 
President of the Petoskey Crystal Ice Co. and for forty 
years lias been a prominent business man. 

FRANK H. EBERTS, Treasurer Eberts Bros. Co., "Wyan- 
dotte, Michigan, was born June 13, 1882, at Wyandotte, 
and has been in the coal business for twenty years. H. A. 
and W. L. Eberts are also associated with him. Harry A. 
Eberts was born August 21, 1877 and has been in the coal 
business for twenty-one years. 

BEN EILBER of B. & S. Eilber. Ubly, Michigan, was born 
in Ontario in 1S66, and has been in the coal business for 
twenty-six years. 

SAMUEL EILBER of B. & S. Eilber, Ubly, Michigan, was 
born in Ontario in 1862, and has been with the present firm 
for fourteen years. 

CARL D. EKSTROM, proprietor of The Ekstrom Coal 
Co.. Benton Harbor. Michigan, was born October 22, 1871, in 
Chicago, Illinois, and has been in the coal business four 
years. He was formerly with the Madison Coal Co. 

CLAYTON E. ELLIS, retail coal merchant of Shelby, Michi- 
gan, was born July 5. 1S69, in Norwalk, Ohio, and has been 
in the coal business for six years. 

CLAUDE H, ESTEE of Shepard, Michigan, was born March 
IS, 1S79, in Shepard, and has been in tlie coal business 
fifteen years. 

JONAH ETHIER, retail coal merchant of Hubbel, Mich- 
igan, was born July 20, 1853, at Montreal, Canada, and has 
been in the coal business for fifteen years. 

ARTHUR N. FANCHER, General Sales Agent What Cheer 
Coal Mining Co., Bay City, Michigan, was born June 5, 1875, 
at Parish. New York, and has been in the coal business for 
fifteen years. He is also Secretary and General Sales Agent 
of the Wenona Coal & Mining Co. 

GERTRUDE RICE FELLOWS, Manager of the retail coal 
and fueling business for J. E. Miller & Son, Port Huron, 
Michigan, was born April 6, 1872, in Detroit, Michigan. 
Upon the retirement of ,1. E. Miller from the coal business 
In 1910 Mr. Fellows came from Detroit to take over the 
management of the business for the Millers, who all reside 
in California. Upon the death of Mr. Fellows, in January, 
1916, Mrs. Fellows took her husband's place as Manager, and 
has proved to the firm as well as to the people of Port 
Huron that she is a most capable business woman. She 
enjoys the reputation of being the only woman operating a 
fueling dock. 

EDWARD FINLEY, owner of the Finley elevator and 
retail coal yard at Hartford, Michigan, was born May 26. 
1853, in Palmyra, New York, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness twenty-nine years. When he started a hundred tons of 
anthracite annually would supply the entire community. 

F. J. FLYNN, Manager Flynn & Neely, Gladwin, Michi- 
gan, was born April 3, 1879. at Livingston, Michigan, and 
has been in the coal business for the past two years. 

JAMES M. FORD, retail coal merchant of Blissfleld, Mich- 
igan, was born February 21, 1870, at Riga, Michigan, and 
has been in the coal business for fifteen years. 

JAMES FORSYTH, retail coal merchant, Blissfleld, Michi- 
gan, was born January 16, 1S69, and lias been in the coal 
business for twenty years. 



CHARLES 31. FOSTER, Manager Foster Coal Co., Utica, 
Michigan, was born May 29, 1870, in New York and has 
been in the coal business four ■ years. He succeeds his 
father-in-law, W. H. Marvin, who formerly conducted the 
business. 

.1. FRITCHEY, Secretary and Manager Cass City Grain 
Co., Cass City, Michigan, was born September 27, 1874, at 
Portland, Pennsylvania, and has been in the coal business 
for fifteen years. His company handles coal In seven Mich- 
igan towns. 

HENRY P. GAUKLER, retail coal merchant of Pontiac, 
Michigan, was born April 3, 1871, in Halfway, Michigan, 
and has been in the coal business fourteen years. Mr. 
Gaukler has served as a Director -of the Michigan-Ohio-Indi- 
ana Coal Association and is well known in the trade. 

JAMES A. GIBBS, senior member of Gibbs & Sanders, 
Albion, Michigan, was born September 24, 1859, in Ottawa 
County, Michigan, and has been in the coal business for 
seventeen years. Prior to organizing his present company 
he was connected with F. E. Steele of Albion, Michigan. 

ALLEN A. GILBERT recently started in the coal business 
at Coldwater, Michigan. He was born May 30, 1S56, at 
Burlington, Michigan. 

"\V. IRVING GILSON, Manager East Lansing Lumber & 
Coal Co., East Lansing, Michigan, was born February 27, 
1S8S, in Deerfield, Michigan, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness the past two years. 

FRED J. GREMEL of Grassman & Gremel, Sebewaing, 
Michigan, was born in Sebewaing and has been in the coal 
business six years. 

MELVIN GRIFFITH, Manager M. Griflfith &- Son of Cli- 
max, Michigan, was born July 7, 1867, at Springport, Mich- 
igan, and has been in the coal business for six years. 

W^ARREN GRIFFITH. Assistant Manager of M. Griffith & 
Son of Climax. Michigan, was born December 30, 1890, at 
Springport, Michigan, and has been in the coal business for • 
six years. 

R. H. GRILLEY, Manager Grant Lumber & Fuel Co. of 
Grant. Michigan, was born July 20, 1S6S, in Barry County, 
Michigan, and has been in the coal business for sixteen 
years. His assistants are his two sons, Emory and 
Floyd, who were born in Fremont, Michigan, June 11, 1894, 
and January 8, 1896, respectively. 

G. W. GUST, retail coal merchant of Morenci, Michigan, 
was born April 17, 1859, in Ohio, and has been in the retail 
business fifteen .years. 

ELMER AV. HAMMOND of the Crapo Lumber Co.. William- 
son, Michigan, was born November S, 1874, and has been in 
the coal business for sixteen years. 

.lOHN M. H.\MMOND, proprietor of the Flint Coal Co., 
Flint. Michigan, was born January 26, 1867, in Big Flats, 
New York, and has been in the coal business at Flint fifteen 
years. Previous to going to Flint he was engaged in the 
wholesale lumber business at Bay City. Michigan, and at 
the same time organized the Flint Lumber Co. of Flint, J. 
M. Hammond & Co. of Clinton, and the Lenawae Lumber Co. 
of Tecumseh. all in Michigan. 

LOUIS AV. HARMAN of Harman Bros,, Onaway. Michigan, 
was born in Manhattan, Kansas, and has been in the coal 
business five years. 

AUSTIN HARRINGTON, well-known retail coal merchant 
of Holland, Michigan, was born in Holland August 11, 1863, 
has been in the co.al business twenty-five years, and is one of 
the substantial merchants in that territory. His son. Harry 
Harrington, has been in charge of the office for tlie past 
ten years. He was born May 28, 1890. 

CHARLES VICT'OR HARRIS, President Harris Lumber 
& Coal Co. of Ovid, Michigan, was born in 1871 at Mattoon, 
Illinois, and has been in the coal business for ten years. 

C. H. HECK of C. H. Heck & Son, retail coal merchants of 
Ann Arbor, Michigan, was born November 21, 1861, at South 
Bend, Indiana, and has been in the coal business for over 
thirteen years. W. S. Heck has also been associated with 
this firm for the past ten years. 

A. HEINKELMANN, President Marine City Lumber &- Coal 
Co.. Marine City, Michigan, was born October 6. 1S62, in 
Marine Citj', and was associated with M. Sichen in the lum- 
ber and coal business from 1S79 to 1913, when he bouglit the 
interest of the Sichen estate and organized his present 
company. 

JOHN C. HICKS, retail coal merchant of St. Johns. Michi- 
gan, was born April 6, 1S69, in St. Johns and has been in 
the coal business for over twenty-five years. 

ALEXANDER H. HILLER, Manager of Home Lumber & 
Coal Co., Buchanan, Michigan, was born January 26. 1861, 
in Hudson. Michigan, and has been in the coal business two 
years. Previous to 1916 he was for twenty-four years in 
the United States Government service at Washing-ton, D. C. 



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^:D^VARn n. HISCOCK of E. D. Hiscoek & Son. well- 
known retail coal merchants of Ann Arbor, Michigan, was 
born November 20, 1856, at Ann Arbor, Michigan, and has 
been in the coal business for twenty-four years. This busi- 
ne'ss was started by his father and Mr. Hiscoek has now 
taken his son in partnership with him. 

H. H. HOAULKY, retail coal merchant of Eau Claire, 
Michigan, was born September 3. 1872, in Ohio, and has 
been in the coal business for fifteen years. 

F. ■«'. HO^VAIID, Treasurer Belding Coal & Ice Co. of 
Belding. Jlichigan, was born November 26, 1852, at Windsor, 
Massacliusetts, and has been in the coal bvisiness for six 
years. 

SU31XER E. HOAVE, retail coal merchant of Ypsilantl, 
Michigan, was born in 1859 in Shiawassee County, Michi- 
gan, and lias been in the coal business for eight years. Two 
years ago he bought out the interest of the Ypsilanti Coal 
Co. 

CLAUD H. JACKSON, proprietor C. H. Jackson Coal Co., 
Jackson, Michigan, was born in Jackson December 16, 1888, 
and has been in the coal business for four years. 

GEORGE A\"ll.LIAM JAMIESON, retail coal merchant of 
Wayne, Michigan, was born June 4, 1863, and has been 
in the coal business for twenty-nine years. 

JOSEPH LEON JELMS, Manager of J. Jellis & Co., Flint, 
Michigan, was born in 1882 in Flint and has been in the 
retail coal business for four years. 

AVILMAM A. JONES. Superintendent Banner Coal Co., 
Saginaw. Michigan, was born in Wales in 1846 and has been 
in the coal business sixty years. He was formerly connected 
with the Consolidated Coal Co. and the Robert Gage Coal Co. 

HENRY A. KEIN, General Manager New Haven Lumber 
& Coal Co., New Haven, Michigan, was born March 2, 1876, 
in Roseville, Michigan, and has been in the coal business 
for fourteen years. 

ALEX. P. KE3IP, Managing Partner Kemp Bros. Coal 
Co., Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, was born in Sault Ste. 
Marie May 12, 1874, and has been in the coal business 
twenty-three years. He was formerly connected with the 
George Kemp Coal Co. 

HARRIE B. KENYON of the Kenyon Coal Co., Algonac, 
Michigan, was born at Detroit, Michigan, in 1883, and has 
been in the coal business for the last three years. 

ELMER H. KINYON, retail coal merchant of Quincy, 
Michigan, was born February 9, 1844, at Syracuse, New 
York, "and has been in the coal business for thirty-flve 
years. 

^V. J. KIRKPATRICK, well known retail coal merchant at 
Battle Creek, Michigan, was born in Battle Creek October 
11, 1865, and has been in the coal business for twenty-five 
years. 

JAMES A. KITTS of McMillen & Kitts at Mt. Pleasant, 
Michigan, was born January 3, 1894, at Seymour, Indiana, 
and has been in the coal business for the last two years, 
succeeding his father, who retired recently. 

WILLIAM A. KNAPP, retail coal merchant of Bay City, 
Michigan, was born in 1867 in Bay City and has been in the 
coal business for fifteen years. He is a stockholder in the 
Central Coal Mining Co., Robt. Gage Coal Co., Black Dia- 
mond Coal Co., Benton Coal Co. and Michigan Coal Co. 

GEORGE LAMBERT, Manager of Lambert & Co., Lawton, 
Michigan, wa:s born in England in 1857, and has been in the 
coal business for the last three years. 

J. NEAL LA3IOREALX, retail coal merchant of Comstock 
Park, Michigan, was liorn May .3, 1889, in Comstock Park, 
and has been in the coal business for four years. 

CHARLES W. LAPP, retail coal merchant of Richmond, 
Michigan, was born June 21, 1863, in Canada, and has been 
in the coal business for the last two years. 

LLOYD R. LAWRENCE, retail coal merchant of Vicks- 
burg, Michigan, was born February 1, 1878, at Battle Creek, 
Michigan, and has been in the coal business for twelve 
years. 

CLYDE L. LAWSON, Secretary and Treasurer Lawson 
Lumber & Coal Co., Royal Oak. Michigan, was born in 1889 
in Clawson, Michigan, and has been in the coal business 
for the past ten years. 

EMIL LEE, owner of Emil Lee & Co., Laingsburg, Michi- 
gan, was born in Sciota Township March 22, 1882, and has 
been in the coal business eight years. 

FRANK H. LESSELYONG, President Lesselyong Hard- 
ware Co., Ironwood, Michigan, was born June 5, 1863, at 
Appleton. "Wisconsin, and has been in the coal business for 
twenty years. John A. Kennedy is Vice President and Ed- 
ward F. Lesselyong is Secretary and Treasurer of the com- 
pany. 

MICHAEL PETER LESSELYONG, retail coal merchant of 
Ishpeming, Michigan, was born February 18, 1874, at Escan- 
aba, Michigan, and has been in the coal business since 1898. 



ELLSWORTH E. LONG. Manager Long, Cobb & Co., 
Olivet, Michigan, w-as born December 22, 1861, at Eaton 
Rapids, Michigan, and has been in the coal business for 
eleven years. 

G. \V. LUCE, Manager G. W. Luce & Co., Sturgis, Michi- 
gan, was born July 6, 1867, at. Waterloo, Indiana, and has 
been in the retail coal business for six years. Before that 
he traveled for the Elmer Miller Coal Co. for four years. 

JOHN C. MANN, a Director of the Peoples B'uel Co., Hough- 
ton. Michigan, was born September 11, 1868, at Louisville, 
Kentucky, and has been in the coal business for eight years. 

CLARENCE D. MANSFIELD, Manager D. Mansfield & 
Co., Remus, Michigan, was born April 23, 1864, -in Genesee 
County, New York, and has been in the coal business over 
twenty years. 

ROY E. MATT, proprietor of the Cheboygan Coal & Dock 
Co., Cheboygan, Michigan, was born December 15, 1878, at 
Forester, Michigan, and has been in the coal business for ten 
years. He was formerly connected with the McArthur Dock 
in his city. 

AUGUST G. 3IATTHES, Manager of Matthes Bros., retail 
coal merchants, of Adrian, Michigan, was born October -10, 
1S69, in Adrian and has been inthe coalbusinessfor fifteen 
years.' 

LOUIS C. McDOUGAL.of McDougal & Young of Albion, 
Michigan, was born July 31, 1874, at Litchfield, Michigan, 
and has been in the coal business for eleven years for him- 
self, and previous to that was with G. W. Perkins for seven 
years. 

LEWIS aicGEORGE of E. A. McGeorge & Son, Gladwin, 
Michigan, was born September 26, 1890, in Cass City, Michi- 
gan, and has been in the coal business six years. He is 
also interested in the West Branch Grain Co. and was for- 
merly connected with the Cass City Grain Co. 

GLAUDE J. 3IeKAHN of the McKahn Fuel & Ice Co., 
Northville, Michigan, was born June 4, 1881, at Highland, 
Michigan, and has been in the coal business for three 
years. 

FRED B. 3IoKAY, retail coal merchant of Lowell, Michi- 
gan, was born October 24, 1868, at Grand Rapids, Michi- 
gan, and has been in the coal business for the last six years. 

ERVIN E. MoMILLEN of McMillen & Kitts. Mt. Pleas- 
ant, Michigan, was born July 15, 1884, and has been in 
the coal business for twelve years. 

JOHN MEAGHER of the Meagher Coal Co., retail coal 
merchants of Lansing, Michigan, was born in Lansing 
in 1869 and has been in the coal business for twenty-five 
years. 

NICHOLAS S. MEYERS, General Sales Agent of the Cen- 
tral West Coal Co., Menominee, Michigan, was born August 
5, 1883, in Marinette. Wisconsin, and has been in the coal 
business five years. E. P. Smith is President and H. J. Gram 
is Secretary and Treasurer of the company. 

HERBERT A. MILLARD, retail coal merchant of Hersey, 
Michigan, was born April 8, 1868, at Hillsdale, Michigan, 
and lias been in the coal business for four years. 

CLARENCE L. .MILLER, President Miller. Ryder & Win- 
terburn Co., Kalamazoo, Michigan, was born March 31. 1876, 
at Kalamazoo, and has been in the coal business for twenty- 
one years. 

MASON S. MILLER, Secretary and Treasurer Miller, Ryder 
& Winterburn Co., Kalamazoo, Michigan, was born June 9, 
1SS8, in Kalamazoo and has been in the coal business 
for five years. His father, Conrad Miller, founded the busi- 
ness thirty-four years ago, but is now retired and living in 
California. 

JOHN H. BIOEKE, Manager G. Moeke & Sons, retail coal 
merchants of Zeeland, Michigan, was born December 25, 
ISSO. in Zeeland and has been in the coal business for five 
years. He has served as Chairman of the Zeeland Coal 
Dealers Association. 

FRANK W. MOORE, retail coal merchant of Lansing, 
Michigan, was born September 9, 1S51, in Chester, Massachu- 
setts, and has been in the retail coal business since 1879, a 
total of thirty-nine years. 

F. R. MORTON, proprietor of the F. R. Morton Coal Co., 
Colon, Michigan, was born in 1859 at Cincinnati, Ohio, and 
has been in the coal business for fifteen years. He w^as for- 
merly connected with C. E. Baird Coal Co. 

FRANK L. 3IUEHLENBECK, retail coa,l merchant of Sagi- 
naw, Michigan, was born October 30, 1868, in Germany and 
has been in the coal business for twelve years. He served 
as President of the Saginaw Retail Coal Dealers Associa- 
tion. 

JOHN W. MUMA, retailer of Union City, Michigan, was 
born December 9, 1847, in Wales and has been in the coal 
business for nine years. 

EUGENE D. NASH, Manager W. A. Nash & Son, Bravo, 
Michigan, was born August 25, 1888, at Bassett, Nebraska, 
and has been in the coal business for ten years. 



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WILSOIV NEELY of Neely Bros.. Brooklyn, Michig-an, 
was born in 1860 in Brooklyn and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for eight years. The firm is composed of Wilson Neely 
and Frank Neely, and they handle both coal and lumber. 

WILLIAM F. NEHMER. retail coal merchant of Big^ Rap- 
ids, Michigan, was born in Germany, May 14, 1874, and has 
been in the coal business for fifteen years. 

HUGH NESBITT, who handles coal at retail at Baraga, 
Michigan, was born May 8, 1859, in Canada. 

ADDISON D. NEWMAN, retail coal merchant of Stanton, 
Michigan, was born December 4, 1872, in Mecosta County, 
and has been in the coal business for ten years. 

ASA NEWMAN, well known retail coal merchant of 
Portland, Michigan, was born August 18, 1852, in Portland 
and has been in the coal business for over twenty years. 

ALFRED E. NIEDERMEIN, Manager of H. Niedermein 
& Sons of Newport, Michigan, was born August 2, 1878, in 
Newport and has been in the coal business for the last 
fifteen years. 

JACOB NIFFENEGGER, retail coal merchant of South 
Haven, Michigan, was born in Switzerland, June 7, 1865, 
and has been in the coal business for nine years. 

JOHN P. NOUD, General Manager John F. Noud Co., South 
Haven. Michigan, was born September 29, 1876, at Manistee, 
Michigan, and has been in the coal business for over fifteen 
years. Mr. Noud is well known in the coal trade and is also 
Treasurer of the Frieze Fork Coal Mining Co. 

WALLACE OBETS of the Belmont Mills & Elevator Co., 
Belmont, Michigan, ^vas born in 1887 in Belmont and has 
been in the coal business for ten years. 

P. J. O'BRIEN, retail coal merchant of Rochester, Michi- 
gan, was born January 17, 1875, in Oakland County, Michi- 
gan, and has been in the coal business for seventeen years. 

G. EARL O'DELL, Manager Elkton Elevator Co., Elkton, 
Michigan, was born in 1881 in Canada, and has been in the 
coal business for fourteen years. 

MILLARD D. OLDS, owner of the McArthur Dock, Cheboy- 
gan, Michigan, was born March 10, 1860, in Hartford, Michi- 
gan, and has been in tlie coal business for about ten years. 

JOHN C. OTTO, retail coal merchant of Zilwaukee, Michi- 
gan, was born August 19, 1863, in Zilwaukee and has been 
in the coal business for fifteen years. Mr. Otto also has 
a yard at Carrollton. Michigan. 

MARVIN J. PARDEE of M. J. Pardee Bros., Clinton. 
Michigan, was born in 1877 in Livingston County, Michigan, 
and has been in the coal business for twelve years. He 
also has a branch yard at Bridgewater, Micliigan. 

HARRIE R. PARISH, retail coal merchant of Allen, Michi- 
gan, was born March 2, 1870, in Allen, and has been in 
the coal business for thirteen years. 

WILLIAM D. PARKER, retail coal merchant of New 
Baltimore, Michigan, was born in 1869 at Chesterfield, 
Michigan, and has been in the coal business for the last 
ten years. 

H. PAULSEN, Manager Iron County Lumber & Fuel Co., 
Crystal Falls. Michigan, was born in Denmark March 19, 
1873, and has been in the coal business for three years. 

CHARLES GAGE PEER, well-known retail coal merchant 
of Flint, Michigan, was born March 14, 1868, in Genesee 
County, and has been in the retail coal business for fifteen 
years. 

HOAVARD AV. PERRY, Vice President and Manager D. W. 
Hamilton Lumber & Coal Co., Saugatuck, Michigan, was born 
January 13, 1882, in Saugatuck and has been in -the coal 
and lumber business for seven years. T. B. Dates is Secre- 
tary and Treasurer of the company. 

J. L. PETERS, retail coal merchant of Colon, Michigan, 
was born in Colon December 7, 1885, and has been in the 
coal business for seven years. 

JOHN VAN POPPELEN, Manager of Van Poppelen & Mun- 
ley of Bay City, Michigan, was born in 1869 in the Nether- 
lands, and has been in the coal business for fourteen years. 
He was formerly President of the Bay City Coal Exchange. 

L. E. PUGH, retail coal merchant of Armada. Michigan, 
was born March 22. 1878, at Toledo, Iowa, and has been in the 
coal business for ten years. He was formerly connected 
with the Saline Lumber Co., Crete, Nebraska, for a number 
of years and previous to that was in the banking business. 

ERNEST A. REMER, prominent retail coal merchant of 
Cedar Springs, Michigan, was born February 23, 1861, in 
Yates County, New York, and has been in the coal business 
for twenty-six years. Mr. Remer has also served as a Di- 
rector of the Michigan-Ohio-Indiana Coal Association. 

SYDNEY H. REYNOLDS, President Dundee Mercantile 
Co.. Dundee, Micliigan. was born in 1863 at Dundee and has 
been in the coal liusiness for the past five years. 



OTTO F. RICHTER, Manager and Treasurer of the Sagi- 
naw Ice & Coal Co.. Saginaw, Michigan, was born November 
24, 1863, in Saginaw and has been in the coal business over 
twenty-six years. He has served as President of the Sagi- 
naw Retail Coal Dealers Association. George B. Nobel is 
President of the company, Jos. W. Needham Vice President, 
and James H. Malcolm Secretary, all equal owners. 

JOHN A. RIPSLINGER of Ripslinger Bros., Saginaw, 
Michigan, was born in Saginaw, July 31, 1874, and has been 
in tlie coal business over twenty years. 

MARTIN RIPSLINGER of Ripslinger Bros., Saginaw, 

Michigan, was born February 11, 1872, in Mt. Clemens, Michi- 
gan, and has been in the coal business over twenty years. 

JOHN ROACH, Manager Drinan. Roach & Co. of Mus- 
kegon, Michigan, was born December 9, 1881, and has been 
in the coal business for nine years. He was formerly con- 
nected with Otto Langkawel. 

NATHANIEL ROBBINS, well-known retail coal merchant 
of Grand Haven, Michigan, has been In the coal and build- 
ing material business for thirty-four years. He was born 
in Benton Harbor. 

H. D. ROBERTS, Manager of H. D. Roberts & Co., 
Galion, Michigan, was born January 23, 1867, and has been 
in the coal business for fifteen years. 

WM. H. L. ROHDE, retail coal merchant of Ann Arbor, 
Michigan, was born January 30, 1872. in Ann Arbor, and has 
been in the coal business since May 1, 1906. The business 
was established by his father, Louis Rohde, in 1878. 

LOUIS E. SCHNORBACH, a member of the firm of Otto 
Langkawel & Co., Muskegon, Michigan, was born April 25. 
1879. at Muskegon and has been in the coal business for the 
last tliree years. 

HENRY W. SCHWANNECKE, proprietor of the Genesee 
Coal Co., Saginaw, Michigan, was born June 7, 1880, in 
Saginaw and has been in the coal business fourteen years. 
He has served as Secretary and Treasurer of the Saginaw 
Coal Dealers Exchange Mr. Schwanneoke operates three 
retail yards and does a large business. 

W. H. SEEDORFF, retail coal merchant of Battle Creek, 
Michigan, was born April 5, 1874, at Kalamazoo, Michigan, 
and has been in the coal business for seventeen years. Be- 
fore going into the business for himself he was associated 
with F. A. "Ward and W. A. Wattles. 

EDGAR MoMARTIN SERGEANT, retail coal merchant of 
Kalamazoo, Michigan, was born in 1877 in Kalamazoo and 
has been in the coal business for seven years. He has served 
as President of Kalamazoo Carbon Club. 

W. H. SHELDON, proprietor of Sheldon Bros., Climax, 
Michigan, was born in Climax in 1860 and has been in the 
coal business for over thirty years, having erected the first 
coal sheds in Climax. 

WILLIAM SIMPSON, retail coal merchant of Saginaw, 
Michigan, was born September 26, 1866, in Saginaw and has 
Iseen in the coal business fifteen years. 

EARLE BERRIDGE SLAWSON, retail coal merchant of 
Greenville, Michigan, was born in Greenville June 17, 1875, 
and has been in the coal business twelve years. 

W. J. SLOSS of W. J. Sloss & Son, Big Rapids, Michigan, 
was born in 1856 at Dearborn, Michigan, and has been in 
the coal business for thirty-five years. R. W. Sloss is his 
partner. 

ISAAC M. SMITH, retail coal merchant of Marcellus, 
Michigan, was born March 5, 1852, near Beaver Springs, 
Pennsylvania, and has been in the coal business for twenty- 
five years. 

PERLEY M. SMITH, retail coal merchant of Alma, Michi- 
gan, was born in 1850 in Massachusetts and has been in the 
coal business for over thirty years. 

Vl^ILLIAM H. SMITH, proprietor of the Constantine Lum- 
ber Co., Constantine, Michigan, was born October 5, 1864, at 
Milton, Pennsylvania, and has been in the business ten years. 

CLAUDE R. SPARKS, Manager C. R. Sparks &• Co. of 
Berrien Springs, Michigan, was born January 27, 1875, and 
has been in the coal business for fifteen years. 

F. B. SPEAR, senior member of F. B. Spear & Sons, Mar- 
quette, Michigan, was born September 16, 1842, in Hamilton, 
New York, and has been in the coal business fifty-four 
years. Mr. Spear has the distinction of having brought 
the first anthracite, the first cargo of Pittsburgh coal, and 
the first cargo of Pocahontas coal to Marquette county. 

FRED G. STEGGALL of the City Fuel & Supply Co., 
Bay City, Micliigan, has been in the retail coal business for 
four years, and previous to that spent sixteen years with 
the Wenona Coal & Mining" Co. 

FRANK A. STEVENSON, prominent retail coal merchant 
of Adrian, Michigan, was born April 12, 1852, in Jordan, New 
York, and has been in the coal business tliirty-eight years. 



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WIl.IilAM C. STKRI.ING. senior member of W. C. Ster- 
ling- t>i Sons, Monroe, Mii'liisan. was born September 7, 
1S49. in Monroe, and has been in tlie coal business forty- 
nine years. This firm is the oldest coal concern in Michi- 
gan, having been started by J. M. Sterling- in 1S47, seventy- 
one years a.go. Mr. Sterling- was intei'ested in the first 
sailing vessel plying between Monroe and Buffalo. He 
assisted in building the first railroad in Michigan between 
Monroe and Adrian and owned the first grain elevator in 
the state. There have been four generations of the Sterling 
family connected with the business. W. C. Sterling, senior, 
joined his father in ISG"; W. C. Sterling, Jr., joined his 
father in 18!12, and Joe C. Sterling, II., has been with the 
firm during the past year. 

R. 3IARVi:V STOA'E, Secretary-Treasurer Corlett-Stone 
Lumber Co., Three Rivers, Michigan, was born September 
11, 1878, in Milford, Missouri, and has been in the coal 
business nine years. 

C. E. STl'.ART, Manager of Swartzniiller & Stuart of 
Chesaning, Michigan, was born July 2, 1864, in Michigan, 
and has been in the coal business for the past ten years. 

AVILLI.VM F. SI'MMERRILL of the W. F. SummerriU Coal . 
Co., Benton Harbor, Michigan, was born September 17, 1861, 
in Kosciusko County, Indiana, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for four years. 

RICH.\RD C. SliPERNAVV, General Manager Supernaw 
Produce i^t Fuel Co., East Jordan, Michigan, was born 
April 16, 1877, in Ellingburg, New York, and has been in 
the coal business for six years. 

JAMES O. TAFT, retail coal merchant of Howell, Michi- 
gan, was born .April 2, 1860, in Oceola, Livingston County, 
Michigan, and has been in the retail coal business thirty- 
si.N: years. 

AVILLIAM P. THOMPSON, retail coal and lumber merchant 
of Augusta, Michigan, was born December 26, 1859, in New 
Tork State, and has been in the coal business for eighteen 
years. 

E. J. TOUSIGNAT, retail coal merchant of Ontonagon. 
Michigan, was born November 14, 1885, in Canada, and 
has been in the coal business for five years. He was for- 
merly with the M. Van Orden Co. of Houghton, Michigan. 

B'REDERICK C. TR.AGER, retail coal merchant of Lan- 
sing, Michigan, was born April 21, 1872, at Bristol, Indiana, 
and has been in the retail coal business for ten years. 

JOHN HARTON TROWBRIDGE, retail coal merchant of 
Frankfort, Michigan, was born December 14, 1865, at Ev- 
ansville, Pennsylvania, and has been In the coal business 
fifteen years. 

WILLIAM J. TUNSTEAD, retail coal merchant of Ox- 
ford, Michigan, was born March 17, 1840, at Brantford, On- 
tario, and has been in the retail coal business for thirty- 
eight years. 

GEORGE R. TURNER, retail coal merchant of Sturgis, 
Michigan, was born June 29, 1857, and has been in the coal 
business eight years as successor to Joseph R. Cook, de- 
ceased. 

JAMES ROBINSON TURNER, Sales Manager Reliance- 
Jellico Coal Sales Agency at Kalamazoo, Michigan, with a 
branch office at Wellston, Ohio, was born February 20, 1858, 
in Boone County, Kentucky, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness twenty-three years. Mr. Turner is a Director and 
stockholder in the Vinton Mining Co., McArthur, Ohio. 

EZRA R. TYUER, well known retail coal merchant of 
Saugatuck, Michigan, was born In 1842 in Rochester, New 
York, and has been in the coal business for over twenty- 
one years. 

LEWIS C. UPSON. President Belding Coal & Ice Co., Beld- 
ing, Michigan, was born April 11, 1869, at Otsego, Michigan, 
and has been in the coal business for ten years. 

C. W^. UPTON, retail coal merchant of Rochester, Michi- 
gan, was born August 4, 1862, at Utica, Michigan, and has 
been in the coal business for the past twelve years. 

CORNELIUS VANDELAARE of the Kalamazoo Ice & Fuel 
Co., Kalamazoo. Michigan, was born January 23, 1886, 
and has been in the coal business for twelve years. He -was 
with his father before selling out to the present company. 

AUGUSTUS B. A'AN DE MARK, Manager A. B. Van 
DeMark & Co., Clinton, Michigan, was born March 28, 1842, 
in Phelps, New York, and has sold and handled coal for 
forty-seven years. He sold the first anthracite that was ever 
shipped into his city for domestic use. 

FRANK L. VAN ORDEN, Vice President and General 
Manager The M. Van Orden Co.. Houghton, Michigan, for 
eighteen years followed mining engineering and for the 
last three years has been actively engaged in looking after 
his father's company. 

MATHEW VAN ORDEN, President The M. Van Orden Co., 
Houghton, Michigan, was born October 28, 1845, in New York 
City, and has been actively engaged in the coal and building 
supply business for more than forty-five years. 



RICHARD VINCENT, Secretary and Manager of The Peo- 
ples Fuel Co., Calumet, Michigan, was born June 5, 1872, at 
Hancock, Michigan, and has been in the coal business for 
over twenty-two years, 

II.\RRY G. W'ARD, President AVard Lumber & Coal Co., 
Big- Rapids, Michigan, was born August 30, 1860, at Holland 
Patent, New York, and has been in the coal business for 
twelve years. H. .1. Ward is Vice President and F. M. Ward 
Secretary and Treasurer. 

LOUIS D. WALL.\CE, President and Manager John Wal- 
lace Sons Co., St. Joseph, Michigan, was born in 1S64 at 
Chicago and has been in the coal business for over thirty 
years. 

ALBERT M. AVATSON, Manager of Huckleberry & Watson, 
Cadillac, Michigan, was > born January 13, 1883, at Spring 
Lake, Michigan, and has been in the coal business for t-welve 
years. The firm is composed of Edwin Watson and Albert 
M. Watson. 

LEE WATSON, Secretary and Manager of Crawford & 
Co., coal merchants of Breckenridge, Michigan, has been in 
the coal business for eighteen years. 

JOHN NELSON "WEAVER, senior member of Weaver & 
Watkins, Milford, Michigan, was born April 4, 1844, at 
Green Oak, Michigan, and has been in the coal business for 
thirty-one years. This firm has continued without a 
change for forty years. 

L. J. WEBER, Manager Corlett-Stone Lumber Co., Cen- 
terville, Michigan, was born October 21, 1SS3, in St. Joseph 
County, Michigan, and has been in the coal business for the 
past two years. 

NORMAN W. WELLS of the Consumers Fuel Co., Petos- 
key, Michigan, was born October 23, 1882, at Boston, Massa- 
chusetts, and has been in the coal business for five years. 
He is also Manager of the Petoskey & Bay Shore Gas Co. 

E. ARTHUR Vl'ESTON, retail coal merchant of Traverse 
City, Michigan, was born June 10, 1870, at Jefferson County, 
Ne-w York, and has been in the coal business for ten years. 

JAS. A. WHITE of the City Fuel & Supply Co., Bay City, 
Michigan, was born January 30, 1883, at Detroit, Michigan, 
and has been in the coal business for eight years. 

H. W. WIDDIFIELD, retail coal merchant of Charlevoix, 
Michigan, was born in 1859 in Ontario. Canada, and has 
been in the coal business for twelve years. 

R. M. WIEGANDT, proprietor of West Side Fuel Co., 
Lansing, Michigan, was born December 23, 1879, at Rogers 
City, Michigan, and has been in the coal business for two 
years. 

ARTHUR S. W^ILLIAMS, Manager A. S. Williams & Co., 
Bay City, Michigan, was born July 13, 1880, at Bay City, and 
has been in the coal business for eighteen years. He has 
served as President of the Bay City Coal Exchange for two 
years. 

FREDERICK I. AVILLIAMS, Manager F. I. Williams & 
Son, North Adams, Michigan, was born July 21, 1866, and 
has been in the coal business for ten years. Howard A. 
W^illiams is junior member of the firm, having been born 
February 20, 1893. 

DANIEL T. WILSON, Manager of D. T. Wilson Fuel, Feed 
& Seed Co., Battle Creek, Michigan, was born April 22, 1862, 
in Greenville, Michigan, and has been in the coal business 
seven years. 

SAMtTEL M. WINNE, retail coal merchant of Petoskey, 
Michigan, was born in 1854 in Otsego, New York, and has 
been in business twenty years. 

ALBERT F. WOODHAMS, President Woodhams Toland 
Co., Kalamazoo, Michigan, was born June 28, 1848, in Kala- 
mazoo and has been in the coal business since 1892 wnth 
the exception of six years. He has served as Vice President 
of the Michigan Retail Coal Dealers' Association and has 
also been President of the Kalamazoo Carbon Club. 

WILLIAM R. WITHWELL, President The Sunfield Lumber 
Co., Sunfield, Michigan, was born January 23, 1857, in Roch- 
ester, New York, and has been in the coal business five j'ears. 

EMERSON SCOTT AVOODS, Manager H. J. Woods & 
Sons, Plymouth, Michigan, was born June 9, 1888, at Pinne- 
bog, Michigan, and has been in the coal business five years. 

D. L. W^ORTHINGTON, retail coal merchant of Mendon, 
Michigan, was born May 16, 1859, and has been in the 
coal business for ten years. 

A. E. YOUNG, retail coal merchant of Ravenna, Michigan, 
was born March 31, 1886, in Ravenna, and has Ijeen in the 
coal business for the past ten years. 

V. F. YOUNGS, retail coal merchant of Jackson, Michigan, 
was born in 1856 in Hillsdale County, Michigan, and has 
been in the coal business for twelve years. 

H. P. ZWEMER, retail coal merchant of Holland, Michi- 
gan, was born at Saugatuck December 14, 1874, and has 
been in the coal business for sixteen years. He has served 
as President of the Coal Association of Holland. 



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MINNESOTA 



ALTHOUGH Minnesota produces no coal within 
its borders its geographic position as the gate- 
way to tJie great Northwest and its rich iron ore 
deposits — the iitiUzation of which are, as a practical 
economic proposition, so closely interwoven with and 
dependent upon the movement of coal to the Head of 
the Lakes — give it an importance that robs its modest 
per capita and square mile consumption statistics of 
much of their significance. Stretching to the north, the 
west and, to a considerable extent, to the south is a 
broad area, largely agricultural, but dotted with well- 
known towns and cities, where the climatic conditions 
throughout the winter and during the spring and fall 
demand a heavy consumption of fuel for household com- 
fort. To a large degree this necessity in normal times 
is supplied by coal from the Pennsylvania anthracite 
and eastern bituminous fields and by far the major por- 
tion of this tonnage is ex-lake, flowing through the 
magnificent docks at Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, 
Wisconsin. The vessels that bring this tonnage up the 
lakes from the lower Lake Erie ports receive return 
loadings of ore and grain. 

If state lines may be overlooked and Superior con- 
sidered, as it is in actual commercial practice, a part 
of Minnesota, the docks at the Twin Ports offer the 
coal shipper in the East a combined storage capacity of 
approximately 11,000,000 tons. Figures published in 
'•The Eetail Coalman" in March, 1918, showed that 
the principal docks at Duluth had an aggregate storage 
capacity suflicient to take care of 330,000 tons of an- 
thracite and 4,239,000 tons of bituminous coal, and 
that the aggregate storage capacity of the Superior 
docks was 767,000 tons of anthracite and 5,502.000 tons 
of bituminous coal. Government statistics for 1915, 1916 
and 1917 show the following receipts during the season 
of navigation; 1915 — anthracite, 1,687,726 tons; bitum- 
inous coal, 6,656,237 tons; 1916— anthracite, 1,413,713 
tons; bituminous coal. 8,171,524 tons; 1917— anthra- 



cite, 1,823,799 tons; bituminous coal, 9,238,784 tons. 
During the same period the combined anthracite and 
bituminous shipments from Duluth and Superior to 
interior points were as follows: _ 1915, 251,842 car- 
loads; 1916, 312,845 carloads; 1917, 267,067 carloads. 
While chief reliance is placed upon the movement of 
ex-lake fuel from the East it is not to be inferred that 
the Northwest is blind to the coal-producing states lying- 
nearer home. The contrary is true. Minnesota has 
drawn heavily upon Illinois and Indiana — and particu- 
larly the former state — for fuel, and Minnesota business 
has been sought with eagerness by operators in the 
states named. The Twin Cities industrial district in 
particular and the territory lying south and west of 
that district in general have been bitter battle grounds 
in the struggle for supremacy between all-rail coal 
moving from the Illinois mines and Eastern coal mov- 
ing through the docks at the Head of the Lakes. Last 
year the combined Illinois and Indiana commercial ton- 
nage placed in the Twin Cities district reached 889,654 
tons, while shipments into the state as a whole aggre- 
gated 1,838,734 tons. 

In 1915 the per capita consumption in Minnesota 
was 3.22 tons (2.48 tons bituminous coal and .74 ton 
anthracite). Consumption per square mile was 89 
tons. The total consumption for the state was 7,506,- 
568 tons, of which 1,670,000 tons were Penns3dvania 
anthracite and 5,836,568 tons bituminous coal. Of the 
total bituminous consumption, 3,793,000 tons, or nearly 
65 per cent, was ex-lake coal. Illinois mines ranked 
next in importance, furnishing 1,334,330 tons. Contri- 
butions from other coal producing states were as fol- 
lows: Arkansas, 5,372 tons; Indiana, 72,934; Iowa, 
12,557; Kentucky, 345,333; Ohio, 65,094; Pennsyl- 
vania, 120,244; Virginia, 47,000; West Virginia, 40,- 
704 tons. These figures, of course, are for all-rail move- 
ment and exclude the ex-lake fuel coming from Peun- 
svlvania. West Virginia and Ohio. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



FLOUR CITY FUEL & TRANSFER CO., 

Minneapolis, Minn. 



Twenty years ago J. D. Ekstrum, who for three years 
had served honorably as sergeant of police at Minne- 
apolis, Minnesota, and who had amassed as savings the 
modest capital of $100, determined to enter business 
for himself. With N". L. Johnson as a partner this 
little capital was invested in a snpply of cordwood and 




J. D. EKSTRUM, 

President Flour City Fuel & Transfer Co., 

Minneapolis, Minnesota. 



thus began the history of the Flour City Fuel & Transfer 
Co., which now has a capital of $300,000 and is one 
of the notable successes in the retail coal trade of Amer- 
ica. Mr. Ekstrum attributes this success in great 
measure to the sincere endeavors of the company to 
please every patron. This of course involved much hard 



work. The demands of the people had to be studied 
and when determined prompt delivery and other factors 
entered into the problems of the growing concern. The 
company was incorporated with a capital of $100,000 
in 1911 and this was increased to $300,000 in 1915. 

The activities of the company broadened rapidly 
through the twenty years which measure its distinctive 
career. Wholesale and retail coal and wood comprise 
l)ut one of its activities. Fireproof storage facilities con- 
stitute one of its great achievements. The company 
is at present operating about sixteen offices and eight 
yards in Minneapolis. In its coal department it uses 
about thirty trucks and sixty teams. J^early 200,- 
000 tons of coal are distributed annually in the com- 
pany's retail business at Minneapolis. Its wholesale aiid 
.]ol>bing trade exceeds 100,000 tons annualW. 

The officers of the Flour City Fuel & Transfer Co. 
include the following: J. D. Ekstrum, President and 
General Manager ; N. L. Johnson, Treasurer and Assist- 
ant General Manager: F. Warde Smith, A^ice President 
and Manager Sales ; John Olson, Vice President ; H. E. 
Johnson, Secretary; A. J. Huotte, Assistant Secretary 
and Credit Manager; August Kallberg, Superintendent 
of Garage and Automobile Department; A. F. Kelson, 
Superintendent of Yards; C. E. Ekstrum, Superintend- 
ent of Shops and Equipment. 

Mr. F. Warde Smith, Sales Alanager, has been con- 
nected with the company only four years but in that 
time has materially increased the tonnage and is con- 
sidered one of the best sales managers in the city. 

Mr. ]Sr. L. Johnson, Treasurer, is also Treasurer and 
Manager of the Powers Fuel, Transfer & Storage Co. 

Mr. John Olson, Vice President of the company, is 
not active in the coal business but is interested from an 
investment point of view. 

The main office of the company is located at 40 West 
Lake Street, Minneapolis. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





WILLIAM FRANKLIN ALDENDERFER, Minneapolis, 

North Western Sales Agent Lehigh Valley Coal Sales Co., 
Minneapolis, Minnesota, was born August 22, 1872, in 
Dakota, Illinois, and has been in the coal business twenty- 
two years. Before being promoted to his present position 
Mr. Aldenderfer served as Chief Clerk of the Lehigh Valley 
Coal Co. at St. Paul, and previously as Cashier of the Lehigh 
Valley Coal Co. at Chicago. 



TRUMAN H. CLARK, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 

North Western Sales Manager of Berwind Fuel Co., Ply- 
mouth Building, Minneapolis, Minnesota, was born October 
12, 1887, in St. Paul, Minnesota, and has been in the coal 
business four years. Before entering the coal business Mr. 
Clark was with the North Western Railroad. 





ARCH COLEMAN, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 

President City Fuel Co., McKnight Building, Minneapolis, 
Minnesota, is one of the progressive retail coal merchants 
of the Northwest. He was born May 29, 1877, in Detroit, 
Michigan, and has been in the coal business since Novem- 
ber 13, 1896. Mr. Coleman is highly respected and has an 
unusally large number of warm friends in the coal trade. 
He served as Imperial Modoc of the Order KoKoal and has 
held numerous other positions of honor in the trade. Be- 
fore organizing his present company he was connected 
witli the Pioneer Fuel Co.. The Weaver Coal & Coke Co., 
and The St. Paul & Western Coal Co. 



HARRIS P. GAGNON, Minneapolis, 9Iinnesota, 

Vice President The Elliott Fuel Co., 120 South Fifth St., 
Minneapolis, Minnesota, was born January 24, 1878, at 
Marinette, Wisconsin, and has been in the coal business 
for seventeen years. He was formerly with the Pittsburgh 
Coal Co. and the North Western Fuel Co. Mr. Gagnon has 
served as chairman of the improvement committee of Min- 
neapolis and St. Paul track dealers. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





I. C. CUVELLIER, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 

Editor and publisher of tlie "Coal Dealer," Lumber Ex- 
change, Minneapolis, Minnesota, was born July 5, 1860, in 
Holland. Mr. Cuvellier was connected with the "W. W. Car- 
gill Co. in the retail coal business twenty-two years and es- 
tablished his paper for the coal dealers of the Northwest 
thirteen years ago. He is a man who has the courage of 
his convictions and has many warm friends throughout 
the Northwest. 



WILLIAM RICHARD CUVELLIER, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 

Assistant Manager of the "Coal Dealer," Lumber Exchange, 
Minneapolis, Minnesota, was born in 1888 at La Crosse, 
Wisconsin, and has been associated with his father in 
publication of the "Coal Dealer" for the past eleven years. 





WILLIAM H. GODWIIV, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 

Manager of Sales of the Carnegie Dock & Fuel Co., 
First National-Soo Line Building, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 
was born July 25, 1868, at Montreal, Canada, and has been 
in the coal business for twenty years. Mr. Godwin was 
formerly connected with the Ohio Coal Co., The Pittsburgh 
Coal Co., the Clarkson Coal & Dock Co., and the Berwind 
Fuel Co. 



WILLIAM P. HALLOWELL, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 

Vice President and Treasurer of the Holmes & Hallowell Co., 
Plymouth Building, Minneapolis, Minnesota, was born No- 
vember 30, 186.3, at Germantown, Pennsylvania, and has 
been in the coal business for thirty years. Before organ- 
izing his present company Mr. Hallowell was formerly 
connected with tlie North Western Fuel Co., H. W. Arm- 
strong Co., Youghioghenv & Lehigh Coal Co., and the Holmes 
& McCaughy Coal Co. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





HERBERT L. LAIRD, Minneaitolis, Minnesota, 

Secretary and Treasurer North "Western Traffic and Service 
Bureau, Minneapolis, Minnesota, was born January 19, 1871, 
in Colo, Iowa, and has been connected with the coal trade 
twelve years, as Secretary of the Iowa and Nebraska Coal 
Dealers' Association and of the North Western Retail Coal 
Dealers' Association, which three years ago was merged 
into the North Western Traffic and Service Bureau. Mr. 
Laird is popular in the trade. He was for a number of 
years engaged in an official capacity in railroad work. 



GARDINER H. REEVES, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 

President The Reeves Coal Co., Minneapolis. Minnesota, 
was born January 27, 1863, in Bradford, Maine, and has 
been in the coal business twenty-eight years. Mr. 
Reeves has a wide acquaintance in the coal trade of the 
Northwest, having formerly been connected with the Le- 
high Valley Coal Co. and later for several years Secretary 
and Treasurer of the North Western Retail Coal Dealers' 
Association. 





JOHN H. SESSIONS, Minneapolis, 3Iinnesota. 

North Western Sales Agent of the Philadelphia & Reading 
Coal & Iron Co. at Minneapolis, Minnesota, was born No- 
vember 6, 1848, at Randolph, Vermont, and has been in 
the coal business for twenty-five years. Mr. Sessions is one 
of the best known and most highly respected coal men in 
the Northwest. 



CHARI>ES L. SAVAIN, 3Iinneai>oIis, Minnesota, 

President and Treasurer Swain-Farmer Co., Minneapolis, 
was born November 20, 1S70, in Northfield, Minnesota, and 
has been in the coal business for twenty-five years. Mr. 
Swain was formerly with H. L. Swain & Co. and the Swain 
Fuel & Transfer Co.. before organizing his present concern. 
He started in a small way .and has been successful in build- 
ing up a splendid retail business. 



174 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





AVORIIEL.L Cl-ARKSON, St. Paul, Minnesota, 

President Clarkson Coal & Dock Co.. President Clarkson 
Coal Mining- Co., and President Peoples Coal & Ice Co., St. 
Paul, Minnesota, was born February 12, 1870, in Middletown, 
Delaware, and has been in the coal business twenty-seven 
years. Mr. Clarkson is one of the well-known and progres- 
sive coal men in the Northwest. He was formerly in the 
retail business at Duluth and later with the Lehigh Valley 
Coal Co., before forming his present company, which has 
enjoyed a most successful grow"th. 



EDWARD IVELSOiV SAUNDERS, JR., St. Paul, Minnesota, 

President North Western Fuel Co., St. Paul, Minnesota, 
was born July 15, 1877, at St. Paul, and has been in the coal 
business for the past eighteen years. Mr. Saunders is the 
head of one of the most important dock companies in the 
Northwest, and is also interested in the Lorain Coal & 
Dock Co., and the Spring Valley Coal Co. 





HENRY EDWIN SMITH, St. Paul, Minnesota, 

Vice President of the M. A. Hanna Coal & Dock Co., St. 
Paul, Minnesota, was born in November, 1868, at St. Paul, 
and has been in the coal business for the past thirty years. 
Mr. Smith is one of the best known coal men in the North- 
west and was formerly connected with the North Western 
Fuel Co. He has served as President of North Western Coal 
Dock Operators Association and on the advisory board of 
the National Coal Association. 



A\^II,L,IAM WALLACE CHAPMAN, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 

President North West Coal Supply Co., Plymouth Building, 
Minneapolis, Minnesota, was born April 5, 1865, at Tama 
City, Iowa, and has been in the coal business a quarter of 
a century. Mr. Chapman has a wide acquaintance in the 
coal trade through the Northwest. He was formerly with 
the Ohio Coal Co., The Lehigh Valley Coal Co. and the 
Pittsburgh Coal Co. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





JAMES ATKINSON FERGUSON, Duluth, Minnesota, 

Northern Sales Agent Pittsburg-h Coal Co., Duluth, Minne- 
sota, was born October 29, 1S57, in New Brunswick, Canada, 
and has been in the coal business thirty-three years. Mr. 
Ferguson was President of the Pioneer Fuel Co. during its 
early connection with the Pittsburgh Coal Co., and at that 
time became Northern Sales Agent of the latter company 
with offices at Duluth, covering the territories of Northwest 
Wisconsin, Northern Minnesota and Western Canada. 



FRED EUGENE AVOLVIN, Duluth, Minnesota, 

Sales Agent and Manager Local Agency, Carnegie Dock & 
Fuel Co., Duluth, Minnesota, was born August 28, 1890, at 
Duluth, Minnesota, and has been in the coal business for 
two years. Mr. Wolvin is one of the progressive younger 
coal men at the Head of the Lakes. 



176 



COAL ^FEN OF AAFI^.RICA 



MINNESOTA — Minneapolis 



BAR\EY A.NOEKSKX, proprietor Barney Andersen Co., 
retail coal merchants of Minneapolis. Minnesota, was 
born June 4. 18C8, in Norway, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for twenty-two years. He has held the office of Treas- 
urer, Vice President and President of tlie Minneapolis Re- 
tail Coal Dealers Association. He is a member of several 
fraternal organizations and has served as County Commis- 
sioner of Hennepin County, Minnesota. 

KIDOI.PH S. N. Ul-OCK, North Western Sales Agent Big 
Creek Colliery Co., Minneapolis. Minnesota, was born Febru- 
ary 4, 18S7, in Manistee, Michigan, and has been in the 
ooal business ten years. He was formerly connected with 
the National Mining Co. and the Harrisburg Southern 
Coal Co. 

HERBERT AVALTOX BROAVER, Representative of the 
Chicago, ■\Vilniington & Franklin Coal Co., in charge of the 
Minneapolis office, was born March 22, 1873, in Rochester, 
New York, and has been in the coal business eighteen years. 
He was formerly connected with the Lehigh Valley Coal 
Co.. Williams & Peters, and the Pennsylvania Coal & 
Supply Co. 

THOMAS A". COLiLINS, Resident Manager M. A. Hanna 
Coal & Dock Co., Minneapolis, Minnesota, was born Feb- 
ruary 14, 1872, at "Worthington, Iowa, and has been in the 
coal business for twenty-five years. Mr. Collins has a 
large personal acquaintance and many warm friends in 
the coal trade. He was formerly connected with the Silver 
Creek & Morris Coal Co.. Philadelphia & Reading Coal 
& Iron Co., and the S. C. Schenck Co. 

THOMAS F. DANAHER, Salesman for the Chicago, Wil- 
mington & Franklin Coal Co. at Minneapolis, Minnesota, 
was born August 30, 1885, at White Lake, South Dakota, 
and has been in the coal business for three years. He was 
formerly with the Clarkson Coal & Dock Co. 

.1. D. EKSTRUM, President and General Manager Flour 
City Fuel & Transfer Co., 40 West Lake St., Minneapolis, 
Minnesota, was born September 14, 1873, in Sweden, and 
has been in the coal business twenty years. 

ARX'OLD V. FICKEL,, Salesman for the Taylor Coal Co., 
2728 Bloomington Ave., Minneapolis, Minnesota, was born 
December 25, 1887, at Minneapolis, and has been in the coal 
business for sixteen years. He was formerly connected 
with the M. A. Hanna Coal Co., Pittsburgh Coal Co., and 
the Pittsburgh & Ashland Coal & Dock Co. 

MORRIS P. HANSON, Sales Agent The C. Reiss Coal Co., 
Minneapolis. Minnesota, was born May 8, 1866, in Den- 
mark, and has been in the coal business for nineteen years. 

WIM.IAM T. HOPKINS, Manager of Sales of the Swain- 
Farmer Coal Co., Minneapolis, Minnesota, was born August 
7. 1S79. at Stratford. Ontario, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for seventeen years. He was formerly connected with 
the Jones & Adams Co., St. Paul & "Western Coal Co., and 
the City Fuel Co., and is very popular in trade circles. 

ANTHONY J. HIOTTE, Assistant Secretary and Credit 
Manager Flour City Fuel & Transfer Co., Minneapolis, Min- 
nesota, was born December 25, 1876, in Chippewa Falls, 
Wisconsin, and has been in the coal business twenty- 
four years. He was formerly connected with the Ohio 
Coal Co. and the C. Reiss Coal Co. 

HENRY ERNST JOHNSON, Secretary Flour City Fuel 
& Transfer Co., 3700 Blaisdell Ave., Minneapolis, Minnesota, 
was born September 22, 1882, at Waseca County, Minnesota. 
and has been in the coal business for the last seven years. 

N. L,. JOHNSON, Treasurer and Assistant General Mana- 
ger of the Flour City Fuel & Transfer Co., 3221 Pillsbury 
St., Minneapolis, Minnesota, was born March 13, 1873, in 
Sweden, and has been in the coal business for the last 
eighteen years. 

EDWARD STILI.MAN KENDRICK. JR,, President Ken- 
drick Coal & Dock Co., Chamber of Corrimerce Building, 
Minneapolis, Minnesota, was born April 12, 1886, in New 
York City, and has been in the coal business twelve 
years. He was formerly Sales Manager for the Berwind 
Fuel Co. of Minneapolis, Minnesota. 

EDGAR AV. KLINE, a salesman of the Reliance Coal Co., 
Minneapolis, Minnesota, was born October 30, 1880, at Byron, 
Illinois, and has been in the coal business for the last 
twenty years. He was formerly w^ith the Lehigh Valley 
Coal Co., The S. C. Schenck Coal Co., and the Carnegie 
Dock & Fuel Co. of Minneapolis. 

OI,IA'ER J. MESSER, proprietor Plymouth Fuel & 
Lumber Co., Minneapolis, Minnesota, was born in Ohio and 
has been in the coal business for nearly twenty years. 

OSCAR H. OLSEN, Resident Manager The Northern Coal 
& Dock Co.. Minneapolis, Minnesota, was born March 
30, 1885, at Minneapolis, and has been in the coal business 
for fifteen years. Mr. Olsen was formerly connected with 
the Sunday Creek Co. and the Pittsburgh Coal Co. 



JAMES R. rillM.nvs, Xurlh Western Sales Agent C. M. 
Moderwell & Co., Minneapolis, Minnesota, was born August 
16, 1876, at Carson City, Nevada, and has been in the coal 
business for the past nineteen years. He was formerly 
connected with the Holmes & Hallowell Co. and the Clark 
Coal & Coke Co. 

ERNE.ST f. PRATT, member of firm of Pratt Bros, and 
General Manager of Reliance Coal Co., Minneapolis, Minne- 
sota, was born June 1, 1869, in Minneapolis, and has been 
in the coal business thirteen years. Mr. Pratt is also 
President of the Dakota Coal Co., Director of the Western 
Coal-& Coke Co. of Montana, and Secretary and a Director 
of the Nason Coal Co., Chicago, and was formerly connected 
witli tlie Zeisler Coal Co.. Ziegler District Colliery Co., and 
the Purity Coal Co. Before that he was for four years 
editor of the "Black Diamond." 

GEORGE H. ROSENQUIST, proprietor of the G. H. Rosen- 
quist Fuel & Transfer Co., Minneapolis. Minnesota, was 
born April 11, 1876, at Minneapolis, and has been in the 
coal business for eighteen years. 

ARTHUR A\I1,1,IAM SAUNDERS, General Agent for Min- 
neapolis of the North Western Fuel Co., was born January 
4, 1881, at Cleveland, Ohio, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness with this company for thirteen years. 

R. W. C. SHULU, Treasurer J. & W. C. Shull, Minneap- 
olis, Minnesota, was born January 7, 1886, in Sac City, 
Iowa, and has been in the coal business ten years. This 
company is one of the largest owners of retail coal and 
lumber yards in the Northwest. 

F. AVARDE SMITH, Vice President and Manager Sales 
Flour City Fuel & Transfer Co., 40 West Lake St., Minne- 
apolis, Minnesota, was born August 17, 1880, in Kokomo, 
Indiana, and has been in the coal business eleven years. 
Mr. Smith was formerly connected with the Berwind Fuel 
Co. and the Clarkson Coal & Dock Co. 

AVALTER E. STILL, Sales Agent Zenith Furnace Co., 
Minneapolis, Minnesota, was born June 25, 1879, in Chicago, 
Illinois, and has been in the coal business fourteen years. 
He was formerly with Coxe Bros. & Co. 

E. Q,. STONE, retail coal inerchant, Minneapolis, Minne- 
sota, was born May 22, 1854, in Vermont and has been in the 
coal business for thirty-five years. Mr. Stone served for 
three years as President of the Minneapolis Fuel Dealers 
Association and one year as a Director of the North West- 
ern Retail Coal Dealers Association. 

FRANK K. SULLIA^AN, President and Treasurer Sullivan 
Coal Co., Minneapolis, Minnesota, was born April 6, 1866, at 
Ulster, Pennsylvania, and has been in the coal business for 
thirty years. Mr. Sullivan was for ten years with the Taylor 
Coal Co. of Minneapolis and then engaged in business for 
himself which has enjoyed a steady growth. Mr. Sullivan 
has always taken an active interest in association work and 
was President of the local association for several years and 
has been a Director of the North Western Retail Coal Deal- 
ers Association. 

DEI.MAR AUGUSTUS TURNER, Salesman Chicago, Wil- 
mington & Franklin Coal Co., 1025 6th Ave., South, Minne- 
apolis, Minnesota, -was born November 3, 1896, in New York 
City and ha.T been in the coal business for the past two years. 

AV. R. TUTTLE, Secretary Tuttle Coal Co., Minneapolis, 
Minnesota, was born July 13, 1881, in Hastings, Minnesota, 
and has been in the coal business ten years. He was for- 
merly connected with the Bervs^ind Fuel Co. 



MINNESOTA — St. Paul 



SY^LVESTER BRAND, well-known retail coal merchant 
of St. Paul, Minnesota, was born January 31, 1857, and has 
been in the coa.l business for the past thirty-three years. 
Mr. Brand has served as President of the St. Paul Retail 
Coal Dealers Association for several years. 

RICHARD A. CARRINGTON, Superintendent of Yards 
North Western Fuel Co.. St. Paul, Minnesota, was born at 
Richmond, Virginia, and has been in the coal business 
thirty-five years. 

FRED J. CROPSEA", Agent Carnegie Dock & Fuel Co., 
St. Paul, Minnesota, was born October 27, 1869, at Elgin, 
Illinois, and has been in the coal business for twenty-nine 
years. He was formerly connected ^vith the Pioneer Fuel 
Co. and the Pittsburgh Coal Co. 

GEORGE A. DORAN, part owner F. B. Doran & Co., 2d 
and Wabasha Sts., St. Paul, Minnesota, was born August 
18, 1867, in McHenry County, Illinois, and has been in the 
coal business since 1888. This business was started in 
1881 by F. B. Doran, who died in 1914. It is now con- 
ducted by George A. and his brother, C. B. Doran. 

RAY C. EVBRSON, Resident Manager Pittsburgh Coal Co., 
St. Paul, Minnesota, was born October 13, 1891, at Minne- 
apolis, Minnesota, and has been in the coal business for 
the past ten years, the entire time with this company. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



FUI.IiER AV. FOOSHE, Secretary Citizens Ice & Fuel Co., 
St. Paul, Minnesota, was born January 29, 1S75, in Coronaca, 
South Carolina. Mr. Fooshe has been in the coal business 
for the past eleven years. 

BENJAMIIV GORHAM, Vice President and General Sales 
Agent of the North Western Fuel Co., St. Paul, Minnesota, 
was born July 8, 1872, at Austin, Minnesota, and has been 
In the coal business for the past thirty years. 

DONALD A. HTJTCHISOIV, Local Manager Great Lakes 
Coal & Dock Co.. St. Paul. Minnesota, was born August 
27, 1882, at Montreal, Canada, and has been in the coal 
business for sixteen years. He was formerly with the 
Holmes & Hallowell Co., The Vanderwarker Coal Co., and 
the Citizens Ice & Fuel Co. 

ALBERT .JOHN NASON, President Nokomis Coal Co. and 
Secretary and Treasurer of the Osage Coal Co., 502 Peoples 
Bank Building, St. Paul, Minnesota, was born June 1, 1878, in 
Smitlifield. Pennsylvania, and has been in tlie coal business 
over ten years. 

MINNESOTA — Duluth 

A. J. ANDERSON, retail coal merchant of Duluth, Minne- 
sota, was born June 16, 1863, in Sweden and has been in t»ie 
coal business for twenty-five years. 

ALBERT E. BOTSFORD, Superintendent of the M. A. 
Hanna Coal & Dock Co., Duluth, Minnesota, was born in 
1859 at Madison, Wisconsin, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for over thirty-five years. He was formerly connected 
with the Pioneer Fuel Co. and the Pittsburgh Coal Co. 

A. C. JONES, Director of the North Western Fuel Co., 
Duluth, Minnesota, was born January 11, 1845, in St. Louis, 
Missouri, and has been in the coal business for forty-three 
years, tlie entire time with this organization. Mr. Jones 
is also Vice President of tlie Stott Briquet Co. 

HENRY \V. NICHOLS, Manager North Land Coal Co., 
Duluth. Minnesota, was born Marcli IS. 1S70, in New Lisbon, 
Wisconsin, and has laeen in tlie coal business fifteen years. 

EDWARD P. RADFORD, Secretary and Purchasing Agent 
Northern Lumber & Coal Co., Duluth, Minnesota, was born 
July 5, 1891, In Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and has been in the 
coal business six years. He is also interested in the Radford 
& Wright Co. of Duluth, Oshkosh and Winnipeg, the Home 
Lumber Yards of Winnipeg and the Bertram-Wright Lum- 
ber Co. of Minneapolis, and was formerly connected with 
the Pittsburgh Coal Co. and the Hibbing Lumber Co. 

AXEL P. AVICK, Vice President and Treasurer of "Wick 
Bros., Duluth, Minnesota, was born November 20, 1882, at 
Peshtigo, Wisconsin, and has been in the coal business 
for five years. 

FRED AV. YOUNG, Vice President Clarkson Coal & Dock 
Co. at Duluth, Minnesota, was born in 1876 at River Falls, 
Wisconsin, and has been in the coal business for the last 
eleven years. 

MINNESOTA 

0. M. BOTSFORD. President Botsford Lumber Co. of Wi- 
nona, Minnesota, was born March 18, 1863, in Lake County, 
Illinois, and has been in the coal business for thirty-nine 
years. Mr. Botsford is one of the best known and most 
popular coal men in the Northwest. He was formerly con- 
nected with the Lalrd-Norton Co. 

CHAS. BROAVN, retail coal merchant of Red Wing, Minne- 
sota, was l^orn July 12, 1868, in Red Wing, and has been in 
the coal business for over twenty years. 

JOHN AVM. CAMPBELL, retail coal merchant of Fergus 
Falls, Minnesota, was born March 18, 1871, at Clyde, Min- 
nesota, and has been in the coal business for seven years. 

RALPH PETTIBONE CRANE, General Manager Crane 
Lumber Co., Austin, Minnesota, was born April 21, 1887, in 
Austin, Minnesota, and has been in the coal business ten 
years. 

1. L. DEMARAY of Demaray & Munce, Pipestone, Minne- 
sota, was born November 10, 1SS2, in Le Mars, Iowa, and 
has been in the coal and grain business for twelve years. 
He was for two years Secretary of the Minnesota Farmers 
Grain Dealers Association. 

J. H. DREDGE of White & Dredge, Amboy, Minnesota, was 
born in Wisconsin, and has been in the coal business for 
twenty-five j'ears. 

FRANK A. ENGEL, retail Coal merchant of Hastings. 
Minnesota, was born October 29, 1870, at Hastings and has 
been in the coal business for twenty-three years. 

JOHN F. FAIRBANKS, veteran retail coal merchant of 
Austin, Minnesota, was born July 25, 1857, in Iowa and has 
been in the coal business for thirty-four years. 

SAM K. FOWLER, retail merchant of Mankato, Minnesota, 
was born at Chatham, New Brunswick, Canada, and has been 
In the coal business for four years. 



MATH HABERER, retailer of Alexandria, Minnesota, was 
born June 25, 1858, in Germany, and lias been in the coal 
business for twenty years, ever since coal has been sold in 
his town. 

GEO. S. HAGE, Secretary and General Manager S. Hage 
Lumber Co., Madelia, Minnesota, w^as born June 14, 1876 at 
Madelia and has been in the coal business for over twenty- 
five years. 

JOHN E. HENNESSY, President J. E. Hennessy & Co., Ex- 
celsior, Minnesota, was born July 27, 1867, at Winona, Min- 
nesota, and has been in the coal business for twenty-six 
years. 

"W'lLLIAM L. IRELAND, retail coal merchant of Crookston, 
Minnesota, was born December 23, 1879, at Chesley, Ontario, 
and has been in the coal business for the past four years. 

JOHN J. KILTY, retail coal merchant of Stillwater, Min- 
nesota, was born October 28, 1861, in Ireland, and has been 
in the coal business over thirty years. 

JOHN LARSON, retail coal mercliant of Brainerd, Minne- 
sota, was born October 24, 1856, in Denmark, and has been 
in the coal business for twenty-eight years, and is the 
pioneer coal merchant of Brainerd. 

N. S. NELSON, Manager Albert Lea Fuel Co. of Albert 
Lea, Minnesota, was born November 14, 1859, in Denmark, 
and has been in the coal business for nearly thirty years. 

RALPH N. NELSON of the Albert Lea Fuel Co., Albert 
Lea, Minnesota, was born July 5, 1896, at Dell Rapids, South 
Dakota, and has been in the coal business with his father 
for the past two years. 

JOHN NETT, retail coal merchant of Albany, Minnesota, 
was born September 27, 1884, at St. Martin, and has been 
in the coal business for three years. 

JOHN AV. NIELSEN, retail coal merchant, Hutchinson, 
Minnesota, was born January 24, 1870, in Denmark, and has 
been in the coal business for six years. He was formerly 
Manager of the Farmers Elevator Co. at Buffalo Lake, 
Minnesota. 

JOHN O'DEA, well-known retail coal merchant of Winona. 
Minnesota, was born in Ireland in 1838 and has been in the 
coal business nearly thirty years. 

CHARLES S. OLDS, proprietor Crozier-Olds Coal Co., St. 
Cloud, Minnesota, was born January 4, 1876, at Luverne, 
Minnesota, and has been in the coal business at St. Cloud 
for eight years. He was formerly connected with E. A. 
Brown Co. at Luverne, Minnesota. 

CLARENCE A. REMINGTON, proprietor Remington Lum- 
ber Co., Hibbing, Minnesota, was born May 25, 1858, In 
Jefferson County, Ne-w York, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for six years. He has served as President of the Range 
Coal Dealers Association. 

J. O. RINDAHL of the Cargill Elevator Co. at Ada, Min- 
nesota, -wa-s born April 7, 1874, at St. Peter, Minnesota, and 
has been in the coal business for the past seven years. 

ALFRED O. ROLFE, veteran retail coal merchant of Ada. 
Minnesota, was born November 15, 1855, at Cole Brook, New 
Hampshire, and has been in the coal business for thirty- 
three years. 

JOSEPH A. ROTHMAN, retail coal merchant of Ely, Min- 
nesota, was born October 13, 1884, in Wisconsin and has 
been in the coal business for seven years. 

H. R. SHELDON, Manager Sheldon & Richardson, Roches- 
ter, Minnesota, was born Novemlaer 26, 1S5S, in Syracuse, 
New York, and has been in the coal and grain business 
over twenty-six years. 

G. F. STREATER, Secretary Botsford Lumber Co., Winona, 
Minnesota, was born November 14, 1875, in Kossuth County, 
Iowa, and has been in the coal business for twenty-five 
years. He was formerly connected with the Laird-Norton 
Yards. 

CHAS. T. TAYLOR, well known and popular retail coal 
merchant of Mankato, Minnesota, was born December 2, 
1860, in Red Wing, Minnesota, and has been in the coal 
business for over twenty-five years. Mr. Taylor has served 
as President of the North Western Retail Coal Dealers As- 
sociation, President of the Mankato Fair & Blue Earth 
County Agricultural Association. President of the Mankato 
Automobile Club, Mayor of Mankato three different terms, 
and President of the Mankato Commercial Club. 

ALBERT G. SAVANSON, retail coal merchant of Welch, 
Minnesota, was born September 28, 1870, in Goodhue County, 
Minnesota, and has been in the coal business for eight years. 

F. W. WHITE of White & Dredge, Amboy, Minnesota, 
was born in New York and has been in the coal business 
for twenty-five years. 

HENRY J. WTLLIS, well known retail coal merchant of 
Winona, Minnesota, was born in 1855 in Kenosha County, 
Wisconsin, and lias been in tlie coal business for twenty- 
eight years. 



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MISSISSIPPI 



KING COTTOJST stands in no immediate danger of 
surrendering his crown to King Coal in j\Iissis- 
sippi, for the weather man and the character of 
the predominating enterprises of the state have com- 
bined to make fnel play a minor role in the develop- 
ments there. Producing no coal, as a consumer, whether 
considered from the point of view of the total tonnage 
used or the per capita or square mile consumption, its 
position in American coal trade history is well down the 
list of states of the Union. Its per capita bituminous 
consumption is only .70 ton, against a general average 
for the entire country of 2.04 tons, while its 1915 



anthracite consumption, 2,000 tons for nearly 2,000,000 
people, was so small as to be entirely negligible. Upon 
a square mile basis the consumption was only 23 tons, 
as compared with the average of 123 tons for the coun- 
try as a whole. 

The total bituminous coal consumption for the year 
was placed at 1,368,388 tons. Only four states were 
called upon to furnish this tonnage, and of these four, 
Alabama with 596,218 tons and Kentucky with 630,518 
tons, shipped over 87 per cent, of the coal consumed. 
Illinois shipments were 96,577 tons and Pennsylvania 
45,075 tons. 



MISSISSIPPI 



J. Y. BELL., General Manager J. J. BeU & Son, retail 
coal merchants of Corinth, Mississippi, has been in the coal 
business for ten years. 

PALA'ICK BRADLEY, retail coal merchant of Aberdeen, 
Mississippi, was born September 12, 1860, in Ireland, and 
has been in the coal business twenty-five years. 

LOUIS JOHX BRAl'X. retail coal merchant of Biloxi, Mis- 
sissippi, was born July 1, 1890, at Biloxi, and has been In 
the coal business for seven years. He was formerly con- 
nected with the Biloxi Artificial Ice Mfg. Co. 

JOSEPH MEADERS BROWN, proprietor of the Jay-Em- 
Bee Coal Co., Grenada, Mississippi, was born June 19, 1873, 
at Coffeeville, Mississippi, and has been in the coal business 
five years. Previous to that he was engaged in tlie cotton 
and cotton seed oil business. 



LELAIVD AV. DELANY of the Delany Coal & Ice Co., 
Natchez, Mississippi, was born August 24, 1885, at Natchez 
and has been in the coal business for the last four years. 

H. G. GOTHELF, proprietor of the Gothelf Coal Co., 
Vicksburg, Mississippi, was born March 20, 1891, at Vicks- 
burg, Mississippi, and has been in the coal business for 
the last six years. 

COLUMBUS R. HULL, proprietor of the Hull Coal Co., 
Vicksburg, Mississippi, was born in TS57 in Mason County, 
TV^est Virginia, and has been in the coal business six years. 
Mr. Hull is also owner of the Hull Packet Line which oper- 
ates the steamer C. R. Hull and barges Falcon and Vicks- 
burg. 

"W. G. KIMMONS, President W. G. Kimmons & Sons of 
Corinth, Mississippi, was born in Corinth in 1845 and 
has been in the coal business for fifteen years. Associated 
with Mr. Kimmons are his two sons, W. G. Kimmons, Jr., 
and J. M. Kimmons. 



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MISSOURI 



MISSOUKI can justly lay claim to the attention 
of the coal trade, and particularly that por- 
tion west of the Mississippi river, both from 
the historic point of view and from the point of view 
of present day consumption and production. As a con- 
sumer of coal today it holds first rank among the states 
west of the Mississippi river. It is also far from a 
negligible factor in the total production mined beyond 
the "Father of Waters" and, though its output is 
exceeded by that of certain sister states, it is believed 
to have been the first commonwealth west of the river 
to enter the list of coal producing states. Because it 
lies in a pocket of producing states, being bordered on 
the east by the Appalachian and eastern interior coal 
basins, on the south by Arkansas and on the north and 
west by Iowa and Kansas, which are underlaid with 
the same measures that give Missouri its place in coal 
productiou history, the Missouri output enters but 
little into the general interstate commercial traffic, but, 
as a coal consumer, it makes wide calls upon eastern 
and southern producing fields. 

The ]\rissouri coal beds, which are, as stated in the 
preceding paragraph, part of the western interior coal 
basin Avhich also underlies Kansas and Iowa, geologi- 
cally speaking belong "to the Pennsylvania series of 
the Carboniferous system." That portion lying in 
I\lissouri has an approximate area of 25,000 square 
miles of coal-bearing formations, of which it is esti- 
mated that 60 per cent, may be considered productive 
under present conditions "and more will yield supplies 
at some future period." 

There are half a dozen fields of importance in the 
state, viz. : 

1. The Bevier, worked in portions of Boone, Chari- 
ton, Howard, i\Iacon and Randolph counties. This 
field, which produces approximately 27 per cent, of the 
output of the state, is mined from a bed ranging from 
three to six feet in thickness. 

2. The Lexington, Avorked in Clay, Lafayette and 
Eay coimties. Although the bed mined is very thin, 
ranging from 14 to 26 inches in thickness, "because it 
is ideally adapted to the long-wall system of mining 
and is situated near large consuming centers, tliis bed 
produces 27 per cent, of the total for the state." 

3. The Southwestern field, which includes parts of 
Barton, Bates, Henry and adjoining coimties. Several 



beds are mined in this field and the total output is 
approximately 20 per cent, of that for the entire state. 

4. The Novinger, in Adair county, which is in the 
same stratigraphic horizon as that mined in the Bevier 
field and which averages three and one-half feet in 
thickness, yields 15 per cent, of the output of the state. 

5. The Marceline field in Linn county is worked in 
a bed 29 inches thick and contributes four per cent, of 
the total production of the state. 

C. "The Mendota field, lying in Putnam, Schuyler and 
northwestern Adair counties, is the southern extension 
of the Mystic or Centerville bed of Iowa. "The coal 
in this field lies stratigraphically about 100 feet above 
that in the jSTovinger and is probably at the same hori- 
zon as that of the Lexington field." Although in Iowa 
this is one of the most important beds worked, Mis- 
souri operations are of a very limited character. 

The occurrence of coal on the banks of the Osage 
river was noted as early as 1806 in Pike's "Account 
of Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi."' 
As far as known production statistics were a blank until 
1810, when the ITnited States Census credited the state 
with an output of 9,972 tons. Between that year and 
1870, the date of the next absolute record, production 
apparently enjoyed a steady growth as the figure for 
the year last named was 621,930 tons. The state passed 
the 1,000,000-ton mark in 1876. Pour years later the 
figure fell below this, but there was a pronounced recov- 
ery in 1878, from which time the upward swing con- 
tinued until 3,080,000 tons were reached in 1885. Out- 
put slumped off to 1,800,000 tons the year following. 
The statistics since that date are as follows: 



Year. Ton. 

1887 3,209,916 

1888 3,900,967 

1889 2,557,823 

1890 2,735,221 

1891 2,674,606 

1892 2,733,949 

1893 2,897,442 

1894 2,245,039 

1895 2,372,393 

1896 2,331,542 

1897 2,665,626 

1898 2,688,321 

1899 3,025,814 

1900 3,540,103 

1901 3,802,088 



Year. Ton. 

1902 3,890,154 

1903 4,238,586 

1904 4,168.308 

1905 3,983,378 

1906 3,758,008 

1907 3,997,936 

1908 3,317,315 

1909 3,756,530 

1910 2,982,433 

1911 3,836,107 

1912 4,339,856 

1913 4,318,125 

1914 3,935,980 

1915 3,811,593 

1916 4,742,146 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



From the point of view of the consumption of ^lis- 
souri coal tlie rnilroads overshadow every other chass 
of consiiiner : in un."). the ti'ansportatioii companies 
took 2,351.940 tons of ^fissouri coal, or approximately 
62 per cent, of the total production. Approximately 
28 per cent, of the output was consumed within the 
state: ot this. 84.091 tons were used at the mines; 
202,9;.:) tons were sold lot-ally and 773,350 tons shipped 
to points within the state. Interstate movement to six 
adjacent commonwealths took care of the remaining 
400,237 tons; Xehraska received 203,337 tons; Kan- 
sas, 167,483 tons: Iowa, 22,729; Oklahoma, 4,800 and 
Arkansas and Illinois combined, 1,888 tons. 

A small anthracite consumption (.11 ton) serves to 
pull down the average per capita consumption in the 
state to 2.20 tons, as compared with 2.82 tons for the 
United States as a whole. The consumption per square 
mile, 110 tons, was only slightly under the general 
average. Despite these somewhat unfavorable average 
comparisons the total amount actually used within Mis- 
souri exceeded, as before stated, that of any other com- 
monwealth west of the Mississippi river. The total 
consumption for 1915, exclusive of railroad fuel but in- 
cluding 371,300 tons of Pennsylvania anthracite, was 
8,086,548 tons. Although the bituminous supply was 
drawn from 14 different states over 56 per cent came 
fi'om Illinois. This high percentage, of course, was 
due to the proximity of the "Inner Group" and central 



and southtMii Illinois -c-oal fields to the St. Louis mar- 
ket. During the year in question 7,782,577 tons of 
bituminous coal, 189,478 tons of anthracite and 121,- 
3 89 tons of coke were received in St. Louis and it is esti- 
mated that 4,250,000 tons of bituminous coal and 
117,006 tons of anthracite of this amount were con- 
sumed witliin the St. Louis district. Of the estimated 
bituminous consumption approximately 3,750,000 tons 
were of Illinois origin. In 1916 the St. Louis receipts 
totaled 7,799,223 tons of bituminous coal, 172,832 
tons (including 13.859 tons shipped through) of an- 
thracite and 215,025 tons of coke. 

The detailed figures on consumption for 1915 show 
the following: 



Source. Ton. 

Alabama 3,519 

Arkansas 198,768 

Colorado 535 

Georgia 538 

Illinois 4,391,722 

Indiana 12,6;:'.2 

Iowa 174,164 

Kansas 926,480 

Kentucky 478,164 

Maryland =-9,090 

Missouri 1,059,416 

Oklahoma 3,653 



Source. 
Pennsylvania . 

Virginia 

West Virginia. 
Wyoming 



Ton. 

294,820 
1,500 

158,763 
1,484 



Total bituminous 




coal 


7,715,248 


Pennsylvania an- 




thracite 


371,300 



8,086,548 



^Includes Maryland coal consumed in Texas. 



181 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 




HARRY N. TAYLOR, Kansas City, Mo., 

Vice President of the Central Coal & 
Coke Co., Kansas City, was born April 
20, 1865, in Columbus, Ohio, and has 
been in the coal business thirty-six 
years. He is also interested in the 
Northern Central Coal Co., Scioto Coal 
Co., Harkes Coal Co., Taylor Coal Co., 
and Big- Four Wilmington Coal Co. 
Mr. Taylor ranks as one of the ablest, 
most prominent and most popular coal 
operators in the United States. He has 
for years been ■ an important factor in 
coal producing- circles and -was for- 
merly President of the General Wil- 
mington Coal Co., Big- Four Wilmington 
Coal Co., and Monon Coal Co., General 
Manager of the Sunday Creek Coal 
Co., and President of the Western Coal 
& Dock Co. Mr. Taylor has been hon- 
ored -svith many offices and has served 
as President of the Illinois Coal Op- 
erators Association. President National 
Federation of Coal Operators, a mem- 
ber of the Executive Board of the 
South-western Coal Operators Associa- 
tion, Vice President of the National 
Coal Association and District Repre- 
sentative United States Fuel Adminis- 
tration for lo-wa, Missouri, Kansas, 
Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas. 




FRED W. ILUKIjVS, Kansas City, Mo., 

President and General Manager Farm- 
ers Fuel Co. of Kansas Citj', -was born 
February 5, 1857, in Earlville, Illinois, 
and has been in the coal business for 
the past thirty-five years. Mr. Lukins 
is also General Manager and Secretary- 
Treasurer of the Waverly Coal Co., and 
President of the South-western Inter- 
state Coal Operators Association. He 
has been active and prominent in op- 
erating circles for many years and is 
highly regarded in the trade. He -was 
formerly a partner in the firm of 
Lukins & Cavanaugh, and General 
Manager of the Chicago-Virden Coal 
Co., Illinois Collieries Co., and General 
Manager of the mines of the O'Gara 
Coal Co. He has served as Vice Presi- 
dent of the Illinois Coal Operators As- 
sociation, and has also been honored 
-with election as President of several 
organizations outside of the coal in- 
dustry. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





JOHX H. BOVARD, Kansas City, Missouri, 

President Northwestern Coal & Mining- Co., 400 Rialto Build- 
ing, Kansas City, was born in Bellevue, Iowa, December 29, 
1854, and has been in the coal business since November, 1871, 
when he started at the bottom of the ladder, weighing coal. 
He has had experience in both the selling and operating 
ends, being connected with the Kansas & Texas Coal Co. at 
one time. Mr. Bovard is a Director of the New England 
National Banlc of Kansas City. 



ANDREW 31. HANJVAH, Kansas City, Mis.souri. 

General Sales Manager Mackie-Clemens Fuel Co., Dwight 
Building, Kansas City, Missouri, was born December 29, 
1884, at Pittsburg, Kansas, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for the past nineteen years. Mr. Hannah was formerly 
connected with the Central Coal & Coke Co. and the 
Sheridan Coal Co., and has held practically every position 
from weighman up. 



JOHN R. CROW, JR., Kansas City, Bio., 

President The J. R. Crowe Coal & Min- 
ing Co., Dwight Building, Kansas City, 
was born in 1889 in Weir City, Kan- 
sas, and has been in tlie coal business 
for the past eleven years, succeeding- 
his father, who was a well known coal 
operator in that section. Mr. Crowe is 
also interested In the Junior Coal & 
Mining Co. and the Whitehead Coal & 
'Mining Co. and is a member of the 
Southwestern Coal Operators Associa- 
tion. He is at present in the service 
of his countrj-. 




CHARLES H. HIGHTOWER, Kansas City, Missouri, 

Division Sales Agent of the McAlester Fuel Co., Lathrop 
Building, Kansas City, Missouri, was born March 25, 1870, 
in Cleburne, Texas, and has been in the coal business for 
the past twenty-four years. He was formerly connected 
with the Western Coal & Mining Co. 



183. 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





GRANT STAtJFFER, Kansas City, Missouri, 

President Sinclair Coal Co., Gloyd Building, Kansas City, 
and Vice President Semi-Anthracite Fuel Co. and Semi- 
Anthracite Mining- Co., Alix, Arkansas, was born December 
1, 1888, in Hope, Kansas, and has been in the coal business 
for the past six years. 



GEORGE J. L. WUIiPF, Kaii.sas City, Missouri. 

Division Sales Manager Western Coal & Mining Co., Railway 
Exchange Building, Kansas City, Missouri, was born May 5, 
18S1. at Osage. Missouri, and has been in the coal business 
for eighteen years. Mr. Wulff started with this company as 
a stenographer and has received steady promotion to his 
present position as a result of consistent attention to his work. 



IRA »I. FLEMING, Kansas City, Mo., 

President Fleming Coal Co., Kansas 
City, ■ was born March 24, 1866, Ke- 
wanee, Illinois, and has been in the 
Goal business thirty-two years. Mr. 
Fleming is also interested in the 
Cherokee-Crescent Coal Co., the Pitts- 
burg Northern Co., and the Girard Coal 
Co. He was formerly connected with 
the Ricli Hill Coal Mining Co., Western 
Coal & Mining Co.. Southwestern Coal ' 
& Improvements Co. Mr. Fleming has 
served as Presiflent of the Southw^est- 
ern Interstate Coal Operators Associa- 
tion. 



LEOTiARD D. KNIFFIN, Kansas City, 

Manager Kansas City office of the 
Sheridan Coal Co., was born Septem- 
ber 30, 1877, in Sedalia, Missouri, and 
has been in the coal business- seventeen 
years. He is a son of Capt. S. W. 
KnifHn, a pioneer coal man in the Mis- 
souri and Kansas fields. Mr. KnifHn 
is also Interested in the Roundup Coal 
& Mining Co. and the McCormick Coal 
Co. He was formerly connected with 
the Great Western Coal Co. and was 
Secretary of the Mid-State Retail Coal 
Dealers Association. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





HARVEY F. PIXLEY, St. Louis, Missouri, 

President Breese Trenton Mining Co., St. Louis, Missouri, 
was born November 25, 1869, at Ingraham, Illinois, and 
has been President of this company for seven years and 
previous to that has been Treasurer and a Director. Mr. 
Pixley is President of the First National Bank at Flora, 
Illinois, and prominent in business affairs. 



A. H. BEDDOE, St. Louis, Missouri, 

General Sales Agent Breese Trenton Mining Co., St. Louis, 
Missouri, was born March 23. 1882, in Washington, Indiana, 
and has been in the coal business for fourteen years. Mr. 
Beddoe is one of the best known and most popular mem- 
bers of the St. Louis coal trade and has received many 
honors at their hands. He was Imperial Baron of the 
Order KoKoal, President St. Louis Coal Club, and is the 
wholesale coal member of the St. Louis Rotary Club, execu- 
tive member Fifth and Ninth Districts Coal Bureau, and 
Chairman Coal Operators" Advisory Committee of St. Louis 
Fuel Administration. 





CLARENCE V. BECK, St. Louis, Missouri, 

President St. Louis Coal Co., 1009 Syndicate Trust Building, 
St. Louis, was born October 30, 1886, in St. Louis, and has 
been in the coal business thirteen years. Mr. Beck is also 
President of the White Coal Co., operating the Valley mine; 
Beck-White Mining Co., operating the Henrietta mine; the 
West Side Coal & Mining Co., operating the Consol mine 
and the Slogo Coal Co., operating the Slogo mine; the output 
of all these mining companies being handled thrf'ugh the 
St. Louis Coal Co. 



JAMES C. BLYTHE, St. Louis, Missouri, 

President Inland Valley Coal Co., Equitable Building, St. 
Louis, Missouri, was born December 21, 1870, at St. Louis, 
and has been in the coal business since 1894. He has served 
as Secretary of the Williamson County Coal Co. and was 
formerly connected with the Lumaghi Coal Co. 



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ALEXANDER A. BRYDEN, St. Louis, Missouri, 

Sales Manager Harris-Dillavou-Dimond Co., Wainwright 
Building. St. Louis, was born February 23, 1864, in Halifax, 
Nova Scotia, and has been in the coal business thirty-five 
years. Mr. Bryden is one of the -well-known coal men of 
St. Louis. He was formerly connected with the Carbondale 
Coal & Coke Co., Bryden Coal & Coke Co., and the Borders 
Coal Co. He served as President of Retail Coal Association 
in St. Louis for five j'ears. His grandfather and uncles 
opened the first mine of Carterville coal. 



THOMAS R. HARRIS, St. Louis, Missouri, 

President and General Manager of "White Oak Fuel Co., St. 
Louis, Missouri, was born near Nashville, Illinois, and has 
been in the coal business seventeen years. Mr. Harris 
Is also President of the Madison County Mining Co. of Ed- 
wardsville, Illinois. He was formerly connected with the 
Berry Horn Coal Co., John T. Hesser & Co., and the Lu- 
maghi Coal Co. 




WILLIAM J. HEGWEIN, St. Louis, Missouri, 

President Hegwein Coal Co., 4800 Bulwer Ave., St. Louis, 
Missouri, was born February 17, 1876, at St. Louis, and has 
been in the coal business for twenty-five years. Mr. Heg- 
wein was formerly connected with the Stephan Coal Co. 
and is considered one of the enterprising retail coal mer- 
chants of his city. He has two railroad yards located on 
Florissant and Bircher streets, catering exclusively to the 
north end trade. 



TH03IAS T. BREW'STER, St. Louis, 3Io., 

Vice President and General Manager 
Mt. Olive & Staunton Coal Co., 1012 
Federal Reserve Bank Building. St. 
Louis, was born March 31, - 1S67, in 
Saco, Maine, and has been a producer 
of coal twenty-eight years. He has 
been President of the Coal Operators 
Association, Fifth and Ninth Districts 
of Illinois; Chairman of the Committee 
on Accounting and Cost of Production, 
Fith and Ninth Districts of Illinois 
Coal Bureau; a member of the Ameri- 
can Institute of Mining Engineers, and 
a Director of the National Coal Asso- 
ciation. 



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WILLIAM J. JENKINS, St. Louis, Missouri, 

Vice President and General Manager The Consolidated Coal 
Co. of St. Louis, was born February 5, 1873, in Chi- 
cago, Illinois, and has been in the coal business over 
twenty years. Mr. Jenkins is President of the Union Fuel 
Co., St. Louis. He was formerly connected w^ith the North- 
ern Pacific Coal Co., the North Western Improvement Co. 
and Western Coal & Mining Co., St. Louis. Mr. Jenkins has 
served as Vice President-at-Large of the South West In- 
terstate Coal Operators Association since 1908 and is highly 
respected in coal mining circles. 



THADDEIIS D. PAYNE, Chicago, Illinois, 

General Sales Agent The Consolidated Coal Co. of St. Louis, 
St. Louis, Missouri, with headquarters in Cliicago, was born 
in 1878 in Bowling Green, Kentucky. His early business 
experience was with railroads. In 1903 he became Chief 
Clerk to the President and General Manager of the Western 
Coal & Mining Co. and the Consolidated Coal Co. In 1907 
he was called to the same position with the President of 
the Western Maryland Railroad and the Davis Coal & Coke 
Co. Since 1910 he has held his present position. He served 
as Director of Industrial Distribution for the Fuel Adminis- 
tration of Illinois during the Great War. 



JOHN HENDERSON, St. Louis, Mo., 

President West Virginia Coal Co; of 
Missouri, St. Louis, was born Septem- 
ber 2, 1874, in Ohio, and has been in 
the coal business over twenty years. 
He is also President of the Superior 
Mining Co., Belleville; Perry County 
Coal Corp., Coulterville; St. Ellen Coal 
Co., O'Fallon; Victoria Coal Co., Belle- 
ville: Liberty Coal & Mining Co., 
Renchler; Gus Blair Big Muddy Coal 
Co., Murphysboro, all of Illinois; La- 
clede Coal Co., St. Louis; and Vice 
President Henderson-Wallace Coal Co., 
Marion, Illinois. 



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WALTER F. HEINECKE, St. Louis. Missouri, 

President and General Manager of the Heinecke Coal & 
Supply Co., 1940 South Kingshighway, St. Louis, was born 
October 8, 1879, in Lenzburg, Illinois, and has been in the 
coal business eighteen years. Mr. Heinecke is one of the 
most popular St. Louis retailers and has served as President 
of the St. Louis Coal Club. 



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JOSEPH D. LUMAGHI, St Louis, Missouri, 

Secretary and Treasurer Lumaghi Coal Co., 606 Equitable 
Building, St. Louis, Missouri, was born Septeinber 30, 1861, 
in Collinsville, Illinois, and has been in the coal business 
thirty-seven years. Mr. Lumag-hl is interested in the Wil- 
liamson County Coal Co. of St. Louis. 



.lOHJf C. 3IUCKERMA1V, St. Louis, Missouri, 

Vice President of the Polar "Wave Ice & Fuel Co. of St. 
Louis, was born November 8, 1868, in St. Louis, and has 
been in the coal business thirty years. He started with 
his father, who was one of the pioneers in tlie ice and coal 
business in St. Louis. The present company is the largest 
retail coal firin in the city, having twenty-one rail yards 
scattered in different parts of the city and numerous ice 
plants 'Which supply their forty-tv^^o retail branches. Mr. 
Muckerman has a family of seven children, three sons and 
four daughters. 




EDMUND G. RIDGWAY, St. Louis, Missouri, 

Was born November 11, 1875, in Olney, Illinois, and has 
been in the coal business fourteen years. He was formerly 
connected with the Carterville District Coal Co. Mr. Ridg- 
way was the first Secretary of the St. Louis Coal Club and 
served as its President in 1917. 



EUGENE STEVENS, St. Louis, Mo., 

President Crown Coal Co., 1202 Central 
Bank Building, St. Louis, was born 
May 12, 1872, in Harvard. Illinois, and 
has been in the coal business ten years. 
He was formerly connected with the 
Benton District Coal Co., and Carroll 
& Franklin County Coal Co. Mr. 
Stevens is active in the Fifth and Ninth 
District Coal Operators Association. 



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WILLIAM S. SCOTT, St. Louis, Missouri, 

President and General Manager Missouri & Illinois Coal 
Co., St. Louis, was born December 13, 1862, in Fredericks- 
burg, Virginia. He has been in the coal business thirty 
years. Mr. Scott was connected with the T. & H. Mining 
Co. and was President of the Scott-Wilson Coal Co. eight 
year.s. He has served as Representative of the Seventh 
District Illinois Coal Operators Association. 



CLIFFORD M. SNOIJV, St. Louis, 9Iissourl, 

Manager Sno-w Coal Co., Pierce Bldg., St. Louis, was born 
in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Canada. He has been in the coal 
business thirteen years. Mr. Snow was formerly Sales 
Agent for the Western Coal & Mining Co., St. Louis, and 
later was Manager of Sales of the Durham Coal & Iron Co., 
Chattanooga, Tennessee. From February 1, 1915, he was 
Sales Agent of the Consolidated Coal Co. of St. Louis, leav- 
ing their service June 1, 1918, to go into business on his 
own account. 



AV ALTER H. UNDERWOOD, St. Loui.s, 

Manager St. Louis ofllce of the Dom- 
hoff & Joyce Co., Times Building, was 
born March », 1882, in Cincinnati, Ohio, 
and has been in the coal and coke busi- 
ness ten years. Mr. Underwood spe- 
cializes in the sale of coke and has a 
wide circle of friends In the St. Louis 
territory. 




EDWARD J. WALLACE, St. Louis, Missouri, 

Sales Manager Stephan Coal Co., St. Louis, was born 
February 23, 1879, in New Haven, Connecticut, and has 
been in the coal business since 1905, He was formerly 
Sales Manager for the Mississippi Valley Fuel Co. and 
"Western Sales Manager of the Dealers Fuel Co. He was 
Pictor of the St. Louis Order KoKoal, and organized the 
Missouri Retail Coal Dealers Association, and the St. Louis 
Coal Club. He is serving as advisor to Lieutenant Gov- 
ernor Wallace Crossley, Fuel Administrator for the State 
of Missouri, and advisor to the Fuel Committee in St. Louis. 



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H. B. WBSSEI-, St. Louis, Missouri. 

Sales Manager Kolb Coal Co., Mermod & Jaccard Building, 
St. Louis, was born in Nashville, Illinois, August 1, 1888, and 
has been in the coal business eleven years. He has taken an 
active part in the coal affairs of his city, and was elected 
President of the St. Louis Coal Club in April, 1918. Mr. 
"Wessel was formerly connected with the St. Louis Coal Co. 



FRANK M. BRINSOjV, St. Joseiili, Alis.souri, 

Wholesale coal nierchant of St. Joseph, was born January 
23, 1870, in St. Joseph, and has been in the coal business 
fifteen years. Mr. Brinson is one of the well-known and 
enterprising wholesalers in the Southwest and has many 
friends in the coal trade. 



MISSOURI — Kansas City 



T. PERCY BRYAN, Secretary and Treasurer Gray-Bryan- 
.Sweeney Coal Co., New England Building, Kansas City, 
Missouri, was born in Kansas March 24, 1873, and has been 
in the coal business twenty-three years. He was formerly 
with the Western Coal & Mining Co., and the Kansas & 
Texas Coal Co. Mr. Bryan has held many positions of honor 
in the trade — President of the Correct Weighing Association 
of Kansas City, President of the Interstate Retail Coal 
Dealers' Association, and of the Missouri State Retail Coal 
Merchants' Association, a Director in the National Coal 
Association, and a member of the Executive Committee of 
the National Retail Coal Merchants' Association, and has 
a wide acquaintance throughout the country. 

.lAMES D. COLE, proprietor of Arkansas Fuel Co., Kansas 
City, Missouri, was born in 1862 in Prairie du Chien, Wis- 
consin, and has been in the coal business thirty-five years. 
He was formerly connected with the Loomis Coal Co. and 
was Vice President of the Citizens Coal & Coke Co., 
Denver, Colorado. Mr. Cole has served as President of 
the National Hay Association, and was tlie first Secre- 
tary of the Operators Association of Iowa, Missouri and 
Kansas. 

ALBERT MELVIN FELLOWS, City Manager Jackson- 
Walker Coal & Mining Co., Kansas City, Missouri, was 
born August 25, 1868, in Lincoln, Illinois, and has been in 
the coal business twenty-nine years. Mr. Fellows has 
a wide acquaintance and is popular in the coal trade 
through the Southwest. He was formerly connected with 
the Western Coal & Mining Co., was Fuel Agent of the 
Missouri-Pacific Railway, and General Sales Agent of the 
Gould coal properties. 

GEORGE C. GRAY, President Gray-Bryan-Sweeney Co., 
New England Building, Kansas City, Missouri, is a native 
of New England, and has been in the coal business for 
over twenty years. Mr. Gray is also President of the Mis- 
souri City Coal Co., which operates a mine in Missouri. 

ED\VARD C. HANKS, proprietor of Missouri-Kansas Coal 
Co., Kansas City, Missouri, was born August 19, 1886, at 
Mechanicsburg, Virginia, and has been in the coal business 
for the past seven years. 

HARRY HARRIS, Manager and Treasurer Laning-Harris 
Coal & Grain Co. of Kansas City, Missouri, was born De- 
cember 21, 1849, in Maryland, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for over forty-five years. Mr. Harris was formerly 
connected with the Petersburg Coal Co. of Petersburg, 
Illinois. 



HERSCHEL M. HERROLD, JR., Mine Superintendent Her- 
rold-Breivogel Coal Co., successors to tlie Herrold Coal & 
Mining Co., Kansas City. Missouri, was born August 18, 1879, 
in Philadelphia, Pennsj'lvania, and has been in the coal 
business six years. He was formerly with the Walnut Creek 
Coal Co. 

CHARLES E. KEARNEY, a salesman of the Central 
Coal & Coke Co. of Kansas City, Missouri, was born Sep- 
tember 9, 1870, in Kansas City, and has been in the coal 
business for twenty-two years, having covered South- 
western Kansas since 1897 for his company. 

CHAS. S. KEITH, President Central Coal & Coke Co.,. 
Kansas City. Missouri, was born January 28, 1873, in Kan- 
sas City, and has been in the coal business twenty- 
eight years. Mr. Keith is one of the largest and most 
prominent coal operators and lumbermen in the Southwest,, 
having extensive interests in several states, and is very 
highly regarded in the trade. He has served as President 
of the Southwestern Interstate Coal Operators Associa- 
tion, President of the Soutliern Pine Association, Vice Pres- 
ident of tlie National Lumber Association, Director of the 
National Cliamber of Commerce, and President of the Kan- 
sas City Commercial Club, and has been active in many 
movements for the betterment of trade or civic conditions. 

RICHARD H. KEITH, President Bell Coal Co., Kansas 
City, Missouri, was born in 1882 in Kansas City, and has; 
been in the coal business twelve years. Mr. Keith is a 
son of the late R. H. Keith, founder of the Central Coal 
& Coke Co., and brother of Charles S. Keitli, the present 
President of that company. He 'was also connected with the 
Central Coal & Coke Co. for a number of years. He went 
into the first Officers' Training Camp. 

H. G. KELLOGG, President Midland Coal Co., Kansas City, 
Missouri, was born December 31, 1875, at Salina, Kansas, 
and has been in the coal business for the last fifteen years. 
Mr. Kellogg is also interested in a number of other operat- 
ing companies. He was formerly connected with the Kan- 
sas City-Midland Coal & Mining Co. and has served as- 
Vice President of the Southwestern Operators Association. 

CHARLES H. MARKHAM, Sales Manager Interstate Coal 
Co., Kansas City, Missouri, was born September 12, 1874, at 
Erie, Kansas, and has been in the coal business for four- 
teen years. Mr. Markham has served as President of the 
South Western Steam Shovel Operators Association. 

HARVEY A. McDonald, Manager Bell Coal Co., Kansas; 
City, Missouri, was born in 1876 in Pennsylvania, and was 
Manager of the City Department of the Central Coal & 
Coke Co. twenty-one years before assuming his present 
position. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



EDAVARD S. XEVIIS. General Manager Nevius Coal Co., 
Kansas City, Missouri, was born January 15. 1864, in Law- 
rence County, Ohio, and has been in the coal business for 
thirty-three years. He is also President and General Mana- 
ger Nevius-Coulter Coal Co. and was formerly Cashier and 
Assistant Superintendent of the Kansas & Texas Coal Co. 

FREDERICK AVII.LIAM SCHER.HES. Vice President and 
Manager of the Katzniaier Coal Co., Kansas City, Missouri, 
was born November 22, 1ST3, in Ohio, and has been in the 
coal business for twenty-two years. 

ROBERT L. .SMITH of Smith Bros., Kansas City, Missouri, 
was born August 12. 18G5. in Jackson County, Missouri, and 
has been in the coal business for twelve years. 

HO^V.VRD V, SNIVE1,Y, 1909 Kensington Ave., Kansas 
City, Missouri, a salesman for T. C. Keller & Co., Chicago, 
was born February 7, 1873, In Wathena, Kansas, and has 
been in the coal business for thirteen years. He was for- 
merly connected with the Blackbird Block Coal Co. at Union- 
ville, Missouri, for five years, and is well known among the 
coal trade of the Southwest. 

N.VTHAN O. S\V ANSON, General Manager Lehigh & 
Havens Lumber Co., Kansas City, Missouri, was born Sep- 
tember 7, 1878, at Stanton, Iowa, and has been in the coal 
business for twenty-one years. 

ERNEST R. .SAVEENEY, Vice President and General Man- 
ager Gray-Bryan-Sweeney Coal Co., Kansas City, Missouri, 
was born in 1867 at Fort Scott, Kansas, and has been in 
the coal business for thirty-five years. Mr. Sweeney is one 
of the most popular coal men in the Southwest and was 
formerly with the Keith & Perry Coal Co. and the Central 
Coal iVr Coke Co. 

GEORGE T. AVALKER. President Jackson-Walker Coal 
& Mining Co., Kansas City, Missouri, was born April 4, 
1866, in Princeton, Illinois, and died May 8, 1918, at his 
home in Kansas City. He had been in the coal business 
thirty-four years. Mr. "Walker was one of the prominent 
coal operators of the Southwest, having been interested in 
the Toluca Coal Co. and the Marceline Coal & Mining Co. 

M I S S U R I — St. Louis 

ALBERT J. AVERY, Secretary and Treasurer Avery Coal 
& Mining Co., St. Louis, Missouri, was born April 15, 1876, 
in St. Clair County. Illinois, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for over twenty years. He was the first Secretary of 
the Fifth and Ninth Districts Operators Association of 
Illinois. 

RICHARD J. BEYER, Credit Manager Hegwein Coal Co., 
1404 North Park PL, St. Louis, Missouri, was born Decem- 
ber 29, 1886, in St. Louis, and has been engaged in the coal 
business for over ten years. He was formerly connected 
with the Polar "Wave Ice & Fuel Co. 

EDAY^ARD DEVOY, proprietor Edward Devoy Coal . & 
Coke Co., St. Louis, Missouri, was born in August, 1846, at 
. St. Louis, and has been in the coal business continuously 
for over forty-five years. Mr. Devoy is considered the dean 
of St. Louis coal men and is President of the Coal Service 
Bureau of St. Louis. 

R. E. EGGEBRECHT, Sales Manager Southern Coal, Coke 
& Mining Co., 700 Security Building', St. Louis. Missouri, 
was born February 5, 1877, in Germany, and has been in 
the coal business for seven years. He was formerly con- 
nected with Devoy & Kuhn Coal & Coke Co. 

FRANK R. ELLIS, President Ellis & Richmer Coal Co., 
St. Louis, Missouri, was born July 20, 1876, in Eatontown, 
New Jersey, and has been in the coal business twenty-four 
years. Mr. Ellis was formerly connected with the Maguire 
Coal Co. for twenty-two years. 

LOUIS A. GOLTERMANN, proprietor Hinrichs-Goltermann 
Fuel & Material Co., St. Louis, Missouri, was born Decem- 
ber 14, 1874, at St. Louis, and has been in the coal business 
for eight years. 

ALEXANDER "W. HAMILTON, Southwestern Sales Agent 
of The Peabody Coal Co., Syndicate Trust Building, St. 
Louis, Missouri, was born February 19, 1878, at Newark, 
New Jersey, and has been in business eighteen years. 

HARRY F. HEG"WEIN, Sales Agent Hegwein Coal Co. of 
St. Louis, Missouri, was born in 1882 in St. Louis and has 
been in the coal business for fifteen years. He was for- 
merly connected with the Inland Valley Coal Co. and the 
Stephan Coal Co. 

THOMAS M. JENKINS, President and General Manager 
St. Louis & O'Fallon Coal Co., St. Louis, Missouri, was 
born July 4, 1860, in Albany, New York, and has been in 
the coal business eight years. 

MICHAEL D. JOYCE, General Sales Agent Bickett Coal & 
Coke Co., St. Louis, Missouri, was born September 29, 1868, 
in Ireland, and has been in the coal business twenty-four 
years. Mr. Joyce vi^as formerly connected with the Madison 
Coal Corp. and the Hillsboro Coal Co. 



CHARLES H. KRAUSE, Vice President and General Man- 
ager The Willis Coal & Mining Co., St. Louis, Missouri, 
was born November 21, 1873, in St. Louis, and has been In 
the coal business for over twenty years. Mr. Krause has 
served as Secretary and Treasurer of the Coal Operators 
Association of the Fifth and Ninth Districts of Illinois. 

E, J. KRAUSE, President and Treasurer of the Willis 
Coal & Mining Co., St. Louis, Missouri, was born August 
26, 1871, and has been in the coal business for over twenty 
years. 

ERNEST L. MAY, General Sales Agent St. Louis Coal 
Co., St. Louis, Missouri, was born December 16, 1885, at Mar- 
ion, Illinois, and has been in the coal business for the past 
ten years. He was formerly connected' with the St. Louis- 
Carterville Coal Co. Mr. May is very energetic and has 
taken a great interest in the National Coal Jobbers Asso- 
ciation. He is also Secretary of the St. Louis Coal Club and 
President of the Clinker Club of St. Louis, both important 
factors in St. Louis coal affairs. 

HOMER F. Mcdonald, President Meteor Coal Co., St. 

Louis, Missouri, was born July 22, 1885, in Pinckneyville, 
Illinois, and has been in the coal business fourteen years. 
He was connected formerly with the White Walnut Coal 
Co.. Madison Coal Corp., and the Berry-Bergs Coal Co. Mr. 
McDonald served for two years as Pictor of the St. Louis 
breaker of the Order KoKoal. 

LOUIS MEHRHOFF, Traffic Manager Hegwein Coal Co., 
St. Louis, Missouri, was born in St. Louis and has been in 
the coal business for eight years. 

ROBERT A. NIGGEMAN, President Gartside Coal Co., St. 
Louis, Missouri, was born in 1874 in St. Louis, and has 
been in the coal business for ten years. He is also Presi- 
dent of the Gartside Land Co. 

J. J. O'DONNELL, General Manager West Virginia Coal 
Co., St. Louis, Missouri, also President of the City Coal Co. 
of St. Louis, a retail company doing an extensive business 
and operating three yards, was born November, 1880. in 
New York City, and has been in the coal business eighteen 
years. He was connected with the Lumaghi Coal Co., hav- 
ing been Sales and Traffic Manager for that company ten 
years. 

ARTHUR B. PAULE, President and Treasurer of the 
Paule Fuel & Material Co., St. Louis, Missouri, was born 
September 9, 1866, in St. Louis, and has been in the coal 
business for thirty-three years. 

CHARLES dUADE, President Charles Quade Coal & 
Hauling Co., St. Louis, Missouri, was born December 22, 1881, 
in St. Louis, and has been in the coal business sixteen 
years. 

HARRY C. RICH3IER, Vice President and Treasurer 
Ellis & Richmer Coal Co., St. Louis, Missouri, was born 
May 21, 1885, at Louisville, Kentucky, and has been in the 
coal business for fifteen years. He was formerly connected 
with the Maguire Coal Co. 

PHILIP A. RILEY, Secretary and Treasurer City Coal 
Co., St. Louis, Missouri, was born February 13, 1881, at 
Montgomery City, Missouri, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for seventeen years. He was formerly connected with 
the Lumaghi Coal Co. and has served as Treasurer of the 
St. Louis Coal Club. 

ALEXANDER "W. ROBERTSON, Southwestern Sales 
Agent Taylor Coal Co. at St. Louis, Missouri, was born 
November 25, 1887, in Pullman, Illinois, and has been In 
the coal business for sixteen years. He is also interested 
in the A. W. Robertson Coal Co. at Charleston, Missouri, 
and is President of the Energy Coal & Supply Co., Cape 
Girardeau, Missouri. Mr. Robertson was formerly connect- 
ed with the New Kentucky Coal Co. at Chicago until 1909. 

WILLIA3I S. SNYDER, Vice President and General Man- 
ager I-X-L Coal & Mining Co., St. Louis, Missouri, was 
born May 25, 1868, at McArthur, Ohio, and has been in the 
coal business for about twenty years. His company oper- 
ates two retail yards in St. Louis. 

"WILLIAM J. SPUERING, Bookkeeper Hegwein Coal Co., 
St. Louis, Missouri, was born February 8, 1867, in St. Louis, 
and has been in the coal business for twenty years. He 
was formerly connected with Donk Bros. Coal & Coke Co. 

ED. E. SQ,UIER, President Ed. E. Squier Co., St. Louis, 

Missouri, was born February 14, 1842, in New Jersey, and 
has been in the coal business ten years. 

E. E. SQUIER, JR., Vice President and General Manager 
Ed. E. Squier Co., St. Louis, Missouri, was born March 30, 
1879, in Pierre City, Missouri, and has been in the coal 
business for nine years. He is now Captain in the Ordnance 
Department, U. S. R., at Washington, D. C. 

ROBERT HAROLD SQ,UIER. Secretary Ed. E. Squier 
Co., St. Louis, Missouri, was born September 23, 1884, in 
St. Louis, and has been in the coal business about ten years. 



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MICHAEL, E. SULLIVAjV, coal merchant, La Salle Build- 
ing, St. Louis, Missouri, was born December 11, 1859, in 
St. Louis, and has been in the coal business for twenty- 
five years. He was formerly connected with the Maguire 
Coal Co., Consolidated Coal Co., and the St. Louis Coal Co. 

WILLIAM CLIXTOjV TAYLOR, Sales Agent Johnson City 
Coal Co., St. Louis, Missouri, was born July 28, 1889, at 
Divernon, Illinois, and has been in the coal business for 
twelve years. He was formerly connected with the Madi- 
son Coal Corp., Williamson Coal Co., and Southern Illinois 
Coal & Coke Co. 

LOUIS H. TIEMANN, retail coal merchant of 4318 Gra- 
vois Ave., St. Louis, Missouri, was born February 10, 1863, 
in St. Louis, and lias been in the coal business for twenty- 
two years. 

FRANK P. TIRRE, Assistant General Manager North 
Breese Coal & Mining Co., St. Louis, Missouri, was born 
August S. 1S71, in St. Louis, and has been in tlie coal busi- 
ness for twenty-five years. Mr. Tirre was formerly con- 
nected with the Tirre Coal & Mining Co. and the Northern 
Colorado Coal Co. Mr. Tirre lias served as Secretary of the 
Fifth and Ninth Districts Coal Operators Association and 
was Modoc of the St. Louis Order of KoKoal. 

HENRY C. TRIER, Sales Agent D. E. McMillan & Co., 
St. Louis, Missouri, was born September 29, 1877, at St. 
Joseph, Missouri, and has been in the coal business for over 
twenty-one years. He was formerly connected with the 
Madison Coal Corp. and the Western Anthracite Coal & 
Coke Co. Mr. Trier has served as Treasurer of the St. 
Louis Coal Club. 

ORVILLE VIRDEN, General Manager of the Laclede Coal 
Co., St. Louis, Missouri, was born in 1878 in Illinois, and has 
been in the coal business for thirteen years. He was for- 
merly connected with the Smith Lohr Coal & Mining Co., 
the Southern Illinois Coke & Coal Co., St. Louis & O'Fallon 
Coal Co., and the West Virginia Coal Co. 

NATHAN P. WITHINGTON, President and Treasurer 
Pioneer Coal & Coke Co., 1106 Syndicate Trust Building, 
St. Louis, Missouri, -was born in San Francisco, California, 
August 27, 1881, and has been nineteen years in the coal 
business. He was formerly with DeCamp Bros, and the 
Yule Iron, Coal & Coke Co., St. Louis. 

ALEXANDER Y^ULE, Vice President and Secretary Pio- 
neer Coal & Coke Co.. 1109 Syndicate Trust Building, St. 
Louis, Missouri, was born in England September 19, 1870, 
and has been in the coal business over a quarter of a cen- 
tury, all in St. Louis. Mr. Yule has held positions of honor 
in the St. Louis Coal Club, and in 191S was with the United 
States Fuel Administration, Washington, D. C, in charge 
of the distribution of blacksmitliing coal in the United 
States, Canada, Old Mexico, and South America. He is 
also a member of the Advisory Board of the St. Louis 
(Federal) Fuel Committee. 



MISSOURI 



ROBERT W. ALLARDICE, President Allardice Coal Co., 
Trenton, Missouri, was born October 12, 1862, in Ayrshire, 
Scotland, and has been in the coal business thirty years. 

OSCAR F. ARNOLD of the Arnold Wood & Coal Co., 
Webb City, Missouri, was born January 7, 1844, in Franklin 
County, Virginia, and has been in the coal business for fif- 
teen years. 

F. WM. AUTENRIETH, Secretary and Treasurer Clayton 
Supply Co., Clayton, Missouri, was born in Clayton August 
3, 1891, and has been in the retail coal business nine years. 
He was formerly with the St. Louis County Supply Co. Mr. 
Autenrieth is interested in the Autenrieth Hotel, is Secretary 
of the George Autenrieth Estate Co., and while one of the 
youngest coal men in St. Louis County is Chairman of the 
Organization Committee and Advisory Board of the Fuel 
Administration for St. Louis County. 

CLARENCE J. BAXTER, Secretary Big Creek Coal Co., 
Kirksville, Missouri, was born August 31, 1870, at Prairie 
Du Sac, Wisconsin, and has been In the coal business for 
ten years. He was formerly connected with the Star Coal 
Co. at Kirksville, Missouri. 

FRITZ BOEDEKER. Manager Boedeker Coal Co., Hig- 
ginsville, Missouri, was born February 19, 1878, and has 
been in the coal business for twelve years. 

"WILLIAM BURGER, retail coal merchant of Boonville, 
Missouri, was born in Baden, Germany, February 20, 1859, 
and has been in the retail coal business sixteen years. 

D. A. CHILDERS, retail coal merchant of La Grange. 

Missouri, was born in La Grange and bought out the La 
Grange Coal & Feed Co. in 1911. 

GEORGE A. COOPER, retail coal merchant of Neosho, 
Missouri, was born in 1859 in Pennsylvania, and has been 
In the coal business for sixteen years. 



JAMES L. CREASON, Secretary and Treasurer River Side 
Coal & Mining Co., Camden, Missouri, was born in Winston, 
Missouri,' November 18, 1883. 

CHARLES AUGUSTUS CRUIKSHANK, General Manager 
Cruikshank Lumber & Coal Co. of Hannibal, Missouri, was 
born September 3, 1S69, in Hannibal, and has been in tlie 
coal business for about twenty-five years. Mr. Cruikshank 
is well known in the trade and has always taken an inter- 
est in retail coal association affairs. He was President of 
the Mid-State Retail Coal Dealers Association in 1901 and 
1902; Treasurer of National Council of Retail Coal Mer- 
chants, 1901 to 1907; Vice President of the Northwestern 
Retail Coal Dealers' Association, 1909 to 1915, and since that 
Vice President Northwestern Traffic and Service Bureau. 

JOSEPH C. CULBERTSON, retail coal merchant of Tar- 
kio, Missouri, was born May 17, 1850, at Pittsburgh, Penn- 
sylvania, and has been in the coal business for over thirty- 
five years. 

C. P. DAVIDSON, retail coal merchant of De Soto, Mis- 
souri, was born in 1870 in Michigan, and has been in the 
coal business for the last twelve years. 

HENRY T. DEMAREE, General Manager Anaconda Coal 
Co., Clinton, Missouri, was born in Henry County, Kentucky, 
November 1, 1862, and has been interested in the mining of 
coal thirty-six years. He was connected at one time with 
Demaree & Whltworth and Thompson & Demaree. 

CARROLL CASVILLE DE SHON, Manager DeShon & Son, 
Cameron, Missouri, -was born in Buchanan County, Missouri, 
February 16, 1886, and has been four years in the retail coal 
business. 

WILLIAM A. DOEHERTY, Manager Doeherty Fuel Co.,, 
Clinton, Missouri, was born in Kansas in 1889, and has been 
in the coal business eight years. 

JOHN DONAN, retail coal merchant of Mound City, Mis- 
souri, was born July 9, 1873, in Mound City, and has been in 
the coal business for five years. 

SAMUEL L. EVANS, retail coal merchant of Cameron, 
Missouri, was born in Stanberry, Missouri, March 7, 1865. 

ANDREAV FINLAYSON, senior member of Finlayson & Son, 
CarroUton, Missouri, was born in Lanarkshire. Scotland, June 
24, 1860, and has been thirty-one years in the coal business. 
He was in business for himself and later with Finlayson & 
Ryan. 

JOHN T. FINLAY'SON, junior member of Finlayson & Son, 
CarroUton, Missouri, was born in CarroUton October 3, 1886,. 
and has been with the present firm since 1906. 

J. W. FITZPATRICK of the Clark Coal Co., Perry, Mis- 
souri, was born in 1861 in Greenwich, Connecticut, and has 
been in the coal business for twenty-five years. 

ALONZO E. FRAZER of the firm of Frazer & Hall of 
Savannah, Missouri, was born in 1862 at Cedar Rapids, 
Iowa, and has been in the coal business for the last two 
years. 

CLARENCE EVERETT FULTON, retail coal merchant of 
Malta Bend, Missouri, was born March 30, 1857, in Ohio, 
and has been in the coal business for sixteen years. 

EDWARD GANNON, retail coal . merchant at Glasgow, 
Missouri, was born August 1, 1867, and has been in the 
coal business for seven years. He was formerly connected 
with the Consolidated Coal Co. of St. Louis. 

FRANK J. GITTINGS, coal merchant of Neosho, Missouri, 
was born March 11, 1875, in St. Paul, Kansas, and has been 
in the coal business for thirteen years. 

STILING PRICE GUTHRIE, General Manager Guthrie & 
Sons of Mexico, Missouri, was born November 24, 1863, in 
Mexico, and has been in the coal business for thirty years. 
The business was started by Joel Guthrie in 1S75. 

WILLIAM H. HAAS, President Eagle Coal Co., Vandalia, 
Missouri, was born December 12, 1887, at St. Louis, Mis- . 
souri, and has been in the coal business for four years. 

JAMES F. HAGGART, proprietor Haggart Ice & Fuel 
Co. at Joplin, Missouri, born March 7, 1866, at Madison, 
Indiana, and has been in the coal business for fourteen 
years. He has served as Vice President of Joplin Retail 
Coal Dealers Association. 

EDWARD C. HALL, Manager Aurora Coal Co., retailers at 
Aurora, Missouri, was born in Neosho, Missouri, November 
18, 1868, and has been in the coal business seventeen years. 
He is also interested in the T. A. Miller Lumber Co., with 
eight branch yards, all of which handle coal. 

AVILLIAM HOUK, Treasurer Minden Coal Co., Joplin, 
Missouri, was born in Ohio, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness since 1914. 

CHARLES A. HOWELL, well known retail coal merchant 
at Springfield, Missouri, was born November 1, 1866, in Ray 
County, Missouri, and has been in the coal business for 
sixteen years. Mr. Howell was President of the Springfield 
Retail Coal Dealers Association for two years and con- 
tinues to serve as one of the directors. 



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0. S. Hl'IlERT, General Manager of the Minden Coal Co., 
MindiMi Mines, JMissouri, was born March ;i, 1877, in p^rance, 
and has been engaged in coal mining fourteen years and 
in operating coal mines for fifteen years. Mr. Hubert is 
also President and Manager of the Cherokee-Girard Coal 
Co. and the O. S. Hubert Coal Co. 

FU.VMv L. JAMISOA, retail coal merchant of Shelby- 
ville, Missouri, was born February 8, 1863, in Ralls County, 
Missouri, and has been in the coal business for seven years. 

'I'HO^IAS H. JARMAiV, retail coal merchant at Bolivar, 
Missouri, was born in Osage County, Missouri, February 19, 
1862, and has been in the coal business seventeen years, all 
the time in Bolivar. Mr. Jarman was the first retailer to 
introduce Arkansas semi-anthracite and Illinois bituminous 
coal in his home city. 

■\VH,UIA3I IV. JENXIXGS, Manager Central Coal & Sup- 
ply Co. of Moberly, Missouri, was born August 28, 1892, in 
Moberly. and has been in the coal business for eight years. 
This company wholesales coal and building material and 
sells the output of several small mines at Huntsville, Mis- 
souri. Mr. Jennings was formerly a salesman for the North- 
ern Central Coal Co., The Monon Coal Co., and the Coal 
Hill Coal Co. 

CHARLES P. JOHXSOX of the W. E. Johnson Coal Co., 
Joplin, Missouri, was born April 8, 1877, and is associated 
in business with his father. 

W. E. JOHXSON of the W. E. Johnson Coal Co., Joplin, 
Missouri, was born July 31, 1845, in Jasper County, Mis- 
souri, and has been in the coal business for twenty-five 
years. 

J. GARXET JOLLY, Manager Sedalia Trading Co., Se- 
dalia, Missouri, was born January 26, 1886, in Sedalia. 

FLOYD D. JONES, Manager F. D. Jones & Co. of Mar- 
shall, Missouri, was born February 3, 1888, at Malta Bend, 
Missouri, and has been in the coal business for three 
years. He is interested in a yard at Independence, Missouri. 

ERXEST LIXWOOD JORDAN, President River Side Coal 
& Mining Co., Camden, Missouri, was born near Camden, 
March 17, 1872, and has been in the coal business three years. 

CHARLES R. KELLY, General Sales Agent Northern Cen- 
tral Coal Co., Moberly, Missouri, was born September 4, 
1891, at Milan, Missouri, and has been in the coal business 
for six years. 

1. C. KNOTTS, Manager Central Coal & Coke Co. of St. 
Joseph. Missouri, was born March 15, 1865, in Knottsville, 
West Virginia, and has been in the coal business twenty- 
eight years. Mr. Knotts is well known to the coal trade 
of the Southwest and has many warm friends. He was 
recently elected President of the Missouri Retail Coal Mer- 
chants Association. 

L. G. KRUEL, retail coal merchant of Washington, Mis- 
souri, was born October 16, 1873, and has been in the coal 
business eighteen years. Mr. Kruel owns and operates 
a general merchandise store, retail coal business, and is 
Cashier of the Franklin County Bank. 

FRANCIS ASHBY WAKE LEWIN, Superintendent North 
Breese Coal & Mining Co. of Breese, Illinois, ■who lives 
at 436 Park Ave., Webster Grove, Missouri, was born in 
1873 in England, and has been in the coal business for 
twelve years. He has held the position of electrician and 
superintendent in several large Illinois coal mining com- 
panies. 

C. E. LINGSWEILER, Buyer J. G. Lingsweiler Lumber 
Co. of Lebanon, Missouri, was born in Lebanon in 1872. 
He is associated with his brother, A. S. Lingsweiler, suc- 
ceeding their father in business. 

ROLLA V. MARTIN, Manager C. C. Martin & Son, Excel- 
sior Springs, Missouri, was born February 10, 1882, in Ex- 
celsior Springs and has been in the coal business for eight 
years. 

O, J. MAYBERRY, Manager Mayberry, Byington & Tul- 
lock at Farmington, Missouri, was born in 1854 in Cum- 
berland County, Pennsylvania, and has been in the coal 
business for eight years. 

ARTHUR FREDERIC McELHENIE, Division Sales Agent 
of the Pittsburgh & Midway Coal Mining Co. of Joplin, 
Missouri, was born November 15, 1888, at Peru, Illinois, and 
has been in the coal business for fifteen years. He was 
formerly connected with the Fidelity Coal Mining Co. 

EDWARD J. McGREW, President McGrew Coal Co. of 
Lexington, Missouri, a well known Missouri coal operator, 
was born April 23, 1872, at Lexington, and has been in 
the coal business for over thirty years. Mr. McGrew has 
served as a Director of the Southwestern Coal Operators 
Association. 



ARCH F. MEYER, proprietor Arch F. Meyer Fuel & 
Feed Co., Hannibal, Missouri, was born September 8, 1878, 
at Hannibal, Missouri, and has been in the coal business for 
two years. 

AVILLIAM E. MOORE, coal merchant of Independence, 
Missouri, was born in Independence March 17, 1877, and has 
been in the coal business for twelve years. 

J. 1». MORGAN, retail coal merchant at Duenweg, Mis- 
souri, was born December 24, 1858, in Clay County, Illinois, 
and has been in the coal business about twelve years. 

AVALTER T. OLDEHWORTH, General Manager Clayton 
Supply Co., Clayton, Missouri, was born in Clayton December' 
14, 1873, and has been in the coal business twenty-four 
years. He is also interested in Clayton real estate and St. 
Louis county farm lands, and active in church work. He 
was formerly with J. G. Weber Co., Beckmann Bros., and 
St. Louis County Supply Co. 

CHARLES H. PAYSON, retail coal merchant of Macon, 
Missouri, was born January 4, 1S75, in Macon, and has been 
in the coal business for sixteen years. 

ISADORE PICKERING, President Pickering Coal Co. of 
Richmond, Missouri, who operates six mines in Missouri, 
was born in 1862 at Kingston, Pennsylvania, and has been 
in the coal business since May 5, 1889. 

JOHN REESE, Manager Crescent Coal Co., Browington, 
Missouri, was born in Ohio in 1876, and has passed his life 
about the inines. 

P. H. RUTHERFORD, General Manager P. H. & J. T. 
Rutherford, Hannibal, Missouri, was born January 3, 1869, 
in Marion County, Iowa, and has been in the coal business 
sixteen years. 

EDAVARD SIMPSON, JR., Foreman Central Coal & Coke 
Co., Bevier, Missouri, was born, in England October 24, 1873, 
and has been in the mining end of the coal business thirty- 
one years. He was forrnerly with the North Western Coal & 
Mining Co. 

JAMES CLINTON SPAHR, retail coal merchant of Skid- 
more, Missouri, was born September 19, 1858, in Xenia, Ohio, 
and has been in the coal business for fifteen years. 

J. G. STARR, President Minden Coal Co., Joplin, Mis- 
souri, was born in Illinois, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for two years. 

E. B. STOCKTON of the firm of Stockton & Lampkin of 
Warrensburg, Missouri, was born March 6, 1869, in Warrens- 
burg, and has been in the coal business fifteen years. The 
present firm was formed in 1907. Associated with Mr. 
Stockton are J. H. Lampkin and G. M. Boyd, who also oper- 
ate the Boyd Coal Co., mining coal and operating a steam 
shovel. All their coal is sold for local use. 

WALTER A. STORRS, President and Treasurer Storrs 
Ice & Coal Co. of Hannibal, Missouri, was born December 
3, 1874, in Hannibal, and has been in the coal business for 
twenty-three years. This business was established by 
George W. Storrs, father of Walter A. Storrs, in partnership 
with James P. Hinton in 1871 and in 1910 the Storrs took 
over the Hinton interest. The firm does a large retail 
coal and ice business. 

ERNEST A. STORY, Owner and Manager E. A. Story Coal 
Co., Charleston, Missouri, was born in Charleston July 27, 
1891, and has been three years in the retail coal business. 

MICH.VEL \V. SUMMERS of Alma, Missouri, was born in 
1846 in Ireland, and has been in the coal business for fifty- 
five years. Mr. Summers came to Missouri from Pennsyl- 
vania in 1867. 

J. S. THOMAS, retail coal merchant of Pleasant Hill, 
Missouri, was born October 13, 1859, at Syracuse, Indiana, 
and has been in the coal business for over twenty-three 
years. 

JAMES R. TUCKER, retail coal merchant at Fulton, Mis- 
souri, was born in November, 1873, in Fulton, and has been 
in the coal business for the last ten years. 

JOHN .T. WARD, Superintendent Kansas City-Midland 
Coal & Mining Co. of Novinger, Missouri, was born in 
1862 in Mendota, Missouri, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for thirty-five years. He was formerly connected with 
the Mendota Committee and has served on the scale com- 
mittees of the Southwestern Interstate Coal Operators 
Association. 

THOMAS WEDGE, Superintendent McGrew Coal Co. of 
Lexington, Missouri, was born July 31, 1872, in England, 
and has been in the coal business for thirty-two years, 
sixteen of which have been with this present firm. 



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MONTANA 



MEASUEED l3y the records of many of the states 
east of the Mississippi river the commercial 
development of the coal resources of Montana 
is still very much in the infant stage, but this junior- 
ship is of typical lusty western character and has al- 
ready attained a production close to 4,000,000 tons per 
annum, while the extent of the coal measures in the 
state has attracted wide attention from government geo- 
logical experts and the output is rapidly growing in 
practical economic importance. Although limited in its 
area of distribution, both because of transportation con- 
ditions and freight rates and the competition of coals 
from other fields in the states to the east, demand within 
its own borders and from the railroads absorbs the 
greater percentage of the output. 

In character the Montana coal fields range from bitu- 
minous through sub-bituminous to lignite and are esti- 
mated to underlie 34,000 square miles of territory to 
.a depth of two feet and more within the state. The 
largest field of sub-bituminous and lignitic formation 
is in the eastern part of the state and includes most of 
Eosebud, Custer, Dawson and Valley counties. The 
sub-bituminous coal is classified by the United States 
Geological Survey as "low grade" and finds its principal 
market locally in the vicinity of Miles City and G-len- 
dive. The eastern section of the lignite area lying in 
Dawson county — ^Icnown as the Sentinel Butte field of 
North Dakota and Montana — is part of the Fort Union 
region which covers a considerable area in northern 
\Vyoming, eastern Montana, western JSTorth Dakota and 
northwestern South Dakota. Mining on a commercial 
scale has been developed at Glendive, 25 niiles to the 
west of the Sentinel Butte field, but although operations 
in the region just named were carried on by the North- 
ern Pacific Eailway in the early '"80s, these have long 
since been abandoned and at present the production is 
of purely local character. 

The Bull ^Mountain field, which the United States 
Geological Survey believes is destined to take the lead 
among producing areas in the state, was the subject of 
geological attention as early as 1881. That part of the 
field of commercial importance, the eastern, lies south 
of the ]\russelshell river, between Boundup and Mus- 
selshell, extending southward for a distance of 25 miles 
and estimated to contain Ijetween 500 and 600 square 



miles of coal lands. As many as 14 distinct beds have 
been chartered in the Bull Mountains. Some of the 
measures are from three to five feet thick and one, ap- 
propriately known as the "Mammoth Seam," is from 
eight to 15 feet in thickness. 

For the present, however, the Eed Lodge field, located 
in Yellowstone county in the vicinity of Eed Lodge and 
Bear Creek, is of the greatest commercial importance. 
The coal here is "sub-lntuminous in character, but so 
near the dividing line between sub-bituminous and bitu- 
minous that.it is rather difficult to classify." The beds 
in this field, of which seven are known to' exist, range 
from three feet to 12 feet in thickness and cover an 
area of approximately 32 square miles. "It is about 
the same quality as the coal of the Bull Mountain field 
and both are classed as high grade sub-bituminous 
coals." 

The Great Falls field, which enjoys a large share of 
the copper smelting business at Anaconda and Great 
Falls, is in Cascade county and is the scene of heavy 
operations. Mines located at Sand Coulee, Stockett and 
Belt produce a considerable percentage of the output of 
the state. Geologically speaking these coal measures 
extending to the eastward nearly across Fergus county 
and southwestward for a number of miles up Hound 
Creek, are, with one exception, the oldest in the state. 
The principal commercial development, however, is in 
Cascade county, Lewiston furnishing the leading con- 
suming market for the Fergus county coal. 

Of minor imj^ortance are the Bridger field of bitu- 
minous coal in Carbon county to the east of the Eed 
Lodge sub-l:)ituminous area, the sub-bituminous district 
along the Milk river in the- northwestern part of • the 
state in Chouteau county and the Trail Creek and Elec- 
tric fields. 

The first government record of production in Mon- 
tana was in 1880, when an output of 224 tons was re- 
ported. Developments for the next few years were ir- 
regular, jumping from 19,795 tons in 1883 to 80,376 
tons in 1.884, increasing to 86,440 tons in 1885 and 
dropping to 49,846 tons the following year "and to 10,203 
tons in 1887. In 1888 production rose to 41,467 tons 
and in 1889 had increased to 363,301 tons. Production 
for the succeeding years was 517.477, 541,861, 802.309, 
and 027.395 tons respectively. In 1895 the 1.000,000,- 



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COAL MRX OF AMERICA 



ton iiiiirk was passi'd with an output ol' 1,504,193 tons. 
I'roiluctidu statistics siin-c tlial datr aic as follows: 



Year. Ton. 

1896 1,543,44.5 

1897 1,647,882 

1898 1.479,803 

1899 1.496.451 

1900 1,661.775 

1901 1,396,081 

1902 1,560,823 

1903 1,488,810 

1904 1.358,919 

1905 1,643,832 

1906 1,829,921 



Year. Ton. 

1907 2,016,857 

1908 1,920,190 

1909 2,553,940 

1910 2,920,970 

1911 2,976,358 

1912 3,048,495 

1913 3,240,973 

1914 2,805,173 

1915 2,789,755 

1916 3,632,527 



Under normal conditions little of the Montana pro- 
di;ction has been al)le to enter markets outside of the 
state. In 1915. for example, 1,638,750 tons, or approxi- 
jnately 59 per cent., was consumed in ifoutana. Of this 
tonnage 122,593 tons were burned at the mines for 
steam and heat, 105,924 tons were sold locally, and 
1,410,234 tons were shipped to various points within 
the state. The railroads purchased 1,050,319 tons, or 
approximately 38 per cent, of the output. The remain- 



ing three ])er cent., or 100,686 tons, was distributed as 
follows: Idaho, 9.311 tons; North Dakota, 44,814 ; 
South Dakota, 25,702; and Wa.shington. 20.859. 

From the point of vie^y of per capita bituminous con- 
sumption Montana, with 4.76 tons, ranks third in the 
list of states, being exceeded only by Illinois and Dela- 
ware. Although its anthracite consum])tion is very 
small, .01 ton, the heavy bituminous consumption en- 
ables it to maintain a high place in the total per capita 
consumption. The showing with respect to square mile 
consumption, however, is naturally far below the coun- 
try-wdde average, being 15 tons against 123 tons. In 
1915, ]\lontana drew over 72 per cent, of its coal re- 
quirements from its own mines. The total consumption 
for the state, including 5,000 tons of Pennsylvania an- 
thracite, was 2,258,711 tons. As showm in the preced- 
ing paragraph, 1,638.750 tons of this amount were of 
Montana origin. Wyoming came second, contributing 
594,602 tons; Utah third, with 17,301 tons; eastern 
dock coal receipts totaled 3,000 tons, while an all-rail 
movement of 58 tons from Maryland, probably for 
smithing purposes, was also reported. 



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MONTANA 



JOHN AUSTIN BLESSING, coal jobber, Great Falls, Mon- 
tana, was born August 6, 1887, in White Sulphur Springs, 
Montana, and has been in the coal business six years. Mr. 
Blessing was previously connected with the Sandcoulee Coal 
Co., Monarch Coal Mining Co., Consolidated Coal Co., and 
the National Fuel Co. He has been engaged in business 
for himself since February 9, 1918. 

JAMES BRODIE, Manager James Brodie & Son, coal op- 
erators of Belt, Montana, was born August 16, 1860, in 
England, and has been in the coal business for seven years. 

H. EARL CLACK, President H. Earl Clack Co., retail coal 
merchants of Havre, Montana, was born in Texas and has 
been in the coal business for about ten years. He Is also 
interested in the Northern Transfer & Storage Co., operat- 
ing a coal mine at Havre. 

THOS. P. CLTJNOW, Secretary, Treasurer and General 
Manager of the National Fuel Co. of Billings, Montana, was 
formerly connected with the Great Northern Railway for 
ten years. 

JAMES P. DANSON, President Consolidated Coal Co., 
Great Falls. Montana, was born July 4, 1876, in England. 
Mr. Danson has been connected with the Interstate Coal 
& Coke Co., C. M. Moderwell & Co., and Nelson Coal Co., 
and Western Representative of Geo. G. Pope & Co. of Chi- 
cago for several years. 

J. R. ECK, Superintendent Perry-Eck Fuel & Mortar Co., 
Missoula, Montana, was born September 7, 1887, at St. Paul, 
Indiana, and has been in the coal business about three 
years. Before entering liis present company Mr. Eck w^as in 
the construction business for twelve years. 

CHAS. O. FISHER, Manager Fisher Coal & Ice Co., Ger- 
aldine, Montana, was born February 26, 1885, at Somerset, 
Ohio, and has been in the coal business for three years. 

PHIL GRENI, President Crystal Ice & Fuel Co., Billings, 
Montana, was born July 22, 1863, in Germany, and has been 
in the coal business for eight years. 

HENRY H. GRIFFITH, retail coal merchant of Butte, 
Montana, was born in Iowa, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for seventeen years. Mr. Griffith is also interested 
in the Owl Creek Coal Co. of Gebo, Wyoming. 

FRANK F. HAYES, President and Manager Western Fuel 
Co., Butte, Montana, was born in 1874 at Alpena, Michigan, 
and has been in the coal business Ave years. 

FRED T. HliOTTE, President Pioneer Fuel Co., Butte, 
Montana, was born February 12, 1884. at Chippewa Falls, 
Wisconsin, and has been in the coal business for eighteen 
years. Prior to his present position he was with the Ohio 
Coal Co., Chequamegon Ice Co., and George W. Miars of 
Ashland, Wisconsin. 

R. J. JOHANNES, President National Fuel Co., Helena, 
Montana, ■was born June 17, 1870, at Humboldt, Michigan, 
and has been in the coal business for twenty years. Mr. 
Johannes has been President of the Helena Retail Coal Deal- 
ers Association. 

"W. E. MARTIN, Manager Glendive Transfer Co., retailers 
of coal at Glendive, Montana, was born November 20, 1870, 
at St. Louis, Michigan, and has handled coal for the past 
three years. 



ROBERT A. KELLY, Manager Washoe Coal Co., Ana- 
conda, Montana, was born in 1882 at St. Martins, Ohio, and 
has been in the coal business for the past year. His part- 
ner, W. H. Fuchscherer, a native of Menasha, Wisconsin, 
has lived in Anaconda, Montana, for sixteen years, and is 
interested in the Anaconda Brewing Co., Anaconda Ice Co., 
Kentucky Liquor Co., and Washoe Coal Co. He enlisted and 
left for Camp Lewis, Washington, March 29, 1918. 

CHARLES H. LANE, Manager of National Fuel Co. at 
Butte, Montana, was born May 13, 1854, at Natick, Massa- 
chusetts, and has been . in the coal business for twenty 
years. Mr. Lane was previously connected with the West- 
ern Fuel Co., Harris & Lane Co., and the Wyoming Coal 
Mining Co. He was also Mayor of Butte from 1915 to 1917. 

L. M. McAllister, proprietor Black Coal & Transfel 
Co., Great Falls, Montana, was born December 21, 1867, at 
Logansport, Indiana, and has been in the coal business for 
the past two years. Previous to going into business for 
himself Mr. McAllister was for fifteen years Superintendent 
of the Great Falls Street Railway. 

GEORGE L. ONSTAD, retail coal merchant of Westby, 
Montana, was born July 6, 1872, at Red Wing, Minnesota, 
and has been in the coal business for ten years. 

JOHN PEARSON, Superintendent Cottonwood Coal Co., 
coal operators at Stockett, Montana, was born in 1868 at 
Braidwood, Illinois, and has been in the coal business for 
thirty years. Previous to going with this present com- 
pany Mr. Pearson was with the Carbon Coal Co., Big Sandy 
Coal Co., and for seven years retailed coal at Great Falls, 
Montana. 

CHESTER C. PERRY, Manager Perry-Eck Fuel & Mortar 
Co., formerly the O. W. Perry Co., Missoula, Montana, was 
born September 19, 1880, in Kansas, and has been in the 
coal business for eight years. 

GEORGE M. PIERCE, one of the proprietors and opera- 
tors of the Peerless coal mine at Plentywood, Montana, was 
born February 8, 1863, in Dubuque, Iowa, and has been in 
the coal business ten years. 

FRANK ERWIN SMITH, Manager Hoffman Coal Co., retail 
coal merchants of Helena, Montana, was born in New 
York, and has been in the coal business eleven years. Mr. 
Smith was formerly connected with the Trail Creek Coal 
& Land Co. 

W. CARTER SNELL, proprietor Snell Bros., retail coal 
mercliants of Miles City. Montana, was born in Miles City in 
July, 1884, and has been in the coal business for nine years. 
Previous to forming his present company Mr. Snell was 
Manager of the Peoples Coal Co. 

FRED H. STURM, member of the firm of Sturm & Yaw. 
wholesalers of coal at Great Falls, Montana, was born 
October 14, 1885, at Shannon, Illinois, and has been in the 
coal business for twelve years. Mr. Sturm is also Vice 
President of the Carbon Coal & Coke Co. of Sandcoulee, 
Montana, and Secretary-Treasurer of the Cascade County 
Coal Operators' Association. Previous to going into busi- 
ness for himself Mr. Sturm was Sales Agent for The Sheri- 
dan Coal Co., Roundup Coal Mining Co.. and the Bear Creek 
Coal Co. 

R. L. "WHEELER, one of the proprietors and operators of 
the Peerless coal mine at Plentywood. Montana, was born 
May 6, 1882, in Tipton, Indiana, and has been in the coal 
business seven years. 



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ALTHOUGH portions of the western interior coal 
field (Missouri, Kansas and Iowa) underlie the 
southeastern section of Nebraska, the existence 
of workable beds in this area is still a matter of specu- 
lation, so that it is solely as a coal consumer that this 
state at present holds the attention of the commercial 
side of the industry. Like Iowa and Minnesota it has 
been one of the battle fields in the market competition 
between coals mined east of the Indiana-Ohio state line 
and tliose produced in Illinois and Indiana. It has also 
been one of the meeting places for coals mined east and 
coals mined west of the Mississippi river. Under nor- 
mal conditions its principal market, Omaha, had the 
reputation of handling coals from more different mining 
fields than any other city in the United States. From 
the East it was drawing anthracite, smokeless, splints, 
smithing and Kentucky gas and general bituminous 
coals, Illinois was shipping from several fields, but more 
particularly the southern ; Indiana sent some coal ; Ar- 
kansas offered its smokeless and semi-anthracites ; Col- 
orado its anthracite and l)itiiminous coal; Iowa, Kan- 



sas and Missouri the coals from the western interioi 
field and Wyoming its product. 

Exclusive of 527,300 tons of Pennsylvania anthra- 
cite and approximately 100,000 tons of various kinds of 
coal moving from off of the docks the total consumption 
of the state in 1915 was 3,088,180 tons. The sources 
of supply and the tonnages received from each coal- 
producing state were as follows: Arkansas, 120,376 
tons; Colorado, 422,320; Illinois, 938,905; Indiana, 
2,833; Iowa, 143,108; Kansas, 774,937; Kentucky, 
92,091 ; ]\[issouri, 203,337 ; New Mexico, 339 ; Pennsyl- 
vania bituminous, 24,963 : "West Virginia, 1,553 ; Wyo- 
ming, 363,418 tons. 

The per capita consiimption for the state, 3.95 tons 
in 1915, is slightly over the average for the country as 
a whole. The bituminous coal figure of 2.53 tons is .49 
ton greater while the anthracite falls .36 ton short of 
attaining the national average of .78 ton. Due largely 
to the high percentage of land devoted to farming and 
general agricultural purposes, the square mile consump- 
tion during that year was only 48 tons. 



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WILLIAM R. BROOKS, Lincoln, Nebraska, 

President of W. R. Bi'ooks Coal Co. of Lincoln, Nebraska, 
■was born at York, Nebraska, December 16. 1876, and has 
been in the coal business for fifteen years. Mr. Brooks was 
formerly connected with the Consolidated Fuel Co. of Fre- 
mont, Nebraska. 



HERBERT T. FOLSOM, Lincoln, Nebraska, 

Secretary and Treasurer of the Union Coal Co. of Lincoln, 
Nebraska, was born in Brooklyn, New York, In 1870 and 
has been in the coal business almost a quarter of a century. 
Mr. Folsom is the only active man in the company and is 
also a Director of the North Western Traffic and Service 
Bureau and has always taken an active interest in move- 
ments for the betterment of trade conditions. 





SAMUEL S. SEELY, Lincoln, Nebraska, 

President and Manager of the Consumers Coal Co., engaged 
in the retail coal business at Lincoln, Nebraska, was born at 
Bennett, Nebraska, February 22, 1879, and has been in the 
coal business for sixteen years. Mr. Seeley was associated 
with J. M. Clarke in the City Fuel Co. before organizing this 
present company. Previous to that time he was connected 
with Schaupp & Hurd, Charles B. Gregory, and Marsh-Burke 
Co. 



SETH SERAT SWIFT, Lincoln, Nebraska, 

Vice President of the National Supply Co., Inc., doing a 
jobbing business at Lincoln, Nebraska, was born at Addi- 
son, New York, February 1, 1881, and has been in the coal 
business for fifteen years. He counts among his customers 
many of the leading retailers in Nebraska and Iowa. 



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G. W. MEGEATH, Omaha, Nebraska, 

President of the Sheridan Coal Co., one of the largest pro- 
ducing companies in the West, was born in Londen County, 
Virginia, June 1, 1857, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for thirty-one years. Mr. Meg'eath is also interested 
in the Roundup Coal Mining Co. and was formerly con- 
nected with C. B. Havens & Co . Union Pacific Coal Co., and 
the Central Coal & Coke Co. He is prominent in the trade 
and widely known. 



FORREST RICHARDSON, Oiiiiilin, Nebraska, 

General Sales Manager of the Sheridan Coal Co.. with head- 
quarters at Omaha. Nebraska, was born in Cliarlestown, 
West Virginia, April 29, 1869, and has been in- the coal 
business t wentj^-eight years. Mr. Richardson was for- 
merly connected with C. B. Havens & Co. and the Central 
Coal & Coke Co. and is at present interested in the Roundup 
Coal Mining Co. 





E. B. CARRIGAN, Omaha, Nebraska, 

Late President of the E. B. Carrigan Co., of Omaha. Ne- 
braska, was born in New York, September 1, 1866, and had 
been in the coal lousiness almost a ciuarter of a century at 
the time of his death in 1917. Mr. Carrigan was formerly 
connected with the Central Coal & Coke Co of Kansas City, 
Missouri. 



ARTHI;R BISSELL, CTRRIE, Omaha, Nebraska, 

Proprietor of the A. B. Currie Co. of Omaha, Nebraska, was 
born at Denver, Colorado. September 4, 1876, and has been 
in the coal business for twenty-five years. Mr. Currie was 
formerly connected with the Binford Coal Co. and Colorado 
Coal & Coke Co. of Pueblo. Colorado, Grand Junction Min- 
ing & Fuel Co., Grand Junction. Colorado, Glen Rock Coal 
Co., Glen Rock. Wyoming, and Fidelity Coal Mining Co. of 
Kansas City. Missouri. He is also a member of various 
prominent clubs of Omaha, as well as several fraternal 
orders, being a pioneer member of the Pueblo, Colorado, 
Lodge of Elks and several Masonic bodies. 



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GEORGE W. GARDINER, Omaha, Nebraska, 

Vice President and Manager of the Carbon Coal & Supply 
Co. of Omaha, Nebraska, was born at "West Unity, Ohio, in 
1876, and has been in the coal business for fifteen years. 
Mr. Gardner was formerly connected with C. B. Havens & 
Co. of Omaha and Breese-Trenton Mining- Co. of St. Louis, 
Missouri, and was active in the Order KoKoal. He is one 
of the most popular coalmen in the Missouri River territory. 



FREDERICK S. MARTIIV, Omaha, Nebraska, 

President and Manager of F. S. Martin & Co., doing a 
wholesale coal business in Omaha, also Vice President and 
Treasurer of the Peoples Coal Co., a retail firm in Omaha, 
was born in Danville, Illinois, January 30, 1877, and en- 
tered the coal business as Omaha representative of the 
Manufacturers Coal & Coke Co. of Chicago in April, 1904. 



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NEBRASKA — Lincoln 



JESSE M. CLARK, Secretary and Treasurer of the Con- 
sumers Coal Co. of Lincoln, Nebraska, was born at "Waverly, 
Iowa, December 12, 1885, and has been in the coal business 
for ten years. He was formerly connected with the City 
Fuel Co. and the Gregory Coal Co. of Lincoln. 

LANDY CLARK, President Landy Clark Co., Lincoln, 
Nebraska, was born at Marion, Ohio, in 1SG4. and has been 
in the coal business twenty-four years. Mr. Clark is Presi- 
dent of the Clark Lumber Co. and tlie Gering' Lumber Co. 

MARION TAYLOR CUMMINGS, President of the M. T. 
Cummings Coal Co. of Lincoln, Nebraska, was born in Van 
Buren County, Iowa, June 21, 1862, and has been in the coal 
business for thirty-two years. Mr. Cummings has been 
connected with A. J. Griffin of Lawrence, Kansas, and 
Cummings & Laughlin and Cummings & Pease of Beatrice, 
Nebraska. 

JOSEPH HOMER DEADMAIV, Secretary of the National 
Supply Co. of Lincoln, Nebraska, was born in Mahomet, 
Illinois. April 30, 1881, and has been in the coal business 
for eight years. 

JOHX T. DORGAIV, President of the Whitebreast Coal & 
Lumber Co. of Lincoln. Nerbaska. a native of Taunton, 
Massachusetts, was born June 16, 1866, and has been in the 
coal business for thirty-two years. 

-WILLIAM D. EASLEY, Manager of the Easley-Graham 
Co. of Lincoln, Nebraska, was born in Halifax County, Vir- 
ginia, and has been in the coal business for ten years. 

SAMUEL A. FOSTER, President of the S. A. Foster Lum- 
ber Co. of Lincoln, Nebraska, was born at Leavenworth, 
Kansas, September 18, 1858, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness almost forty years. Mr. Poster was formerly con- 
nected with Foster & Smith Lumber Co. 

ED'W'ARD V. GIESLER, proprietor of the Giesler Coal Co., 
doing a retail business at Lincoln, Nebraska, was born at 
Lincoln, March 23, 1878, and has been in the coal business 
for sixteen years. He was 'with the Whitebreast Coal & 
Lumber Co. for eight years prior to forming this company. 

JOSEPH F. HrTCHINS, President of the Hutchins & 
Hyatt Co. of Lincoln, Nebraska, was born at Lowell, Massa- 
chusetts, September 25, 1853, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness at the same location since 1876. 

J. H. JOHNSON, Manager of the Western Brick & Supply 
Co., doing a retail coal business at Lincoln, Nebraska, is a 
native of Nebraska, born June 15, 1887, and has been ip 
the coal business for ten years. 

W. L. McCLAY, member of the Hutchins & Hyatt Co., re- 
tailers at Lincoln, Nebraska, was born in Illinois in 1869, 
and has been in the coal business for twenty years. Mr. 
McClay was formerly connected with the Whitebreast Coal 
& Lumber Co. 

HAROLD BANCROFT 3IILES of Lincoln, Nebraska, was 
born at Jerseyville, Illinois, June 15, 1879, and has been in 
the coal business for seventeen years. Mr. Miles is also 
Secretary and Treasurer of the Grand River Coal Co. of 
Gainesville. Missouri, and was formerly connected with the 
Cambria Mining Co. of Cambria, Wyoming, and C. B. Ha- 
vens & Co. of Omaha, Nebraska. 

GEORGE I. SMITH, Manager of the Smith-McCain Co., 
doing a retail coal business at Lincoln, Nebraska, was born 
at Moline, Illinois, December 4, 1857, and has been In the 
coal business for thirty years. Mr. Smith was formerly 
connected "with A. H. Weir & Co. of Lincoln. 

GEORGE W. VOSS, President and Treasurer of the Geo. 
W. Voss Co. of Lincoln, Nebraska, was born at State Center, 
Iowa, in 1874, and has been in the coal business for twenty 
years. Mr. Voss has other coal and lumber interests at 
Weeping Water, Nebraska. He "was formerly connected 
"nath the Voss Lumber Co. of Belle Plain, Iowa. 

JOHN H. YOST, President and General Manager of the J. 
H. Tost Lumber Co., retail coal merchants at Lincoln, Ne- 
braska, was born July 20, 1859, and has been in the coal 
business for twenty-seven years. Mr. Yost is also inter- 
ested in the Sutton Lumber Co., "whicn,. together with the 
J. H. Yost Lumber Co., operates a great many branches 
throughout Nebraska. 



NEBRASKA — Omaha 



WOOD ALLEN of the Allen & Reynolds Coal Co., whole- 
salers engaged in business at Omaha, Nebraska, was born 
at Leslie, Michigan, on November 13, 1870, and has been in 
the coal business almost thirty years. Mr. Allen "was for- 
merly connected with the Nebraska Fuel Co. and was Pictor 
of the Omaha Breaker of the Order KoKoal. 



JOS. T. BEATTY, retailer engaged in the coal business at 
Omaha, Nebraska, was born in Ohio, July 11, 1846, and has 
been in business for himself for seventeen years. 

JEFF AV. BEDFORD, President of Jeff W. Bedford Co., 
retailers at Omalui, Nebraska, was born at Lexington, Ne- 
braska, in 1845, and has been in the coal business for forty 
years. Mr. Bedford was formerly connected with the Rich 
Hill Coal Co., American Fuel Co., and Oak Block Coal Co., 
and has been in business at Omaha since 1881 and is a 
pioneer coal dealer of his city. 

ALBERT W. BONNER, President of the A. W. Bonner 
Coal & Ice Co. of Omaha, Nebraska, was born at Omaha, 
June 12, 1886, and has been in the coal business for twenty 
years. Mr. Bonner was formerly connected with the J. C. 
Kehoe Coal Co. and C. B. Havens Co. 

ED"VVARD P. BOYER, Manager of the Boyer-Van Kuran 
Lumber & Coal Co. of Omaha, Nebraska, was born at Omaha, 
December 10, 1879, and has been in the coal business for 
eleven years. 

FRANK A. BROADWELL, 4724 South 24th Street, Omaha, 
Nebraska, is President and Manager of the Broadwell- 
Roberts Co., and has been engaged in the coal business 
twenty-four years. He was formerly with the Sunderland 
Bros. Co.. at Omaha. He was born in Plattsburg, New York 
July 3, 1859. 

3IOSHIER G. COLPETZER, President Chicago Lumber 
Co. of Omaha, Nebraska, was born in Omaha in 1877 and 
has been in the coal business twenty years, having built up 
a large organization with many branches. 

GILBERT S. DONOHO. proprietor of the Donoho Coal Co., 
wholesalers at Omaha, Nebraska, was born at Troy, Illinois, 
November 17, 1876, and has been in the coal business for 
twelve years. He was formerly connected with the Donoho- 
Engler Coal Co. and Donoho & Son. 

FRANK W. ENGLER, Manager of the Engler Coal & 
Supply Co. of Omaha, Nebraska, was born at Omaha, Janu- 
ary 19, 1877, and has been in the coal business for eight 
years. Mr. Engler was formerly connected with the Donoho- 
Engler Coal Co. 

FRANK A. FITZGERALD, Division Manager of the Baum 
Coal Co. at Omaha, Nebraska, was born at Maysville, Ken- 
tucky, June 19, 1884, and has been in the coal business for 
twelve years. Mr. Fitzgerald, before his connection with this 
company, was with the McAlester Fuel Co. and the New 
River Consumers Coal Co. 

RAY C. GODDARD, President and General Manager of the 
Peoples Coal Co., well known retailers of Omaha. Nebraska, 
was born at East Dubuque, Illinois, June 19, 1884, and has 
been in the coal business for twelve years. Mr. Goddard 
was formerly connected with the Union Pacific Coal Co. 
and Central Coal & Coke Co. of Omaha. 

GEORGE E. HARDING, proprietor of G. E. Harding Coal 
Co., engaged in business at Omaha, Nebraska, was born in 
Iowa February 8, 1872, and has been in the coal business 
for himself three years. 

ANSON L. HAVENS, proprietor of the Havens Coal Co., 

retailers at Omaha, Nebraska, was born at North Amherst, 
Ohio, August 6, 1860, and has been in the coal business for 
twenty-one years. He was formerly connected with the 
Tom Collins Havens Coal Co. and the Havens-White Coal 
Co. Mr. Havens was active in the Order KoKoal and is 
President of the Northwestern Traffic and Service Bureau. 

EDWARD E. HOWELL, proprietor of Edward E. Howell 
& Son, retailers at Omaha, Nebraska, was born in Canada 
August 4, 1860, and has been in the coal business almost 
forty years. This business was started in 1880 by S. J. 
Howell, his father, and taken over by him in 1892, and he 
is being assisted by S. J. Howell, Jr., his son. 

EDWARD H. HOWLAND, President of the E. H. Howland 
Lumber & Coal Co. of Omaha, Nebraska, was born at Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio, on March 29, 1851, and has been in the coal 
business for thirty years. 

CHARLES WATSON HULL, President of the C. W. Hull 
Co., doing a wholesale coal business at Omaha. Nebraska, 
was born at Coldwater, Michigan, in 1864, and has been in 
the coal business for thirty years. 

FRANK A. MANLEY, Vice President and General Manager 
of the Union Pacific Coal Co. at Omaha, Nebraska, was born 
at La Rue, Ohio, March 13, 1867, and has been in the coal 
business for thirty years. Mr. Manley is also interested in 
the Porter Fuel Co. of Colorado as Vice President and "was 
formerly connected with the Kemmerer Coal Co. of Wyom- 
ing. 

WINDSOR F. MEGEATH, Vice President and Secretary 
of the Sheridan Coal Co., wholesalers at Omaha, Nebraska, 
is a native of Omaha, and has been in the coal business for 
seven years. 



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LOUIS NELSON of the Allen & Reynolds Coal Co. of Oma- 
ha, Nebraska, was born at Marshalltown, Iowa, November 
16, 1878, and has been in the coal business for fifteen years. 
Mr. Nelson was formerly connected with C. B. Havens & 
Co. and Baum Coal Co. of Omaha. 

G. LYNN PARSONS, President of the Central Coal & Coke 
Co., large wholesale concern at Omaha, Nebraska, was born 
at Kansas City, Missouri, August 17, 1883, and has been in 
the coal business for fifteen years. Mr. Parsons has been 
with this company since its inception. 

RONALD L. PATERSON, President of the Nebraska Fuel 
Co. of Omaha, Nebraska, is a native of Omaha, born April 
12, 1885, and has been in the coal business lor twelve years. 
Mr. Paterson is also President of the Elk Creek Mining- Co. 
of Colorado. 

GEORGE "W. PLATNER, proprietor of the Farmers Lum- 
ber Co. and Plainer Lumber & Coal Co. of Omaha, Nebraska, 
was born at Glidden, Iowa, October 31, 1871, and has been 
in the coal business for six years, operating four yards in 
Omaha at present. 

LOUIS N. PLATNER, Manager of the Plainer Lumber & 
Coal Co., doing a retail business at Omaha, Nebraska, was 
born at Glidden, Iowa, in 1880, and has been in the coal 
business for five years. 

ALFRED REDMON, senior member of Alfred Redmon Co., 
engaged in retail coal business at Omaha, Nebraska, was 
born at Cicero, Indiana, July 25, 1851, and has been in the 
coal business for thirty years. Mr. Redmon was formerly 
connected with the Moore Loring Co., Le Mars, Iowa, and A. 
Redmon Lumber Co., Moville, Iowa. 

CHARLES M. REVNOLDS. Vice President and Treasurer 
Nebraska Fuel Co., liandling coal at wholesale and retail 
at Omaha, Nebraska, was born in North Platte, Nebraska, 
January 1, 1890, and has been in the coal business about 
a year. Mi-. Rejmolds has been in the banking business 
ten years and is President of the Maxwell State Bank of 
Maxwell, Nebraska. He is also Vice President of The Elk 
Creek Mining Co. of Pool, Colorado. 

SAMUEL W. REYNOLDS, partner in the Allen & Reynolds 
Coal Co., wholesalers at Omaha, Nebraska, was born at 
Omaha, August 11. 1890, and has been in the coal business 
for eight years. He was formerly connected with the Ne- 
braska Fuel Co. Mr. Reynolds is a famous golf player and 
Is at present in the service of his country. 

FRED J. SILVERS, Sales Agent of the McAlester Fuel Co., 
doing business at Omaha, Nebraska, was born at Ottumwa, 
Iowa, May 7, 1885. and has been in the coal business for 
six years. 

GEORGE 31. WALLACE, Secretary of the Nebraska Fuel 
Co., selling coal at -wholesale and retail at Omaha, Nebraska, 
was born at Omaha, March 12, 1887, and has been in the coal 
business for six years, Mr. Wallace was formerly connect- 
ed with the Coal Hill Coal Co. 

S. J. WELSH, President of Welsh Bros, Co., handling coal 
at wholesale at Omaha, Nebraska, was born at Youngstown, 
Ohio, December 8, 1877, and has been in the coal business 
almost twenty years. 

CH.'VRLES A. WESTERFIELD. retailer doing business at 
Omaha. Nebraska, was born in Illinois in 1857. and has been 
in the coal business for fifteen years. Mr. Westerfield was 
formerly connected with Constant & Squires. 

GEO. D. ^VILLIAMS, Assistant to General Sales Agent 
Sheridan Coal Co., Omaha, Nebraska, was born in Berlin, 
Wisconsin, Novemlier 12, 1877. and has been in the coal 
business twelve years. He was formerly connected with C. 
B. Havens & Co. 



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C. E. ALTER of Joe Alter & Son. retail coal merchants 
of Alma, Nebraska, was born October 14, 1882, in Burling- 
ton, Iowa, and has been in the coal business for twenty- 
four years. 

GEO. ARNOLD, Manager of the retail coal business of 
Wm. Wieters, Harbine, Nebraska, was born February 18, 
1864, in Germany, and has been in the coal business for 
twenty years. 

SAMUEL D. AYRES, retail coal merchant of Central City, 
Nebraska, was born October 30, 1860, in Ohio, and has been 
in the coal business for twenty-six years. Mr. Ayres also 
retails coal at Archer, Nebraska. 

WILLIAM HENRY RARTEN, retail coal merchant of Gor- 
don, Nebraska, was born March 31. 1870. at North Boston, 
New York, and has been in the coal business for ten years. 
Mr. Barten is extensively interested in patents, which he is 
putting on the market from time to time. 



WILLIA3I W. BIRGE, President W. W. Birge Co., retail- 
ers of coal at North Platte, Nebraska, was born in New 
York, and has been in tlie coal business for thirty-seven 
years in North Platte. Mr. Birge was formerly connected 
with Birge & Trees. 

■ CRESSIE J. BLANCHARD, Manager McGregor Bros. & 
Co., retailers of coal at Walthill, Nebraska, was born June 
17, 1880, in Golconda, Illinois, and has been in the coal 
business eig-ht years. Mr. Blancliard has been unusually 
successful and built up a splendid reputation through unique 
advertising. He was Manager of McGregor Bros. & Co. at 
Winnebago, Nebraska, before being transferred to his pres- 
ent location. 

DAVID J. BRAKEMAN, retail coal merchant of York, 
Nebraska, was born November 9, 1858, in Pennsylvania, and 
has been in the coal business for twenty-eight years. Pre- 
vious to going into business for himself, Mr. Brakeman was 
for eleven years with J. Morrison in York, the first coal 
man in the city. Mr. Brakeman came to York "when only 
two small houses were there, though no one had ever lived 
in them, they having been built for pioneers of the county. 
The city is now one of the best in the state. 

EDWARD W. BRYANT, retail coal merchant of Tekamah, 
Nebraska, was born December 13, 1848, at Worcester, Massa- 
chusetts, and has been in the coal business for thirty-three 
years. 

ARMSTRONG O. BURKET of the firm of Burket & Feld- 
kirchner, retailers of coal at Beatrice, Nebraska, was born 
December 23, 1863, at Dixon, Illinois, and has been in the 
coal business for six years. He was formerly Manager of 
A. O. Burket & Co. 

A. F. CAMERON, Sales Agent of the Aztec Coal Mining 
Co. of Hastings, Nebraska, was born October 9, 1884, at 
Mason City, Iowa, and has been in the coal business for 
eight years. Mr. Cameron was formerly connected with the 
Oakdale Coal Co. of Denver, Colorado, and the Southwestern 
Coal Co. of Amarillo, Texas. 

GEO. E. CHENEY, Secretary and General Manager John- 
son & Cheney, retail coal merchants of Fremont, Nebraska, 
was born August 31, 1887, at Griswold, Iowa, and- has been 
in the coal business about six years. 

FRANK E. COE, retail coal merchant of Nebraska City, 

Nebraska, was born in 1860 in Nebraska City, and has been 
handling coal for fourteen years. 

W. S. CORNUTT, Manager L. F. Cornutt & Son, Nebraska 
City, Nebraska, was born February 27, 1862. in Nebraska 
City, and has been in the coal business for thirty-two years. 
The firm started in coal exclusively in 1879, but. since 1884 
liave been handling lumber and coal. 

L. L. CORYELL, JR , retail coal merchant of Auburn, Ne- 
braska, has been in the coal business for twelve years. 

•lOHN A. CRAVEN, retail coal merchant of Exeter, Ne- 
braska, was born in 1854 in Cheshire County, England, and 
has been in the coal business for twenty-seven years. Mr. 
Craven is also interested in the Craven Lumber Co., Osceola, 
Nebraska. 

J. H. DAVISON, proprietor J. H. Davison & Son, Ains- 
worth, Nebraska, was born June 30, 1860, in Ne-w Jersey, 
and has been in the coal business for thirty years. Mr. 
Davison was formerly connected with Davison & Harrie. 

FRED DE LA MATYR, retail coal rnerchant of Fremont. 
Nebraska, was born December 18, 1853, at Middleton, Wis- 
consin, and has been in the coal business for thirty-four 
years. 

JOHN A. DOBBS, proprietor John A. Dobbs Grain Co., re- 
tailers of coal at Beatrice, Nebraska, was born February 23, 
1863, in Beatrice, and uas been in the coal business for 
twenty years. Mr. Dobbs also retails coal at Virginia, Tate 
and Armour. Nebraska. 

' JOHN DOLEZAL, retail coal' merchant at Wahoo, Ne- 
braska, was born May 13. 1862, in Bohemia, and has been 
in the coal business for eleven years. 

AVILLIAM O. EICHELBERGER, Manager Eichelberger 
Lumber Co., Tilden and Norfolk, Nebraska retail coal mer- 
chants, was born March 7, 1S80, at Western Star, Ohio, and 
has been in the coal business fourteen years. 

E. FELDKIRCHNER of the firm of Burket & Feldkirch- 
ner, who conduct coal and wood yards at Beatrice, Nebraska, 
was born in 1860 in Pennsylvania, and has been in the coal 
business six years. He was with A, O. Burket & Co. before 
forming his present connection. 

LOUIE GRAFF, retail coal merchant of Beatrice, Ne- 
braska, was born March 3, 1862, in Beatrice, and lias been 
handling coal for twenty-eight years. 

HARRY E. HARDY, retail coal merchant of Norfolk, Ne- 
braska, was born February 2, 1861, at Decatur, Illinois, and 
has been in the coal business for thirty-five years. He is 
one of the progressive retailers in his section. 



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JA^IES H. HVHSH, Manager Bossenieyer Bros., retailers 
of coal at Superior. NeV)raska, was born July 23, 1S61, at 
XewviUe. Penns:i"lvania. and has been in the coal business 
for twenty years. Mr. Hursh was previously connected 
with Thos. Cochrane. 

AKLS MARTIX JOH\.sON, President and Treasurer John- 
son tt Cheney, retailers of coal at Fremont, Nebraska, was 
born March 9, 1873. in Sweden, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for twelve years. 

O. A. JOHIVSON. Manager Johnson, Evers & Co., retail 
coal merchants of Laurel. Nebraska, was born August 14, 
ISTT, at St. Faul. Jlinnesota, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for nine years. 

A. K. L.AMMERS, retail coal merchant of Hartington, 
Nebraska, was born June 23, 1870, at St. Helena, Nebraska, 
and has been in the coal business for twenty years. 

"WILBrR G. LIGGETT. Manager Liggett Lumber & Coal 
Co., retail coal merchants of York, Nebraska, was born De- 
cember 14, 1880, in Fremont County, Iowa. The business 
was established in 1885 at Riverton, Iowa, by Manley Lig- 
gett, and carried on under that name. In 1891 the business 
was started under the name of M. Liggett & Son at Ham- 
burg, Iowa, until 1909, and since then it has been run very' 
r.uccessfullv at York, Nebraska, as Lig'gett Lumber & Coal 
Co. 

LOI'IS E. MAIVIV, retail coal merchant of Creighton, Ne- 
braska, was born May 4, 1870, at Walcott, Iowa, and has 
been in the coal business for seventeen years. Previous to 
entering business for himself Mr. Mann was connected with 
the Peavey Elevator Co. 

IRVIXG CLAYTON MAUST, retail coal merchant of Falls 
City, Nebraska, was born May 15, 1868, in Pennsylvania, and 
has been in the coal business for twenty-seven years. I. C. 
Maust is the successor of Maust & Son. 

CLARENCE J. MILES, Hastings, Nebraska, President of 
the Grand River Coal Co., Cainsville, Missouri, was born 
May 25, 1866, in Jerseyville, Illinois, and has been in the 
coal business ten years. He also operates a line of grain 
elevators. Mr. Miles was formerly with the Cambria 
Mining Co. 

CHARLES E. MILKS, Manager Hays Lumber Co., retail- 
ers of coal at Crete, Nebraska, was born September 16, 1873, 
at Preeport, Illinois, and has been in the coal business for 
fourteen years. Mr. Milks was previously with the Brillard 
Lumber Co. of Palisade, Nebraska, for five years, and the 
Chicago Lumber Co. of Osceola, Nebraska, for seven years. 

H. MORGENSTERN, retail coal merchant of Auburn, Ne- 
braska, was born June 17, 1859, at Havana, Illinois, and has 
been in the lumber, coal, grain, stock and banking business 
twenty-eight years. He has been in every state and ter- 
ritory in the United States, around the world, from North 
to South America, and in the Islands of the seas. 

JA3IES B. NORTHCUTT,, retail coal merchant at Ne- 
braska City, Nebraska, was born January 11. 1832, at 
Millersburg, Kentucky, and has been in the coal business 
for many years. Previous to going into business for himself 
Mr. Northcutt was connected with Northcutt & Dickey. 

HAROLD EDWARD OLINE, General Manager Lightner- 
Dusatke Co., retailers of coal at Lynch, Nebraska, was born 
January 14, 1892, at Monroe, Nebraska, and has been in the 
coal business for four years. 



ALHERT H. Ol TIIOUSE, I'l'esident and Manager Keystone 
Aimber Co., retailers of coal at Loup ("it.v, Neliraska, was 
lorn May 22, 1862, at Carlyle, Illinois, and has been in tho 



coal business thirty-five years. 



D.VVID PETERS, retail coal merchant at Valeiuiiie, Ne- 
braska, was born in Chester, Pennsylvania, and has been 
in the coal business for twenty-five years. 

MERIOX A. PHELPS, President and General Manager D. 
R. Phelps Lumber & Coal Co., Wahoo, Nebraska, was born 
June 10, 1871, in Saunders County, Nebraska, and has been 
in the coal business twenty-six years. The business was 
established in 1879 by D. R. Phelps, and in 1907 was incor- 
porated as the D, R. Phelps Lumber & Coal Co., with D. R. 
Phelps as President and M. A. Phelps as Secretary and 
General Manager. After the death of D. R. Phelps in 
August, 1907, M. A. Phelps succeeded him as President and 
General Manager, and is now operating yards at Wahoo, 
Valley, Ithaca, and Touhy, Nebraska. ,/ 

J. O. RO^VLAIVD, Secretary Rowland Lumber & Coal Co.. 
Bethany, Nebraska, was born January 27, 1869, at Brighton, 
Iowa, and has been in the coal business for about twenty- 
five years. He was previously connected with the Avoca 
Lumber Co. 

AUGlTST SACK, Manager and Treasurer of the Sack Lum- 
ber & Coal Co. of Dorchester, Nebraska, was born March 
13, 1891, at Sutton, Nebraska, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for two years. Mr. Sack also has retail yards at Crete, 
Ord and Polk, Nebraska. 

WILLIAM SACK, Manager Sack Lumber & Coal Co., Ord, 
Nebraska, was born May 4, 1889, in Sutton, Nebraska, and 
has been in the coal business for five years. The Sack 
Lumber & Coal Co. also operates coal yards at Crete, Dor- 
chester and Polk, Nebraska. 

W^ S. SHANEYPELT, Manager W. S. Shaneyfelt Lumber 
Co., retailers of coal at Aurora, Nebraska, was born January 
20, 1880, in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and has been in 
the coal business eight years. Mr. Shaneyfelt is also retail- 
ing coal at Bertrand, Smithfield, Beaver City and Long Pine, 
Nebraska. He was formerly interested in the A. W. Hick- 
man Lumber Co. 

J. E. SHEARER, retail coal merchant of Hebron, Ne- 
braska, was born October 13, 1860, at Cambridge, Wiscon- 
sin, and has been in the coal business since 1894. 

H. L. STUART, retail coal merchant of Lexington, Ne- 
braska, was born September 25, 1878, in Polk County, Iowa, 
and has handled coal off and on for twelve years. He was 
formerly connected with Geo. A. Hoagland. 

FRANK W. WEST, member of the firm of F. W. & A. J. 

West, retail coal merchants of Wisner, Nebraska, was born 
March 2, 1858, in Chicago, Illinois, and has been in the coal 
business twenty-nine years. 

CHARLES WESLEY WOOD Of Aurora, Nebraska, travel- 
ing salesman for the Sheridan Coal Co. of Omaha, was born 
April 27, 1855, at Danville. Illinois, and has been in the coal 
business for twenty-one years. His entire business experi- 
ence has been with the Sheridan Coal Co. He is also stock- 
holder in the Roundup Coal Mining Co.. with mines at 
Roundup, Montana. Mr. Wood is one of the best known 
coal salesmen in the West. 



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NEVADA 



NEVADA, with its sister state of California, escapes 
b)^ the narrow margin of one ton having the low- 
est sqnare mile consmnjDtion record of any sec- 
tion of the Union. Arizona with her one ton per square 
mile holds first honors in that respect. Upon a per 
capita basis, however, the showing for Nevada is more 
favorable, its bituminous consumption of 3.12 tons be- 
ing slightly above the average. Because, however, no 
anthracite is used, the general average falls below that 
for the country as a whole. In point of total tonnage 
used Nevada is also dangerously near the bottom of the 
list of states, but here, too, it yields the i^rize to Arizona 
by a comfortable mai'gin of safety. Figures for 1915 
show an approximate total consumption of 217,412 tons 
in Nevada. The greater part of this. 169,928 tons, 
came from Utah. Together with that state it burned 



2,526 tons of Colorado coal. During the year under 
review a small quantity of coal produced within the 
state was also consumed. This tonnage is included in 
totals shown under California. Wyoming contributed 
4:1:,523 tons. West Virginia 300, and New Mexico 135 
tons, to Nevada's requirements. 

Nevada entered the ranks of coal-jDroducing states in 
a tentative way in 1911, when development was started 
on a bed of lignite at Coaldale, in Esmeralda county. 
Production was maintained on a very small scale during 
the period 1911-1915, but the mine was idle in 1916. 
The Nevada output for 1911, 1912 and 1913 is included 
with the production reported under Idaho, and for 1914 
and 1915 is combined with California and Idaho pro- 
duction. 



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IX no other section of the country perhaps is the close 
relationship between coal and commercial advance- 
ment better illustrated than in the New England 
States. It is true that, with the exception of limited 
anthracite deposits in Rhode Island, which have never 
attained any marked degree of successful exploitation, 
so far as known this section of the United States, so 
aptly characterized as the great workshop of the coun- 
try, is without coal resources of its own, but its close 
proximity to the high grade coals of AVest Virginia and 
Pennsylvania, particularly by water routes, combined 
with the other advantages of its location, such as early 
settlement and development, the character of its chief 
manufacturing industries and its outlets to the markets 
of the interior and overseas, have given it a front rank 
position in coal trade history. So clearly has the neces- 
sity of taking advantage of its highly specialized indus- 
trial equipment — made possilile in the first instance by 
its transportation nearness to important coal fields — 
been recognized by the United States Government that, 
in a sense, the Xew England States today are wards of 
the United States Fuel Administration in the matter of 
coal supply. 

In common with other important Atlantic seaboard 
sections, under normal times, the Xew England states 
drew their fuel supplies from relatively few producing 
fields. In 1915, for example, out of a total domestic 
bituminous consumption of 20,511,987 tons, by far the 
greatest percentage was furnished by two states. West 
Virginia and Pennsylvania. Over 65 per cent, of the 
total bituminous coal receipts of the year were handled 
through tidewater ports. The reported all-rail move- 
ment totaled 7,238,106 tons, while the receipts via tide- 
water aggregated 13,273,581 tons. New England is by 
far the greatest factor in the tidewater coastwise move- 
ment, its normal receipts conj^tituting approximately 80 
per cent, of the coastwise movement and over 40 per 
cent, of the total tidewater shipments, including bunker 
and railroad fuel. All-rail receipts for the year were 
divided as follows: Maryland,- 630,097 tons; Pennsyl- 
vania, 6,587,890; and West Virginia, 20,419 tons. Con- 
sumption of Pennsylvania anthracite reached 13,767,000 
tons. In addition to this the New England states of- 
fered the largest market for imported coal. Drawing 
upon Nova Scotia, the receipts were 654,703 tons, or 



approximately 38 per cent., of the total coal imports of 
the country. Montana and Idaho, drawing upon British 
Coluinbia and Alberta for part of their requirements, 
came next with 432,721 tons, or 25 per cent., and the 
Pacific Coast states accounted for 24 per cent. 

Upon the per capita consumption basis New England 
ranked fourth, being exceeded by Delaware, Illinois and 
Montana. The New England average of 4.64 tons (2.69 
bituminous coal and 1.95 anthracite) was, with the ex- 
ception of Delaware, the highest along the Atlantic sea- 
board. The concentration of industrial enterprises in 
Chicago, M'here a per capita in excess of eight tons has 
been reported, explains the rank of Illinois, while the 
metallurgical activities on the one hand and the small 
population on the other give Montana its leadership over 
New England, the latter having a population over four- 
teen times as great in an area less than half the size. 

"Coal," says the United States Geological Survey in 
explaining the relation of the consumption of fuel to 
the value of the manufactured products turned out, "is 
the principal source of energy in the processes of manu- 
facturing and the quantity so used bears a certain rela- 
tion to the value of the manufactured products. The 
relation can be studied properly, however, only by con- 
sidering simply the value of the products in making 
which coal was used for power, or. if the value of all 
the manufactured products is considered, by adding to 
the coal used in any locality the equivalent in terms of 
coal of whatever fuel oil, natural gas, or water power 
may have been used in that locality. 

"It will be noted that the value of the manufactured 
products per 1,000 tons of coal ($85,000) consumed is 
greater in New England than in any other area except 
the west south central ($156,000) and Pacific Coast 
regions ($605,723). The reason for this is obvious; in 
these two regions, fuel oil is used almost to the exclusion 
of coal in manufacturing plants and the average ob- 
tained by dividing the total value of manufactures by 
the quantity of coal used is correspondingly high. The 
per capita consumption of coal in New England is 
nearly fourteen times as great as on the Pacific Coast 
and more than nine times as great as in the southern 
states west of the ^lississippi Eiver." 

This pointj as made by the Geological Survey, is 
further illustrated by a comparison of the value of the 



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manufactured products in the three sections. In the 
west south central division (four states) the total is 
$802,733,000; in the Pacific Coast region (three states) 
it is $1,067,890,000, or a combined total for seven states 
of $1,870,623,000. The total value of the manufactured 
products in tl;^ six states comprising the New (England 
group reaches $2,924,218,000. • -' ' 

Boston, of course, is the principal receiving point for 
the New England tonnage. Over 20 per cent, of the 
total amount of coal consumed within New England 
passes through this port. The receipts of coal of United 
States origin, both anthracite and bituminous coal, have 
growii from 1,176,954 tons in 1874 to 6,019,874 gross 
tons. Eeceipts by routes and kinds of coal for the past 
three vears have been as follows: 



WATER 

1915 1916 1917 

Anthracite 1,509,960 1,480,896 1,388,670 

Bituminous, U. S 4,609,936 4,910,687 4,153,277 

Nova Scotia 440,615 344,792 275.612 

RAIL 
1915 1916 1917 

Anthracite 192,442 292,599 217,408 

Bituminous, U. S 79,385 113,389 119,991 

Nova Scotia 

Among the other important New England coal cen- 
ters may be mentioned Providence, B. I., where the 1917 
receipts totaled 2,090,843 tons, of which 377,273 tons 
were anthracite and 1,713,570 tons were bituminous. 
These totals include coal for local trade, for transship- 
ment by rail to interior points and water tonnage to 
Pawtucket. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 




ALBERT H. POTVBJyl., New Ha%en. Connecticut, 

President A. H. Powell & Co., Inc.. New Haven, was born 
November 15, 187S. He is also President Mill River Retail 
Coal Co. of New Haven and of the Connecticut Transpor- 
tation Co., a Long- Island Sound barge line, a Directol' 
of the Mechanics Bank of New Haven, a member of 
the New Haven City Board of Finance, and a Director of 
the New England Wholesale Coal Association. Mr. Powell 
takes an active interest in civic matters in his city. 





CHARLES E. BRICKLEY, Boston, Massachusetts, 

Manager A. H. Powell & Co., Inc., at Boston, Massachu- 
setts, was born November 24, 1891, in Boston and has been 
in the coal business for four years. Mr. Brickley is a g-rad- 
uate of Harvard and one of its most famous football stars. 



CHARLES L. BRIGGS, New York City. 

New York Sales Manag^er A. H. Powell & Co., was born In 
Stamford. Connecticut. September S, 1S7-1, and has been 
identified with the coal business fifteen years. Mr. Briggs 
was formerly with E. Russel Norton, Black, Sheridan & 
Wilson Co. and Dickson & Eddy. 



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JAMES A. HAMIL.T01V, New Haven, Coiiiiectieut, 

President and Treasurer W. P. Gilbert & Co., New Haven, 
was born May 21, 1875, in Caledonia, New York, and has been 
in the coal business twenty years. He is well and favor- 
ably known to the trade of Connecticut. 



GEO, H. NOLF.IV, New Haven, Connecticut, 

Sales Agent at New Haven, Connecticut, for Dickson & 
Eddy, New York, has been In the coal business for twenty- 
one years. He was born December 24, 1870, in Washington, 
D. C. Mr. Nolen has many friends In the New England coal 
trade. 





THOMAS M. RICHARDS, Boston, Massachusetts, 

General Eastern Agent Pliiladelphia & Reading Coal & 
Iron Co., with offices at Boston, was born February 18, 1868, 
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mr. Richards has been in 
the coal business since August 1, 1885, and enjoys a wide 
and favorable acquaintance in anthracite circles. 



WM, A. C1.ARK, Northampton, Ma.ssachusetts, 

Treasurer of W. A. Clark Coal Co. of Northampton, Massa- 
chusett.5, was born in Northampton March 2, 1868, and has 
been in the coal business for thirty-one years. Mr. Clark 
was formerly connected with wholesale anthracite and bi- 
tuminous coal firms, before going in business for himself. 
Mr. Clark has served most successfully for a number of 
years as President of the New England Coal Dealers' Asso- 
ciation and is also Vice President of the National Retail Coal 
Merchants' Association. He is considered an authority on 
demurrage and traffic questions. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 




WILLIAM W. WILLETT, Boston, Massachusetts, 
President and Treasurer Chesapeake & Ohio Coal Agency Co., Bos- 
ton, was born June 19, 1858, in North Granville, New York, and has 
been in the coal business thirty-eight years. Mr. Willett first en- 
gaged in the coal business in 1879, being given a position as clerk in 
the coal department of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. at New 
York and associated with the late Calvin B. Orcutt. In 1895 the 
Chesapeake & Ohio Coal Agency Co. was formed, Mr. Orcutt being 
made President and Mr. Willett Treasurer and on the death of Mr. 
Orcutt in February, 1911, Mr. Willett was made both President and 
Treasurer, which position he now holds. S. B. Willett is Vice Presi- 
dent and E. S. Turpin General Agent, the latter located at Richmond, 
Virginia. Since the spring of 191.3 the principal office of the com- 
pany has been located at Boston. The interests with which Mr. Wil- 
lett has been associated were the pioneers in the marketing of New 
River steam coal in the eastern territory and for nearly a quarter of 
a century had the exclusive handling of New River coal covered by 
markets east of the mines. 



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FREDERICK McCANN, Boston, Massachusetts, 

President Edward M. Alden Co., Boston, was born May 7, 
1876. in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and has been in tlie coal 
business twenty-six years. 



WILLIAM J. OSGOOD, Boston, Massachusetts, 

Treasurer Edward M. Alden Co , Boston, was born in 1875, 
at Newton, Massachusetts. 



EDWARD M. ALDEN COMPANY 

Boston, Massachusetts 



The -n-ell-knowii Edward M. Alden Co. represents 
a successful business career of nearly fiftj' years. The 
enterprise was started by John C. Alden who embarked 
in the coal Inisiness at Boston some years prior to 1876. 
later operating under the firm name of John C. Alden 
& Son, wliich, in turn, was succeeded by Alden & Nevin. 
Mr. Alden later operated the business again as an indi- 
vidual and after his death the business was incorporated 
by Frederick McCann as the Edward M. Alden Co. 
This was in 1914. The following year William J. Os- 
good became Treasurer. Mr. McCann became President 
of the Company after an association with Dickson & 
Eddy at Xew York for twenty-one years, while Mr. 
Osgood had obtained his practical experience in the 
Boston office of Dick.son & Edd\- for fifteen years. 

Splendid opportunities are offered the anthracite and 
1)ituminous interests in New England by reason of its 
rapidly growing industries. The great handicap, how- 
ever, has been the inadequate transportation facilities, 
the New Yor]\, ISTew Haven & Hartford and the Boston 
& Maine railroads failing to keep pace with the rapid 
groM'tli of the manufacturing" interests of New England. 
Barges, tugs and steamers have been the big factor in 
supplying the fuel needs of New England manufac- 
turers. 



In the earlier days coal was transported to New Eng- 
land by sailing vessels. However, the methods of load- 
ing and unloading at terminals were crude and the 
movement of the sailing craft was slow and uncertain. 
As the New England industries increased in efficiency, 
prompt receipt of fuel became more exacting and there 
was developed a steady improvement in the water trans- 
portation of fuel. Schooners of from 300 to 500 tons 
have been succeeded by barges of Ir.OOO tons capacity, 
operating on regular schedule. Terminal facilities have 
improved even more remarkably. 

Even as late as 1890 it Avould take five to six days 
to discharge a 300-ton schooner while today the modern 
hdvge of 4,000 tons is conveniently unloaded in one dav. 
Progressive coal merchants in New England have 
quickly adjusted themselves to both rail and water trans- 
portation and by their splendid service in supplying 
fuel requirements at normal costs are enabling New 
Enoland not onlv to maintain its industrial activities 
but to expand rapidly. 

The Edward M. Alden Co. when incorporated in 
1914 did a comparatively modest business but their ton- 
nage has taken rapid growth since and soon passed an 
annual aggregate of more than a half million tons. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 




CLARENCE M. COBB, Boston, iMassaohusetts, 

President and Treasurer M. L. Cobb Co., 10 Post Office 
Square. Boston, was born July 2], 1889, in Melrose, Massa- 
chusetts, and has been in the coal business nine years. He 
is a son of M. L. Cobb, who founded this well-known whole- 
sale coal business. 





AVALTER F. WARD, Bustuii, Massachusetts, 

Vice President and General Manager M. L. Cobb Co., 10 
Post Office Square, Boston, was born February 27, 1882, in 
Boston, and was associated in the coal business with the 
late M. L. Cobb for twenty years. He has been a Director 
of the National Coal Jobbers' Association since its organiza- 
tion. 



MEt,VIt,I.E L,. COBB, Boston, Massachusetts, 

Who died October 12, 1917, was for over thirty years one 
of the most prominent and best known factors in the New 
England coal trade. He was renowned as a shrewd mer- 
chant and enjoyed the respect and esteem of the entire 
coal trade. He was born at Dighton, Massachusetts. Sep- 
tember 11, 1853, and was 63 years old at the time of his 
death. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 




FRF.D G. SCHIPPIOR, Boi^tou, Massachusetts, 

President Schipper Bros. Coal Mining Co.. 141 Milk Street, 
Boston, Massachusetts, was born August 14, 1884, at Pekin, 
Illinois, and has been m the coal business for eleven years. 
Mr. Schipper is widely known In the coal trade and has 
many ^varm friends in both the east and w^est. 




CAKL F. SCHIPPEU, Boston, Massachusetts, 

General Manager and Treasurer of the Schipper Bros. Coal 
Mining Co., ] 41 Milk Street, Boston, Massachusetts, was born 
August 5, 1876, at Pekin, Illinois, and has been in the coal 
business for over sixteen years, the company having been 
organized in 1902 and now operates ten mines in the Broad 
Top region of Pennsylvania. 



I. JOHIV SCHIPPER, Philadelphia, Pa., 

Manager of Mines Schipper Bros. Coal 
Mining Co., was born in Pekin, Illinois. 
January 2, 1878, and has been in the 
coal business seventeen years. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 




RICHARD S. TOWNSEND, Boston, Massachusetts, 

President and Treasurer of the E. B. Townsend Coal Co., 
27 Kilby Street, Boston, Massachusetts, was born July 27, 
1885, at Roxbury, Massachusetts, and has been In the coal 
business for eight years. 





SPBXCER T. WILLIAMS, Boston, Massachusetts, 

Late General Manager and Assistant Treasurer E. B. 
Townsend Coal Co., 27 Kilby Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 
was born April 15. 1853, at Charlestown. Massachusetts, and 
had been in the coal business forty-one years up to the time 
of his death September 24, 1918. Mr. Williams was one of 
the best and most favorably known coal men in New Eng- 
land and was formerly associated with Bright Thomas & 
Co., Philadelphia, S. H. Brown Co., New York, Stickney, 
Conyngham & Co., New York, and Susquehanna Coal Co. 



EDWARD B. TOWNSEND, Boston, Massachusetts, 

Former head of the E. B. Townsend Coal Co., 27 Kilby Street, 
Boston, Massachusetts, was born November 20, 1848, at Bos- 
ton, Massachusetts, and had been in the coal business for 
forty-four years at the time of his death, building up a 
splendid reputation during that time. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





GEORGE EDDY ^VARREN, Boston. iMassachusetts, 

President George E. Warren Co., 35 Cong-ress Street, Bos- 
ton, Massachusetts, was born October 20, 1868, at Brattle- 
boro, Vermont, and has been in the coal business for t^ven- 
ty-flve years. He is also President of the Morrellville Coal 
Mining- Co., Warren Collieries Co. of Johnstown, Pennsyl- 
vania, and Warren Transportation Co. of Boston, Massa- 
chusetts. Mr. Warren is one of the prominent wholesale 
coal merchants of New England and was formerly con- 
nected with the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co. 
from 1893 to 1S98. 



GEORGE P. OSWALD, Boston, Massachusetts, 

Vice President of the Geo. E. Warren Co. of Boston, Massa- 
chusetts, was born July 4, 1877, at Boston and is also 
Vice President of the Morrellville Coal Mining Co., "Warren 
Collieries Co., Guernsey Coal Co., and the Warren Trans- 
portation Co. He was formerly connected with the Con- 
solidation Coal Co. 




GEORGE WALTER ANDERSON, Boston, Massachusetts, 

Treasurer George E. Warren Co.. 35 Congress Street, Bos- 
ton, was born January 6, 1879, in Lynn, Massachusetts, and 
has been in the coal business over seventeen years. Mr. 
Anderson is also Treasurer of the Morrellville Coal Mining 
Co. and the Guernsey Coal Co. He was formerly connected 
with the Morrisdale Coal Co. 



ROBERT Y. BROWN, Johnsto«-n. 

General Manager Morrellville Coal Min- 
ing Co., Johnstown, President Guern- 
sey Coal Co.. Houtzdale, Pennsylvania, 
and "Warren Collieries, Ltd., Toronto, 
Canada, and Manager Johnstown of- 
fice of the George E. Warren Co., Bos- 
ton, Massachusetts, was born in Leices- 
ter, Massachusetts, in April, 1888, and 
has been in the coal business eleven 
years. Early in his coal career he was 
with the Morrisdale Coal Co. 



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H. VVRAY KOHRMAN, Boston, itlaN.snoliiisettN, 

President The Wravin Coal Co , Inc . Boston, is the son of Horatio C. Rohrman, 
and probably has the distinction of being the youngest President of a coal corpora- 
tion in Nevy England. He is a graduate of Tufts College, where he was captain of 
the track team, and a member of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity and of the William 
Parkman lodge ol Masons. The da.y after war was declared Mr. Rohrman enlisted 
in the United States Navy, and has been stationed at the large European aviation 
base. <_ n July 4. ISllS. Mr. Rohrman was selected to represent the American team 
in track events, and had the pleasure of winning a silver cup in hs race, which 
was presented by the English. ^Vhen gi\en his honorable discharge from the Navy 
he expects Vo return to his position in The Wravin Coal Co. 





HORATIO C. ROHRMAX, Winchester, Massaeliusett.s, 

Treasurer The Wravin Coal Co., Inc., Boston, was born No- 
vember 24, 1869, in Pennsylvania, and has been in the coal 
business for more than twenty years. Previously he was 
confidential man for the late John W. Gates. Mr. Rohrman 
was raised in the mining regions of Pennsylvania and is 
probably as well versed on Pennsylvania coals and their 
values as any man doing all-rail business in New England. 
He is a member of William Parkman Lodg-e of Masons and 
Hugh DoPayens Commandery, Knights Templar, and a 
Director of the Winchester National Bank and of the Massa- 
chusetts Industrial Plan Bank. 



FRAXK C. HODGIXS, Boston, Massachusetts, 

Sales Manager The W^ravin Coal Co., Inc , Boston, was born 
May 17, 1872, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is well known 
among both the wholesale and retail coal trade with which 
he has been connected for the past twelve years. 



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SWAN HARTWELIi, Boston, Massachusetts, 

President H. N. Hartwell & Son, Inc., Boston, was born in 
Somerville, New .Jersey, in 1875 and has been in the coal 
business twenty-four years. He is also interested in the 
Cuban Coal Co. of Havana, Hartwell & Lester of New York, 
and the Traders Coal Co. of Scranton. Pennsylvania. He 
was formerly connected with Whitney & Kemmerer, Coxe 
Bros. & Co., Inc., and Natalie Coal Co. 



HARRY ]V. MATTHEWS, Boston, Massachusetts, 

Treasurer H. N. Hartwell & Son. Inc., 70 Kilby St., Boston, 
vs^as born in 1881 in Freehold, New Jersey, and has been in 
the coal business seventeen years. Mr. Matthews is also 
Treasurer of the Cuban Coal Co. of America and Hartwell 
& Lester, Inc., of New York City. 





E. RUSSELL, NORTON, Boston, Massachusetts, 

"Well known coal merchant of Boston, Massachusetts, was 
born December 22, 1871, at New York City, and has been 
in the coal business for twenty-one years. Mr. Norton 
started his business in 1896 as Sturtevant & Norton. Two 
years later he continued under his own name, representing 
Black, Sheridan & Wilson, specializing: in Pennsylvania 
bituminous coals, and now maintains offices in both New 
York and Boston. 



E. F. MELENDY, Boston, Massachusetts, 

Manager for E. Russell Norton at Boston, Massachusetts, 
was born January 28, 1873, at Weld, Maine, and has been 
in the coal business for twenty-one years, the entire time 
with E. Russell Norton. 



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CHRISTIAN P. ANDERSGN, Boston, 3Iassachnsetts, 

Proprietor of the Andersen Coal Sales Co., 120 Milk 
St., Boston, was born December 6, 1864, at Svaneke, Den- 
mark, and has been in the coal business for over twenty 
years. He was formerly President of the Andersen Coal 
Mining Co.. operating mines in Cambria County, Pennsyl- 
vania, has given some attention to exporting coal to Europe 
and South America, and is one of the largest shippers of 
cordwood and other fuel wood in New England. 



CHARLES C. ALLEN, Boston, Massachusetts, 

Late Vice President and General Manager of the Lehigh & 
Wilkes-Barre Coal Co. of Massachusetts, with ofRces 
at 141 Milk St., Boston, was born June 29. 1865, at Leo- 
minster, Massachusetts, and died March 17, 1918. He was 
in the coal business for over thirty years. Mr. Allen was 
also Treasurer of the Lowell Terminal Co. 



LOUIS ZEPPLER, Boston, Mass., 

Of the firm of Zepfler & Childs, 141 
Milk Street, Boston, was born Febru- 
ary 8, 1866, in Boston, and has been in 
the coal business thirty-six years. Mr. 
Zepfler -wbls formerly connected with 
the firm of Joseph S. Burton & Co. 
before forming his present company. 



PRED L. CHILDS, Boston, Mass., 

Of the firm of Zepfler & Childs, 141 
Milk St., Boston, was born in 1869 at 
Framingham, Massachusetts, and has 
been in the coal business for eighteen 
years. His present company was or- 
ganized March 1, 1909, and handles both 
anthracite and bituminous coal. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





JVATHANIEL, C. ASHCOM, Boston, Massachusetts, 

Manag-er B. Nicoll & Co., 85 Devonshire St.. Boston, Massa- 
chusetts, was born in 1877 at Baltimore. Maryland, and has 
been in the coal business for sixteen years. He was for- 
merly connected with the Consolidation Coal Co. and the 
Pennsylvania Coal &- Coke Corp. 



ARTHUR P. BRYANT. Boston. Massachusetts, 

Secretary Spring Coal Co., Boston. Massachusetts, was born 
October 7, 1877, in Newton. Massachusetts, and has been in 
the coal business since 1905. 





HENRY P. CANNON, Boston, Massachusetts, 

President Darrow-Mann Co., 40 Central St., Boston, Massa- 
chusetts, was born July 29, 1862, at Lancaster, Ohio, and 
has been in the coal business for over ten years. He is 
also interested in Castner, Curran & Bullitt, Inc., and 
Manager of their Boston office. He was formerly con- 
nected with the New River Consolidated Coal & Coke Co. 
and the New England Coal & Coke Co. 



SIMEON CRUMB, Boston, Massachusetts, 

Eastern Sales Agent of Dickson & Eddy, 50 Congress St., 
Boston, Massachusetts, was born in 1855 at Smyrna, New 
York, and has been in the coal business for over thirty 
years. He was formerly connected 'W'ith Andrew Langdon 
& Co. and the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co. He 
has represented Dickson & Eddy at Boston since April 15, 
1894, or almost twenty-five years. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





ROYAL C. GILLESPIE^ Boston, Massaclinsetts, 

Manager Consolidation Coal Co., at Boston, Massachusetts, 
was born December 18, 1876, in Baltimore County, Mary- 
land, and has been connected with the Consolidation Coal 
Co. for over twenty-six years. 



WILLIAM A. JEPSON, Boston, Massachusetts, 

New England Manager of Dexter & Carpenter, Inc., 85 
Devonshire St., Boston, Massachusetts, was born August 
10, 1S72, in Detroit Lake City, Minnesota, and has been in 
the coal business over thirty-three years. Mr. Jepson was 
General Manager and Sales Agent of the Carbon Coal & 
Coke Co. eleven years and organized and developed the 
Southern Illinois Coal & Coke Co. and was its Vice Presi- 
dent and General Manager for five years. He has a wide 
acquaintance in the trade. 





O. B. JOHNSOIV, Boston, Massachusetts, 

Manager of the Boston office of the Lehigh Coal & Naviga- 
tion Co., was born February 1, 1873, in Boston and has been 
in the coal business for twenty-eight years, for the last ten 
vears with his present company. Previous to that he was 
connected with Bangs & Horton and the Lehigh & Wilkes- 
Barre Coal Co. 



EARL F. LARRABEE, Boston, Massachusetts, 

Eastern Sales Manager of Thorne, Neale & Co., Inc., 40 
Central St., Boston, Massachusetts, was born May 26, 1886. 
at Bridgton, Maine, and has been in the coal business for 
over eleven years. He was formerly with Whitney & 
Kemmerer and is favorably known among the New Eng- 
land coal trade. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





WILLIAM A. MEHAFFEY. Boston, Massachusetts, 

Wholesale coal merchant of Boston, Massachusetts, with 
offices at 4 Liberty Square, was born in Harrisburg-, Penn- 
sylvania, and has been in the coal business since 1876. He 
established his present business in 1893, handling both an- 
thracite and bituminous coal. He formerly represented in 
New England Walter, Donaldson & Co.. Donaldson & Thom- 
as, and Percy Heilner & Son. Since 1893 he has devoted 
his energy largely to the sale of the coal of the Philadelphia 
& Reading Coal & Iron Co. At present he is one of their 
largest factors in New England. 



M'. M. W. SPRIIVG, Boston, iMassachusetts, 

President Spring Coal Co. of Boston, Massachusetts, was 
born in 18(i4 at .Worcester, Massachusetts, and has been in 
the coal business for thirty-six years. Mr. Spring is well 
known in the New England coal trade and was formerly 
connected with the Spring Coal Mining Co., Garfield & Proc- 
tor Coal Co. and Denison Bros. Co., New^ Bedford. 




JOHX A. STETSON, Boston, Massachusetts, 

President and General Manag-er of the Stetson Coal Co., 92 
State Street, Boston, Massachusetts, was born July 28, 1844, 
at South Boston, Massachusetts. This firm is a pioneer re- 
tail coal concern of New England, having been established 
in 1836. Mr. Stetson has been in the coal business for over 
fifty-five years and President of the Boston Coal Exchange 
for the last ten years. 



GARFIELD »$: PROCTOR, Boston, Mass., 

■Went into the coal business in Boston 
in 1867 as a partnership. In 1868 it 
was incorporated. The capital at the 
incorporation was $125,000. J. F. D. 
Garfield was President and W. E. Ma- 
curda was Treasurer. Following Mr. 
Garfield in the Presidency was Mr. 
Geo. N. Proctor. After his retirement 
from business Mr. F. W. Pray was 
elected President and Mr. Pray and 
Mr. Macurda are the present officers. 
Tlie company deals in both Anthracite 
and Bituminous coal and are distribu- 
tors of Delaware & Hudson coal in 
Northern New England. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





MORTIMER D. AVILLIAMS, Boston, Massachusetts, 

Eastern Sales Agent Whitney & Kemmerer, 141 Milk Street, 
Boston, was born February 2, 1880, in Boston, and has been 
in the coal business sixteen years. Mr. "Williams is a gradu- 
ate of Wesleyan University and has taken an active part in 
fraternal and political life. He was formerly connected with 
the Metropolitan Coal Co., Edward M. Alden and Percy M. 
Heilner & Son. 



JAME.S J. STORRO^V, Boston, Massachusetts, 

Federal Fuel Administrator for New England, w^ith offices 
at 44 State Street, Boston, Massachusetts, was associated 
with Lee, Higginson & Co. until receiving his appointment 
from H. A. Garfield, the National Fuel Administrator, and 
since then during the Great War has taken an active part 
in handling the fuel problem of the New England states for 
the federal government. 





PRA3NK LIXCOLN POWERS, Worcester, Massachusetts, 

President of the F. E. Powers Co., Worcester, Massachusetts, 
was born in Millbury, Massachusetts, June 12, 1883, and has 
been in the coal business fifteen years. He is highly re- 
spected and well known in the coal trade of New England. 



HIRAM STEVENS POWDERS. Worcester, Massachusetts, 

Treasurer of the F. E. Powers Co. of Worcester, Massachu- 
setts, was born at Millbury, Massachusetts, on September 
29, 1884, and has been in the coal business for twelve years. 
He is associated in business with his brother, Frank L. 
Powers, and the firm is one of the well-known retail com- 
panies in that section. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





THOMAS EDWARD STERNE, Worcester, Massachusetts, 

President and Treasurer of the Scranton Coal Co. and the 
Fred A. Mann Coal Co. of Worcester, Massachusetts, was 
born at Chatham. New York, September 5, 1858, and has 
been in the coal business for thirty-seven years. He was 
formerly connected with W. G. Morton, Albany, New York, 
the Fitchburg- Coal Co., Fitchburg, Massachusetts, and 
the Brighton Coal Co., Brighton, Massachusetts. The Scran- 
ton Coal Co. was established in 1897 and in 1909 a corpora- 
tion was formed by Mr. Sterne and his two sons. He and 
his sons are also interested in the F. A. Mann Coal Co. 



THOMA.S EDW^ARD STERIVE, JR., Worcester, Massachusetts, 

Son of Thomas Edward Sterne, is Secretary of the Scranton 
Coal Co. and the F. A. Mann Coal Co. of Worcester, Massa- 
chusetts. He was born at Chatham, New York, on October 
17, 1885, and has been in the coal business almost ten years. 
He was formerly connected with the Gorman-Leonard Coal 
Co., Whitney & Kemmerer, Bader Coal Co. and Staples & 
Bell. 





EDAVARU JAaiES DOHERTY, Worcester, Massachusetts, 

Of the Doherty Coal Co., Worcester, was born in Worcester 
February 24, 1880, and has been in the coal business almost 
twenty-five years. He is now taking care of the business 
established by his father, Patrick Doherty, in 1S7S, since the 
death of his brother, Martin J. Dolierty. October 28, 1917. 



OLAP G. HEDLUND, Worcester, Massachusetts. 

Owner of the O. G. Hedlund Coal Co. of Worcester, Massa- 
chusetts, Avas born at Wermeland, Sweden, on February IB, 
1858, and has been in the coal business for himself for thir- 
teen years. This company was established in 1906 and han- 
dles anthracite and bituminous coal at wholesale and retail. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



CONNECTICUT — Hartford 



FKEDKRICK II. FISHER, Hartford, Connecticut, is 
Treasurer ami General Manager for Tlie O'Connor Coal & 
Supply Co.. Ine , and has been in tile bujjiness eleven years. 
He was born at Clastonbury, Connecticut, January 20, 1873. 

AVII,LIAi»I WATSOX FRAYER, Hartford, Connecticut, is 
President and Treasurer of Frayer it Poster, Inc., and has 
been engaged in the coal business for tliirty years. He was 
born at Coxsaclvie, New York, November 27, 1873. 

GEORGE T. PRICEj 85 Sisson Ave., Hartford, Connecticut, 
is President and Treasurer of the Robert Price Coal Co., 
oftiee and yard located at 84 Francis Ave. He has been in 
the business thirty yoai-s. He was born at Hartford May 13, 
1864. 

f'HAKljK.s .1. SHEKETOFF, Vice President American Coal 
Co.. Hartfoid. (.^onnLrticut. was born in New York City 
Maich 1. 1S!'3. and has been in the coal business seven 
years. During his absence in the Service in Prance the 
details of the business are being handled by H. Levine, 
President and Treasurer, and A. Sherry Harris, Secretary. 

JAMES S. STEVENS, 3G Pearl St., Hartford Connecticut, 
is the Sales Agent for New England of the Pennsylvania 
Coal & Coke Corp. He was formerly with the Nor- 
folk & Western Railroad, where he advanced from office 
boy to be Assistant to the President. He has been President 
of the Connecticut Valley KoKoal and lecturer on "Power 
Costs." "Soft Coal for Power," and "A Lump of Coal." He 
organized one hundred Liberty Choruses for the Connecticut 
State Council of Defense war work, and composed numer- 
ous poems and song:s and edited several song publications 
on war work. He was born at Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, 
November 11. 1867. 



CONNECTICUT — New Haven 



EMIDIO BALSAMO, member of the retail coal firm of 
Verdi & Balsamo, 444 Grand Ave., New Haven, Connecticut, 
has been identified with the local trade for fourteen years. 

HARRV \V. HITCHCOCK, well-known coal salesman, 
Cliamber of Commerce Bldg., New Haven, Conn., was born 
February 11. 1872, at Baltimore, Maryland, and has been in 
the coal business thirty years. Mr! Hitchcock has been con- 
nected with the New England Coal & Coke Co., C. H. Sprague 
& Son, and Williams, "Wells & Co. 

ROBERT E. MANROSS is President of The Benedict & 
Pardee Co. of New Haven, Connecticut, and has been in the 
business of wholesaling coal for forty-five years. He was 
born at Porestville, Connecticut, February 17, 1852. 

JOHN P. McCUSKER, New Haven, Connecticut, is a 
partner in the coal firm of McCusker & Schroeder, which 
has been in business without change for thirty-seven years. 
He formerly was connected with French Bros, and The 
French Coal Co. He has served a term as President of the 
Connecticut Tidewater Coal Dealers' Association, as well as 
Vice President of the New England. Coal Dealers' Associa- 
tion. He was born in New Haven May 2, 1860. 

ABRAHAM MOLSTEIN of Perlman & Molstein, New Ha- 
ven, Connecticut, was born October 25, 188.3. in Russia, and 
has been in the coal business ten years. 

CHARI^ES AVIIjLIAM PASTORFIELD, formerly salesman 
for Weston Dodson & Co., Inc., at 177 Church St., New Haven, 
Connecticut, was born July 24, 1891, in Royal Oak, Maryland, 
and has been in the coal business six years. On February 

1, 1918, he entered the employ of Francis, Friend & Stiene- 
man. Inc., 177 Church St., New Haven. 

HARRY PERLMAN of Perlman & Molstein, New Haven, 
Connecticut, was born in Russia in 1867 and has been in 
the coal business ten years. 

ELMORE W. PLATT is Manager of the office of Weston 
Dodson & Co., New Haven, Connecticut. He was formerly 
with Williams, Wells & Co., five years as bookkeeper and 
ten years as salesmen. He has been in the coal business 
for twenty years. He was born December 25, 1874, at New 
Haven. Mr. Piatt covers Connecticut, Massachusetts and 
Rhode Island. 

ELMER F. SCHROEDER is one of the equal partners in 
the firm of McCusker & Schroeder, New Haven, Connecticut. 
He has been thirty-seven years a member of the firm or 
since it was formed. He was born in New York City June 

2, 1862. 

MORITZ SPIER, senior member of Spier & Co., New 
Haven. Connecticut, has been President of the New Haven 
Coal Dealers' Club and has been in the coal business since 
1868. He was born in Germany August 10, 1850. His two 
sons, Leopold A. and Benjamin H., are associated with him 
In business. 



ANTHONY J. VERIJI Is a partner in the firm of Verdi 
& Balsamo, 44 4 Grand Ave., New Haven, Connecticut. He 
has been in the retail coal business for fourteen years. 



CONNECTICUT 



GEORGE E. ACKLEY is President and Treasurer of The 
George E. j*. ckley Co., New Milford, Connecticut, and has 
been engaged in the coal business seven years. He was 
born in New Milford October 8, 1869. 

ALBERT AHERN, East Windsor, Connecticut, is one of 
the proprietors of the business of Ahern Bros. He has 
been in the business for twenty-one years. He was born 
at East AVindsor September 30, 1884. 

DAVID J. AHERN is a member of the firm of Ahern 
Bros., coal merchants at East Windsor Hill, Connecticut. 
He has been in the business since 1897. He was born 
February 24, 1880, at East Windsor. 

RALPH W. ALLEN, V/insted, Connecticut, is owner of 
the retail coal business of H. Allen & Son, with which he 
has been connected for fifteen years. He was born at East 
Wilton, Maine, No.vember 4, 1882. 

ANDREW Y. BEACH, successor to Sharon Y. Beacli, has 
been in the retail coal business for twenty-nine years at 
Seymour, Connecticut. He was born at Seymour October 
27, 1836. 

GEORGE W. BENEDICT, retail coal merchant at Nauga- 
tuck, Connecticut, was born October 13, 1856, at Bridgeport. 
Connecticut, and has been in the coal business fifteen years. 

CLINTON PHELPS BLACKMER is Assistant Manager for 
L. E. Blackmer, coal merchant at Thomaston, Connecticut, 
and has been connected with tlie business for ten years. 
He was born at East Granby, Connecticut, February ' 7, 
1889. 

L. E. BLACK3IER, Thomaston, Connecticut, has been in 
the retail coal business at Thomciston eighteen years on his 
own account, having been formerly with G. W. Curtiss. He 
was born December 12, 1861, at New Haven, Connecticut. 

L. M. CAMP, Treasurer The Citizens' Coal Co., Waterbury, 
Connecticut, has been in the coal business since 1883, for- 
merly with Frank Miller & Co. He was born in Durham, 
Connecticut. February 23, 1855. 

JOSEPH C. CARTER is the proprietor of a retail coal 
business at Manchester, Connecticut. He has been in the 
trade for twenty-eight years, twenty of which were spent 
with E. Griswold. He was born at South Windsor, Con- 
necticut, December 12, 1863. 

EDGAR T. CLARK owns his coal business at Milford, 
Connecticut, and has - carried it on for eleven years. He 
was born in Milford Decemljer 14, 1859. He was elected 
President of the Milford Business Men's Association in 1917 
and re-elected in 1918. He has been Treasurer of the 
Village Improvement Association for eight years. 

J. IRVING DIBBLE, President and Treasurer of The Fer- 
ris Coal Co. at South Norwalk, Connecticut, has been in 
the business for forty-six years, or since he was a boy of 
fifteen. He was born sixty years ago at South Norwalk. 
Associated with him is Frank N. Ferris, a brother of the 
founder. 

GEORGE S. ELLIOTT is Vice President of The Parker- 
Elliott Coal Co.. Willimantic, Connecticut. Mr. Elliott has 
been in the coal business for twenty-four years and in 
May, 1917, sold out to the present company, of w^hich T. R. 
Parker of Willimantic is President. Mr. Elliott was born 
at V/illimantic May 20, 1867. 

FERDINAND GILDERSLEEVE, President and Treasurer 
of the Gildersleeve Fuel Co., Gildersleeve, Connecticut, was 
born August 20, 1840, in Gildersleeve and has been in the 
coal business for thirty-three years. He is also a stockholder 
in the Texas-Pacitic Coal Co.. Thurber, Texas. 

THOMAS GLENNON, senior member of the firm of Glen- 
non & Lillis at New Milford, Connecticut, is Secretary and 
Treasurer of the concern and has been in the coal business 
for nine years. He was born at New Milford July 22, 1864. 

JAMES B. GREGORY is President of the firm of Ira 
Gregory & Co., coal merchants at Bridgeport, Connecticut, 
and has been in the business for fifty-six years. He was 
born at Bridgeport April 6, 1845. Ira Gregory, his father, 
established the business in 1843. 

OSCAR R. HAASE, Secretary-Treasurer of the Terryville 
Coal & Wood Co., Terryville, Connecticut, was born May 11, 
1875, in Terryville and iias been in the coal business twelve 
years. 

EDWARD L. HAYNER. traveling salesman for Heilner 
& Son, West Haven, Conn., was born July 5. 1883, at Troy. 
New York, and has been in the coal business for nine years. 
Mr. Hayner was formerly connected with Percy Heilner & 
Son and A. H. Powell Co. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



ANDREW V. HEATH, Secretary of the Meeker Coal Co., 
Norwalk, Connecticut, was born December 20, 1858, at 
Staten Island, New York, and has been in the coal business 
twenty-five years. 

BENJAMIN LATHAM HOLMES, Mystic, Connecticut, is 
Executor of the Isaac D. Holmes Ertate and is in charge 
of the coal business established by Isaac D. Holmes in 
1847. Mr. Holmes was born in Mystic July 16, 1852, and 
has been in the business since boyhood. His father, Isaac 
D. Holmes, passed away in his 87th year. 

JOHN \V'. HOWE, senior member of the coal firm of J. 
W. Howe & Son at South Glastonbury, Connecticut, has 
been identified with the coal business for the past thirty- 
three years. Formerly he was connected with Barrows & 
Howe. He was born at Glastonbury February 23. 1835. 

LOUIS W. HOWE is Manager and equal partner in the 
coal business of J. "W. Howe & Son at South Glastonbury, 
Connecticut, and has been a member of the firm for twen- 
ty-seven years. He was born at Glastonbury October 25, 
1870. 

FREDERICK G. HU3IPHREY is Secretary of The Citi- 
zens' Coal Co. at Waterbury, Connecticut, and has been 
identified with the coal business since 1879. He was for- 
merly with the City Lumber & Coal Co. and has filled the 
office of President of the Retail Coal Dealers' Association 
of the New England States. He was born at Norfolk, 
Connecticut, September 23, 1857. He is President of The 
Tunnel Coal Co., Hartford, Connecticut. 

HARRY E. HITSTED, General Manager of the City Ice & 
Coal Co., Bridgeport, Connecticut, was born March 14, 1874, 
in Bridgeport and has been in the coal business t'wenty 
years. He was formerly connected with the firm of Wheeler 
& Howes. 

ROBERT INNES, retail coal merchan,t at Thomaston, 
Connecticut, has been in the business thirty-seven years. 
He was born in Scotland April 26, 1853. Mr. Innes is the 
father of thirteen children, nine of them alive. Three of the 
sons are in the United States Navy and a fourth was re- 
jected in the draft. 

MINOS IRVING JESTER, retail coal merchant of New 
Britain, Connecticut, was born July 27, 1871, at Milford, 
Delaware, and has been in the coal business thirteen years. 
Mr. Jester has served as Alderman, President of the Com- 
mon Council and Acting Mayor of the city. 

WILLIAM S. JOHNSON, President of the Putnam Coal & 
Wood Co., Putnam, Connecticut, has been in the coal busi- 
ness sixteen years. William P. Warren, Treasurer of the 
company, has been with the firm three years. 

FRANK H. JOHNSTON, New Britain, Connecticut, is 
President, General Manager and Treasurer of The City Coal 
& Wood Co. This company was incorporated by him in 1889. 
He is a member of the Executive Committee of the New 
England Coal Dealers' Association, former Vice President 
New England Builders' Supply Association, former President 
New Britain Chamber of Commerce, former President Con- 
necticut State Chamber of Commerce, and is a Director of the 
Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America. 
Mr. Johnston was born in New Britain, Connecticut. August 
10, 1861. 

HENRY F. JOURDAN is the owner of the business of F. 
Jourdan & Son at Branford, Connecticut, and has been con- 
nected with the firm as partner and proprietor for forty- 
two years. He was born May 31, 1855, at Branford. 

JOHN KALTENSTEIN, Danbury, Connecticut, has been 
engaged in the retail coal business sixteen years and is 
President of the Union Coal Co. He was born in' Hungary 
March 20, 1872. 

JAMES E. LALLY, retail coal merchant of Windsor 
Locks, Connecticut, was born in 1878 at Windsor, Connec- 
ticut, and has been in the coal business ior four years. 

DANIEL F. LEACH is a retail coal merchant at Windsor 
Locks, Connecticut, and has been in business there for five 
years. He was formerly with L. H. Barrett & Co. He was 
born at Hartford, Connecticut, in December, 1877. 

PETER BleDONALD has been in the retail coal business 
for twenty-six years and is President of The Peter Mc- 
Donald Co. at Bethel, Connecticut. He was born December 
15, 1851, at Redding, Connecticut. 

AURELIUS JUDD MEEKER is Treasurer and Director of 
the Meeker Coal Co., Norwalk, Connecticut. He established 
his coal business in 1858 and carried it on formerly as 
Meeker & Benedict and as A. J. Meeker & Bro. Mr. Meeker 
was born at Westport, Connecicut, November 25, 1833. 

CHARLES H. MOORE, Manager C. H. Moore Co., Stafford 
Springs, Connecticut, was born June 24, 1883, in Staffordville, 
Connecticut, and has been in tne coal business seven years. 



JOHN CALVIN MORGAN is the proprietor of the coal 
business of John A. Morgan & Son at Norwich, Connecticut, 
which was established in 1864 by his father. He was born 
in Norwich September 18, 1846. 

ALFRED E. PHELPS is a retail coal merchant at Glas- 
tonbury, Connecticut, who has been in the business for 
over forty years, succeeding his father, Philo F. Phelps. 
He was born at Glastonbury December 2, 1847. 

BENJA3IIN B. PHILLIPS owns the business of The Tor- 
rington Coal & Oil Co., Torrington, Connecticut, and has 
been in Torrington thirteen years. He was born at North- 
port, Long Island. September 19, 1867. 

DANIEL J. ROBERTS of Meriden, Conn., is a retail coal 
merchant who has been in the business for twenty-three 
years. He was born at Northampton, Massachusetts, Feb- 
ruary 7, 1862. 

RAYMOND S. ROCKWELL is a member of the firm of 
S. D. Rockwell & Son at Morehouse Point, Connecticut, 
and has been in the business for sixteen years. He was 
born February 15, 1877, at Morehouse Point. 

T. S. ROTJRKE is a retail coal merchant at Unionville, 
Connecticut, who has been in business there since April, 
1900. He was born at Unionville December 26, 1865. 

JOHN JACOB SCHWARZ, General Manager Schwarz Bros., 
Rockville, Connecticut, "was born June 18, 1853, in Rockville 
and has been in the coal business t'wenty-five years. 

W^ILLIAM SCHW^ARZ, junior member of Schwarz Bros., 
Rockville. Connecticut, was born September 12, 1856, in Chi- 
cago, Illinois, and has been in the coal business twenty- 
five years. 

E. H. SHATTUCK is President and Treasurer of the 
Loomis Bros. Co., Granby, Connecticut. He has been 
active in the coal business for over twenty years. He was 
born at Granby June 4, 1874. 

EZEKIEL SPITZ, New London, Connecticut, is sole owner 
of the City Coal Co. and has been in the business for six 
years. He was born in Russia January 11, 1888. 

HO\VARD C. THOMPSON is the owner of a retail coal 
business at Plainville, Connecticut, and has carried it on 
successfully for eleven years. He ■was born at West Avon, 
Connecticut, September 5, 1860. 

GEORGE W. THORPE has been in the retail coal busi- 
ness at West Cliesliire, Connecticut, for ten years. He was 
born at Hamden, Connecticut. 

ASA WELLS THURLOUGH, retail coal merchant at Deep 
River, Connecticut, successor to John S. Lane, has been doing 
business since 1900 at the same place on the Connecticut 
River as established in 1865. He was born in Monroe, Maine, 
March 18, 1854. 

HIRAM C. VIETS is a retail coal merchant at East Gran- 
by, Connecticut, and has been in the business for fourteen 
years. He was born at East Granby August 23, 1871. 

ALLEN EDW^ARD VINCENT, Bridgeport, Connecticut, Is 
President and Treasurer of The Vincent Brothers Co., coal 
merchants. He has been in the business for twenty-four 
years. He was born September 4, 1864, at Sherman, Con- 
necticut. 

CHARLES F. -WATERBURY is the proprietor of the coal 
business of David Waterbury & Son at Stamford, Connec- 
ticut, and has been in tlie business for forty-tliree years. 
He was born May 15, 1855, at Stamford. 

DAVID W^ATERBURY is Manager of the firm of Davi.d 
Waterbury & Son, retail coal merchants, Stamford, Con- 
necticut, and has been connected with the business for 
eighteen years, being the grandson of its founder, who es- 
tablished it forty-three years ago. He is thirty-six years 
old and was born at Stamford. 

REBECCA RUTH "WHITE, Bridgeport, Connecticut, has 
been connected with the coal business for twelve years and 
Is now bookkeeper for The City Ice & Coal Co. She was 
formerly with The East End Coal Co. and was born at 
Torrington, Connecticut, November 13, 1888. 

J. H. WOOD is Secretary of the W. H. Scott Co., coal 
merchants at Pequabuck, Connecticut, and has been con- 
nected with the business for fifteen years. He was born 
in England September 4, 1879. 

COSMER A. YOUNG, Danielson, Connecticut, is the Presi- 
dent of the Young Brothers Co., coal merchants. He was 
partner formerly in the firm of C. A. Young & Co. and 
has been thirty-one years in the business. He was born 
in 1851 at Danielson, Connecticut. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



MAINE 



■WILL. H. ADAMS, Treasurer The Cash Fuel Co., Portland. 
Maine, was born in Gray, Maine, September 30, 1861, and 
has been in the coal business for ten years. He has served 
as President of the Portland Coal Club. 

CI..\RENCE JOHN" AVERY of Avery Bros., North Lubec, 
Maine, was born in North Lubec, Maine, November 30, 1870, 
and has been in the coal business for thirteen years. George 
H. Avery is President of the company. 

BOYD BARTI-ETT, Secretary-Treasurer Castine Coal Co.. 
Castine. Maine, was born in Ellsworth, Maine, January 15 
1864, and has been in the coal business for four years. 

>VILL,IS I. BICKFORD, Gorham, Maine, Manager of th(j 
W. I. Bickford & Son Co., was born at Parsonfield Novem- 
ber 1, 1851, and has been in the coal business for fourteen 
years. 

GEORGE D. BOl'LTER, Kittery. Maine, was born in 
Tamworth, New Hampshire, June 19, 1864, and has been in 
the coal business for nineteen years. Mr. Boulter takes an 
active part in civic matters as well as operating a success- 
ful retail coal business. 

CHARLES E. BRETT, South Paris. Maine, was born in 
South Paris, Maine, April 3, 1856, and has been in the coal 
business for thirty-five years. He was formerly with the 
firm of Shurtleff & Brett. 

EDWIN L. BITSSELL, Treasurer-Manager Gardiner Coal 
& Supply Co., Gardiner. Maine, was born in Passadumkeag, 
Maine, September 25, 1868, .and has been in the coal business 
for eight years. 

E. S. C.\RY' of E. S. Cary & Co.. Presque Isle. Maine, was 
born in Howland, New York, July 8, 1859, and has been in 
the coal business for six years. 

JOHN PIRCELL CULLINAN, Norway, Maine, was born 
in Innes-Clan County, Ireland, December 5, 1862, and has 
been in the retail coal business for tvv^enty-six years. 

EDWIN CUMMINGS of Cummings & Norton, West Jones- 
port, Maine, was born in Columbia, Maine, in January, 1871, 
and has been in the coal business for sixteen years. 

HARVEY W^ DUNBAR, junior member of Dunbar Bros., 
Sullivan, Maine, was born in Sullivan and has been in the 
coal business thirty-two years. He was also one of the 
original incorporators of the Bar Harbor Coal Co., which 
was afterwards merged with the Clark Coal Co. He still 
retains his interest in the new company. 

3IELVIN J. GOOGIN, President-Manager Googin Fuel Co., 
Lewiston Maine, was born in Old Orchard, Maine, in 1854, 
and has been in the coal business for thirty-six years. Mr. 
Googin has served as President of the Maine Coal Operators' 
Association. 

H. W. GREELEY, Manager of Ayer & Greeley, Oakland, 
Maine, was born in Mt. Vernon, Maine, December 30, 1857, 
and has been in the coal business for thirty-six years. 

CLYDE BARTLETT HOLMES, President, Treasurer and 
General Manager Consumers Fuel Co., Belfast. Maine, was 
born in Waldo, Maine, May 27, 1884, and has been in the 
coal business for eight years. 

WILLIAM H. HOOPER, President Castine Coal Co., Cas- 
tine, Maine, was born in Castine, Maine, December 18, 1865, 
and has been in the coal business for eighteen years. 

JAMES A. HUSSEY, Manager of the North Berwick Fuel 
Co., North Berwick, Maine, was born in North Berwick, 
Maine, May 28, 1860, and has been in the coal business for 
nine years. 

P. LAVOIE of the P. Lavoie & Co., Auburn. Maine, was 
born in Canada and has been in the coal business for about 
six years. 

LYMAN KINGMAN LEE, Treasurer-Manager Dover & 
Foxcroft Fuel Co., Foxcroft, Maine, ■was born in Foxcroft, 
Maine, April 25, 1867, and has been in the coal business for 
twelve years. Mr. Lee has served as President of the Maine 
Coal Dealers' Association, Vice President of the New Eng- 
land Coal Dealers' Association and is one of the leading 
retail coal merchants in the state. 

ANSEL B. LELAND, General Manager The Clark Coal Co., 
Bar Harbor, Maine, was born in Bar Harbor April 24, 1861, 
and has been in the coal business eleven years. 

NATHAN C. MeCAUSLA?iD, Treasurer-Manager McCaus- 
land Co., Old Town, Maine, was born in Detroit, Maine, 
August 14, 1846, and has been in the coal business for twen- 
ty-four years. 

FRANK S. MILLIKEN of the firm of B. F. Milliken & Son, 
Eastport. Maine, was born in Eastport June 7. 1854. and has 
been in the coal business covering a period of twenty years. 
B. F. Milliken, father of Frank S., died in 1913. 



J. H. MOI'NTFORT, Portland, Maine, was born in North 
Yarmouth, Maine, February 5, 1857, and has been in the coal 
business for twenty-eight years. He is one of the well- 
known retailers of Maine. 

ULYSSES C. NORTON of Cummings & Norton, West 
Jonesijort, Maine, was born in Jonesport in August, 1873, 
and has been in the coal business for about sixteen years. 

LAFOREST V. PRESCOTT, Wilton, Maine, was born in 
Dixfield, Maine, April 10, 1872, and has been in the coal 
business for five years. 

JAMES B. PULSIFER, President and General Manager 
Pulsifer & Young, Auburn Maine, was born in Auburn, 
Maine, October 7, 1875, and has been in the coal business for 
twelve years. Mr. Pulsifer is Vice President of the Maine 
Coal Dealers' Association. 

HEBERT L. SHEPHERD, Rockport, Maine, President of 
the S. E. & H. L. Shepherd Co., was born in Rockport, Maine, 
June 10, 1850, and has been in the coal business for some 
forty odd years. Mr. Shepherd is also interested in the 
Camden Yacht Building & Railway Co., Camden, Maine, 
and was formerly with the Merriam & Shepherd and 
Shepherd-Jones companies, Rockport, Maine. 

^VILLIS H. SOULE, Freeport, Maine, was born in Freeport 
February 14, 1859, and has been in the coal business for 
twenty-one years. 

FRED ROBINSON SPEAR, Rockland, Maine, was born in 
Rockland September 30, 1856, and has been in the coal 
business forty-six years. Mr. Spear is proprietor of the 
pioneer coal yard in the city of Rockland, having succeeded 
in 1881 his father, Alfred K. Spear, who established the 
business in 1861. Mr. Spear is a member of the Executive 
Committee of the New England Coal Dealers Association. 

MRS. MARY" BARNARD STINCHPIELD, Skowhegan, 
Maine, was born in Skowhegan, Maine, July 25, 1875, and has 
been in the coal business for eight years, succeeding her 
husband, W. M. Stinchfield. deceased. 

GILBERT STOCKTON, Superintendent Pocahontas Fuel 
Co., Inc., Portland, Maine, was born in Buffalo, New York, 
February 14, 1889, and has been in the coal business for 
four years. He studied mining engineering at Lehigh Uni- 
versity, South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, finishing there in 
1909, and then took a post-graduate course in mining engi- 
neering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bos- 
ton, completing it in 1910. He is a member of Squadron A. 
Club, New York, the Cumberland Club and Portland Country 
Club, Portland, Maine. On September 15, j915, in Buffalo, 
New York, he married Rebecca Rodman Shreve of San 
Mateo, California. 

ALBERT W. W^ALKER, President A. W. Walker & Son, 
Inc., South Paris, Maine, was born in Portland, Maine, April 
6, 1853, and has been in the coal business in Maine for 
twenty-six years. Percy M. Walker is the junior member 
of the firm. He ■was born in 1878. 

FRED A. W^ALLS, Manager of John T. R. Freeman Estate, 
South West Harbor, Maine, was born in South West Harbor, 
Maine, June 30, 1888, and has been in the coal business for 
five years. 

ELMER E. "WENTWORTH, Springvale, Maine, was born 
April 23, 1862, and has been in the coal business for eight 
years. 

OVONDO P. "WHITTIER, Farmington, Maine, was born in 
Vienna, Maine, January 6, 1850, and has been in the coal 
business for sixteen years. 

FRANK S. WINGATE, Hallowell, Maine, was born in Hal- 
lowell and has been in the coal business t^wenty-six years. 
This business was established in 1842 by George F. Wingate, 
father of Frank S., and was the first firm to handle coal in 
that part of the state. Mr. Wingate has served as President 
of the Maine Coal Dealers' Association. 



MASSACHUSETTS — Boston 



LEWIS BURNHAM, President Suffolk Coal Co., 178 Bor- 
der St., East Boston. Massachusetts, was born April 23, 
1844, at Essex, Massachusetts, and has been in the coal 
business for sixteen years. 

ARNOLD B. CROSBY of the Suffolk Coal Co., East Bos- 
ton, Massachusetts, has been in the coal business in Boston 
and vicinity for nearly thirty years. 

DANIEL F. DOHERTY, Manager of the D. Doherty Co., 
220 Freeport St.. Boston, Massachusetts, was born April 16, 
1861, in Boston, and has been in the coal business twenty- 
seven years. 



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ROBERT H. GROSS, President The New River Co., 85 
Devonshire St., Boston, Massachusetts, was born December 
28, 1864, at Pine Run, Michig^an, and has been in the coal 
business for eight years. 

CHARLES P. HUTCHINS, Treasurer of William C. At- 
water Co. of Boston, Massachusetts, was born April 14, 
1863, at Hartford, Vermont, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for thirty years. 

MAURICE H. KLOtJS, President Staples Coal Co., Boston. 
Massachusetts, was born December 28, 1S7S, in Charlestowh, 
Massachusetts, and has been in the coal business twenty 
years. He is also a Director of the Metropolitan Coal Co. 
and the Maritime Coaling- Co. and was formerly President 
of the Boston Coal Co. and the Union Fuel Co. He is Ex- 
ecutive Secretary of the Boston Fuel Administration, Com- 
mittee of Distribution. 

WILI/IAM E. MACURDA, Treasurer Garfield & Proctor 
Coal Co., -92 State St., Boston, Massachusetts, was born in 
Clinton, Massachusetts, in 1864, and has been in the coal 
business thirty-four years. Mr. Macurda has also various 
other retail interests. 

AV'ILLIAM R. McDOlVALD, Eastern Sales Ag-ent Williams 
& Peters, Boston, Massachusetts, was born September S), 
1868, at Gloucester, Massachusetts, and has been in the 
coal business for twenty-nine years. He was formerly with 
William A. Mehaffey. 

H. P. MYERS, Eastern Sales Agent of the Lehigh Valley 
Coal Sales Co., 141 Milk St., Boston, Massachusetts, was 
born in 1853 at Boston and has been in the coal business 
for over forty-seven years. Mr. Myers w^as formerly con- 
nected with Weld, Rice & Co., Weld, Sherwin & Co., Phila- 
delphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co., and Quintard, Ward, 
Allen & Co. 

FRANK S. PRATT, wholesale coal merchant at 35 Con- 
gress St., Boston, Massachusetts, was born March 6, 1854, 
at Boston, and has been in the coal business for thirty- 
two years. Mr. Pratt specializes in Pennsylvania bitumi- 
nous coals. 

FRAlVKLIiV WALTER, Treasurer of the Coastwise Coal 
Co., with offices at 113 State Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 
has been in the coal business for the past twenty-five years. 



MASSACHUSETTS — Springfield 



MELVILLE S. CONVERSE, Treasurer of the M. S. Con- 
verse Co. of Springfield, Massachusetts, was born at Monson, 
Massachusetts, December 26, 1857, and has been in the coal 
business for thirty-seven years. He was formerly con- 
nected with Converse & Nason and M. S. Converse of West- 
boro, Massachusetts. 

CHARLES J. DAVIS, Sales Agent of the Lehigh Coal & 
Navigation Co. at Springfield, Massachusetts, -was born in 
Boston, Massachusetts, on September 28, 1880, and has been 
in the coal business for twenty years. Mr. Davis was for- 
merly connected with Williams & Peters. 

CHARLES E. HALSTEAD, Vice President and a Director of 
the M. S. Converse Co. of Springfield, Massachusetts, was 
born at Hillsdale, New York, in 1850 and has been in the 
coal business thirty-one years. Mr. Halstead was formerly 
connected Avith Halstead & Pierson of Springfield, Massa- 
chusetts, and has been Treasurer of the Retail Coal Dealers 
Association of New England States for nearly ten years. 

ROSCOE R. MOODY, President of the Cliffy Consolidated 
Coal Co., Inc., of Springfield, Massachusetts, was born at 
Greenville, Tennessee, on June 14, 1869, and has been in the 
coal business for nine years. The mines of this company 
are located at Clifty, Tennessee, and Clay, Kentucky, with 
main office at Nashville, Tennessee, and executive office at 
Springfield, Massachusetts. Mr. Moody is also head of the 
banking firm of Moody Bros. & Co. of Springfield, Massa- 
chusetts. 

WILLIAM (i. TAIT, President of the Tait Coal Co.. of 
Springfield. Massachusetts, was born at Chicopee. Massachu- 
setts, on September 24, 1873, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness a quarter of a century. Mr. Tait is one of the well- 
known retail coal merchants of New England. 



MASSACHUSETTS — Worcester 



FREDERICK J. DANIELS is Salesman for the Wm. E. 

Marks Coal Co., Worcester, Mass. He was formerly with the 
United Coal Co., Darrow, Mann & Co., and A. H. Powell & 
Co. He has been connected with the coal business for twenty- 
six years. He was born at Oxford, Massachusetts, in 1854. 



JOSEPH WILSON GORMAN, President of the Gorman- 
Leonard Coal Co., of Worcester, Massachusetts, was born in 
1875, and has been in the coal business seventeen years. 
He is also interested in the Riverside Coal Mining Co., Riv- 
erside Coal Co., Kennebec Coal & Wharf Co., Center Coal 
Mining Co., and Stine Coal Mining Co. He was formerly 
connected with the Worcester Coal Co. and M. C. Boyd & Bro. 

AVILFRED J. HAMEL, Treasurer and Manager Greendale 
Coal Co., Worcester, Massachusetts, "was born in Warren, 
Massachusetts, October 13, 1864, and has been in the coal 
business six years. 

WILLIAM E. MARKS, proprietor of the Wm. E. Marks 
Coal Co., doing a wholesale business at Worcester, Massa- 
chusetts, was born at Port Matilda, Pennsylvania, on Janu- 
ary 8, 1878, and has been in the coal business for ten years. 
He is also interested in the Mount Airie Coal Mining Co. of 
Mehaffey, Pennsylvania. 



MASSACHUSETTS 



CHARLES G. AKIN, Treasurer of the Akin-Denison Co. 
of New Bedford. Massachusetts, was born in New Bedford 
April 12. 1870. and has been in the coal business twenty- 
five vears. He was formerly connected vi^ith F. T. Akin & 
Co. 

JAMES ANDERSON, proprietor of James Anderson & Co. 
of Ware, Massachusetts, was born at Ovid, Seneca County, 
New York, June 1, 1852, and has been in the coal business 
for twenty-three years. He was forinerly connected with 
Gilbert & Anderson. His son, .Tames H. Anderson, is a 
yeoman in the I nited States Navy. 

JOHN E. ARNOLD, retail coal merchant of Adams, Mas- 
sachusetts, was born in Adams August 18, 1868, and has 
been in the coal business for the past eight years. He was 
formerly connected with the firm of Cook & Arnold. 

FRED L. ATKINSON, Treasurer of the Atkinson Coal Co. 
of Newburyport, Massachusetts, was born at Charleston, 
Maine, in 1856 and has been in the coal business for thirty- 
four years. 

JOHN H. BALCH, JR., a retailer of Newburyport, Massa- 
chusetts, was born at Newburyport in 1866 and has been in 
the coal business for a quarter of a century. He is a mem- 
ber of the Advisory Committee of the New England Coal 
Dealers' Association. 

CHARLES S. BARBER, retail coal merchant of Bernards- 
ton. Massachusetts, was born August 22, 1852, at Rowe, 
Massachusetts, and has been in the coal business for himself 
for over twenty years. 

STANLEY F. BARTON, a clerk with the Luther Paul Co. 
of Newton Center, Massachusetts, was born at Tunbridge 
Wells, England, on December 14, 1878, and has been in the 
coal business for twenty years. 

LAFOREST REALS, member of the firm of E. A. Wilson 
& Co. of Lowell, Massachusetts, was born in North Anson, 
Maine, on September 12, 1868, and has been in the coal 
business since 1893. Mr. Beals has been active in the civic, 
social and fraternal life of his community. 

OVILA BEAUCHAMP, a retailer of Holyoke, Massachu- 
setts, was born in Canada on May 28, 1875, and has been in 
the coal business for twelve years. He is also interested in 
the charcoal industry. 

L.\RKIN E. BENNETT, retail coal merchant of Wakefield, 
Massachusetts, was born in Sandwich, New^ Hampshire, 
Novem.ber 29, 1864, and has been in the coal business twenty 
years. He -wns formerly Treasurer of the Moore & Bennett 
Coal Co. of Lowell, Massachusetts, but sold out his interests 
before the consolidation of his company with others in 
Lowell. In 1902 he purchased the coal business, real estate 
and property of Charles A. Cheney of Wakefield, Massachu- 
setts, and has conducted a successful business ever since. 

EUGENE B. BLAKE, a retail coal merchant of Greenfield, 
Massachusetts, was born at Hill, New Hampshire, on De- 
cember 5, 1845, and has been in the coal business for him- 
self for twenty-five years. 

EDAVIN D. BRIGHAM, a retail coal merchant at Ashburn- 
ham, Massachusetts, was born at Marlboro, Massachusetts. 
November 13. 1850, and has been in the coal business for 
himself for thirty-two years. 

FRANK R. BliRR, President and General Manager of 
The Burr Co. of Ludlow, Massachusetts, was born in Lud- 
low on December 10, 1883, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for fifteen years. 



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JOSEPH BT 'ri.KH, a liandler of coal at retail at Stone- 
ham. Massachusetts, was born at Nova Scotia. Canada, June 
19, ISGit, and has been in the coal business for ten years. 

Gl'STAA" E. CAHSTEIN, President of the Carstein Coal 
Co. of Cambridge. Massachusetts, was born in Boston, Mas- 
sachusetts, on July i;4. 1881, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness lor thirteen years. 

FRED DWIGHT C.4RY, President of the Kimball & Cary 
Co. of Northampton. Massacliusetts. was born at Xorthamp- 
ton on April 27. ISSG. and has been in tlie coal business for 
six years. This firm was established in 1881 and incorpo- 
rated In 1896. Stuart M. Campbell is Secretary and Treas- 
urer of the company. 

JAMES EDW.Vlin CHAUAVICK. a retail coal merchant of 
Edgartown, Massachusetts, was born at Edgartown on 
March 16, 1868, where he has been in the coal business for 
twenty-nine years. 

AI-FRED M. CH.VFFEE, President of Chaffee Brothers Co.. 
Oxford, Massachusetts, was born in Oxford August 16, 1859, 
and has Ijeen in the coal business twenty years. 

HE.\RY AV. CHANDLER, Treasurer and Manager of the 
Whitman Grain & Coal Co, of "Whitman, Massachusetts, was 
born at Duxbury, Massachusetts, October 16, 1870, and has 
been in the coal business for thirty years. 

WILLIAM E. CHEXERY, retail coal merchant of Fram- 
ingham Centre, Massachusetts, was born at Medfield, Massa- 
chusetts, on March 1, 1859, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for thirty-four years. 

LOl'IS ALFRIC CHI'TE, a member of the firm of Cum- 
mings & Chute of Woburn, Massachusetts, was born at 
Woburn December 24. 1885, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for fifteen years. 

AVILLI.4.M H. CLEMENTS, President of Wm. H. Clements 
Co. of North Easton, Massachusetts, was born at Quincy, 
Massachusetts, on August 1, 1854, and has been in the coal 
business for twenty years. He was formerly connected 
witli the Goward Coal & Ice Co. 

ALBERT F. CONANT of Conant & Co.. Littleton, Massa- 
chusetts, was born in Acton, Massachusetts, on June 8, 
1843, and has been in the coal business almost half a century. 
His associates in business are Everett Kiinball and Charles 
K. Houghton. 

GEORGE H. COOPER of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, was 
born at Lee, Massachusetts, on August 15, 1867, and for 
several years was associated with W. G. Morton of Albany. 
New York. He was President of the New England Retail 
Coal Dealers Association, was prominently identified with 
the Order KoKoal, and is editor of "Cooperosities." Mr. 
Cooper has also specialized in advertising and the sale of 
real estate. 

ELLSW^ORTH J. CULLEX, proprietor of the Danvers Coal 
Co. of Danvers, Massachusetts, was born in Boston, Massa- 
chusetts, on May 12, 1890, and has been in the coal business 
for ten years. He was formerly connected with the Somer- 
ville Coal Co. 

J. WAYLAXD DAVENPORT, founder of J. H. Davenport 
& Son, a retail firm at Winchendon, Massachusetts, was 
born at West Boyleston, Massachusetts, July 4, 1853, and 
has been in the coal business for almost half a century. 

STEARNES L. DAVENPORT, proprietor of S. L. Daven- 
port & Son of North Grafton, Massachusetts, was born at 
Providence, Rhode Island, on June 14, 1854 and has been 
in the coal business for nrteen years. 

EDGAR HITNT DEANE, a veteran retail coal merchant of 
Canton, Massachusetts, was born^in Canton, Massachusetts, 
on October 22, 1846, and has been in the coal business for 
thirty-six years. 

GEORGE H. DEGENKOLB, Treasurer of the Hoosac Valley 
Coal & Grain Co.. Adams, Massachusetts, was born in Adams 
November 18, 1885, and has been in the coal business eleven 
years, having been connected formerly with Oliver A. Up- 
ton. 

JOHN DENTON, retail coal merchant, Chelsea, Massachu- 
setts, was born in Birmingham, England, in 1868, and has 
been in the coal business twenty-four years. 

GEORGE O. DUNNELL, a retail coal merchant of North- 
field, Massachusetts, was born at Colerain, Massachusetts, 
on March 4, 1869, and has been in the coal business for ten 
years. He has taken his son. F. Myron Dunnell, into part- 
nership with him. 



R. E.IRL KICHLEK, President and General Manager of 
the \'\'altliam Coal Co. of Wailham, Massachusetts, was born 
at Waltliam on September 11. 1888, and has been in the coal 
business for eleven years. He is also interested as Presi- 
dent in the Nonantum Coal Co. of Newton, Massacliusetts, 
and Treasurer of the Weston Coal Co. of Weston, Massa- 
cliusetts. Mr. Eicliler was formerly Vice President of the 
Suburban Coal Club. 

AVGUSTUS C. ELLIS, retail coal merchant of Chatham, 
Massachusetts, was born in Chatham on September 3, 1880, 
and has been in the coal business for seven years. 

ELBRIDGE C. ELLIS, a retail coal merchant of South- 
bridge. Massachusetts, was born in Charlton, Massachusetts, 
in 1855, and has been in the coal business for a quarter of 
a century. He was formerly associated with E. S. Ellis, his 
father, who established the business in 1878. 

EVGENE S. FARNUM, a well-known coal merchant of 
L'xbridge, Massachusetts, was formerly connected with Wm. 
Nichols & Co., Gregory C. Kelly & Co., O'Boyle-Fay Coal 
Co. and Pittston Coal Co. He was born at Uxbridge, Janu- 
ary 14, 1860, and has been in the coal business for thirty-one 
years. 

FREDERICK W. FARRAR, a retailer at Warren, Massa- 
chusetts, was born at Keene, New Hampshire, in 1849 and 
has been in the coal business for thirty-nine years. 

FRANK A. FISHER, retail coal merchant of Walpole, 
Massachusetts, was born at Walpole on December 16, 1867, 
and has been in the coal business for thirty years. 

W'lLBliR AVARREN FISK, proprietor of Wilbur W. Flsk 
& Co.. of Stoneham, Massachusetts, was born at Marlboro, 
Massachusetts, on November 25, 1877, and has been in the 
coal business for twelve years. 

OTHO H. FISKE, a retailer of Huntington, Massachusetts, 
was born in Chester, Massachusetts, on August 29, 1866, 
and has been in the coal business for twenty years. 

ALBERT H. FOSTER, a retailer of North Brookfield, 
Massachusetts, was born at New Braintree, Massachusetts, 
on November 12, 1839, and has been in the coal business 
for himself for thirty-seven years. 

FREDERICK E. ERASER. Manager of the Charles Fraser 
Estate, Clinton, Massachusetts, v/as born at Clinton, Massa- 
chusetts, on August 7. 1863, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for twenty-eight years. 

PRYOR FLLTON, proprietor of the New England Coal Co., 
of Waltliam, Massachusetts, was born in Nova Scotia, Can- 
ada, December 10, 1859, and has been in the coal business 
for a quarter of a century. Mr. Fulton -was one of the 
founders of the New^ England Coal Dealers' Association. 
He is a firm believer in trade organizations. 

JAMES GRADY, a retail coal merchant of Williamstown, 
Massachusetts, W'as born in Pownal, Vermont, July 8, 1861, 
having been in the coal business thirty-five years. He was 
formerly associated with Fred Mather and Clark & Co. 

WALTER L. HALE, a retail coal merchant of Wilming- 
ton. Massachusetts, was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 
February 13, 1879, and has been in the coal business seven 
years. 

GEORGE M. HALL, proprietor of the Benson Coal Co. of 
Melrose, Massachusetts, was born at Rockland, Maine, on 
June 19, 1851, and has been in the coal business since 1871. 

JOHN J, HARRIGAN, retail coal merchant of Beverly, 
Massachusetts, was born May 4, 1864, at Cork, Ireland, and 
has been in the coal business for over a quarter of a cen- 
tury. 

FREDERICK HERDER, a retail coal merchant of Hol- 
yoke, Massachusetts, was born in New York on August 17, 
1873, and has been identified with the charcoal business for 
fifteen years and has handled coal for the past three years. 

BENNIE E. HILL, a retail coal merchant of Methuen, 
Massachusetts, was born in Methuen November 20, 1872, 
and has been in business for two years. 

JESSE M. HOLDER, junior member of Holder Coal Co. 
of Lynn. Massachusetts, was born in Lynn February 9, 1874, 
and has been in the coal business for twenty-five years. 
He was formerly connected with Holder & Breed, Wm. C. 
Holder & Son, and Honors, Holder & Sons. 

JOHN A. HOLUROOK, retailer at Ashland, Massachusetts, 
was born at Bellinghain, Massachusetts, July 28, 1852, and 
has been in the coal business for twenty-seven years. 

WILLIAM C. HOLDER, senior member of the Holder 
Coal Co. of Lynn, Massachusetts, was born at Washington, 
New Hampshire, on March 7, 1841, and has been in the coal 
business for half a century. He was formerly connected 
with Holder & Breed, Wm. C. Holder & Son, and Honors, 
Holder & Sons. 



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JOHIV B, HULIi, a retailer at Great Barrington, Massa- 
chusetts, was born at Stockbridge, Massachusetts, on July 
17, 1871, and has been in the coal business for over twenty 
years. Mr. Hull has been active in politics, having been 
Senator and Representative at Massachusetts General Court 
for five years. 

MRS. CLARABELLE AV. JENNEY of Middleboro, Massa- 
chusetts, was born at Lakeville, Massachusetts, in 1865 and 
has been handling the retail coal business of the James L. 
Jenney Estate for four years. She is one of the enter- 
prising women in the coal business. 

CHESTER B. KENDALL,, veteran retail coal merchant of 
Gardner, Massachusetts, was born October 18, 1842, at Hub- 
bardstown, Massachusetts, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness almost half a century. 

AUGUST J. KIENLE, Manager A. J. Kienle Coal Co., East- 
hampton, Massachusetts, was born in South Hadley Falls. 
Massachusetts, July 8, 1859, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness twenty-three years. He was formerly connected with 
Burt & Kienle. 

JOHN KILLEN, a retailer at Nantucket, Massachusetts, 
was born in Great Britain, April 7, 1847, and has been in 
the coal business for twenty-seven years. 

HERBERT A. KNIGHT, proprietor of A. T. Knight Co., 
Hudson, Massachusetts, was born in Marlboro, Massachu- 
setts, August 16, 1876, and has been in the coal business 
since 1899. 

ERNEST T. LABOSSILIE, bookkeeper for the Ware Coal 
Co. of Ware, Massachusetts, was born in Ware October 2, 
1894, and has been in the coal business two years. 

MICHAEL E. LEAHY, proprietor of the Randolph Coal 
Co. of Randolph, Massachusetts, was born at Randolph 
November 22, 1875, and has been in the coal business for 
about twenty years. 

CHARLES T. LBA.A'ITT, a retailer of East Weymouth, 
Massachusetts, was born July 21, 1857, at Hingham, Massa- 
chusetts, and has been in the coal business for thirteen 
years. 

VICTORIEN LECLERG, a retailer of Lawrence, Massa- 
chusetts, was born in Dorchester County, Canada, March 
21, 1872, and has been in the coal business for eighteen 
years. 

WILLIA3I EDWARD LIVINGSTON, President of Wm. E. 
Livingston Co. of Lowell, Massachusetts, was born in 
Lowell on June 25. 1832, and has been in the coal business 
for sixty-seven years. This firm was established in 1828 
and occupies its original site, thus being one of the oldest 
retail coal firms in the United States. 

CHARLES L. LOVELL, a retail coal merchant of Ipswich, 
Massachusetts, was born in East Boston, Massachusetts, on 
October 31, 1878, and has been in the coal business for 
himself for eight years. 

CH.ARLES J. MAC LEAN, formerly New England agent 
Frederic A. Potts & Co. at Salem, Massachusetts, was born 
at Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, in 1873, and has been in the 
coal business for eight years. 

JOHN A. MARTIN, Treasurer and Manager of the John 
S. Martin Co. of Marblehead, Massachusetts, was born at 
Marblehead on February 1, 1857, and has been in the coal 
business for thirty-one years. 

NATHAN H, 3IATTHEWS, a retailer at Yarmouthport, 
Massachusetts, was born in Yarmouthport October 19, 1850, 
and has been in the coal business for nineteen years, for- 
merly being connected with Matthews & Payne. 

DANIEL 3IcCARTHY, a retailer of Turners Falls, Massa- 
chusetts, was born at Bellows Falls, Vermont, in 1856 and 
has been in the coal business for himself thirty years. 

JOHN H. McENANY, a retailer of Pittsfield, Massachu- 
setts, was born at Pittsfield on June 10, 1874, and has been 
in the coal business for fifteen years. He was formerly 
connected with C. C. Gamwell and Stone & Co. 

J.\MES H. McGRADY% proprietor of the James H. McGrady 
Coal Co. of Lawrence, Massachusetts, was born in Law- 
rence on December 21, 1883, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for five years. 

JOHN C. aicNALLY, proprietor of the Shawmut Coal Co. 
of Somerville, Massachusetts, was born in New York City 
on March 20, 1886, and has been in the coal business for 
six years. 

FRED A. aicNEELAND, Treasurer and Manager of the 
Bridgewater Ice & Coal Co., Bridgewater, Massachusetts, 
was born September 25, 1877, in Bridgewater, and has been 
in the coal business for over twelve years. 



FRANK P. MILLS, General Manager of the G. F. Green 

Coal Co. at Brockton, Massachusetts, was born October 18, 
1862, at Augusta, Maine, and has been in the coal business 
for twenty-four years. 

JOHN L. MITCHELL, retail coal merchant of Allerton, 
Massachusetts, was born November 15, 1859, at Hull, Mas- 
sachusetts, and has been in the coal business at Allerton 
for the past twenty years. 

CORNELIUS MURPHY, President and Treasurer of 
Stoughton Coal & Ice Co. of Stoughton. Massachusetts, was 
born in Ireland, January 1, 1848, and has been In the coal 

business for thirty-five years. 

DAVID A. NELSON of the retail firm of Noyes & Nelson, 
Avon, Massachusetts, was born in Sweden October 8, 1883, 
and has been in the coal business for four years. 

DE CLINTON NICHOLS, a retailer of Southboro, Massa- 
chusetts, was born in Southboro August 13, 1S46, and has 
been in the coal business for nine years. 

WILBERT JAMES NICHOLS, a retailer of North Adams, 
Massachusetts, was born at North Adams in 1864, and has 
been in the coal business since January 1, 1892. 

EDWARD P. NOYES of Noyes & Nelson, retail coal mer- 
chants of Avon, Massachusetts, was born at Randolph, Mas- 
sachusetts, February 1, 1858, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for twenty-three years. 

JOSEPH E. OBER, founder and senior member of Jos. E. 
Ober & Son, a retail firm at West Medford, Massachusetts, 
was born at HoUis. New Hampshire, on June 23, 1834, and 
has been in the coal business for almost forty years. His 
son, William E. Ober, is now associated with him in busi- 
ness. 

WILLIAM E. OBER, junior member of Jos. E. Ober & Son 
of Medford, Massachusetts, was born at Arlington, Massa- 
chusetts, on June 17, 1867, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for twenty-five years. 

JAMES P. O'NEILL, a retailer at Somerville, Massachu- 
setts, with two yards, was born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, 
on August 21, 1873, and has been in the coal business for al- 
most twenty-five years. He is assisted by his three broth- 
ers, John J., Bernard L. and Lawrence J. O'Neill. 

WALTER S. OSBORNE, a retailer of Edgartown, Massa- 
chusetts, was born at Edgartown on October 25, 1859, and 
has. been in business for himself for thirty-four years. He 
has a well equipped yard and water front plant. 

MARCUS E. OSGOOD, proprietor of E. Osgood & Son of 
Gardner, Massachusetts, was born October 15, 1869, at Gard- 
ner, where he has been in business for twenty-eight years. 
This firm was established in 1859 by Mr. Osgood's father, 
who died in 1910. 

EMERSON HEARD PACKARD, Managing Partner of El- 
mer C. Packard Co., Brockton, Massachusetts, was born 
October 25, 1884, at Brockton, Massachusetts, and has been 
in the coal business for six years. This firm, established 
for over sixty years, being founded by Ellis Packard, de- 
scended to Elmer C. Packard and then to Emerson H. 
Packard. 

W^ ALTER L. PALMER, President and Treasurer of W. L. 
Palmer Co. of Medway, Massachusetts, born at Plainfield, 
Connecticut, on April 23, 1857, has been in the coal business 
for thirty-five years and was formerly connected with 
Hitchcock & Palmer at Turner Falls, Massachusetts. 

HARRY L. PARKHITRST, a retailer at Chelmsford, Massa- 
chusetts, was born February 22, 1865, at Chelmsford, Massa- 
chusetts, and has been in business for himself for thirty-two 
years. 

FRANK SMITH PATCH, President and Treasurer of Cyrus 
Patch & Son, Inc., of Quincy, Massachusetts, vi^as born at 
Amherst, New Hampshire, on .January 26, 1860, and has 
been in the coal business for forty years. 

LOUIS E. PATTISON, a retail coal merchant of Webster, 
Massachusetts, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on De- 
cember 30, 1843, and has been in the coal business for him- 
self for forty-two years. 

IRVING C. PAUL, Treasurer and Manager of the Luther 
Paul Co. of Newton Center, Massachusetts, was born at 
Newton Center on June 29, 1876, and has been in the coal 
business for twenty-two years. 

WILLIAM H. PEVEAR, President and Treasurer of W. H. 
Pevear & Co., Inc., of Watertown, Massachusetts, was born 
at Watertown on January IS, 1850, and has been in the coal 
business since 1868. Mr. Pevear was formerly connected 
with Royal Gilkey and Pevear & Russell. 

CHARLES A. POOKE, proprietor of the Union Lumber Co. 
of Natick, Massachusetts, was born at Charlestown. Massa- 
chusetts, May 14, 1853, and has been in the coal business 
almost half a century. 



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FREn E. POOR of Marcy Bros. & Co., Inc., of Belmont, 
Massaoluisetts, wa.s born in Helmont July 31, 187G, and has 
been in the coal business for twelve years. 

IJAA'ID \V. PO^VERS, proprietor of D. W. Powers & Co. 
of Marlboro, Massachusetts, was born at Johnsonville, New 
York. Jlarch 7, 1861, and has been in the coal trade for 
twenty years, and prior to that time in the railroad busi- 
ness. 

JOHN H. PRESTOX, Manager of the Preston Coal & Coke 
Co. of Lowell, Massachusetts, was born in Manchester, 
New Hampshire, on August 25, 1881, and has been in the 
coal business for fifteen years. He was formerly connected 
with the Moore & Preston Coal Co. of Manchester, New- 
Hampshire. 

JOHN A. RADCLIFPE, Manager of The Albert Culver Co. 
of Rockland, Massachusetts, was born at Rockland in Sep- 
tember, 1866, and has been in the coal business for eleven 
years. 

FREDERICK M. RAND, Manager branch office of Philips, 
Bates & Co. of Marshfield, Massachusetts, was born at 
North Reading, Massachusetts, August 24, 1869, and has 
been in the coal business for twenty-two years. 

RALPH -VV. REDMAiV, President The Fischer-Churchill Co., 
Dedham. Massachusetts, was born in North Isleboro, Maine, 
June 15, 1868. and has been in the retail coal business 
twenty-six years. 

ARTHVR B. REED, proprietor of the E. P. Reed Lumber 
Co. of North Abington, Massachusetts, was born at North 
Abington on September 8, 1867. and has been in the coal 
business for eight years. This business was established in 
1846 by A. S. Reed, his grandfather. 

CHARLES EDWIN" RILEY, part owner of 'W. H. Riley & 
Son, a retail firm at North Attleboro, Massachusetts, was 
born at North Attleboro on November 17, 1861, and has 
been in the coal business for thirty years. Mr. Riley is 
also interested in the Attleboro Coal Co. of Attleboro, Mas- 
sachusetts. His business associate is his brother. Elmer 
Irving Riley, twelve years his senior. 

CHARLES F. ROBIIVSOIV, Secretary and Assistant Treas- 
urer of the Robinson & Jones Co. of Natick, Massachusetts, 
was born at Natick on August 15, 1875, and has been in the 
coal business for twenty years. Mr. Robinson is a life 
member of three Masonic orders. He is a son of Walter B. 
Robinson, 

FRANK B. ROBIIVSOIV, Vice President of the Robinson & 
Jones Co. of Natick, Massachusetts, vsras born at Natick on 
November 24, 1885, having been associated with this com- 
pany for ten years. He is a son of Walter B. Robinson and 
a member of the Boston Chamber of Commerce. 

WALTER B. ROBINSON, President and Treasurer of the 
Robinson & Jones Co. of Natick, Massachusetts, was born 
September 20, 1846, in Bedford, Massachusetts, and has been 
in the coal business for over fifty years. Mr. Robinson is 
connected with the Natick Five-Cent Savings Bank and is 
a member of the Boston Chamber of Commerce as well as 
having been Auditor of the New England Coal Dealers' Asso- 
ciation. 

FRED H. ROURKE, a retailer of Lowell, Massachusetts, 
was born in Lowell on May 23, 1867, and has been in the 
coal business for twenty-five years. He was previously 
connected with Rourke & Sullivan and is Treasurer of 
Lowell at the present time. 

BYRON H. SARGENT, sole owner of the Sargent Coal 
Co. of Merrimac, Massacliusetts, was born in Merrlmac on 
February 26, 1882 and has been doing a retail business for 
eighteen years. 

JOHN F. SEVERANCE, a retailer of Shelburne Palls, 
Massachusetts, was born at Shelburne Falls on January 24, 
1835, and has been in the coal business for almost thirty- 
years. 

GEORGE ARMS SHELDON, a well-known retailer at 
Greenfield, Massachusetts, was born at Greenfield on July 
16, 1872. and has been in the coal business for thirteen 
years. He is also Treasurer of the New England Coal Deal- 
ers' Association, Inc. 

HERBERT D. SMITH, a retail coal merchant of Hatfield, 
Massachusetts, was born at Hadley, Massachusetts, on April 
30, 1867, and has been in the coal business for himself for 
seventeen years. 

WILLIAM H. SNYDER, a retailer of Housatonic. Massa- 
chusetts, was born in Chatham, New^ York, on Decem.ber 8, 
1861, and has been in the coal business for himself for 
thirty-seven years. 



WILLIS G. SNYDER, a retail coal merchant of North 
Adams, Massachusetts, was born at North Adams, October 
12, 1863, and has been in the coal business almost thirty 
years. Mr. Snyder was formerly associated with F. A. 
Brooks and W. G. Snyder & Co. 

NELSON II. STILES. Manager of the Saugus Coal Co. of 
Saugus, Massachusetts, w-as born at Middleton, Massachu- 
setts, in 1852, and has been in the coal business for forty 
years. He was in business for himself for thirty-six years, 
until coming witli the above firm. 

PERCY N. SWEETSER, a retailer of Reading, Massachu- 
setts, was born at Wakefield, Massachusetts, on June 20, 
1882, and has been in the coal business eighteen years. 
He was formerly connected with Edward M. Alden of Boston. 

HENRY L. TAYLOR, proprietor of H. L. Taylor & Co., 
Haverhill, Massachusetts, was born at Haverhill on May 14, 
1878, and has been in the coal business for over sixteen 
years. 

WILLIAM J. THOMPSON, President of the Thompson Coal 
Co. of Somerville, Massachusetts, was born at Somerville, 
April 23. 1871, and has been in the coal business for twenty- 
three years. He was formerly associated with Robert Faw- 
cett of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Louis Ernst is Treasurer 
of the company. 

JOSEPH P. TYRRELL, a retail coal merchant of Sheffield, 
Massachusetts, was born at Egremont, Massachusetts, Feb- 
ruary 1, 1872, and has been in the coal business for four 
years. 

HENRY W. WARE, a retail coal merchant of Shelburne 
Falls, Massachusetts, was born in Shelburne Falls Decem- 
ber 7, 1873, and has been in the coal business twenty-two 
years. 

SUSAN RICHARDS WARTHEN, sole owner of Augustus 
J. Richards & Son, a retail firm doing business at Weymouth, 
Massachusetts, was born March 9, 1S71, and has been active 
in the coal business twenty-two years, succeeding her father 
and two brothers since their demise. 

GEORGE M. WEBBER, retailer of East Bridgewater, 
Massachusetts, was born October 18, 1871, at East Bridge- 
water, Massachusetts, where he has been a retail coal mer- 
chant for thirteen years. 

HENRY COWLES AVELLS, a retail coal merchant of Deer- 
field, Massachusetts, was born in Deerfield December 20, 
1862, and has been in the coal business for himself for 
tw-enty years. 

HERMAN J. WELLS, Manager and Treasurer of the Geo. 
F. Welch Co. of Scituate, Massachusetts, was born at 
Huntington, New Y'ork, May 29, 1865, and has been in the 
coal business for ten years. He was formerly connected 
^v^th Wells & Jennings of Greenport, New York. 

FRANK A. WHITING, late Treasurer and Manager of the 
Holyoke Coal & Wood Co. of Holyoke, Massachusetts, was 
born in Holyoke April 7, 1856, and was in the coal business 
for thirty-two years, until his death, May 5, 1918. He was 
a member of the Executive Committee of the New England 
Coal Dealers' Association and one of the well-known retail- 
ers of New England. 

ALVIN L. WILEY, a retailer at Wellfieet, Massachusetts, 
was born in Wellfieet August 6, 1866, and has been in 
the coal business for over fifteen years. He was formerly 
connected with the Mercantile Wharf Co. and also the Cen- 
tral Trading Co. Mr. Wiley states that up to the time of 
his entry into the coal business, coal was always brought to 
his town by vessel, but because of the decline in the sein- 
ing of mackerel the wharves became unfitted for landing 
and all coal has since been received by rail. 

ERWIN A. WILSON, senior member of E. A. Wilson & 
Co. of Lowell, Massachusetts, was born in Pomfret, Ver- 
mont, June 10, 1861, and has been in the coal business for 
thirty years He is President of the Lowell Terminal Co. 
and Vice President of the New- England Coal Dealers As- 
sociation, representing Massachusetts, and is considered 
one of the leading coal merchants of New England. 

JOSEPH WILLETT, a retail coal merchant of Needham, 
Massachusetts, was born in Boston. Massacliusetts. July 4, 
1847, and had been in the coal business for himself for 
thirty-five years up to July 1, 1918, when, witli C. A. Chad- 
wick of Newton T'pper Falls, Massachusetts, he formed the 
Willett & Chadwick Coal Co., doing business in Needham. 
He is a Past President of the Suburban Coal Club. 

W^ALLACE B. WTILSON, Manager of the Akin-Denison Co. 
of New Bedford, Massachusetts, was born at New Bedford 
on June 14, 1864, and has been In the coal business for 
thirty-five years. He was formerly connected with the 
Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co. and Denison Bros. 
Co. 



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NEW HAMPSHIRE 



CLARENCE W. ADAMS, retailer at Warner, New Hamp- 
shire, was born at Sutton, New Hampshire, in 1873, and has 
been in the coal business for the past five years. He also 
handles lumber in connection with his coal business. 

HERBERT C. ADAMS, a retailer of Belmont, New Hamp- 
shire, was born at Hill, New Hampshire, on November 12, 
1866, and has been in the coal business for himself for the 
past five years. 

JAMES A. BALDWIN, a retailer at East Jaffrey, New 
Hampshire, was born at Dublin, New Hampshire, September 
11, 1855, and has been in business for twenty-seven years. 

JOSEPH BERNIER, retail coal merchant of Greenville, 
New Hampshire, was born at St. Johns, Quebec, Canada, 
October 12, 1S67, and has been in the coal business for fifteen 
years. 

LORING B. BODWELL., retail coal merchant at Manches- 
ter, New Hampshire, was born in Salem, New Hampshire, on 
April 20, 1844, and has been in the coal business for over 
half a century. Mr. Bodwell is being- assisted by his two 
sons, Charles B. and H. Irving. 

ALICE F. BRADLEY has done a retail coal business at 
Rochester, New Hampshire, for the past four years. 

EDGAR T. BROWN, retail coal merchant at Raymond, 
New Hampshire, was born at Raymond, October 12, 1863, 
and has been in the coal business for thirty years. 

ALMON S. CARPENTER, Treasurer-Manager of the D. M. 
Poore Coal Co. of Manchester, New Hampshire, was born in 
Chichester, New Hampshire, in 1869, and having been book- 
keeper and clerk for D. M. Poore for sixteen years, nine 
years ago formed the present company. He is Secretary- 
Treasurer of the Manchester Retail Coal Dealers Asso- 
ciation. 

EDWARD M. CLARK, proprietor of E. M. Clark & Son, 
retail coal inerchants at North Haverhill, New Hampshire, 
was born at Benton, New Hampshire, June 16, 1871, and has 
been in the coal business for eight years. 

CLARENCE EDWARD CLOUGH, Manager and co-partner 
of N. P. Clough & Co. of Lebanon, New Hampshire, was born 
at Danbury, Nevsr Hampshire, on February 25, 1872, and has 
been in the coal business for fifteen years. He is associated 
with George B. Clough, who is senior member of this com- 
pany. 

GEORGE B. CLOUGH, senior member of N. P. Clough & 
Co., a retail firm at Lebanon, New Hampshire, was born at 
Warner, New Hampshire, September 30, 1848, and has been 
in the coal business for fourteen years. This company also 
does an extensive lumber and ice business. 

HENRY L. COTTON, retail coal merchant at Warren, New 
Hampshire, was born at Warren, October 11, 1860, and has 
been in the coal business for six years. 

WILLIAM G. CRAM, retailer of Lakeport, New Hamp- 
shire, was born at Boston, Massachusetts, March 19, 1865, 
and has been in business for himself for twenty years. 

EVERETT LENDALL DAVIS, retailer at Penacook, New 
Hampshire, was born in Warner, New Hampshire, June 27, 
1863, and has been in the coal business thirty years. 

BURT S. DEARBORN, Manager of the Wallace Building 
Co. of Laconia, New Hampshire, was born at Thornton, New 
Hampshire, February 18, 1881, and has been in the coal 
business for six years. 

CHARLES H. DOW, owner and only surviving member of 
J. H. Dow & Son, doing a retail business at Lakeport, New 
Hampshire, was born in Lakeport November 4, 1872. Mr. 
Dow has been in the coal business for twenty-two years. 
His company is the pioneer coal firm of Lakeport. 

J. FRANK GOODWIN, retail coal merchant of Wolfeboro, 
New Hampshire, was born in Emery Mills, Maine, August 2, 
1873, and has been in the coal business about two years. 

HENRY NORMAN HODGDON, Secretary and Treasurer 
of the C. N. Hodgdon Co. of Berlin, New Hampshire, was 
born at Milan, New Hampshire, on July 7, 1869, and has 
been in the coal business for the past seventeen years. Mr. 
Hodgdon is a son of Charles Norman Hodgdon, the pioneer 
coal man of Berlin, who died in 1908. Mr. Hodgdon was 
associated with his father before his death. 

WILFRED A. HODGDON, President of the C. N. Hodgdon 
Co. of Berlin, New Hampshire, was born at Milan, New 
Hampshire, in December, 1863, and has been in the coal 
business for ten years, previously having been engaged in 
the grain business. 



ALMON T. HOVBY, retail coal merchant of Peterboro, 
New Hampshire, was born in Peterboro September 17, 1846, 
and has passed his whole life there, ten days being the 
longest time he was ever away from the town. He has 
been in the coal business thirty-five years, and has four 
coal silos, two of 130-ton capacity, and two of 100-ton 
capacity. 

JOSEPH LEWIS JACOBY, Manager of the Consolidation 
Coal Co. at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, was born in Phila- 
delphia, Pennsylvania, July 23, 1875, and has been in the 
coal business twenty-seven years. He was formerly con- 
nected with the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co. 
at Newburyport, Massachusetts, having charge of that com- 
pany's docks at Salem and NewburyiDort. 

HARRY W. LADD, retail coal merchant at Plaistow, New 
Hampshire, was born in Fremont, New Hampshire, March 
14, 1891, and has been in the coal business seven years. 

LESTER LIBBY LANGLEY, junior member of C. S. Lang- 
ley & Son, retailers at Durham, New Hampshire, was born 
in Durham May 9, 1893, and has been in the coal business 
for two years. 

WILLIS A. MARTIN, retailer at Goffstown, New Hamp- 
shire, was born at Goffstown on April 3, 1884, and has been 
in the coal business for fourteen years. 

ALBERT E. McREEL, Treasurer of A. E. McReel Co. of 
Exeter, New Hampshire, was born at Athol, Massachusetts, 
on March 28, 1870, and has been in the coal business for 
seven years. 

HERMAN E. MILES, Superintendent of the yard of the C. 
N. Hodgdon Co. of Berlin, Nevir Hampshire, and a Director 
of that company, -w&s born at Stark, Ne^v Hainpshire, in 
1877, and has been with this company since its incorpora- 
tion in 1908. Mr. Miles was formerly Cashier in the Berlin 
National Bank. 

FRANK E. MOONEY, retail coal merchant of Farmington, 
New Hainpshire, was born at Alton, New Hampshire, on 
May 20, 1859, and has been in business for thirty years. 

ENOCH E. NEAL, a retail merchant of Maiden, Massa- 
chusetts, was born at Brookfield, Nevir Hampshire, on Janu- 
ary 20, 1867, and has been in business for hiinself for thirty 
years. He is a firm believer in selling coal for cash. 

HERMAN ABBOTT OSGOOD, Treasurer and Manager of 
the Nashua Coal & Coke Co. of Nashua, New Hampshire, 
was born at Hyde Park. Massachusetts, May 4, 1873, and 
has been in the coal business for thirteen years. He is 
Vice President of the Ne^w England Coal Dealers Associa- 
tion and for a number of years has successfully managed 
the exhibit of coal dealers' supplies at the annual conven- 
tions. 

CHARLES H. PETTEE, owner of the Durham Coal Co., 
Durham, New Hampshire, was born in Manchester, New 
Hampshire, February 2, 1853, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for almost twenty-five years. He was formerly con- 
nected with C. S. Pettee & Co. 

FREDERICK B. PRESTON of Manchester, New Hamp- 
shire, associated with John H. Preston in the ownership 
of the Preston Coal & Coke Co., Lowell, Massachusetts, is 
also interested in the Moore & Preston Coal Co. of Man- 
chester, New Hampshire, and identified with the Amoskeag 
National Bank of Manchester. 

MARY D. RANDALL was born in Northfield, Vermont, 
January 2. 1858, and since the death of her husband, C. E. 
Randall, in 1912 has been carrying on a retail coal business 
at Woodsville, New Hampshire, where she has more than 
doubled the amount of business done. 

J. L. ROBERTS, retail coal merchant, late of Laconia, 
New Hampshire, was born at Belmont, New Hampshire, in 

1858, and died January 10, 1918. He was in the coal busi- 
ness thirty years. The business is being continued under 
the same name by his son, Edwin J. Roberts. 

r,OUIS RUEL, proprietor of Ruel & Co., Somerworth, New 
Hampshire, was born in Canada in August, 1853, and has 
been in tlie coal business fifteen years. 

JOHN E. ROSSELL, a retail coal merchant of Concord, 
New Hampshire, was born in Sweden Mf.rch 5, 1868, and 
has been in business for himself fifteen years. 

WALTER E. SABEN, retailer at Winchester, New Hamp- 
shire, was born at Winchester, August 6, 1858, and has been 
in the coal business for thirty years. 

WILLIS A. SHBDD, Manager of W. A. Shedd & Co. of 
Nashua, New Hampshire, was born at HoUis, New Hamp- 
shire, in 1863, and has been in the coal business for four- 
teen years, the entire time with the above company. 

HERMAN T. SHBPARD, retail coal merchant at West 
Epping, New Hampshire, was born at Epping', October 11, 

1859, and has been in business for the past six years. 



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KDAVARD A. SHITK, proprietor of the Exeter Coal Co.. 
Inc., of Exeter, New Hampshire, was born in Exeter July 7, 
lSt>S, and has been in tlie coal business for six years. He 
was formerly connected with tlie Peoples Co.-l Co. 

FRA>'K CHESTER SMITH. First Vice President of the 
Frank Smith Co. of Lancaster, New Hampshire, was born 
at Lancaster in 1880, and has been in the coal business for 
twenty years. 

HE.XRY E. STAHL,, Secretary of Simon Stahl & Son of 
Berlin, New Hampshire, was born at Gorliam, New Hamp- 
shire, August 12, 1882, and has been with this firm for 
about fifteen jears. 

SIMOX STAHL, Treasurer of Simon Stahl & Son, a firm 
of retailers at Berlin, New Hampshire, was born in Ger- 
many on Noyember 17. 1842, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for a Quarter of a century. 

A. G. STEVEXS, President Concord Lumber Co., Concord, 
New Hampshire, lias incidental to tliat connection been in 
the coal business for the past twenty-five years. 

A. \V. STEA'EXS, Manager and Assistant Treasurer of the 
Concord Lumber Co. of Concord, New Hampshire, was born 
at Concord and has been in the coal business for fifteen 
years. 

BIRXIE G. TAYLOR, a retail coal merchant at White- 
field, New Hampshire, was born at Whitefield, January 8, 
1860, and has been in the coal business for himself for 
twenty-one years. 

GEORGE R. TAYLOR, proprietor of George R. Taylor & 
Co. of Concord, New Hampshire, was born at Chelsea, Mas- 
sachusetts, February 22, 1874, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness twenty-eight years. He was formerly connected with 
W. A. Mehaffey, Lehigh Valley Coal Co., and E. Russell 
Norton, and was one of the valued Skouts of the Order 
KoKoal. 

CLAREIVCE E. WARD, managing partner of Ward Bros., 
retail coal merchants at Marlboro, New Hampshire, was 
born at Marlboro in 1882, and has been in the coal business 
for seven years, and is the active member of the above firm. 

FRANK E. WARD, silent partner of Ward Bros., retail- 
ers at Marlboro, New Hampshire, was born in 1878 at Marl- 
boro, and has been Interested in the coal business for eight 
years. 



RHODE ISLAND — Providence 



THOMAS H. EARLY', Treasurer Thomas H. Early & Co., 
Providence, Rhode Island, was born December 25, 1854, in 
Providence, and has been in the coal business for forty- 
eight years. 

FERNANDO M. GREENE, Manager OlneyviUe branch of 
the Eastern Coal Co., Providence, Rhode Island, was born 
in Scituate, Rhode Island, March 23, 1868, and has been in 
the coal business twenty-six years. Mr. Greene was for- 
merly connected with R. B. Little & Co., George B. Arnold, 
and for several years was junior partner of Bowen & 
Greene. 

S. J. GREENE, Treasurer Eastern Coal Co., Providence, 
Rhode Island, was born October 9, 1870, in Felix. Illinois, 
and has been in the coal business for thirty years. Mr. 
Greene ■was formerly connected with R. B. Little & Co. 

CHARLES P. OLNEY, President Jos. Olney & Son, Inc., 
retail coal merchants of Providence, Rhode Island, was born 
in Smithfield, Rhode Island, August 9, 1856, and has been in 
the coal business for forty-three years. His father, Joseph 
Olney, was born in 1814, and conducted the business for 
thirty years before his death. 

F. D. SIMMONS, President Eastern Coal Co., Providence, 
Rhode Island, was born in Providence February 17, 1857, and 
has been in the coal business for forty years. Mr. Simmons 
was formerly connected with the Providence Coal Co., 
Tucker & Little, and R. B. Little & Co. This company oper- 
ates three tidewater yards with six branch inland yards. 

MERWIN WHITE, President and Manager John R. White 
& Son, Inc., of Providence, Rhode Island, established in 1862, 
was born in Philadelphia in 1877, and has been in the coal 
business twenty years. 



RHODE ISLAND 



OLIVER C. ANDREWS, member of the firm of Andrews & 
Co., retailers of coal at Westerly, Rhode Island, was born in 
Newport. Rhode Island, March 25, 1857, and has been in the 
coal business twenty-nine years. Mr. Andrews was formerly 
connected with Coxe Bros, of New York City. 



L. P. noSM'ORTH, born in 1856 and assisted by hl.s son 
Albert L., liorn in 1892, operates the coal business started by 
L. S. Bosworth in 1851 at Barrington, Rhode Island. The 
yard occupies the site of the first trading post in Rhode 
Island, talien more than 150 years ago by the Bosworth 
family, who came over in 1635. 

ALLAN A. CAMPBELL, retail coal merchant of Phenix, 
Rhode Island, was born March 20, 1862, in Washington, 
Rhode Island, and has been in the coal and feed business 
twenty-six years. 

ADIN M. CAPRON, retail coal mercliant of Centerdale, 
Rhode Island, was born December 2, 1882, at Stillwater, 
Rhode Island, and has been in the coal business about two 
years. 

WILLIAM H. CLARKE, Treasurer and Manager Pinniger 
& Manchester Co., Inc., retailers of coal at Newport, Rhode 
Island, was born in Newport October 5, 1867, and has been 
in the coal business for thirty-four years. The firm was 
formed by David T. Pinniger and A. Russell Manchester in 
1871 and incorporated in 1904. 

HARRY ELLIS DAVIS, member of the New England Coal 
Co. of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, was born May 1, 1868, in 
Northboro, Massachusetts, and has been in the coal business 
for nineteen years. Mr. Davis has served as a member of 
the Executive Committee of the New England Coal Dealers 
Association since 1915. He was a member of the Rhode 
Island State Legislature, 1909-1911, and has always been 
active in all plans for the betterment of Woonsocket. 

WILLIAM H. FROST, proprietor of the retail firm of W. H. 
Frost of Auburn, Rhode Island, was born August 27, 1889, 
at Rochester, New Hampshire, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for six years. 

JOHN D. GLOVER, Manager M. A. Pennington & Co., re- 
tailers at Pawtucket, Rhode Island, was born in Canada, 
October 25, 1878, and has been in the coal business thirteen 
years. 

ALBERT A. HLDSON, member of the New England Coal 
Co. of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, was born in Esmond, 
Rhode Island, January 10, 1868, and has been in the coal 
business twenty-nine years. Mr. Hudson was formerly con- 
nected with Frank E. Holden. 

P. D. HUMPHREY, retail coal merchant of Tiverton, 
Rhode Island, was born December, 1843, In Tiverton, and has 
been in the coal business about twenty-five years. 

Vl^ILLIAM S. JEFFERDS, Manager W. S. Jefferds & Co., 
retailers of coal at Lonsdale, Rhode Island, was born March 
17, 1857, at Boston, Massachusetts, and has been in the coal 
business sixteen years. 

GEORGE MACAULEY', Manager A. E. Bullock & Co., re- 
tail coal merchants of Lonsdale, Rhode Island, was born in 
Lonsdale June 27. 1874. and has been in the coal business 
about seven years. 

PATRICK J. MEE, proprietor O. J. Mee Coal Co. of Woon- 
socket, Rhode Island, was born June 10, 1863, in Woonsocket, 
and has been in the coal business for twenty-five years. 

ELMER H. REYNOLDS, retail coal merchant of Nason- 
ville, Rhode Island, was born June 8, 1869, at Glocester, 
Rhode Island, and has been in the coal business nine years. 

MISS ELIZABETH BREESE SMITH, Manager George 
Bowen Coal Co., Newport, Rhode Island, was born in Dun- 
ellen, New Jersey, November 28, 1868, and has been in the 
coal business twenty-three years. This business was orig- 
inally started in 1800 by Miss Smith's great grandfather 
as a shipping business, and in 1821 was continued by his 
two sons, Stephen and George Bowen. After the death of 
Stephen Bowen, about 1845, George Bowen entered into 
the wood and coal business, which he carried on until his 
death. 

DENNIS J. SULLIVAN, President The D. J. Sullivan Co., 
Newport. Rhode Island, was born in 1855 in Newport and 
has been in the coal business for t\venty years. 

D. J. F. SULLIVAN, Vice President The D. J. Sullivan Co. 
of Newport, Rhode Island, was born in Newport in Novem- 
ber, 1888. 

WILLIAM E. SULLIVAN, Secretary The D. J. Sullivan Co. 
of Newport. Rhode Island, was born in Newport April 8, 
1891, and has been in the coal business four years. 

WILLIAM R. WHIPPLE, retail coal merchant of Wash- 
ington, Rhode Island, was born In Washington March 14, 
1870, and has been in the coal business three years. 

FRANK N. WILCOX, a retail coal merchant of Westerly, 
Rhode Island, was born in Hopkinton, Rhode Island, May 7, 
1868, and has been in the coal business ten years. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



VERMONT 



JOHN FREDERICK ALEXANDER, retail coal merchant of 
Saxtons River, Vermont, was born February 21, 1838, at 
Chesterfield, New Hampshire, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness eighteen years. 

GEORGE 31. ANDRE'WS of the retail firm of G. M. An- 
drews Coal & Wood Co., Montpelier, Vermont, was born June 
20, 186.3, at Duxbury, Vermont, and has been in the coal 
business seven years. 

WALTON F. ANDREWS, member of the firm of Rich & 
Andrews, retailers of coal at Manchester Depot, Vermont, 
was born January 13. 1861, at East Otto, New York, and has 
been in the coal business twenty-five years. 

CHAS. D. BARBER, retail coal merchant of Windsor, Ver- 
mont, was born in "Windsor September 4, 1874, and has been 
in the coal business three years. 

EDWIN I. BENSON, retail coal merchant of Woodstock, 
Vermont, was born September 19, 1867. in Woodstock, and has 
been in the coal business five years. Mr. Benson is also 
interested in building material, lumber, milling, flour and 
grain. 

ERNEST ASA BRODIE, Treasurer and Manager Citizens 
Coal Co. of Burlington, Vermont, was born in Stanstead, 
Quebec, Canada, July 20, 1865, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness nineteen years. 

E. B. CHASE, retail coal merchant of Barnet, Vermont, 
has been in the coal business for nine years. 

EDGAR R. COOK, proprietor of E. R. Cook Coal & Lumber 
Co., Barton, Vermont, was born at Craftsburg, Vermont, 
March 30, 1856, and has been in the coal business for twelve 
years. 

R. W. H. DAVIS, Treasurer and Manager Davis Coal & 
Transfer Co., Newport, Vermont, was born September 24, 
1886, in Newport, and has been in the coal business ten 
years. 

CHARLES L. FRENCH, proprietor of the retail coal busi- 
ness of C. L. French, Hardwick, Vermont, was born in 1851 
at Hardwick, and has been in the coal business twenty-five 
years. 

CHARLES E. HAMBLET. retail coal merchant of Barton, 
Vermont, was born December 4, 1857, at Morgan, Vermont, 
and has been in the coal business for six years. 

FRITZ WENDELL JACKSON, partner of the retail coal 
firm of Morse & Jackson, Barre, Vermont, was born at 
Springfield, Vermont, February 18, 1876. Mr. Jackson was 
previously connected with Towne & Leonard. 

DAN M. JOHNSON, member of the firm of W. B. Johnson 
& Son, retailers of coal at Essex Junction, Vermont, was 
born June 5, 1876, at Williston, Vermont, and has been in 
the coal business twenty years. 

W. B. JOHNSON, senior member of the retail coal firm of 
W. B. Johnson & Son, was born at Jericho, Vermont, Novem- 
ber 4, 1849, and has been in the coal business thirty-nine 
years. 

M. CLARENCE KNIGHT, retail coal merchant of New- 
bury, Vermont, was born in Newbury September 24, 1861, 
and has been in the coal business twenty years. 

WILLIAM B. LADD, retail coal merchant of Enosburg 
Falls. Vermont, was born in Enosburg January 1, 1872, and 
has been in the coal business eighteen years. 



LENO A. LAPELLE, retail coal merchant of Swanton, 
Vermont, was born in Swanton, and has been in the coal 
business about five years. 

MERRILL L. LAWRENCE, President and Manager Law- 
rence & Wheeler, Inc., retailers of coal at Springfield, Ver- 
mont, was born June 14. 1841, in Windham, Vermont, and 
has been in the coal business twenty-five years. 

GEORGE P. MOORE, President Geo. P. Moore Co., retail- 
ers of coal at St. Johnsbury, Vermont, was born September 
4, 1842, at Bradford, Vermont, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness since 1888. 

H. -W, MYERS, President H. W. Myers & Son, Inc., retail 
coal merchants at Bennington, Vermont, was born January 
10, 1848, and has been in the coal business for eighteen years. 

WM. H. MYERS, Treasurer H. W. Myers & Son, Inc., Ben- 
nington, Vermont, was born January 27, 1886, in Pownal, 
Vermont, and has been in the coal business ten years. 

H. M. O'DELL, retail coal merchant of Montpelier, Ver- 
mont, was born September 3, 1868, in O'Delltown, Quebec, 
Canada, and lias been in the coal business ten years. 
Mr. O'Dell was previously connected with Taft & O'Dell. 

RICHARD B. OSHA, retail coal merchant of Randolph, 
Vermont, was born November 5, 1872, at West Braintree, 
Vermont, and has been in the coal business three years. 

NED E. PIERCE, Secretary and Treasurer Elias Lyman 
Coal Co., Burlington, Vermont, was born in 1879 at North 
Shrewsbury, Vermont, and has been in the coal business 
thirteen years. Mr. Pierce has held the position of Vice 
President of the New England Retail Coal Dealers Associa- 
tion and has been a Director of the Central New York and 
New England Coal Association. 

ROLLAND C. REED, President and Manager The Reed 
Coal Co., Fair Haven, Vermont, was born January 14, 1857, 
in Fair Haven and has been in the coal business forty-three 
years. 

HORACE A. RICHARDSON of the retail coal firm of Cal- 
der & Richardson, Barre, Vermont, successors to G. I. Jack- 
son & Co., was born October 4, 1870, at West Corinth, Ver- 
mont. 

GEORGE C. SHEDD, retail coal merchant of Spring-field, 
Vermont, was born in 1852 at West Windsor, Vermont, and 
has been in the coal business about twelve years. 

MRS. ROSE CORNELIA SHEPLE, well known coal mer- 
chant at Waterbury, Vermont, was born April 11, 1853, in 
Waterbury, and has been in tlie coal business twenty-two 
years. Mrs. Sheple became Manager of this retail business 
at the death of her husband, H. S. Sheple, ii 1895. 

FRANK RICHARDSON SHERMAN, member of the retail 

coal firm of F. M. Sherman & Co., Newport, Vermont, was 
born in Newport, Vermont, and has been in the coal business 
twenty years. 

LUTHER TUCKER SPARHAWK, retail coal merchant of 
Randolph, Vermont, was born February 11, 1831, at Roches- 
ter, Vermont, and has been in the coal business about thirty- 
eight years. 

FRED STICKLES, Manager Henry M. Tuttle Co., retailers 
of coal at Bennington, Vermont, was born June 16, 1870, at 
Churchtown, New York, and has been in the coal business 
nine years. 

JAMES HENRY WHELDEN, President and Treasurer of J. 
H. Whelden Coal Co., Brandon, Vermont, was born December 
10, 1876, at Ludlow, Vermont, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness eleven years. Mr. Whelden was previously connected 
with the Whelden Coal Co. of Ludlow. 



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NEW JERSEY 



FUOM the point of view of real consumption of coal 
Xew Jersey is outranked only by Pennsylvania, the 
premier state in the production, total and square 
mile consumption. Using the 1915 figures as a basis, 
Xew Jersey, despite its relatively small territorial ex- 
tent, Avas seventh in the list of coal consumers, being 
exceeded in actual consumption by Pennsylvania, Illi- 
nois, New York, the Xew England group, Ohio and 
Indiana. Upon a square mile basis, however, its rank is 
eighth. Upon a per capita basis it ranks eighth. While 
its anthracite consumption, 2.9 tons, is more than three 
and one-half times greater than that for the country as 
a whole, its bituminous coal consumption per capita 
is only 1.29 tons, against the general average of 2.04 
tons. The total, both anthracite and bituminous coal, 
is ■J:.19 tons, which shows up very favorably in compari- 
son with the country average of 2.83 tons. 

Although a heavy consumer of fuel New Jersey, in 
common with other states in the same general territory, 
draws its supplies from few producing zones. Michi- 
gan, for example, which follows Xew Jersey in point of 
total consimiption, called upon ten producing states to 
fill its needs in 1915; Xevy Jersey shipments came from 
l)ut three. This is, of course, in a large measure ex- 
plained by the predominance of anthracite as the lead- 
ing fuel in the Middle Atlantic and New England group 
of states. In New Jersey, for example, anthracite re- 
ceipts of 8,375,000 tons in 1915 constituted over 75 per 
cent of the total tonnage used in that state during that 
year. Pennsylvania Intuminous came next with 3,489,- 



656 tons. In otlier words one state furnished New Jer- 
sey with over 94.5 per cent of its total fuel, supply. 
West Virginia contributed 645,600 and Maryland 33,561 
tons to the grand total of 12,543,817 tons. 

inside from its importance as a consumer both of 
domestic and steam sizes for internal enterprises — and 
New Jersey, even before the war, was one of the lead- 
ing manufacturing states of the Union — it is also the 
gateway through wliich a large share of the coal supply 
of New York City passes. The greater number of the 
discharging piers for handling coal to supply Manhat- 
tan are located on the Jersey side of the river. They 
include the Pennsylvania Eailroad piers at South Am- 
boy, with a daily capacity of 300 cars ; the Lehigh Valley 
facilities at Perth Amboy, where 250 cars per day can 
be handled under favorable conditions ; the Philadel- 
phia & Reading terminals at Port Eeading with a daily 
capacity of 500 cars; the Central Eailroad of Xew Jer- 
sey's facilities at Elizabethport, 250 cars daily. Port 
Johnston, 150 cars, and Port Liberty, 100 cars; the 
350-car capacity Hoboken piers of the Delaware, Lack- 
awanna & Western Eailroad; the Xew York, Ontario 
& Western Railway's terminals at Weehawken, where 
175 cars can be handled in a day, and the Erie Eail- 
road's facilities for handling 250 cars per day under 
favorable conditions at Undercliff. In other words, 
eliminating the Arlington piers, Xew Y'ork harbor 
facilities for handling coal have an aggregate capacity 
of approximately 2,000 cars per day. Facilities for han- 
dling 1,675 cars of this total are on the Xew Jersey side. 



233 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





JOHIV W. BELLIS, Hoboken, TVew Jersey, 

President Jag-els & Bellis. well-known retail coal merchants 
at Hoboken, New Jersey, was born September 8, 1871, in 
Oradell, New Jersey, and has been in the coal business 
tw^enty-nine years. Before taking over his present inter- 
ests Mr. Bellis was connected -with Williams & Peters. 



C. H. C. JAGELS, Summit. IVe^v Jersey, 

Treasurer Jagels & Bellis, large retail coal merchants at 
Hoboken, New Jersey, , was born September 3, 1870, in New 
York, and has been in the coal business for twenty-four 
years. Mr. Jagels has been President of the Hudson County 
Coal Merchants' Association. 



NEW JERSEY — Newark 



MRS. E. I,. KOI.I.ER, President and Treasurer of the E. L. 
Koller Manufacturing & Coal Chute Co., Newark, New Jer- 
sey, was born in Alsace-Lorraine of French parentage, and 
has been manufacturing and handling coal dealers' supplies 
for twenty-two years. She has a w^ide acquaintance among 
retail coal merchants in the East. 

JOSEPH H. LUCKING, retail coal merchant of Newark. 
New Jersey, w^as born April 12, 1870, in Newark and has 
been in the coal business for thirty years. 

JOHIV FRAXKJL.I1V POST, well known retailer at Newark, 
New Jersey, was born February 24, 18.57, at Butler, New 
Jersey, and has been in the coal business for thirty-two 
years. 

ALEXANDER H. ROSS, senior member of the retail firm 
of A. H. Ross & Co., of Newark, New Jersey, w^as born 
September 11, 1848, In New York City, and has been in the 
coal business for fifty-two years. Mr. Ross w^as for a num- 
ber of years connected with the Delaware & Hudson Co. 

ROBERT LINCOLN ROSS, junior member of A, H. Ross 
& Co., Newark, New Jersey, is fifty-two years of age and 
has been in the coal business for thirty-five years. 

ANTON STEINES, retail coal merchant of Newark, New 
Jersey, was born October 29, 1S51, in Germany and has been 
in the coal business twenty-eight years. 

ERNEST C. STREMPEL, member of the firm of S. Trim- 
mer & Co., Newark, New Jersey, was born in 1863 in Newark 
and has been in the coal business about thirty years. Mr. 
Strempel is also Vice President of the New Jersey Coal 
Dealers' Association. 



NEW JERSEY 



.1. NELSON .4KE, President Egg Harbor Coal & Lumber 
Co., Egg Harbor City, New Jersey, was born April 3, 1878, 
in Hillsdale, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, and has han- 
dled coal twenty-one years, fifteen years in business and six 
years in the mines. Mr. Ake is also President of the Ham- 
monton Lumber Co. at Hammonton, New Jersey, Director 
of the Commercial Bank of Egg Harbor City, and Director 
of the Hammonton Trust Co. of Hammonton. 



DAVID W. BALL, President and Treasurer of the David 
W. Ball Co., retail coal merchants of East Orange, New^ 
Jersey, was born January 2, 185S, in East Orange, and has 
been in the coal business ten years. Mr. Ball is also Auditor 
of the New Jersey Coal Dealers Association. 

JOHN J. BLONDEL, President John Blondel & Son, Inc., 
retail coal merchants at Montclair, New Jersey, was born 
July 2, 1873, at Montclair, and has been in the coal business 
for sixteen years. Mr, Blondel is a member of the Board of 
Directors of the New Jersey Coal Dealers' Association. 

ALFRED W. BOOTH, President Alfred W. Booth & Bro., 
Inc., retailers of coal at Bayonne, New Jersey, was born in 
1850 in New York, and has been in the coal business for 
forty-four years. 

THOMAS M. BREWSTER, President Brewster & Son, Inc., 
retail coal merchants of Ridgefield Park, New Jersey, -was 
born in Fairview, New Jersey, and has been in the coal 
business for thirty-four years. 

MYRON V. BROWN, retail coal merchant of Red Bank, 
New Jerse}^ was born October 2, 1882, in Red Bank, and 
has been in tlie coal business twelve years. Up to June 1, 
1918, when Louis E. Brown, the junior member, retired, 
the firm has been M. V. Brown & Co. Mr. Brown handles 
a varied line of farm implements and feed. 

CHARLES H. BRUETT, Secretary and Manager of John 
Blondel & Son, Inc., Montclair, New Jersey, was born 
December 10, 1882, in Bloomfield, New Jersey, and has been 
in the coal business for eleven- years. 

WILLIAM HENRY CAWLEY', JR., President and Treas- 
urer Consumers Supply Co., Somerville. New Jersey, -was 
born February 3, 1873, in Frenchtown, New Jersey, and has 
been in the coal business for eight years. 

JACOB CISER, President J. Ciser & Sons, retail coal 
i-nerchants at East Rutherford, New Jersey, -was born in 
1848, and has been in the coal business eighteen years. 

IRVING A. COLLINS, President and Treasurer of J. S. 
Collins & Son, Inc., Moorestown, New Jersey, was born 
September 29, 1872, in Moorestown, and has been in the coal 
business twenty-seven years. 

JAMES H. CONNOR, President J. H. Connor Coal Co., well 
known retail coal merchants of Montclair, New Jersey, was 
born August 17, 1864, in Dubuque, Iowa, and has been In 
the coal business for thirty-five years. Mr. Connor -was 
previously interested in tlie firm of Dabney & Connor and 
has been a Director in the New Jersey Coal Dealers' Asso- 
ciation. He is also Vice President of the Montclair Trust Co. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



JOHX AV. COYLK, JK,. Vice President James Coyle, Inc., 
Jersey City, New Jersey, was born in 1894 in Jersey City. 

JOHX C. CONOVKR, retail coal merchant of Orange, New 
Jersey, was l)Oi-n September 10, 1860, at Holmdel, New 
Jersey, and has been in the coal business for twenty-six 
years. 

THORNTON' CON'OVER, Manager Conover & Matthews, 
retail coal merchants of Princeton, New Jersey, was born 
in 1875 in Princeton, and has been in the coal business for 
sixteen years. Mr. Conoyer was previously connected with 
Conover & Murray. 

JOHX D. COXT.4XT, handling a retail coal business at 
Lodl, New Jersey, was born May 5, 1877, in the Netherlands, 
and has been in the coal business for seven years. 

HELEX G. COl'GHLIX is the sole owner of Coughlin 
Bros., Jersey City, New Jersey, since the death of her hus- 
band, Thomas M. Coughlin. The coal yard has been in 
operation over twenty-five years. 

DAXIEI, n.VRMS, proprietor of a retail coal business at 
AVoodbury, New Jersey, was born July 10. 1867, in Switzer- 
land, and has been in the coal business for two years. Pre- 
vious to going into the coal business Mr. Darms was in the 
newspaper business for ten years. 

CHARLES E. DATMOXD, proprietor Daymond & "Wenzel, 
retail coal merchants of Trenton, New Jersey, was born 
August ?.6. 1S53. in Trenton and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for twenty-two years. Mr. Daymond was Secretary 
of the Trenton Coal Dealers' Association for several years. 

EDWARD \V. DAYMOXD, son of Charles E. Daymond, 
and very active in business, has been with Daymond & 
Wenzel, retailers of coal at Trenton, New Jersey, for 
eleven years. 

EDW'IX DEMAREST, retail coal merchant of Tenafly, 
New Jersey, was born November 30, 1861, at Cresskill, New 
Jersey, and has been in the coal business for thirty years. 

GEO. H. DOXALDSOX, Secretary James Coyle, Inc., suc- 
cessors to the late James Coyle, well known retail coal mer- 
chant of Jersey City, New Jersey, was born in 1867, in New 
Jersey, and has been in the coal business for two years. 

AVII.LIS R. DOYI.E, proprietor of a retail coal business at 
Trenton, New Jersey, was born September 2, 1856, at Frank- 
ford, Pennsylvania, and has been in the coal business for 
thirty years. Mr. Doyle 'was previously connected with J. B. 
Richardson and J. T. Barry of Trenton. 

D. S. DRAKE, retail coal merchant of Netcong, New 
Jersey, was born November 18, 1871. in Netcong and has 
been in the coal business for twenty-nine years. Mr. 
Drake was previously connected with The Drake-Bostedo Co. 

WM. A. DUXIyAP, Secretary The Osborne & Marsellis Co., 
of Upper Montclair, New Jersey, was born November 1, 1871, 
in New York City, and has been in the coal business 
twenty years. 

WALTER H. EASTLACK, Secretary and Treasurer East- 
lack Coal Co., retail coal merchants at Merchantville, New^ 
Jersey, was born February 8, 1864, in Germantown, Penn- 
sylvania, and has been in the coal business for fifteen 
years. Mr. Eastlack is also a Director of the Pennsylvania 
Retail Coal Merchants' Association and of the Philadelphia 
Coal Club. 

PETER EEL3IAX, President Eelman & Co., retailers of 
coal at Garfield, New Jersey, was born March 7, 1865, in 
Holland, and has been in the coal business for seventeen 
years. 

GEO. W. ESSLIXGER, retail coal merchant of West Engle- 
w^ood. New Jersey, was born June 4, 1864. at Newark, New^ 
Jersey, and has been in the coal business for seven years. 

STEPHEN M. FERENCZI, retail coal merchant at Bay- 
onne. New Jersey, was born November 3, 1893. in Bayonne. 
Mr. Ferenczi has been in the coal business for ten years, 
Gucceeding his father, Joseph Ferenczi, at his death. 

B. C. FESSENDEN, President and Treasurer Dumont Coal 
& Lumber Co., Dumont, New Jersey, was born January 11, 
1843, at Sandwich, Massachusetts, and has been in the coal 
business for ten years. 

GEO. T. FREEMAN, retail coal merchant of Whippany, 
New Jersey, was born February 8, 1863, in Whippany and 
has been in the coal business for twenty-two years. 

W^3I. P. FRUMAX, retail coal merchant of Rockaway, 
New Jersey, was born August 10, 1874. in Rockaway. 

HENRY CLARK GITHEXS, retail coal merchant at Atco, 
New Jersey, was born September 8, 1879, in Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania, and has been in the coal business for about 
two years. 



GILI, M. HAXXOLD. well known retail coal merchant of 
Paulsboro, New Jersey, was born November 7, 1865, in Pauls- 
boro. and has been in the coal business for twenty-one 
years. Before going into business for himself, Mr. Hannold 
was associated with his father, T. C. Hannold, for eight 
years. 

JO.SEPH HARRIGAX. retail coal merchant of Plainfleld, 
New Jersey, was born March 1, 1857, at Albany, New York, 
and has been in the coal business for sixteen years. 

FRED J. HARRIS, Secretary and Treasurer Consumers' 
Coal Co., Plainfield, New Jersey, was born at Plainfleld in 
1869, and has been in the retail coal business thirty years. 
His previous connections were with Harris Bros., Fred J. 
Harris, and Weber & Harris. 

GEORGE HERR3IAXX, retail coal merchant of Paterson, 
New Jersey, was born December 9, 1868, in Paterson and has 
been in the coal business for twelve years. Mr. Herrmann 
was formerly interested in Herrmann & Titus. 

CLAREXCE M. HETFIELD, Sales Agent at Plainfield, 
New Jersey, for W. H. Bradford & Co., Inc., was born June 
4, 1889, in Plainfield, and has been in the coal business for 
nine years. Mr. Hetfield was previously connected with the 
Consolidation Coal Co., Bulah Coal Mining Co., and Geo. D. 
Harris & Co. 

CHARLES F. HIRSCH, General Manager Hirsch Bros., 
retail coal merchants at Trenton, New Jersey, was born 
January 14, 1886, in Trenton and has been in the coal 
business seven years. 

ALFRED T. HOLLEY, President Holley & Smith, Inc., 
Hackensack. New Jersey, retail coal merchants of Hacken- 
sack, was born February 15. 1872, in Hackensack, and has 
been in the coal business for twenty-seven years. Mr. Hol- 
ley is also President of the Retail Coal Dealers Association. 

FREDERICK JAGELS, Treasurer Jagels, Inc., doing a 
retail business at East Orange and Belleville, New Jersey, 
was born April 8, 1873, in New Jersey, and has been in the 
coal business for twenty-nine years. 

RALPH ELMER JERRELL, proprietor Jerrell & Son, han- 
dling a retail coal business at Bridgeton, New Jersey, was 
born February 9, 1892, at Bridgeton, New Jersey. This busi- 
ness was established by Wm. Jerrell thirty years ago, and 
until his death, June 8. 1914, was run by himself and son, 
Howard W. Jerrell. Ralph Elmer Jerrell was taken into 
the business at this time, and since the death of his father, 
Howard W. Jerrell, March 22, 1915, has kept the business 
going under the name of Jerrell & Son. 

CHAS. A. LINDSLEY, Treasurer S. & C. A. Lindsley, Inc., 
Orange, New .Jersey, was born April 30, 1859, -in Orange, 
and has been in the coal business for thirty-four years. 
Mr. Lindsley is also Treasurer of the New Jersey Coal 
Dealers' Association. This firm is successor to J. M. Linds- 
ley & Sons and N. & G. Lindsley, and has been doing 
business since 1806. 

JOHX 3IALLOX, retail coal merchant of Paterson, New^ 
Jersey, was born March 28. 1842, in Ireland, and has been 
in the coal business for about seven years. 

ARTHUR S. MARSELLIS, President Osborne & Marsellis 

Co.. retailers of coal at Upner Montclair, New Jersey, was 

born in 1872 in Brooklyn. New York, and has been in the 
coal business for twenty years. 

ALFRED HARRISOX MATTHEWS. President and Treas- 
urer A. M. Matthews & Co., Inc., of Orange, New Jersey, 
was born March 2, 1869, in Orange and has been in the 
coal business for thirty years. Mr. Matthews was formerly 
connected with the Lehigh Valley Coal Co. He is also a 
Director of the New Jersey Coal Dealers' Association. 

GEORGE VAIL MVCHMORE, well known retail coal 
merchant of Summit, New Jersey, was born in 1854 in Mor- 
ristown. New Jersey, and has been in the coal business for 
forty years. Mr. Muchmore was for a number of years 
Sales Manager for the retail firm of Day & Muchmore, at 
Morristown, New' Jersey, of which his father was an active 
partner. 

WM. A. O'BRIEX, retail coal merchant of Passaic, New 
Jersey, was born in 1880 in Passaic and has been in the 
coal business for eleven years. 

FRED J. OGDEX, member of the firm of Ogden & Cad- 
mus, retailers of coal at Bloomfield, New Jersey, ^vas born 
March 23, 1868, in Parsippany, New Jersey, and has been in 
the coal business for twenty-four years. Mr. Ogden was a 
member of the Executive Board of the New Jersey Coal 
Dealers Association. 

GEORGE H. PAYSOX, retail coal merchant of Englewood, 
New Jersey, was born in October. 1860, at Brooklyn, New 
York, and has been in the coal business thirty years. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



WILLIAM R. POINSETT, retail coal merchant of Swedes- 
boro, New Jersey, was born in 1S60 at Moorestown, New 
Jersey, and has been in the coal business for twenty-five 
years. 

JOHN R. QUIGLEY, Manager J. R. Quigley Co., Gloucester 
City, New Jersey, was born in Ireland and has been in the 
coal business for twenty-three years. 

HARRY REEVES, General Manager Consumers Coal & 
Supply Co., Ocean Grove, New Jersey, was born October 10, 
1878, at Ellisdale, New Jersey, and has been in the coal 
business for fifteen years. 

EDWARD ai. RODROCK, President and General Manager 
E. M. Rodrock Co., Paterson, New Jersey, was born July 
12, 1866, in Blaine, Pennsylvania, and has been in the coal 
business fourteen years. His son. Harold E., having become 
21 years of age July 4, 1918, was taken into the firm as 
Treasurer July 5, 1918. 

RAYMOND G. RUMMEL,, Manager Coughlin Bros., Jer- 
sey City, New Jersey, was born August 24, 1892, in Albany, 
New York, and has been in the coal business eight years. 

RAY W. SALMON, Manager T. B. Miller Co., retailers of 
coal at Summit. New Jersey, was born July 14, 1883. at 
Hackettstown, New Jersey, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for ten years. 

THOMAS A. SHIELDS, Secretary and Treasurer Shields- 
Chamberlain Co., retail coal merchants of Hackettstown, 
New Jersey, was born September 22, 1885, in Hackettstown, 
and has been in the coal business eleven years. 

BENJAMIN T. SMITH, General Manager Milford Coal & 
Lumber Co.. retailers of coal at Elizabeth, New Jersey, was 
born in April, 1890, in Elizabeth, and has been in the coal 
business for five years. 

ELMER T. SMITH, retail coal merchant of Middlebush, 
New Jersey, was born December 8, 1880, at Belle Meade, 
New Jersey, and has been in the coal business for about 
nine years. 

STEPHEN J. SPEER, retail coal merchant of Caldwell, 
New Jersey, was born in October, 1870, at Montclair, New 
Jersey, and has been in the coal business for twenty-seven 
years. Mr. Speer was previously connected with Fairlie & 
Wilson Coal Co.. Newark, New Jersey. 

THOMAS S. STEVENS, Treasurer and Manager of the Cape 
May Coal & Ice Co., Cape May City, New Jersey, was born 
December 8, 1S67. in Cape May, and has been in the coal 
business there for fifteen years. 

ELWOOD H. STOKES, retail coal merchant of Mount 
Holly, New Jersey, was born November 24, 1873, at Jackson- 
ville, New Jersey, and has been in the coal business for 
fifteen years. Mr. Stokes is one of the best known retailers 
in that section. 

JAMES ROBBINS TAPPER, sole owner of the Stockton 
Coal Co., doing a retail coal business at Camden, New Jer- 
sey, was born June 3, 1873, at Newtown, New^ Jersey, and 
has been in the coal business for fourteen years. 

JAMES C. TATTERSALL, President and Treasurer of The 
Tattersall Co., retailers of coal at Trenton, New Jersey, was 
born October 13. 1S72, in Trenton and has been in the coal 
business for twenty-one years. Mr. Tattersall is a well 
known retailer and has served as President of the Penn- 
sylvania Retail Coal Merchants' Association and as a 
Director of the National Retail Coal Merchants' Association. 



SIDNEY S. THOMPSON, proprietor J. & S. S. Thompson, 
retail coal merchants at Elizabeth, New Jersey, w^as born 
in 1846 in Elizabeth, and has been in the coal business for 
forty-seven years. This business was established in 1842 
by Aaron Q. Thompson, and until his death in 1875 was run 
as A. Q. & J. Thompson. Since then the firm has been do- 
ing business under the name of J. & S. S. Thompson. 

JOSEPH TOKER, retail coal merchant of Elizabeth, New 
Jersey, was born in 1874 in Austria, and has been in the coal 
business for twelve years. Mr. Toker was formerly Presi- 
dent of Canton, Halprin & Toker. 

HOW'ARD -W. VAN ARTSDALEN, retail coal merchant at 
Titusville, New Jersey, was born in 1855 at Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania, and has been in the coal business for twenty- 
nine years. 

■W. E. VAN COURT, retail coal merchant of Oak Tree, 
New Jersey, -was born January 31, 1867, in Oak Tree and 
has been in the coal business for twenty-seven years. 

JOHN I. VAN ORDER, President and Treasurer of The 
Slayback-Van Order Co.. retail coal merchants of Caldwell, 
New Jersey, was born Sept.?mber 9. 1864, in Caldwell, and 
has been in the coal business for thirty years. 

SAMUEL H. AVEATHERBY. sole owner of a retail coal 
business at Woodstown, New Jersey, was born November 25, 
1879. in Woodstoivn and has been in the coal business for 
seventeen years, Mr. Weatherby was previously connected 
with the retail firm of Weatherby & Son. 

JA3IES W-IGHT, well known retail coal merchant of Lake- 
wood, New Jersey, was born in North Belmar, New Jersey, 
and has been in the coal business twenty-six years. 

FRED D. WIKOFP, President Fred D. Wikoff Co., retail- 
ers of coal at Red Bank, New Jersey, was born September 
27, 1863, in Freehold, New Jersey, and has been in the coal 
business twenty years. 

R. F. WILLIS, member of the firm of R. F. Willis & Bro., 
Inc., well known retail coal mei'chants ol Penns Grove, New 
Jersey, was born in Maryland and has been in the coal 
business for seventeen years, sixteen years in his present 
location. 

H. F. WILSON. Line Sales Agent for the Lehigh & Wilkes- 
Barre Coal Co. at Elizabeth, New Jersey, was born April 19, 
1876, in Elizabeth, and has been in the coal business for 
nine years. Previous to taking his present position Mr. 
Wilson was in the railroad business for several years. 

JAMES Vl'ILSON, JR., Secretary and Treasurer James 
Wilson & Son, Inc., retailers of coal at Paterson, New 
Jersey, was born August 19, 1874, in Paterson, and has 
been in the coal business for thirty years. Mr. Wilson 
is also President of the Paterson Coal Dealers' Association. 

S. JARRETT VVOOLMAN, retail coal merchant of Vincen- 
town, New Jersey, was born April 20, 1870, at Rancocas, 
New Jersey, and has been in the coal business for nine- 
teen years. 

CHARLES HENRY ZEHNDER, Allenhurst, New Jersey, 
President of The Austen Coal & Coke Co., Austen, West 
Virginia, was born April 16, 1856, in Pennsylvania, and has 
been in the coal business fifteen years. Mr. Zehnder is 
also President of the Benedict Coal Corp. at St. Charles, 
Virginia. 



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NEW MEXICO 



NEW MEXICO holds a high place among the 
coal-producing states of the historic Southwest. 
Its coal fields, like most of those of the Eocky 
Moimtain region, are geologically of the Cretaceous 
age. In quality thev range from sub-bituminous to 
anthracite. The anthracite beds, however, are of lim- 
ited area and the annual production does not exceed 
fifty thousand tons. The coal fields of the state are 
widely scattered. The United States Geological Sur- 
vey reports five kno-mi coal-bearing areas, viz., the 
Eaton, San Juan Eiver, Talencia-Bernalillo, the Los 
Cerillos and the White Oaks fields. 

The Eaton field in Colfax county is the most im- 
portant commercially of this quintet. This district, 
which is a southern extension of the Trinidad field of 
Colorado, contributes over two-thirds of the total pro- 
duction of the state. While the largest coal-bearing 
areas in the state are sub-bituminous in character, that 
of the Eaton field is a high grade, true coking bitumin- 
ous and, in recent years, nearly 750,000 tons of the 
Colfax county output has l^een manufactured into coke 
at the mines and distributed in that form over a wide 
consuming teri'itory. Smelters in Arizona and New 
Mexico, which have been forced in years past to rely 
almost wholly upon the eastern ovens, ofi^er a fruitful 
field of exploitation for the coke output of New Mexico 
and Colorado. The Eaton field is known to contain at 
least five lieds of sufiicient thickness to be of economic 
importance, but developments have been largely con- 
fined to the lowest bed. 

The San Juan Eiver coal region, extending south- 
ward from Durango, Colorado, through Eio Arribo, 
San Juan and McKinley counties. New Mexico, to Gal- 
lup and Mount Taylor, contains about 13,000 square 
miles and is the largest field in the state. The New 
Mexico centers of production are at Monero in the 
north, where the coal is bituminous, and Gallup, in the 
south, where the coal is high-grade sub-bituminous. 
While the Los Cerillos field in Santa Ee county and 
the White Oaks in Lincoln county are relatively small 
in area, they contain true bituminous coal. In the 
former county part of the coal has been locally meta- 
morphosed into anthracite, the outpi;t of which has 
been in the neighborhood of 35,000 tons per annum. 
Lincoln county operations have been limited to local 
production. Coking coal is found in Socorro county. 



Government production statistics for the state begin 
with 1882, when 157,092 tons were mined. The growth 
in output was marked by many up and down tenden- 
cies during the years following and it was not until 
1899 that the 1,000,000-ton mark was passed. Produc- 
tion since that date is shown in the following tabulation : 

Year. Ton. Year. Ton. 

1900 1,299,299 1909 2,801,128 

1901 1,086,546 1910 3,508,321 

1902 1,048,763 1911 3,148,158 

1903 1,541,781 1912 3,536,824 

1904 1,452,325 1913 3,708,806 

1905 1,649,933 1914 3,877,689 

1906 1,964,713 1915 3,817,940 

1907 2,628,959 1916 3,793,011 

1908. 2,467,937 

While the records of 1915 production and distribu- 
tion show that 28 per cent, of the output was used 
within the state, the greater part of this local consump- 
tion was for coke manufacture and much of this in 
turn reached various interstate destinations. The mines 
consumed 28,868 tons for steam and heating purposes 
and sold 33,277 tons to the local trade. Coking opera- 
tions absorbed 734,713 tons and intrastate shipments ac- 
counted for 259,580 tons of the total of 1,056,438 tons 
reported as used within the state. The railroads took 
1,635,752 tons, or 43 per cent. All-rail exports to 
Mexico totaled 155,030 tons, or approximately four per 
cent., while approximately five per cent., or 193,283 
tons, were shipped to Texas ports on the Gulf of Mex- 
ico for use as bunker fuel. Approximately 20 per cent., 
or 777,437 tons, reached markets in other states, the 
distribution being as follows: Arizona, 158,273 tons; 
California, 7.5,025; Colorado, 107,877; Kansas, 98,103; 
Nebraska, 339; Nevada, 135; Oklahoma, 24,096 and 
Texas, 313,589 tons. 

The per capita consumption M'ithin the state is 
naturally low, .80 ton, and the square mile consump- 
tion, nine tons, is also far below the general average. 
New ]\Iexico depends upon home mines for over 97 per 
cent, of the total fuel — other than railroad — used 
within the state. In 1915, out of a total consumption 
of 1,079,465 tons, New Mexico contributed 1,056,438 
tons (including coal coked at the mines). Colorado 
shipped 22,948 tons into New ^Mexico, while the Penn- 
sylvania and West Virginia receipts. 29 and 50 tons 
. respectively, no doul)t represent smithing coal. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



NEW MEXICO 



JOHN S. BEAVEN, retail coal merchant of Albuquerque. 
New Mexico, was born January 5, 1862, at Lebanon, Ken- 
tucky, and has been in the coal business for twenty-seven 
years. 

EDWARD BARCX'S BfLLOCK. retail coal merchant of 

Artesia, New Mexico, was born October 11, 1874, in Clark 

County, Arkansas, and has been in the coal business for 
seven years. 

DAA'ID W. CONDON, retail merchant of E. Las Vegas, 
New Mexico, was born April 5, 1866, at Chicago, Illinois, and 
has been in the coal business twelve years. 

GEORGE EDMl'ND COOK, proprietor of the G. E. Cook 
Garage & Transfer Co., Socorro, New Mexico, was born 
July 11, 1877, at Parsons, Kansas, and has been in the 
coal business for twelve years. 

HENRY G. COORS, President Coors Lumber Co., E. Las 
Vegas, New Mexico, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and has 
been in the coal business twenty-five years. 

EDWARD T. HANN of the Lowe & Hann Coal Co., 
Silver City, New Mexico, was born in 1868 at Camden, New 
Jersey, and has been in the coal business for ten years. 

GEORGE MURRAY HANSON, General Manager Dawson 
Fuel Sales Co., Daw-son, New Mexico, was born November 
9, 1869, at Sidney, Ohio, and has been in the coal business 
twelve years. Mr. Hanson is also General Sales Agent and 
Auditor, of the Phelps Dodge Corp., Stag Canon branch. 

L,ARS W. HENDRICKSON, operating the Kirkland mine 
at Kirkland. New Mexico, was born July 19, 1861. in Sweden 
and has been in the coal business for thirty years. 



JOHN CUSTER L,.4RK1N, Sales Manager Swastika Fuel 
Co., Raton, New Mexico, was born July 14, 1877, in 
North Carolina, and has been in the coal business 
twenty-two years. Mr. Larkin is one of the most energetic 
and popular coal men in the West, and previous to taking 
his present position was in charge of the retail department 
of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. at Denver, Colorado. 
He has an unusual number of warm personal friends in the 
coal trade. 

THOMAS L. UOWE of the Lowe & Hann Coal Co., Silver 
City, New Mexico, was born September 24, 1872, at Sigourney, 
Iowa, and has been in the coal business for fifteen years. 

AM.\DEO HJCHETTI, Manager Luchetti coal mine, 
Monero, New Mexico, was born October 16, 1874, in Italy 
and has been in the coal business for fifteen years. 

FRANK E. NUiDING, Vice President and Manager of the 
Capital Coal Yard in Santa Fe, New Mexico, was born in 
1878 at Red Bank, New Jersey, and has been in the coal 
business for fourteen years. He also is interested in the 
Fresno Fuel Co. at Fresno, California. 

ROBERT R. POI,UOCK, Vice President Diamond Coal Co., 
Albuquerque, New Mexico, was born May 13, 1871, In Zear- 
ing, Iowa, and has been in the coal business eight years. 
He is also interested in the Western Fuel Co. 

"WORTHINGTON W^ RISDON, State Coal Mine Inspector 
at Albuquerque, New Mexico, was born March 10, 1861, at 
Genoa Bluifs, Iowa, and has been in the coal business for 
twenty-seven years. He was formerly connected with the 
Gallup Coal Co.. Crescent Coal Co., Primrose Coal Co., and 
the Aubuquerque «fe Cerrillos Coal Co. 

D. Y. TOMLINSON, JR., proprietor of the Tomlinson Coal 
Co., Roswell. New Mexico, was born April 2, 187S, in Belton. 
Texas, and iias been in the coal business three years. 



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NEW YORK 



NI^W YOEK. although not a coal producing state, 
ranks third in 2)oint of consumption. Its wide- 
spread manufacturing- enterprises, its important 
shipping activities and its climatic conditions make it 
<a most attractive market to the coal men in the four 
states that normally serve it with fuel, while the loca- 
tion of its two largest cities have made them among 
the most important distributing headc|uarters. 

Since almost 50 per cent, of the state's 1915 receipts 
of coal were reported as consumed within the area of 
Greater Xew York, the metropolis of the country will 
be considered first. The railroad isolation of the city 
from a freight tratfic terminal point of view is held by 
those who have studied the situation to be a handicap 
to the trade there, but no suggestion for change has yet 
been made that has met with general favor that has 
been translated into action. Unlike Chicago, Pitts- 
birrgh, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and other large cities 
of the country, the rails of no coal-carrying line reach 
Xew York directly. Bail deliveries terminate on the 
west side of the harbor and of the Hudson Eiver and 
the coal must be transferred to the east side by barges 
and floats. This means, of course, that Xew York City 
proper is without rail yards, and complaint is fre- 
quently made that the reserve storage capacity of the 
water-front yards is such that the city must place an 
unusual degree of dependence upon current receipts 
for its requirements. The greater investment required 
for a water front yard, however, and the scarcity of 
available locations have operated to bring down the num- 
ber of companies engaged in the retail l)usiness in Man- 
hattan so that, in place of 200 to 300 companies, as in 
certain other communities of lesser population, Man- 
hattan at last reports boasted of less than 70. 

While final delivery of anthracite, which constitutes 
the bulk of the fuel consumed within the city, is made 
by barges or floats to the yards, this traffic is, never- 
theless, in its essential aspects all-rail business. The 
true water-ljorne traffic is, for the most part, confined 
fo shipments from West Virginia. Most of these car- 
goes are in transit to Xew England or are intended for 
l)unkering trade. During the war, the l)unkering in 
Xew York harl)or was naturally augmented and in some 
cases vessels destined for overseas points were coaled 
directlv from colliers in the harljor. 



Estimates reported to the United States Geological 
Survey for 1915 showed an approximate consumption 
of 13,614,560 tons of anthracite out of total receipts of 
15,864,800 tons, and 5,957,200 tons of l)ituminous out 
of total receipts of 11,116,000 tons. The difference 
between the receipts and consumption represented 
coastwise shipments and Ijunker coal. The total con- 
sumption reported was 18.5(J1,760 tons; the total re- 
ceipts, 26,980,800 tons. 

An important factor in Xew York City is the 
fuel used l>y public utilities. Incomplete reports 
showed that such companies serving the metropolitan 
district used 244,000 tons of anthracite and 1,843,000 
tons of bituminous. These figures were exclusive of 
fuel used in the power houses of the surface, subway 
and elevated railways and the roads entering the Grand 
Central and Pennsylvania terminals. 

Buffalo assumes importance in coal trade statistics, 
not so much as a consuming center — because the com- 
petition of natural gas (less potent during the last few 
years) and of water power generated from Xiagara has 
made the fuel requirements less than they would other- 
wise be — but because it is a gateway for moving a large 
share of the coal traffic to Canada and an assembling 
and loading point for heavy shipments of anthracite to 
points reached via the Great Lakes. The Canadian 
shipments, both rail and water, as reported by the col- 
lector of customs, have lieen as follows for the past 
three years: 

Coke, Anthracite, Bituminous, Total, 

Year. Gross tons. Gross tons. Gross tons. Gross tons. 

191.5 418,917 l.GG0,598 2,229,313 4,308,828 

1916 447,984 2,09.5,3.55 2,473,787 5,017,126 

1917 373,042 2,911,208 3,021,403 6,305,653 

The anthracite lake trade for the past five years at 
Buffalo is .shown in the folloM'ing tal)ulation of ship- 
ments from that port. The figures used in the tabula- 
tion are in net tons : 

1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 

Chicago 1,697,945 1,119,980 901,450 598,500 893,175 

Milwaukee . 612,528 565,400 721,884 415,400 740,100 

Duluth 320,963 399,427 385,569 327,650 584,750 

Superior ...1,697,445 1,273,136 1,219,834 735,5211,127,550 

Other U. S. 
ports 376,687 499,912 446,000 409,979 432,195 

Total, U. S. 4,705,568 3,857,855 3,674,737 2,487,050 3,797,770 
Canadian . . 580,151 472,393 209,305 313,690 340,131 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



During 1915, the consumj^tioii for the state as a 
whole was 37,975,685 tons, of which 20,789,491 tons 
were anthracite. The 17,186,191 tons of bituminous 
consumed came from the states of Maryland, Ohio, 
Pennsylvania and West A'irginia. The Maryland re- 
ceipts, including- a small quantity exported by rail to 
Canada, totaled 567.421 tons. Pennsylvania contributed 
14,430,879 tons of the Empire State's quota and West 
Virginia shipped 2,072,670 tons. The Ohio shipments 
of 115,221 tons represent in a degree the war-wrought 
almormal chang-es in the currents of coal traffic which 



even at that early date were beginning to make their 
appearance. The per capita consumption for the state 
that year was 3.58 tons, as compared with a country 
average of 2.82 tons; the bituminous per capita, 1.52 
tons, was .52 ton less than the general average, while 
the anthracite per capita, 2.06 tons, was far above the 
average of .78 ton. On a square mile basis the New 
York figure, 772 tons, was nearly six times the country 
average, being exceeded only by Pennsylvania and the 
JSTew England states. 



240 



COAL MEX OF AMERICA 




LEMUEL BURROWS, 

President Castner, Curran & Bullitt, Inc. 



241 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 




EDWARD EUGENE LOOMIS, New York City. 

Edward E. Loomis, President of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Co., is one 
of this country's conspicuous figures in transportation, coal, traffic and finan- 
ciering-. He was born near Ilion, New York, in 1865, the son of Chester and 
Esther Loomis, and after receiving a collegiate education, entered railroad 
service in the Law Department of the Denver & Rio Grande Railway Co. 

In 1894 he was appointed superintendent of the Tioga Division of the Erie 
Railroad, at the same time being Superintendent in charge of the bituminous 
and lumber interests of the Blossburg Coal Co. In 1898 he was made General 
Superintendent of the New York, Susquehanna c& Western Railroad and the 
Wilkes-Barre & Eastern Railroad. 

One 5'ear later he became Superintendent of the coal mining department 
of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, and in 1902 was made Manager of 
the entire coal department with charge of the company's mining, shipping and 
sales of anthracite. On April 28, 1902, Mr. Loomis was elected Senior 
Vice President of the Lackawanna Railroad. He became a member of its 
board of managers and a Director and officer of all of its subsidiary com- 
panies. These positions Mr. Loom,is retained until February, 1917, when he 
resigned from the Lackawanna organization on his election to the presidency 
of the Lehigh Valley Railroad and its subsidiary companies. 

Aside from his railroad activities, Mr. Loomis is a Director of the Temple 
Iron Co. and President and a Director of the Mark Twain Co., a trustee of 
the American Surety Co., a Director of the Liberty National Bank, a member 
of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, the Cliamber of Commerce of 
the State of New York, the Metropolitan and Recess Clubs of New York City, 
the Westmoreland of Wilkes-Barre and the Baltusrol Golf Club. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 




WILLIS G. TOWNES, New York City, 
Vice President and General Manager Archibald McNeil & Sons Co., 
Bridgeport, Connecticut, was born in Edgefield, South Carolina, April 
2, 1871, and has been identified with the coal industry twenty-two 
years. Mr. Townes has passed a large portion of his time during 
recent years in Europe, investigating European markets for Ameri- 
can coals. The distributing and colliery interests which he represents 
maintained their own office and distributing coal depots in France and 
have been supplying the French railways, continental gas companies 
and other industries with American coals. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 




THOMAS H. WATKINS, New York City, 
President Pennsylvania Coal & Coke Corp., was born in Pittston, 
Pennsylvania, May 17, 1860, and has been in the coal business forty 
years. He was connected with Simpson & Watkins for twenty years 
and was President of the Temple Iron Co. two years. Mr. Watkins 
served on the Roosevelt Anthracite Strike Commission in 1902. 



244 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 




HENRY DREYKR. Xew York City, 

President, Ci^amer-Meyer-Dreyei- Co., Inc.. was born In Han- 
over. Germany, October 2S, 1854, and has been identified 
witli tlie coal industry ten years. 





HERMAN D. CRAMER, New York City, 

Treasurer Cramer-Meyer-Dreyer Co., Inc., was 



born in 



JOHN HENRY MEYER, New York City, 

Secretary Cramer-Meyer-Dreyer Co., Inc., was born 



Germany May 7, 1873,' and has been engag-ed in the coal Bremen, Germany. December 4, 1872. Mr. Meyer has been 
business sixteen years. in the coal business seventeen years and was formerly 



connected with G. Robitzek & Bro. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 




GUSTAVE WILLIAM SEILER, New York City, 

President Seiler-Rogers-Brown Co., was born in New York 
City Marcli 3, 1879, and lias been identified witli the coal 
trade eighteen years. Mr. Seiler was previously connected 
with the Lehigh Valley Coal Sales Co., Whitney & Kem- 
merer, Haddocl?;, Blanchard & Co., H. H. Lineaweaver Co., 
Pattison & Bowns, and Seiler-Blanchard Co. 





■W^I.LiIS H. BROTV3V, New York City, 

Formerly Vice President Seiler-Rogers-Brown Co., was born 
in Pittston, Pennsylvania, June 28, 1872, and has been identi- 
fied witli the coal trade twenty years. Mr. Brown was 
previously associated with C. C. Bowman and Righter & 
Marshall. He retired from the Seiler-Rogers-Brown Co. 
April 1. 1918. 



GEORGE T. ROGERS, New York City, 

Formerly Treasurer Seiler-Rogers-Brown Co., was born in 
Chatham, Massachusetts, September 7, 1856, and has been 
identified with the coal business thirty-five years. Before 
he became connected with his present company, Mr. Rogers 
was associated with Ward & Olyphant. He retired from the 
Seiler-Rogers-Brown Co. April 1, 1918, 



246 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 




JUSTUS COLLINS, Cincinnati, Ohio, 

Pifsident Smokeless Fuel Co., was born in Clayton, Barbour Count>-, Alaliama, 
in 1&57. When he was fifteen years old he struck out for himself, making his own 
living: doing- what he could do in the village. From that town he went to Pratt 
Mines, Alabama, as a bookkeeper with the Comer & MeCurdy Mining Co. Two 
years later Mr. Collins became Superintendent of a division of the Pratt Coal & 
Iron Co.'s operations for a short time. His ability was recog-nized and it was not 
long before he was offered the position of Secretary and Treasurer of the Wood- 
ward Iron Co. of Woodward, Alabama. Shortly afterward he went into the Poca- 
hontas and New River districts of West Virginia, and now has large mterests. 
Mr. Collins is also President of the Winding Gulf Colliery Co. and Superior- 
Pocahontas Coal Co., as well as interested in several mining operations. 





JOHN ALFRED RENAHAN, Hew York City, 

Vice President and General Manager Smokeless Fuel Co., 
was born in Sandusky, Ohio, December 2.3, 1865, and has been 
Identified with the coal business twenty-three years. Mr. 
Renahan was instrumental in organizing the first Kanawha 
Operators Association and the New River Operators Asso- 
ciation. He has, with others, constructed a model briquet- 
ting plant known as the Delparen Anthracite Briquet Co., 
of which he is President. Mr. Renahan is also President of 
the Algonquin Coal Co. 



GEORGE P. DANIELS, Cincinnati, Ohio, 

Sales Manager, Secretary and Treasurer Smokeless Fuel Co.. 
was born in England January 8, 1875, and has been in the 
coal business for twenty-six years and is a well known coal 
operator. He has been associated with the same interests 
during all his coal career. 



247 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 




SAMITEL, TRIMMER, New York City, 

President S. Trimmer & Sons, was born in New Jersey July 
31, 1844, and has been in the coal business thirty-five years. 
Mr. Trimmer is also interested in S, Trimmer & Co. of 
Newark, Ne"sv Jersey. He is a member of the Coal Mer- 
chants Protective Association and Coal Merchants Associa- 
tion of New^ York City. 





ALV A B. TRIMMER, New York City, 

Secretary S. Trimmer & Sons, was born in Newark, New 
Jersey, May 3, 1884, and has been engaged in the coal indus- 
try twelve years. 



THEODORE S. TRIMMER, New York City, 

Treasurer S. Trimmer & Sons, was born in Newark, New 
Jersey, March 2, 1878, and has been in the coal business 
twenty years. He has served as Vice President of the Coal 
Merchants Association of New York City. 



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CHARLES LAW WATKINS, Xcw York City, 

President Watkins Coal Co., was born in Peckville, Pennsyl- 
vania, February 11, 188G, and has been in the coal business 
ten years. He has served with the French Artillery in 
France in the present war. 



JAMES MULFORD TOWIVSEXD, New York City, 

Vice President Watkins Coal Co., New York City, was born 
in Pelham Manor,- New York, June 20, 1886, and has been 
identified with the coal business ten years. He is also Vice 
President of the "W^atkins Coal Mining- Co. He is now in 
the Service as Lieutenant in the Infantry. 





EDWARD HOWARD TOWJVSEIVD, New York City, 

Treasurer Watkins Coal Co., New York City, was born in 
Pelham Manor. New York. February 8, 1890, and has been 
interested in the coal business two years. 



THOMAS COOMDGE FOWLER, New York City, 

Managing Director Watkins Coal Co., was born in Glens 
Falls. New York. February 15, 1886, and has been in the 
coal business nine years. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



HKNRY B. REEDS, IVew York City, 

President Brothers Valley Coal Co., was 
born in Canton. Ohio, August 9, 1867, 
and has been actively engaged in the 
coal business nine years. He began 
his business career with the Allen Coal 
Mining Co. at Del Roy, Ohio, in 1884, 
but in a, few months switched to the 
engineering problems of railroading, 
being associated 'with many large en- 
terprises in this country. At the or- 
ganization of the Brothers Valley Coal 
Co. in 1909 he became its President. 




JOH\^ MATHER LEONARD, New York City, 

Sales Manager Brothers Valley Coal Co., was born in Par- 
kersburg. West Virginia, March 14, ]884, and has been 
interested in the coal business twelve years. Mr. Leonard 
is a Director of the New York Wholesale Coal Trade Asso- 
ciation. He resides .in Brooklyn, New^ York. 





GEORGE MARSHAI,!, DEXTER, New York City, 

President Dexter & Carpenter, was born in Three Rivers, 
Michigan, January 19, 1873, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness twenty years. Mr. Dexter is also President Dexcar 
Coal Mining Co., Leland Coal Mining Co., Lloydell Coal 
Mining Co. and Ashville Supply Co. He was formerly asso- 
ciated with Kelsey & Loughlin and Frost Bros. Coal Co. 
He is also President of the Wholesale Coal Trade Associa- 
tion and of the National Coal Jobbers Association. 



"WILLIAM H. CARPENTER, New York City, 

Vice President and Treasurer Dexter & Carpenter, was born 
in Nyack, New York, October 26, 1878, and has been iden- 
tified with the coal business sixteen years. He is also in- 
terested in the Leland Coal Mining Co., Dexcar Coal Mining- 
Co., Lloydell Coal Mining Co. and Ashville Supply Co., and 
was previously with Pilling & Crane, managing their New 
York office up to June, 1908. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





THOMAS LAWRENCE EYRE, IVew York City, 

Of the Eyre Fuel Co., has been indirectly connected with 
Pennsylvania bituminous coal properties fifteen years. He 
is interested in the Eyre Colliery, Brush Valley, Roaring 
Run, Tunnelton, Conemaugh, Knickerbocker and Pembrooke 
mines. 



WALLACE DELAMATER EYRE, New Y'^ork City, 

Of the Eyre Fuel Co., was born in West Chester, Pennsyl- 
vania, August 27. 1890, and has been in the coal business 
five years. His firm is acting as New York agent for Clark 
Bros. Coal Mining Co. and is much interested in several 
operations. Mr. Eyre was formerly connected with Graff 
Bros. Coal Mining Co., Blairsville, Pennsylvania, Knicker- 
bocker Fuel Co., New York City, and Clark Bros. Coal Min- 
ing Co., Philadelphia. 





WILLIAM HENRY DARTT, New York City, 

President Haaren-Dartt Coal Co., was born in Weather- 
field, Vermont, September 12, 1860, and has been in the coal 
business twenty-two years. Mr. Dartt was previously asso- 
ciated with Dartt & Co. 



CHARLES W. HAAREN, New York City, 

Treasurer Haaren-Dartt Coal Co., was born in New York 
City August 26, 1878, and has been in the coal business 
twenty-two years. He was formerly a member of the firm 
of D. "o. Haaren & Son, established in 1875. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





ARTHUR W. HILLEBRAXD, Xew York City. 

President A. W. Hillebrand Co., was born In Trenton, New 
Jersey, June 10, 1865, and has been identified with the coal 
business thirty years. He is also President Grazier Coal 
Mining- Co. and Hillworth Coal Co. Mr. Hillebrand was con- 
nected with Williams & Peters before establishing his pres- 
ent company. 



WAIjTER F. AINSWORTH, New York City, 

Secretary A. W. Hillebrand Co., was born in Newburg-h, 
New York,. July 31, 1878, and has been in the coal business 
twenty years, starting- in the retail business in 1902 at 
Fishkill, New York. He is Vice President of the Grazier 
Coal Mining- Co., Secretary and Treasurer of the Jame-S 
White Mining: Co. and the Hillworth Coal Co., and inter- 
ested in the Millerton Coal Co. He was formerly connected 
with W. A. Marshall & Co. and Whitney & Kemmerer. 





BENJAMIN B. MARCO, IVew York City, 

President Marco Bros., New York City, was born in New 
York City October 10, 1861, and has been engaged in the 
coal business thirty years. 



.JUI..ItIS Ij. MARCO. New York City, 

Treasurer Marco Bros., was born in New York City Sep- 
tember 14, 1867, and has been interested in the coal trade 
thirty years. 



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IRA IXG L,. CAMP, Xew York City, 

Sole Proprietor Martin-Camp Co.. New York, Avas born in V/aterbury. Connecticut. September 2, 
1879; attended public schools there and was graduated from Wilbraham Academy, Wilbraliam, 
Massachusetts, as president of the class of 1900. Returning to V/aterbury. he became connected 
•with his father, who was a partner of the Frank Miller Co., until October 1, 1903, when be 
went to New York City and entered the employ of Dickson & Eddy as salesman in the Hudson 
River teiritory and line salesman on the Ontario & Western Railway as far north as Sidney, 
New York, at the same time devoting' part of his time as salesinan in the Greater New York 
territory. 

When Dickson & Eddy became the selling agents at tidewater for the Delaware & Hud- 
son Co.'s D. & H. coal, he was assigned to cover a part of the Greater New York territory and 
also Long- Island, in which connection he continued until April 1, 1917. Upon resigning from 
Dickson & Eddy he organized and controlled the Martin-Camp Co., with offices at 143 Liberty 
street, New York City. 

September 23, 1918, Mr. Camp purchased Mr. Martin's interest in the company and gives his 
entire efforts to the management of this company. 





GEORGE F. SINRAM, IVew York City, 

President Meyer-Denker-Sinram Co.. was born in New^ York 
City January 3, 1883, and has been interested in the coal 
business seventeen years. Mr. Sinram has also served as a 
Director of the Coal Merchants Association of New York 
City. 



HENRY D. SINRAM, New York City. 

Secretary and Treasurer Meyer-Denker-Sinram Co., was born 
in New York City August 20, 1888, and has been engaged in 
the coal business thirteen years. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





GARDNER PATTISOIV, IVew York City, 

Of Pattison & Bowns, was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, 
February 18, 1872, and has been interested in the coal busi- 
ness thirty years. Mr. Pattison is also Treasurer of the 
Buck Ridge Coal Mining Co. and Sales Agent for the Wilkes- 
Barre Anthracite Coal Co., Excelsior Coal Co., and Buck 
Ridge Coal Mining Co. 



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EDWARD S. BOAVKS, IVew York City, 

Of Pattison & Bowns. was born in Brooklyn, New York. 
Ja,nuary 28, 1873, and has been in the coal business twenty- 
four years. He is President of the Buck Ridge Coal Mining 
Co., Shamokin, Pennsylvania, and Sales Agent Wilkes-Barre 
Anthracite Coal Co., Excelsior Coal Co., and Buck Ridge 
Coal Mining Co., and is interested in several other individ- 
ual operations. Mr. Bowns was formerly associated with 
Henry E. Bowns. 




JAMES CARLTON THORNTON, New York City, 

Former Treasurer Watkins Coal Co., New York City, who 
was born in Ford, Kentucky, July 11, 1884, is a First T ieu- 
tenant in the Field Artillery. Before going into the service 
Lieutenant Thornton had seven years' experience in the 
coal business. 



GEORGE A. McILROY, New York City, 

Senior partner Parrish, Phillips & Co., 
was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, 
March 20, 1862. Mr. Mcllroy has been 
interested in the coal business forty 
years and has been with this company 
since he began his career as a coal- 
man. The firm was started by Rich- 
mond Talbot in 1877 and upon Mr. 
Talbot's death the firm name was 
changed to that under which it is op- 
erating at present. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





FREDERIC Al GITSTUS POTTS, New York City, 

Senior partner in tlie present firm of Frederic A. Potts & 
Co.. New York City, was born July 2, 1860. in Lenox, Massa- 
chusetts, and his entire business career has been in connec- 
tion with this firm. He was graduated from Columbia Uni- 
versity, New York City, in 1880, and completed his education 
in the University of Berlin. 



EDWARD REXWICK BRE\ OORT, New York City, 

A partner in the firm of Frederic A. Potts & Co., New York 
City, was born April 19, 1875, in Millburn, New Jersey, and 
entered the employ of the firm when 16 years of age. He 
became a partner in 1910. 





HERBERT G. STREAT, New York City, 

President Streat Coal Co., Inc., was born in New York City 
July 10, 1861, and has been interested in the coal business 
thirty-five years. Mr. Streat was formerly identified ■with 
the Harlem coal pockets and the Curtis-Blaisdell Co. 



HERBERT G. STREAT, JR., New York City, 

Secretary and Treasurer Streat Coal Co., Inc., was born in 
New York City October 16, 1884, and has been engaged in 
the coal business ten years. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





GUSTAVUS ROBITZEK, Bronx, New York City, 

Founder G. Robitzek & Bro., was born in Germany May 28, 
1851, and finding- difficulty in 1880 to secure coal for a pot- 
tery business in which he was interested, started tlie pres- 
ent retail coal business. Later he devoted his -whole time 
to coal. 



EDAVARD ROBITZEK, New York City, 

President G. Robitzek & Bro., was born in New York City 
December 28, 1858, and has been in the coal business forty 
years. 





EDWIN ROBITZEK, New York City, 

President Edwin Robitzek, Inc., Mt. Vernon. New York, was 
born in New York City May 21, 1881, and has been in the 
coal business for twenty years. He was Secretary of G. 
Robitzek & Bro., Inc., of New York City seventeen years. 



FLOYD W. PARSON, New York City, 

Editor "Coal Age," New York City, was born in Keyser, West 
Virginia, January 23, 1880, and is a graduate of Lehigh Uni- 
versity, 1902, with degree of E. M. He has been associated 
in an engineering capacity with the Lehigh Valley Coal Co., 
Stonewall Coal & Coke Co.. Consolidation Coal Co., New 
River Co., and Victor American Fuel Co. For a time he was 
Assistant Professor of Mining in the Michigan College of 
Mines at Houghton. When "Coal Age" was started in 1911 he 
became its first editor, and has been influential in its success. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





FREDKRICK EDWARD SAAVARD, Xew York City, 

Founder The Coal Trade Journal in 1869, died December 4, 
1917, at the age of seventy-two years. He was born in Eng- 
land in 1846. As the owner and editor of the oldest coal 
trade publication in the United States, he was considered 
an authority on coal statistics. He was connected -with 
the coal firms of C. E. Detnold and Samuel Bonnell. Jr., 
prior to 1872. 



FREDERICK WILLIAM .SAW ARD, New York City, 

Editor and General Manager Saward's Journal, a weekly 
coal trade publication established May 4, 1918, eldest son 
of P. E. Saward and connected with him in business thirty- 
two years, was born in Brooklyn, Ne^v York, in 1869, and 
was associated with The Coal Trade Journal from 1886 to 
early in 1918. 



FR.4-\K D C01>BV, \e« York City. 

Of E. A. Ward & Co., was born in Os- 
wego, New York, May 18, 1874, and has 
been identified with the coal business 
sixteen years. Mr. Colby was in the 
Coal Traffic Department of the New 
York Central Railroad twelve years 
and with J. H. "Weaver & Co. one year. 



EDGAR A. WARD, Xew York City, 

Of E. A. Ward & Co., was born in 
Brooklyn, Xew York, April 13, 1880. 
Mr. Ward has been in the coal business 
thirty years. He was previously asso- 
ciated with the United Coal Co. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





DANIEL, ANTHONY, New York City, 

Assistant General Ag-ent Lehig-h & Wilkes-Earre Coal Co., 
New York office, was born in Allendale, New Jersey, Au- 
gust 1, 1870, and has been in the coal business thirty-two 
years, the entire time with his present company. He en- 
tered the employ of this company as office boy to the Presi- 
dent in 1886 and received his present appointment in 1914. 



M. L. ItlItU, New York City, 

Proprietor M. L. Bird Co., was born in New York City Au- 
gust 8, 1873, and has been handling- coal twenty-three 
years. He was formerly with Joseph Gordon as Manag^er 
Mr. Bird is a member of the Coal Merchants' Association of 
New York City, Coal Trade Protective Association and the 
New York State Coal Merchants' Association. 





A. SIDNEY DAVISON, New York City, 

Treasurer A. Sidney Davison Coal Co., was born in Fitch- 
burg, Massachusetts, February 10, 1882, and served his 
apprenticeship as mechanical engineer with the Simonds 
Manufacturing Co. He entered the employ of the Garfield 
& Proctor Coal Co. in 1900, became New York Manager in 
1907, and continued in that position until 1914, when he 
formed the A. Sidney Davison Coal Co. 



OTTO R. ERKIilN, New York City, 

New York Manager Elkins Coal & Coke Co., was born in 
Brooklyn, New York, December 25, 1875, and has been 
identified with the coal business twenty years. Mr. Erklin 
was formerly connected with Theo. F. Tone & Co. 



258 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





THOMAS F. FARRELL, Xew York City, 

Of AVilliani Farrell & Son, was born in New York July 27, 
1870, and has been engaged in the coal business thirty 
years. 



JOHX J. GORDOX, New York City, 

President Robert Gordon & Son, Inc., was born in New York 
City September 14. 1868, and has been identified with the 
coal industry thirty years. Tlie present business was 
started by liis father in 1869. 




SYDXEY A. HALiE, IVew York City, 

Editor of The Coal Trade Journal, New York City, was born 
in Chicago August 1, 1888, and has been with his present 
connection since October 1, 1914, first as Western Repre- 
sentative and later, in 1918, being called to become its 
editorial head. His previous newspaper and traffic experi- 
ence peculiarly fit him for the position that he now holds 
on the oldest coal trade paper in the United States 



IlEILXER & SOX, 

1 Broadway, 

Xeiv York City. 

One of the old established and favor- 
ably known wholesale coal firms in 
^^e^v York City is that of Heilner & 
Son. Geo. C. Heilner, who has been in 
the eoal business for over thirty years, 
is now sole owner of the business since 
the deatli of his brother, Butler, in 
1916. Both are sons of Marcus G. 
Heilner, who with his father, Samuel 
H. Heilner, founded the company in 
1835 under the name of S. Heilner & 
Son. 

Their first activities were mining op- 
erations in Schuylkill County, Pennsyl- 
vania, on Wolf Creek in the famed 
Black Heath vein. Tlieir mining activ- 
ities ran along in various anthracite 
districts until 1867, when tliey came to 
New York City to engage in tlie wliole- 
sale coal trade. 



259 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





PERCIVAX BUTLER HEILISER. New Tork City, 

Vice President and General Agent Lehigh & Willves-Barre 
Coal Co., was born in Minersville, Pennsylvania, and has 
been thirty-five years in the coal business. Before coming 
with this company Mr. Heilner was with Heilner & Son. 
Robinson, Haydon & Co., and the Philadelphia & Reading 
Coal & Iron Co. 



HENRY HEjVCKEN, New York City, 

Retail coal merchant, was born in New York City Septem- 
ber 7, 1875, and has been actively engaged in the coal busi- 
ness twelve years. 





I>AVTD de I, \N CEY HENDRICKSON, New York City, 

New York S.ales Manager W. H. Piper & Co., Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania, was born in Jamaica, Long Island, New York, 
May 28, 1373, and has been identified with the coal business 
twenty years, the entire time with his present company. 



.lAMES A. HILL, New York City, 

President Knickerbocker Fuel Co., was born in Ashbourne, 
Pennsylvania, June 17, 1874, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness sixteen years. He is also Secretary Buck Ridge Coal 
Mining Co., Shamokin, Pennsylvania, and Wilbur Coal Co., 
Blajrsville, Pennsylvania. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



DICKKKM.W & ENGLIS, 

4'2 Broadway, 

A'ew York City, 

One of the younger and in'ogressive 
wholesale coal firms of Xew York City 
is that of Dickernian & Englis, \vho 
specialize in bituminous coal. The 
firm is composed of A. L,. Dickerman, 
Jr.. and W. F. Englis. 

They are General Agents of the Potts 
Run Ijand Co. of Clearfield, Pennsyl- 
vania, and exclusive agents in the New 
York market. 




JAMES L. HUTCHISON, New York City, 

Coal Purchasing- Ag-ent Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey 
up to April 1, 191S, when he resigned because of failing- 
health, was born in New York City December 6, 1S74, and 
had been active in the coal business twenty-seven years. 
His present residence is The Evergreens, Montgomery, New 
York. 



LICIEV HILL, New York City, 

Sales Manager Imperial Coal Co. of 
Pennsylvania at New York City, was 
born in Mempiiis. Tennessee, Novem- 
ber 23, 1875. and has been engaged in 
the coal trade fourteen years. Mr. Hill 
was formerly with the United Coal Co. 
and Merchants Coal Co. 




BMIL \¥. KAHN, New York City, 

Wholesale coal merchant, was born in New York City, No- 
vember 2.5, 1S7.3. He has been in the wholesale coal business 
twenty-eight years, recently engaging in business on his own 
account. He was for many years identified with the Haddock 
coal interests, having been Secretary of John C. Haddock & 
Co. and Vice President of Haddock Coal Sales Co. of Ne-vi' 
York City. Mr. Kahn's knowledge of interstate commerce 
affairs made him a prominent factor in the leading anthra- 
cite cases that came before that body. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





WARREN AYMAR LEONARD, New York City, 

President and Treasurer Leonard Coal Co., was born in New 
York City April 3, 1S67, and has been in the coal business 
twenty-nine years. He has served as President of the Coal 
Merchants Association of Ne'w York City since 1907. 



GEORGE F. LE.SHER. New York City, 

Manager West Virginia & Pennsylvania Coal Co., is a native 
of Pennsylvania, born in 1872, and has been in the coal 
business twenty-two years. He is also interested in Hits & 
Rafetto. He was formerly connected with the Morrisdale 
Coal Co. 





CHARLES E. LESTER, New York City, 

President Hartwell & Lester, Inc., since 1912, was born in 
Connecticut in 1872, and has been in the coal, business 
thirty years, starting- with F. A. Potts & Co., New York 
City, as an office boy. After eighteen years with that com- 
pany, he became associated with W. C. Mason & Co. of 
Hartford. Connecticut, and New York City. Ten years 
later he became Sales Agent of Smith, Lineaweaver & Co. 
of Philadelphia. By reason of his active association with 
the Order of KoKoal he has an unusually wide circle of 
friends in the coal trade. 



LEANDER D. LOVELL. New York City, 

Senior member Borden «& Lovell, was born in New York 
City April 19, 1868, and has been identified with the coal 
business for thirty years. This company was established 
In 1836. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





JOHN MARKLE, New York City, 

President G. B. Markle Co., was born in Hazleton, Pennsyl- 
vania. December 15, 1853, and has been identified with the 
coal business thirty-eight years. He has been General Su- 
perintendent and Managing- Partner of G. B. Markle & Co. 



EDGAR LEAVIS MARSTON, New Vork City, 

President Texas & Pacific Coal & Oil Co., was born in Bur- 
lington, New Jersey, March 8, 1860, and lias been identified 
witli the coal business tliirty-five years. Mr. Marston is 
also Cliairman of the Executive Committee of the Clinch- 
field Coal Co. and a Director of the Davis Coal & Coke Co. 
Mr. Marston was associated with R. D. Hunter. Tliis com- 
pany was organized in 1888 and in 1897 he purchased Colonel 
Hunter's interests, since which time lie has been President. 
He is also interested in a large number of other companies. 



HE>R\ EUGENE MEEKER, New York, 

Of Meeker & Co., was born in Bridge- 
port, Conecticut. In 1867. and has been 
identified witli the coal business twen- 
ty-eight years. 




EMMET J. McCOR3IACK, New York City, 

President Commercial Coal Co., was born in Brooklyn, New^ 
York, September 2, 1880. Mr. McCormack is also Vice Presi- 
dent of the Locust Colliery Co. He has been engaged in 
the coal business sixteen years. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





WILI. C. JIOILTON, Soraiitoii. Pciinsylvania, 

New York Representative of the Sheldon Mining- Co., 42 
Broadway, Ne"w York City, and Pr'esident of tlie Moulton 
Coal Mining' Co. of Scranton, Pennsylvania. 



JOSEPH EDWARD PARSONS, New York City, 

New York Manager of the Consolidation Coal Co., was born 
in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, April 10, 1881, and has been 
connected with the coal business eig-hteen years. He was 
formerly with the Pennsylvania Coal Co. and "Williams & 
Peters. 





GAVIN ROWE, New York City, 

Well known wholesaler, was born in Lesmahagow, Scotland, 
November 4, 1843, and has been interested in the coal busi- 
ness twenty-five years. Mr. Rowe succeeded H. N. Holt, 
who was engaged in the coal business fifty years. 



CHARLES LAWRENCE SMITH, New York City, 

With Whitney & Kemmerer, New York City, was born 
February 28, 1881, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was 
previously Manager for J. Samuel Smoot and Deputy Com- 
missioner of the Coal Merchants' Association of New York 
City. Mr. Smith is also the Eastern Representative of The 
Retail Coalman and has a wide circle of friends among- East- 
ern coalmen in all three branches of the industry. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





WILLIAM H. TAYLOR. New York City, 

President St. Clair Coal Co. and Franklin Coal Co.. was born 
in Paterson, New Jersey, September 30, 1S59. He has been 
interested in the coal business twenty-two years. In addi- 
tion to his above interests Mr. Taylor is President of the 
Goodwin Car & Mfg. Co. of New York and a Director of 
the Coal &• Iron National Bank of New York. 



JAMES DEAN VAN PELT, New York City, 

Well known wholesaler, was born in South Amboy, New 
Jersey, July 28, 1865, and has been in the coal business 
since ISSl. Before going- into business for himself Mr. Van 
Pelt w^as associated with Coxe Bros. & Co., Graeff, Wilcox & 
Co., Cambria Coal Mining Co., A. W. Hillebrand Co., and 
Thorne, Neale & Co. 



n.VNIEL PERRY STANTON, 

President Humphreys Coal Co., New 
York City, "was born in Wellesley, 
Massachusetts, in 1865, and has been 
in the coal business twenty years. He 
is also interested in the Logan Coal 
Co. He was formerly witli the Ohio.& 
Western Coal & Iron Co. 




SA3IUEL PARSONS VATCHER, New York City. 

New York Manager The Morrisdale Coal Co., was born in 
Newfoundland December 4, 1887, and has been in the coal 
business twelve years. Mr. Vatcher was formerly connected 
with the George E. Warren Co. of Boston, Massachusetts. 
He is a member of the bar of Suffolk County, Massachusetts. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 




MATTHEW WILSOIV, New York City, 

President and Treasurer Matthew Wilson & Co., New York 
City, was born in Ireland March 25, 1860, and has been in 
the coal business for a quarter of a century. He was for- 
merly associated with Taylor & Wilson and Wilson, Flack 
& Co. Mr. Wilson has served on the General Committee 
of the Coal Merchants Association of New York City. 



LUNSFORD P. YAJVDELL,, New York, 

President Kentucky Block Cahnel Coal 
Co., was born in Louisville, Kentucky, 
March 8, 1879, and has been in the coal 
business three years. He is also a 
Director of the American Coal Co. of 
Allegheny County. 



Parrish, Phillips & Co., 

1 Broadway, New York City 

One of the highly reg'ardecl and substantial wholesale coal 
firms in New York City is that of Parrish, Phillips & Co., which 
was organized in 1877 by the late Eichmond Talbot. At the 
present time it is a partnership consisting of George A. Mcllroy, 
senior partner, and Charles S. Phillips, special partner, who is at 
present Vice President, of the American Ambulance Corps in 
France. Henry A. Ashley and Charles P. Hunt are also active _ 
partners and are former operators of the Wilkes-Barre field. 

This well-known firm ships a large tonnage into Canada and 
along the coast. They formerly controlled the Parrish Coal Co., 
which now lielongs to the Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Co., and 
still handle their coal. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





AVILt,IA3I F. HI]\3IAN, Albany. New York, 

Manager of W. C. Saxton & Co., coal merchants of Albany, 
New York, was born September 20, 1882, at Chazy, Ne'w 
York, and has been in the coal business for the past fifteen 
years. 



JOHN S. MeEWAX, Albany, New York, 

President and General Manager William McEwan Coal Co. 
Albany, New York, was born March 11, 1871, in Chesapeake 
Bay, Virginia, and has been in the coal business twenty- 
eight years. This business was founded by the late William 
McEwan in 1863. 





WILLIAM REID. Albany, New York, 

Proprietor of the Albany Wood & Coal Co., 672 Broadway, 
Albany, New York, was born in 1859 at Glasgow, Scotland, 
and has been in the coal business for the past twenty years. 



CHARLKS BLEECKER STAATS, Albany, New York, 

President E. W. Howell Co., 25 Washington Ave., Albany, 
was born In Albany September 21, 1864, and has been in 
the coal business since December 19, 1881. Major Staats 
is one of tlie most prominent and successful retail coal 
merchants in central New York. He is Treasurer of the 
New York State Coal Merchants Association, Treasurer Coal 
Merchants Mutual Insurance Co., President West End Coal 
Co., all of Albany, Treasurer Nay Aug Coal Co., Rackett 
Brook Coal Co. and Scandia Coal Co. of Scranton. Penn- 
sylvania, Director T. R. Thorn & Co. of New York City, and 
Treasurer New York & New England Coal Co. of Albany. 



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AVILLIAM B. VERXOY, Albany, New York, 

President and General Manager Marquette Coal Co., Albany, 
■was born June 4, 1SS3, in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and lias 
been in the. coal business seventeen years. Mr. Vernoy is 
also Commissioner of the Coal Merchants Association of Al- 
bany. He was formerly connected with the sales department 
of the Delaware & Hudson Co. and was New England Man- 
ager of the Penfield Coal Co. 



CHARLES ]V. BLAXCHARD, Binghamton, New York, 

Managing- Director C. N. Blanchard Coal Co., and Hart- 
mann-Blanchard Coal Co. of Binghamton and New York 
City, was born June 2, 1871. In Binghamton, and has 
been in the coal business since 1889. Mr. Blanchard Is 
■\videly known in the coal trade and was formerly con- 
nected with Meagley & Blanchard. Blanchard & Co., Arch- 
bald Coal Co., the Seiler-Blanchard Co., and the Blanchard- 
Bunnell Coal Co. of Binghamton. 





FREDERIC S. COJNVERSE, Binghamton, New York. 

President of F. S. Converse Co.. Inc., the well-known manu- 
facturers of coal yard equipment, wliose factory is at John- 
son City, New York, was born near Mount Upton, New York. 
December 22, 1862, a,nd was engaged in the coal business 
twenty-eight years, from 1880 to 1908. About 1900 he began 
the manufacture of improved coal handling appliances. 



CHARLES EDWARD TOBEY, Binghamton, Aew YorK, 

President of the Tobey Coal Co., Binghamton, was born 
March 22, 1863, in Morris, New York, and has been in the 
coal business for over eighteen years. Mr. Tobey was 
formerly connected with the Delaware, Lackawanna & 
Western Coal Co. as Superintendent of Mines- 



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COAL MEN OF AMRRTCA 





FREDERICK JOHX Dl RDA\, Biift'alo, jVe« York, 

Marine Xational Bank Building", Buffalo, was born in Niagara 
Falls, Ontario, February 8, 1876, and has been in the coal 
business seventeen years. He was formerly with the Howard 
Coal Co. of Buffalo and the Monongahela River Consolidated 
Coal & Coke Co. of Pittsburg:h. Pennsylvania. 



J. BERT ROSS, Buffalo. >e« York. 

President J. Bert Ross Coal Co., Buffalo, was born in James- 
town. Pennsylvania, May 6, 1871, and has been in the coal 
business twenty-six years. He is President and Treasurer 
of the Fairview Mining: Co. and was formerly with the H. K. 
AVick Co.. Inc., and the Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal & Iron 
Co. 





SAMl EL MITCHELL STANLEY, Buffalo, New York, 

Western Manager The Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co., Buffalo, 
was born in Rockford, Illinois, in 1865, and has been in the 
coal business thirty-six years. He was formerly with Coxe 
Bros. & Co. and the Lehigh Valley Coal Co. 



IRYING S. VNDERHILL, Buffalo, New York, 

President Underbill Coal Co., Buffalo, was born in Fulton, 
New York, March 18, 1866, and has been in the coal business 
twenty-six years. He is also Vice President of the Cherry 
Run Mining Co. and President of the W. H. Cox Coal Co.. 
Toronto, Ontario. Mr. Underbill was formerly with the J. 
Langdon Co., Elmira, New York. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





CHARLES BRADSHAW, Rochester, jVew York, 

"Was born in Rochester September 21, 1859, and has been in 
the coal business forty years. He was formerly with the 
C. H. Babcock Co. He is President of the Rochester Retail 
Coal Mercliants' Association. 



ALIiEX A. DO\LE, Rochester, Xew York, 

President-Treasurer Doyle & Gallery Coal Co., Rochester, 
was born in Rochester, New York, in 1880, and has been In 
the retail coal business fifteen years. He has served as 
President of the local association of Rochester coal mer- 
chants. 





LEW IS EDELMAIV, Rochester, New York, 

Was born in Haden, Germany, July 15, 1845, and has been in 
the coal business about forty-three years. He was formerly 
with Geo. Engert and Geo. Worrill and has been active in 
coal association work. He is well known throughout the 
trade. 



FRANK J. SCHW ALB, Rochester. New York, 

President The Schwalb Coal Co., Rochester, was born in 
Niles, Ohio, in 1861, and has been in the coal business forty- 
one years. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 








LEOXARD TREMAN, Rochester, New York, 

Representing the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co., 
at Rochester, was born in Trumansburg, New York, in 1856, 
and has been connected with the coal business since 1882. 



EDWARD B. ASHTOX, Schenectady, New York, 

President Schenectady County Coal Co., Schenectady, New 
York; Saratoga Coal Co., Saratoga Springs, New York; 
Ballston Coal Co., Ballston Spa, New York; and Glens Palls 
Coal Co., Glens Falls, New York, was born in Argyle, New 
York, August 7, 1871, and has been in the coal business 
twenty-six years. Mr. Ashton has served in positions of 
honor in the coal associations of the state. 





W. E. BERNING, Schenectady, New York. 

Was born in Amsterdam, New York, March 21, 1879, and has 
been in the coal business fourteen years. Mr. Berning also 
controls a half interest in the Amsterdam Coal & Peed Co. 
He has held positions of honor in the coal associations of 
the state. 



WILLIAM C. BAXTER, Troy, New York, 

Treasurer Graver, Cowee & Baxter, Inc., Troy, was born in 
Watervliet, New^ York, in 1867, and has been in the coal 
business thirty-four years. Mr. Baxter is also interested in 
The David Judson Coal Co., and has held positions of honor 
in the coal associations of the state, as well as serving as a 
Member of the Assembly, Third District, Albany County. He 
Is ■well and favorably known throughout the community and 
the trade. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





IGNATIUS SAWJIILLEK, Syrstouse, New York, 

Best known as "Nate Sawmiller," was born in Germany 
May 20, 1844, entered the coal business in 1888, and con- 
tinued to be active ttierein until his death, September 6, 
1916. The business is now conducted by his sons. 



FRANK G. SAWMILLKR. Syiacu.se, New York, 

Manager Nate Sawmiller Estate, was born in Syracuse, 
New York, July 25, 1879, and has been in the coal business 
all his life. He is well known as a coalman. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



NEW YORK — Albany 



JOHN T. I). ni.AfKBlKN. hifilily respecteil retail coal 
merchant of Albany, New York, was born December 2'J, 1863, 
at Troy, New York, and has been in the coal business for 
thirty-four years. Mr. Blackburn has a splendid reputation 
in trade circles and has seryed as President of the Albany 
Retail Coal Merchants Association for ten years. 

n.VVID J. FITZGEKAMJ, proprietor of Stevens & Co., 
Albany, New Yoi'k, was liorn Fel>ruary 17, 1876, in Albany 
and lias been in the coal business for seventeen years. 

IlO>>VEL,L. P. FI-OAVER, well known retail coal merchant 
of Albany, New York, was born July 28, 1881, at Albany, 
New Y'ork, and has been in the coal business for thirteen , 
years. He was formerl.v connected with R. A. Wallace. 

AUOLPH J. FRASER, Secretary and Treasurer A. J. Pra- 
ser & Bros., Albany, New York, was born February 12, 
1864, in Germany, and has been in the coal business twenty- 
four years. He is ser^•ing as a member of the Executive 
Committee of the Albany Coal Merchants Association. 

UE LAVS AV. HERRICK. senior member of D. W. Herrick 
& Sons, the oldest retail coal merchants of Albany. New 
York, was born in 1830 in Schenectady County. His present 
firm is successor to the firm of Leonard & Herric'.:. 

LESTER W". HERZOZ. Secretary of Righter & Son Coal 
Co., Albany, New Y''ork, was born April 18, 1882, in Albany, 
and has been in the coal business four years. 

WILLIAM IRA HILLS, retail coal merchant of Albany, 
New York, was born September 6, 1871, in Albany, and 
has been in the coal business for eighteen years. 

ANDREW KLEIN, retail coal merchant of Albany, New 
York, was born February 3, 1850, in Germany, and has been 
in the coal business for twenty-five years. 

SETH W. MORTON, partner of W. G. Morton, wholesale 
coal merchants of Albany, New Y'ork, was born January 27, 
1882, at Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and has been in the coal 
business for seventeen years. Mr. Morton is a Director of 
the National Coal Jobbers Association and President of the 
Central New York and New England Wholesale Coal Trade 
Association. 

W. G. 3IORTON, wholesale coal merchant of Albany, New 
York, was born March 2, 1851, at Pittsfield, Massachusetts. 
and has been in the coal business for almost half a century 
and is highly respected in the trade. 

JOHN S. RIGHTER, President Righter & Sons Coal Co. of 
Albany, New York, was born September 24, 1865, at Scho- 
harie. New York, and has been in the coal business for 
twenty-five years. 

RICHARD B. ROCK, retail coal merchant of Albany, New 
Y'ork, was born September 29, 1832, at Rensselaer, New York, 
and has been in the coal business for thirty-two years, 

LEWIS STERN, member of Stern & Uhl, Albany, New 
York, was born January 14. 1846, in Albany, and has been 
in the coal business for thirty-six years. 

CHARLES M. STl'ART, President C. M. Stuart Coal Co., 
Albany, New York, was born in 1855 in Albany, and has 
been in the coal business forty-five years. He succeeded 
John Stuart, -who started the present business in 1857. 

CHARLES M. STUART, JR., of the C. M. Stuart Coal Co., 
Albany, New York, was born in 1887 in Albany and has been 
in the coal business ten years. 

EDWARD A. WEBBER of the Weeber Coal Co., Albany, 
New York, was born May 15, 1876, in Albany and has been 
in the coal business for fifteen years. He has been active 
in the Albany Association and was the first coal retailer in 
his city to use motor trucks. 

MAURICE M. WYLE. retail coal merchant of Albany, New 
York, was born November 22, 1875, in Albany and has been 
in the coal business for ten years. 



NEW YORK — Brooklyn 



JOHN C. CREVELING, retail coal merchant of 792 Liberty 
Avenue. Brooklyn. New Y'ork. was born June 30, 1863, in 
Bloomsburg. Pennsylvania, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness over thirty-five years. 

GEORGE FLEER, President Fleer Bros., Inc., 281 Tom- 
kins Ave., Brooklyn, New York, was born in 1843, and has 
been in the coal business for thirty years. 

JOSEPH GREVSON, President Greason, Son & Dalzell, 
Inc., 160 Third Ave., Brooklyn, New Y'ork, was born Septem- 
ber 9, 1836, in England, and has been in the coal business 
for sixty years. Mr. Greason served as President of the 
Brooklyn Coal Exchange from 1887 to 1895 and has been a 
Trustee and Director from 1895 to the present time. 

EDWARD F. KELLY, proprietor Brooklyn Coal Co., 90 
Kent Ave., Brooklyn, New York, was born October 29, 1878, 
in Brooklyn, and has been in the coal business twenty years. 



ROBERT H. KRl (;eh. Manager Frost Bros. Coal Co., 71 
John St., Brooklyn, New Y'ork, was born March 1, 1874, In 
.\ew York City, and has been in the coal business for nine- 
teen years. Mr. Kruger was formerly with J. T. Story, A. 
J. & J. J. McC^oUum, Scranton & Lehigh Coal Co., and Uni- 
versal Coal Co. 

EDWARD THEODORE MINOR. President Edward T. Minor 
Co., 7118 Third Ave., Brooklyn, New York, was born Decem- 
ber 11, 1874, at Kingston, New York, and has been in the 
coal business for nineteen years. 

WALTER H. NELSON, President Z. O. Nelson & Sons, 490 
Segraw St., Brooklyn, New York, was born in 1858 at Ro- 
chester, New York, and has been in the coal business for 
over forty years. He was formerly connected with Holden 
Bros, at Syracuse, and has served as President of the Brook- 
lyn Coal Exchange for the past ten years. 

WILLIAM S. POWELL, President Powell & Titus, 212 
Third St., Brooklyn, New York, was born October 16, 1853, 
in Plain View, Long Island, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness thirty-.six years. Henrj' Titus is Vice President and 
Treasurer of the company and has been in the coal trade 
for thirty years. 

RUDOLPH REIMER, JR., retailer at 2814 Atlantic Ave., 
Brooklyn. New Y^ork, was born in 1875 in Brooklyn, and has 
been in the coal business twenty years. He has served as 
Vice President of the Brooklyn Coal Exchange. 

FRANK D. TUTTLE. senior partner of S. Tuttle Sons & 
Co., 40 Broadway, Brooklyn, New York, was born October 
11, 1864, in Brooklyn, and has been in the coal business for 
over thirty years. He is associated with his brother, Win- 
throp M. Tuttle. 

FREDERICK W' ILLENBROCK, Treasurer Hencken-Wil- 
lenbrock Co., 130 St. Marks Ave., Brooklyn, New York, was 
born December 16, 1846, in Germany, and has been in the 
coal business for practically fifty years. 



NEW YORK — Buffalo 



HO'\VARD M. ALBEE, coal ■ merchant, Mutual Life Bldg., 
Buffalo, New York, was born December 7, 1870, in Buffalo, 
and has been in the coal business twenty-five years. 

EDWARD T. BLINE, General Sales Agent Pennsy Coal Co., 
Prudential Building, Buffalo, New York, was born October 
22, 1880, at La Platte, Nebraska, and has been in the coal 
business for nine years. He was formerly connected with 
the Havens-White Coal Co. and C. B. Havens & Co. of 
Omaha. 

ALBERT E. BUYERS, President Buyers Bros., 1172 Niag- 
ara St., Buffalo, New York, was born April 26, 1882, in Buf- 
falo, and has been in the coal business fifteen years. 

EADGAR H. CASE. General Sales Agent Buffalo Coal & 
Coke Co., 6 Russel Ave., Buffalo, New York, was born Janu- 
ary 1, 1S84. in Buffalo, and has been in tlie coal business 
eiglit years. 

JOHN Q,. CLARKE, Manager and Owner of the Mononga- 
hela-Youghiogheny Coal Co., Buffalo, New York, was born 
March 26, 1879, near Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and has been 
in the coal business fifteen years. He was formerly con- 
nected with the Monongahela River Consolidated Coal & 
Coke Co., and has a very wide acquaintance in the coal 
trade. 

CHARLES L. COUCH, President Weaver Coal Co., Buffalo, 
New York, was born in Fredonia, New York, October 1, 1870, 
and has been in the coal business thirty-three years. He 
was formerly with the Delaware & Hudson Co. and the 
Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co. Mr. Couch has 
held positions of honor in the coal associations of the state, 
and has been a Director of the National Coal Jobbers Asso- 
ciation since its organization. 

DAA'ID DONALDSON, 547 Grant Street, Buffalo, New York, 
was born in Scotland in 1857, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness thirty-one years. 

JOSEPH J. E.IGAN. President and Manager J. J. Eagan 
Co:A Co.. 810 Prudential Building, Buffalo, New York, was 
born in Buffalo April 25, 1875, and has been in the coal 
business for eighteen years. He was formerly with H. K. 
Wick & Co. 

JOSEPH A. GIBBONS, Manager of the Connell Anthracite 
Coal Co., Buffalo, New York, was born in Scranton, Penn- 
sylvania, June 25, 1887, and has been in the coal business 
for eleven years. 

JAMES HANRAHAN, 1505 Main Street, Buffalo, New York, 
was born in Ennis, Ireland, in August, 1843, and has been in 
the coal business for half a century. He has served as 
Secretary of the Buffalo Coal Exchange. 

GRANT H. JONES, Vice President and General Sales Agent 
The Shawmut Coal & Coke Co., Buffalo, New York, was 
born in Chemung County, New Y''ork, September 27, 1863. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



.lOHlV K. KERR, President and Treasurer John K. Kerr, 

Inc.. 39 Erie Street, Buffalo, New York, was born in Salts- 
burg, Pennsylvania, October 11, 1881, and has been in the 
coal business for eleven years. 

THEODORE KING, 101 Pratt Street, Buffalo, New York, 
was born in Buffalo May 2, 1870, and has been in the coal 
business for' thirty-one years. 

R. A. KRUEGER, Northern Sales Agent The Youghio- 
gheny & Ohio Coal Co., Buffalo, New York, was born in La- 
Salle. New York, May 23, 1886, and has been in the coal 
business ten years. He was formerly with F. J. Durdan and 
the Lehigh Valley Coal Sales Co. 

NICHOLAS E. MAAR, Buffalo, New York, was born in 
Buffalo April 27, 1857, and has been in the coal business for 
thirty-eight years. 

WILLIAM F. McCLURG, President McClurg-Helsdon Coal 
Co., 694 Ellicott Square, Buffalo, New York, was born in 
Massillon, Ohio. May 1, 1871, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for twenty-eight years. He was formerly with the 
H. K. Wick Co., Buffalo. 

FRANK J. McGUINNESS, Northern Sales Manager Bader 
Coal Co., Buffalo, New York, was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, 
May 21, 1880, and has been in the coal business for sixteen 
years. He was formerly with the Pittsburgh & Erie County 
Coal Co., Erie, Pennsylvania, and the Keystone Coal & 
Coke Co., Cleveland, Ohio. 

WILLIAM A. SIcMAHON, President R. W. Chisholm & Co., 
Buffalo, New York, was born in Buffalo in 1864, and has been 
in the coal business for thirty-one years. He was formerly 
with the Hamilton Coal Co.. Powers. Brown & Co., and the 
Bell, Lewis it Yates Co. 

GEORGE J. MECHAN, Vice President Montour Coal & 
Coke Co., Inc., 1042 Prudential Building, Buffalo, New York, 
was born in Mount Morris, New York, July 2, 1887, and has 
been in the coal business for seventeen years. He was 
lormerly with the Henderson Coal Co. 

CHARLES W. 3IOSS, Vice President, Secretary and Treas- 
urer Weaver Coal Co., Inc., Buffalo, New York, was born in 
Lockport, New York, January 16. 1868, and has been in the 
coal business for twenty-six years. 

JOSEPH W. NOHLE, Manager J. W. Noble Coal Co., Buf- 
falo, New York, was born in Buffalo July 29, 1870, and has 
been in the coal business for twenty-nine years. He was 
previously with the Frank Williams Co. 

E. H. READ of the Buffalo office of the Delaware, Lacka- 
wanna & Western Coal Co., Buffalo. New York, was born in 
Quebec, Canada, July 31, 1869, and has been in the coal 
business for twenty-four years. He was formerly with the 
Delaware & Hudson Co. 

EUGENE C. ROBERTS, General Manager and Treasurer 
Fairmount Coal Co., 304 Ellicott Square, Buffalo, New York, 
was born in Buffalo August 18, 1857, and has been in the 
coal business for forty-three years. He was formerly con- 
nected with E. L. Hedstrom, and has served In positions of 
honor in the coal associations of the state. 

JOHN T. ROBERTS, 946 Ellicott Square, Buffalo, New 
York, was born in Weatherly, Pennsylvania, in 1S79, and has 
been in the coal business sixteen years. He was formerly 
with the Marion Coal Co. and the Wldnoon Coal Mining Co. 

STEPHEN "W. STICKNEY, proprietor of the D. J. Stick- 
ney Coal Co., Buffalo, New \''ork, was born in Ontario, Can- 
ada, June 12, 1858. and has been in the coal business twenty- 
two years. He was founder of the Stickney-Price Coal Co. 
and has held positions of honor in the coal associations 
of the state. 

CHARLES A. STORCK, General Manager J. B. Jenkins 
Coal & Coke Co., Buffalo, New York, was born in Buffalo 
July 30, 1874, and has been in the coal business for eight 
years. He was formerly with the Pittsburgh & Buffalo 
Coal Co. 

A. H. TRACY of the Tracy Coal & Wood Co., Buffalo, New 
York, was born in Erie County, New York, April 17, 1839, 
and has been in the coal business for thirty-six years. He 
was formerly with the Delaware & Hudson Co. twenty years, 

DELL LELAND TLTTLE, Sales Agent The Philadelphia & 
Reading Coal & Iron Co., Buffalo, New York, was born in 
blast Otto, New York, December 13, 1855. He entered the 
service of the company in 1892 and was appointed Sales 
Agent in 1898. He has been honored by the coal trade on 
many occasions, being Gazook in 1906 and Imperial Mazu- 
mer in 1914 of the Order KoKoal. He delivered an address 
Coalmen's Day at the World's Fair in St. Louis. He is a 
Director of the Central Dock & Terminal Railway. 

MAX G. VOELKLER, President Frontier Coal Co., Inc., 
Prudential Building, Buffalo, New York, was born in Wil- 
liamsport, Pennsylvania, September 19, 1873, and has been 
in the coal business for sixteen years. He is also President 
of the Penn-Clarion Coal Co. of Pittsburgh and of the Lexie 
Mining Co., with operations in Butler County, Pennsylvania. 



SEYMOUR WHITLEY, Manager Pittsburgh Coal Co., Buf- 
falo, New York, was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, August 21, 
1870, and has been in the coal business about twenty-six 
years. He was formerly with the Youghiogheny River Coal 
Co., one of the W. L. Scott interests. 

B. WYATT WISTAR, President Wistar Coal Corp., Buffalo, 
New York, was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 
3, 1876, and has been in the coal business twenty-tvi^o years. 
Mr. Wistar has many other coal interests and is well known 
throughout the trade. 



NEW YORK CITY 



GEORGE W. APGAR, Secretary and General Manager 
Owens & Co., New York City, is a native of New Jersey, 
born May 27, 1876, and has been interested in the coal busi- 
ness twenty -two years. Mr. Apgar was formerly with Peter 
DeWitt & Co. 

WILI,IAM H. BARKI,.4GK of J. H. Barklage's Son, New 
York City, is a native of New York City, born July 29, 1861, 
and has been in the coal business thirty-five years. 

ARTHUR BERGHORN, Vice President Henry Berghorn's 
Sons, New York City, was born in New York City June 25, 
1890, and has been in the retail coal business ten years. 

FREDERICK W. BERGHORN, Secretary Henry Berg- 
horn's Sons, New York City, was born in New York City 
April 21, 1888, and has been engaged in the coal business 
ten years. 



LOUIS F. H. BERGHORN, 

Berghorn's Sons, New York 
Ohio, January 24, 1877, and 
twenty-three years. Mr. Ber 
with Dickson & Eddy. 

HENRY BREUNICH, Pres 
New York City, was born in 
has been in the coal busin 
served as President of the 
York City for twenty years. 



President and Treasurer Henry 
City, was born in New Bremen, 

has been in the coal business 
ghorn was previously connected 

ident Henry Breunlch Coal Co., 
Germany January 11, 1849, and 

ess forty years. Mr. Breunlch 
Retail Coal Exchange of New 
beginning with 1896. 

JAMES CARSON, proprietor of The Coal Credit Bureau, 
29 Broadway, New York City, was born in Ireland August 
26, 1883, and has been interested in the coal business ten 
years. 

CHARLES S. CHESTNUT, proprietor Crescent Coal Co., 
New York City, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 
November 15, 1881, and has been in the coal business twelve 
years. He is also Treasurer Freeman-Chestnut Coal Co. 
Mr. Chestnut was formerly connected with McCaulley Bros., 
Philadelphia retailers. 

.1. McINTYRE CREIGHTON of New York City was born 
in Perth, New Y'ork, December 19, 1871, and has been in 
the coal business fifteen years. Mr. Creighton was formerly 
connected with Black, Field & Emmons and George D. 
Harris & Co. 

RICHARD THEODORE DAVIES, General Coal Agent The 
Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co., New York City, was born in 
Buffalo, New York, October 3, 1850, and has been connected 
with the coal business forty years, the entire time with the 
above company. 

CHARLES H. DAYTON, President Phoenix Coal Co., New 
York City, was born in Newark, New Jersey, August 6, 1881, 
and has iDeen in the coal business twelve years. Mr. Dayton 
was formerly connected with Hatfield & Hilles, Lehigh Val- 
ley Coal Sales Co., the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co., and 
the Skeele Coal Co. 

JOSEPH B. DICKSON of Dickson & Eddy, New Y^ork City, 
was born in 1861 at Scranton, Pennsylvania, and has been 
in the coal business thirty-five years. Mr. Dickson is one of 
the prominent factors in the anthracite industry and is 
highly regarded. His firm is distributor of the D. & E. 
Scranton coal and the D. & H. Lackawanna coal and they 
handle a very large tonnage. 

EMORY KELLY DOWNEY, Manager Coal Department B. 
NicoU & Co., New York City, was born in Baltimore, Mary- 
land. July 8, 1880, and has been in the coal business eighteen 
years. Mr. Downey was forinerly associated with the Davis 
Coal & Coke Co., with which company he started as office 
boy. When he left this company in 1912 he was Vice Presi- 
dent. 

DAVID B. DUNCAN of David Duncan & Son, New Y'ork 
City, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 18, 
1850, and has been in the coal business flfty-one years. Mr. 
Duncan was previously connected with the Scranton & Le- 
high Coal Co., New York City, Donaldson & Duncan, Phila- 
delphia, Popham & Co., and the North River Coal & Wharf 
Co., Beech Creek Cannel Coal Co., Beaver Run Bituminous 
Coal Co. and Clearfield Bituminous Coal Co., New York 
City. This business was established in 1825 by his father, 
David Duncan, a pioneer in the introduction of anthracite 
and bituminous coal. 



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COAL AIEN OF AMERICA 



.IKSSE I.. KDDY of Dickson & Eddy, Xew York City, was 
born in Wliitehall. Xew York, January 9, 1858, and has been 
engaged in the coal business forty-two years. He is also 
Treasurer of tlie Price-Pancoast Coal Co. He was formerly 
witli the Delaware & Hudson Coal Co. 

W. H. EI-l/KHV. President Coaldale Mining Co., New 
York City, was born in England December 6, 1870, and 
has been in the coal business twenty-five years. He is also 
interested in the Pyramid Coal Mining Co. of Pennsylvania. 

GEORGK J. ELTZ. Treasurer Thedford-Eltz Coal Co., New- 
York City, was born in New York January 17, 1866, and 
has been in the coal business thirty-seven years. Mr. Eltz 
was formerlj- with .T. Eltz & Son and served as Vice Presi- 
dent of the Retail Coal Exchan.ge. 

ROBERT STUART EEEXEY. Vice President Seiler-Rogers- 
Brown Coal Co., New York City, was born in Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania, February 13, 1891, and has been in the coal 
business seven years. Mr. Feeney was previously connected 
with H. H. Lineaweaver & Co. 

CLAREXCE Fl'HRER. Coal Expert Eastern Audit Co., 
Inc., 203 Broadway, formerly Statistician Pocahontas Fuel 
Co., New York City, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsyl- 
vania, June 11, 1SS2, and has been in the coal business 
eig'hteen years. He is also Secretary-Treasurer Black Band 
Fuel Co. and Kanawha Central Railway Co. Mr. Fuhrer 
was formerl\' connected with the Pocahontas Collieries Co. 

JOHN \VAI>TER GALLOWAY, President Maryland Coal 
Co., New York City, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, July 
26, 1873, and has been interested in the coal business twen- 
ty-five yc-^rs. He is also President Maryland Coal Co. of 
West Virginia and Simpson Creek Coal Co. Before enter- 
ing into the coal business Mr. Galloway was connected for 
a number of years with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and 
was later with the Continental Coal Co., Weaver Coal Co., 
T'awnee Coal Co., W. K. Niver Coal Co., and Brothers Valley 
Coal Co. 

JOSEPH GORDON, President Joseph Gordon, Inc., New 
York City, was born in New York City in 1855, and has 
been eng-aged in the coal business thirty years. 

CI/AREXC'E C. HARRIS. Treasurer Geo. D. Harris & Co., 
New York City, was born in Port Edward, New York, No- 
vember 27. 1876, and has been in the coal business for 
eighteen j-ears 

HAXCKE HEXCKEjV, Presideni Hencken & WiHenbrock 
Co., New Yoi'k City, was born in Germany Septeinber 5, 
1841, and has been handling coal fifty-three years. Before 
establishing his present company he was a member of the 
firm of John Halm & Co. 

CL.4RENCE M. HETFIELD, Eastern Sales Agent W. H. 
Bradford & Co., New York City, was born in Plainfield, 
Xew Jei-sey, June 4, 1889, and has been interested in the 
coal trade ten years. He was formerly connected -vvith the 
Bulah Coal Mining Co., Consolidation Coal Co., Grampion 
Coal Mining Co., and George D. Harris & Co. 

FRAXK W. HIGHBERGER of F. W. Highberger & Co., 
Xew York City, was born in Westmoreland County, Penn- 
sylvania, August 23, 1874. and has been in the coal business 
five years. Mr. Highberger was formerly with E. W^. Mudge 
& Co. 

WILL,IA3I P. HILL,, Treasurer F. R. Long & Co., New 
York Citv, Avas born in Owego, New York, November 14, 
1865. 

G. 3IASOX JANNFJY, General Manager Pennsylvania & 
West Virginia Co., New York City, was born in New^ Or- 
leans, Louisiana, November 26, 1873, and has been in the 
coal business twenty-two years. Mr. Janney was formerly 
with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. 

BEXJA1IIX F. .TAYXE of B. F. Jayne & Co., New York 
City, was born at Setauke, Long Island, New York, Febru- 
ary 25, 1835, and has been in the coal business forty-five 
years. 

FREDERICK R. LOXG, President F. R. Long Co., New 
York City, was born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, March 
29, 1877, and has been in the coal business fifteen years. Mr. 
Long is also President of the Long Coal Mining Co., Roscoe 
Coal Mining Co., and F. R. Long & Co. 

S. G. HJXD, with "Whitney & Kemmerer, New York City, 
started in the coal business with Whitney & Kemmerer 
in 1915, and was appointed Western Sales Agent in 1918. 

ARTHl'R .JOSEPH MaeBRIDE, Assistant Manager of 
Sales, Pocahontas Fuel Co., New York City, was born in 
Cincinnati, Ohio, April 3, 1880, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness sixteen years. 

E. J. MaoXAMARA, Treasurer Victoria Coal Mining Co., 
New York City, was born in Santa Fe County, New Mexico. 
l\Ir. MacXamara is also interested in the O'Mara coal mine. 

WILBUR A. MARSHALL, President W. A. Marshall & 
Co., Xew York City, was born in Walpole, Massachusetts, 
March 25. lun, and started in the coal business in Boston 
in 1893. He is also President of the Lincoln Coal Co., "Wolf 
Den Coal Co., and Bethel Realty Co., and Treasurer of the 
Lincoln Realty. Co. Mr. Marshall was formerly connected 
-with Whitney & Kemmerer and Righter & Marshall. 



STEPHEX G. HIATHEWSOX, New York Manager Spring 
Coal Co., Xew Yoik City, was born at Toledo, Ohio, June 27, 
1893, and has been interested in the coal business seven 
years. 

EMMETT MoLOUGHLIX, Secretary and Treasurer Weber- 
McLoughlin Co., New York City, was born in New York 
City in 1880 and has been handling coal thirteen years. 

HENRY METZ, .IR.. with the Northern Coal Co., New- 
York City, was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, January 
19, ISSG, and has been in the coal business nine years. He 
was formerly connected with the Spring Coal Co. and the 
Quemahoning Coal Co. 

HEXRY IT. MEYER. Secretary and Treasurer Henry Meyer 
Co., was born in New York City December 29, 1878, and has 
been in the coal business twenty-four years. 

CLARENCE PITMAN MORRELL, General Manager Bitu- 
minous Department Pattison & Bowns, New York City, was 
born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, in 1873. Mr. Morrell is also 
President of the George M. Morrell Co., a coal transporta- 
tion company. He was formerly connected with Robinson, 
Haydon & Co., Pennsylvania Gas Coal Co., and Bucholz & 
Morrell. 

.lOHN R. MORRIS, Sales Agent The Lehigh Coal & Navi- 
gation Co., New York City, was born in Utica, New York, 
and has been engaged in the coal business eighteen years. 

WALTER HERBERT NELSON, President Z. O. Nelson & 
Son, New York City, was born in Rochester, New York, in 
1858, and has been identified with the coal business since 

1878. Mr. Nelson was formerly connected with Holden 
Bros., Syracuse, New York, and has served as President of 
the Brooklyn Coal Exchange. 

RICHARD K. OWENS, President Owens & Co., New York 
City, was born in New York City February 25, 1855, and 
"has been in the coal business forty-seven years. 

.lOHX WESLEY PEALE, Manager Anthracite Department 
Peale, Peacock & Kerr, New York City, was born in Lock 
Haven, Pennsylvania, in 1860, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness since 1887. 

CHARLES F. RANDOLPH, Sales Agent Thorne, Neale & 
Co., New York City, was born in New Brunswick, New Jer- 
sey, June 7, 1871, and has been in the coal business twenty- 
five years. 

ARTHUR HARRISON ROBITZEK, Treasurer G. Robitzek 
& Bio,, Xew York City, was born in New York City Decem- 
ber 13, 1888. and has been in the coal business twelve years, 
t"ne entire time with this company. 

FREDERICK C. RUSSELL, wholesale coal merchant. New 
York City, was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1870, and has 
been engaged in the coal business thirty years. Before going 
into business for himself, nineteen years ago, he was with 
Cox & Rockwell and Graeff, Wilcox & Co. 

MERVIN R. SCHENCK, Treasurer Jeremiah Skidmore's 
Sons. New York City, was born in Flatbush. Long Island. 
New York. August 22, 1859. and has been actively interested 
in the coal business forty-four years. 

R. R. SCHOTE, Secretary Coaldale Mining Co., New York 
City, was born in New York City October 31, 1886, and has 
been with the company fifteen years, 

CLARENCE MAURICE SCHWERIX", President Vinton Col- 
liery Co., New York City, was born in Newbern, North 
Carolina, August 26, 1881, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness eight years. 

J. W. SEARLES, Deputy Commissioner Tidewater Coal 
Exchange, New York City, was born in Oil City, Pennsyl- 
vania, January 19, 1870, and has .been in the coal business 
seventeen years. Mr. Searles is also Vice President and Man- 
ager of the North River Coal & Wharf Co. and General Sales 
Agent of the Pennsylvania Coal & Coke Corp. He is Presi- 
dent of the New York Coal Trade Golf Association. 

OLIX .1. STEPHEXS, well-known coal merchant of New 
York City, was born in X^ew York City October 29, 1859, and 
has been engaged in the coal business forty years. Mr.- 
Stephens was formerly connected with James Stephens and 
James Stephens & Son. He has served as President of the 
Coal Merchants Association of New York City. 

NICHOLAS L. STOKES, President Thomas Stokes & Sons, 
New York City, is a native of New York, and has been 
identified with the coal business thirty years. His firm has 
been doing business for over sixty-one years. 

HARRY "W. THEDFORD, President G. W. Thedford Coal 

Co., N'ew York City, was born in New York City May 21, 

1879, and has been engaged in the coal business tvi^enty-five 
years. 

THOMAS THEDFORD. General Manager Thedford-Eltz 
Coal Co.. X^'ew York City, was born in New York City 
September 29, 1881, and has been in the coal business twen- 
ty-one years. He was formerly connected with Stokes & 
Thedford and Robert Thedford. 



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PERCY M. THORX, Vice President and General Manager 
T. R. Thorn & Co., New York City, was born in New York 
City in 1888 and has been in the coal business ten years. 
Mr. Thorn has other coal interests at Scranton, Pennsyl- 
vania. He was formerly connected with the Silver Ash 
Premium Coal Co. and the Manufacturers Coal Co. as Presi- 
dent and served for a time as President of the New York & 
New England Manufacturers Association. 

FREDERIC STOXE W'ALDEN, Eastern Manager C. G. 
Blake Co., New York City, was born in Covington, Kentucky, 
in 1883, and has been identified with the coal business four- 
teen years. Mr. "Walden was with the home office of this 
company in Cincinnati, Ohio, before opening this export 
office. 

LOUIS .S. WEBER, President Weber-McLoughlin Co., New 
York City, was born in New York August 20, 1878, and has 
been in the coal business thirteen years. He resides at 
Englev/ocd. New Jersey. 

liE BAROIV SAIVDS WILLARD, senior partner Willard. 
Sutherland & Co., New York City, was born in Brooklyn, 
New York, July 4, 1883, and has been identified with the 
coal business fourteen years. He is also a Director of the 
Vinton Colliery Co. and the Atlantic & Eastern Coal Co. Mr. 
"Willard has served as a Director of the Wholesale Coal 
Trade As.sociatior. of New York City. 

J. A. WILL.IAR, wholesaler. New York City, is a native 
of Maryland, born in 1865. Before going into business for 
himself Mr. Williar was with W. A. Marshall & Co. 

FRANK W. WILSHIRE, General Sales Manager Consoli- 
dation Coal Co., New York City, was born in Cincinnati. 
Ohio. August 15, 1873, and has been interested in the coal 
b'isiness eighteen years. He is also a Director of the Met- 
ropolitan Coal Co. and Coastwise Transportation Co., Bos- 
ton. Massachusetts. Mr. Wilshire was form.erly connected 
with the Davis Coal & Coke Co., Montana Coal & Coke Co.. 
Fairmont Coal Co. and Somerset Coal Co. 

DAVID WILSON, Secretary Matthew Wilson & Co., New 
Yoi-k City, a son of Matthew Wilson, was born in New York 
City April 5, 1886, and entered the coal business in 1903. 

CHARLES STANLEY WOODWARD, Manager Coal Depart- 
ment Debevoise-Anderson Co., New York City, was born in 
Indianapolis, Indiana, May 6, 1853. and has been identified 
with the coal business sixteen years. He was formerly as- 
sociated with Matthew Addy & Co.. Warren Wood & Co., 
M. A. Hanna & Co. and Domhoff & Joyce. 

FREDERICK ZERBST, with Matthew Wilson & Co., New 
York City, was born in Germany August 20, 1866, and was 
previously connected with Meyer, Denker & Hoerig and G. 
Zerbst. 

GirSTAV A. ZERBST. Vice President Matthew Wilson & 
Co., New York City, was born in Germany August 24, 1S64. 
and has been in the coal business twenty-six years. He 
was formerly a partner in the firm of Havens & Co. 



NEW YORK 

FRANK B. ABBOTT of Brewster & Abbott, Troy, New 
York, was born at Brunswick, New York, May 30, 1861, and 
has been in the coal business for thirteen years. He Is also 
interested in the Troy Fuel Co.. Inc. 

JOHN LEWIS ABREW, Islip, New York, was born at Port 
Jefferson. Long Island. June 30, 1874, and has been in the 
coal business a quarter of a century. He also operates a 
coal yard at Bay Shore. 

GEORGE W. ALLEN, Stapleton, New York, President of 
the company bearing his name, has been in the coal busi- 
ness for three years. 

WILLIAM L. ALLEN, Treasurer-Manager C. W. Allen Co., 
Malone, New York, was born in Malone March 16, 1874, and 
has been in the coal business since 1905. 

DAA'ID A. ANDERSON, Secretary Craver, Cowee & Bax- 
ter, Inc.. Troy, New York, was born in Troy September 17, 
1874, and has been in the coal business thirty-one years. He 
was formerly connected with David Judson, Judson Coal 
Co.. and Lawson & Craver. 

FREDERICK BAETZEL, Rochester. New York, was born 
in Rochester, April 7, 1876, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness thirteen years. He was formerly connected with Lewis 
Edelman and has served as a Director in the Rochester 
Coal Merchants' Association. 

ROBERT S. BAGSHAW, General Manager Curk & Bag- 
shaw, Waterloo, New York, was born in Derbyshire, Eng- 
land, August 1, 1874, and has been in the coal business for 
eight years. 

EDWARD L. BALDWIN, Johnson City, New York, was 
born at Le Raysville. Pennsylvania, in April, 1859, and has 
been In the coal business for thirty-two years. 



JAMES SCOTT BALDWIN, 101 East Market street, 
Elniira, New York, was born in Elmira, New York, Janu- 
ary 4, 1848, and has been in the coal business for forty- 
nine years. Mr. Baldwin has served as a Director of the New 
York State Retail Coal Merchants' Association and is well 
known throughout the trade. 

G. W. BALL, Massena, New Y'ork, was born at Canton. 
New York, May 24, 1866, and has been in the coal business 
for eleven years. 

WILLIAM H. BALL of the Semet-Solvay Co., Syracuse, 
New York, was born in Buffalo, New York, August 23, 1863, 
and has been in the coal business for thirty-six years. He 
is also interested in the Solvay Collieries Co., and w^as pre- 
viously with the Pennsylvania Coal Co., J. H. & W. H. Ball, 
Henry E. Smith and Lee Smith & Moore. 

JOSEPH W. BALLARD, proprietor J. W. Ballard Co., Bing- 
hamton. New York, was born in 1865 at Brooklyn, New 
York, and has been in the coal business for over twenty 
years. 

ALBERT L. BARNES, Owner and Manager of A. L. Barnes 
& Co.. Mechanicsville, New York, was born at Mechanics- 
ville July 13, 1871, and has been in the coal business twelve 
years. 

JOHN F. BARTELS of "Warner & Kimman, Syracuse, New 
York, was born in Aurora January 13. 1879, and has been in 
the coal business eight years. 

FLOYD C. BARTON of Barton & Hoysradt, Ancram. New 
York, was born November 25. 1880, at Ancramhead Mine, 
New York, and has been in the coal business for fifteen 
years. 

ALA^AH 31. BAYLIS, Manager and Vice President Hunting- 
ton Lumber & Coal Co., Huntington, New York, was born in 
Huntington August 16. 1S73, and has been in the retail coal 
business for eleven years. 

DANIEL L. BAYLIS, Treasurer Huntington Lumber & 
Coal Co., Huntington, New York, was born in Huntington 
August 28, 1845. and has been in the coal business thirty- 
one years. 

CLARENCE A. BEACH, Patchogue, New York, was born 
in Brooklyn. New York, June 2, 1885. and has been in the 
coal business for nine years. He was formerly with the 
Patchogue Coal & Feed Co. and Dayton Hedges. 

FRANK H. BEACH, President Frank H. Beach Co., Bing- 
hamton. New York, was born May 16, 1867, in Pennsylvania, 
and has been ' in the coal business for nearly twenty-five 
years. Mr. Beach has served as President of the New York 
State Coal Merchants Association and is an unusually enter- 
prising and progressive coal merchant. He has made a 
special study of the costs of doing business, and has exerted 
a most helpful infiuence for good in spreading this impor- 
tant information to other retailers. 

STEPHEN M. BECKER, retail coal merchant of Atlanta, 
New York, -was born August 28, 1855, at Collins, New York, 
and has been in .the coal business for one year. 

LAURENCE BECKERLE, Manager Spring Valley Coal 
& Lumber Co.. Inc., Spring Valley. New York, was born in 
Pearl River, New York, June 3, 1888. and has been in the 
coal business ten years. He "was formerly with the Hacken- 
sack Coal & Lumber Co. 

HERBERT E. BEECHER, Manager and partner in the 
Beecher Coal Co., Granville, Ne\v York, was born in Gran- 
ville October 1, 1877, and has been in the coal business seven 
years. 

GEORGE BENKERT, Central Park, Long Island, New 
York, has been engaged in the retail coal business for 
about twenty-eight years. 

E. E. BLACK3IAN, President Blackman & Stanton, Free- 
vllle. New York, was born in Oswego, New York, in 1857, 
and has been in the retail coal business for the last twelve 
years. 

PUFFER X. BLAKE, Potsdam, New York, was born in 
Ranshville, New York, August 25, 1868, and has been in the 
retail coal business for three years. 

Mr. H. BLIGHT, Elmira, New York, Sales Agent for the 
South Side Coal Co. and the Meadow Hill Coal Co. of Scran- 
ton, Pennsylvania, -was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 
1855, and has been in the coal business for forty-one years. 
He is at present opening a bituminous coal mine in Jeffer- 
son County, Pennsylvania. 

R. W. BLOOaiER, Manager for Mrs. J. H. Garrison, re- 
tailer of coal at TuUy, New York, was born in Cortland, 
New York, April 29, 1882, and has been in the coal business 
for six years. 

HENRY BOHNE, Whitestone, New York, was born in 
"Whitestone February 22, 1865, and has been in the coal 
business thirteen years. 

HARRY HOL3IES BOURN. Mt. Upton, New York, was born 
in Guilford, New York, December 31, 1877, and has been in 
the coal business for eleven years. 



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WII.I.AKD nOYCK of Boyce & Roberson, Saranac Lake. 
New York, was born fifty-three years ago and has been in 
the rt'tail coal business for about nine years, associated 
with Clias. F. Roberson. 

AVILLIAiM BOYD, Medina, New York, was born in Ireland 
March 10, 1866, and has been in the coal business for twenty- 
six years. 

BENJVMIiV <). BRKWSTER of Brewster & Abbott, Troy, 
New York, was born in Brunswick, New Y'ork. March 20, 1853, 
and has been in the coal business for thirteen years. He is 
also intcTtsted in the Troy Fuel Co., Inc. 

THEO. BRINK of Brink Bros., Lake Katrine, New York, 
was born at Lake Katrine and has been in the coal business 
twenty-six years. 

EDYVIX H. BROCKWAY, Fancher, New Y'ork, was born 
in Hulburton, New Y'ork, November 19, 1880, and has been 
in the coal business for twelve years. 

HOYVARD LY'NN BROOKS, Solsville, New Y''ork, was born 
in Nortli Norwich, New Y'ork, April 6, 1877, and has been in 
the coal business for eighteen years. 

HARRY H. BROUGHAM. Schenectady, New Y'ork, was 
born in Schenectady County, New York, November 6, 1S71, 
and has been in the coal business sixteen years. 

W'AY'NE R. BROYY'N, Scotia, New York, was born in 
Schenectady, New York, November 3, 1874, and has been in 
the coal business thirteen years. 

GEORGE YV. BUPFHAJJI of Geo. W. Buffham & Son, New- 
ark, New Y'ork, was born in Madrid, New York, June 1, 1854. 
and has been in the coal business for seventeen years, asso- 
ciated with his son, G. Leslie Buffham. 

ARTHUR EDYY'ARD BUHRYIASTER of Buhrmaster Bros., 
Scotia, New Y'ork, was born in Charlton, New York, April 
26, 18SS. and has been in the coal business four j'ears. 

•lOHN HEXRY' BUHRMASTER. successor to Buhrmaster 
Bros., Scotia, New Y'ork was born in Aurisville, New York, 
March 27, 1876, and has been in the coal business four 
years. 

YV»I. E. BURDICK of Stafford & Burdick, Homer, New 
York, was born in Scott. New York, October 12, 1863, and 
has been in the coal business about sixteen years. 

SCOTT H. BURLINGAME, North Brookfield, New York, 
was born in Stockwell, New York, May 3, 1865, and has been 
in the coal business for thirty-three years. 

CL.AREXCE H. BURTCH of G. H. & C. H. Burtch, Alexan- 
dria Bay. New York, was born in Alexandria Bay and has 
been in the coal business for eighteen years. 

JAMES EDYVARD BUSH, Manager George Bush Estate, 
Ballston Spa, New Y'ork, was born July 27, 1884, in Ballston 
Spa. His coal business has been established for forty years. 

tiOUIS BUSH of Lonsville, New York, was born in Lewis 
County, New Y'ork, September 26, 1868, and has been in the 
coal business for six years. 

PRAXK E. BUTTERFIELD, Hancock, New Y'ork, was 
born at Jackson, Pennsylvania, May 18, 1864, and has been 
In the coal business for several years. 

HARRY' J. BUTTS, Oneonta, New York, was born in Lau- 
rens, New York, May 6, 1881, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness seven years. 

AUGUSTUS Y'lRGIU BYRAM of the A. V. Byram Coal & 
"Wood Co., Niagara Falls, New York, was born October 27, 
1866, and has been in the coal business for seven years. 

W. J. CAPRON, General Manager YV^ J. Capron & Co., 
Oneida, New York, was born in Marcy, New York, in May, 
1862, and has been in the coal business for thirty-one years. 

MARTIN J. CARLSON, Mayville, New York, was born at 
Mayville July 20, 1868, and has been in the coal business 
twenty-seven years. 

OSCAR A. CARPEXTER, Kennedy, New York, was born 
in Ellington, New Y'ork, February 25, 1849, and has been in 
the coal business for sixteen years. He was formerly with 
T>. "Wilcox & Co. 

BRUCE TUTHILL, CARTER, East Quoque, New York, was 
born in East Quoque January 3, 1875, and has been in the 
coal business nine years. 

S. YVIUBUR CASE, Rochester, New York, was born in 
Gloversville, New Y'ork, June 23, 1875, and has been in the 
coal business for six years. 

JOHN E. CASSIDY, East Branch, New Y'ork, was born in 
Warwick, Nevv^ York, June 10, 1875, and has been in the coal 
business for twelve years. 

R, F. CHAPPINS, Dryden, New York, was born at Knox- 
ville, Tennessee, January 19, 1857, and has been in the coal 
business for twenty-six years. 

GUY YV. CHENEY, Secretary-Treasurer Corning Bloss- 
burg Coal Corp., Corning, New York, was born in Fort Cov- 
ington, New York, February 26, 1886, and has been in the 
coal business four years. Mr. Cheney is also engaged in 
the practice of law. 



AUGIST CHRISTII':. retail coal merchant of Brinckerhoff, 
New York, was born December 11, 1884, in New York City, 
and has been in the coal business for eight years. 

GEORGE LiAMJERS CHURCH, retail coal merchant of 
Afton, New York, is a native of Afton and has been in the 
coal business for twenty-five years. 

HARLEY J. CHURCHELLi, Syracuse, New Y'ork, was 
born in Spafford, New York, June 17, 1858, and has been in 
the coal business twenty-seven years. He was formerly 
witli AV. K. Niver & Co. 

ELYIER J. CHURCHILL, proprietor Binghamton Coal Co., 
Binghamton, New Y'ork, was born December 5, 1861, at 
Great Bend, Pennsylvania, and has been in the coal business 
for over fifteen years. He was formerly connected with the 
Delaware. Lackawanna & Western Coal Co. for twenty years. 

EDYVARD H. CL.YRK of the E. H. Clark Coal Co., Roches- 
ter, New Y'ork, was born in Conesus, New York, August 30, 
1869, and has been in the coal business for twenty-two 
years. He was formerly with Clark & Fladd. Mr. Clark is 
also interested in farming. His son, Edward Payson Clark, 
is associated Avith him in the coal business. 

FRED G. CLARK, retail coal merchant of Addison, New 
Y'ork, was born June 11, 1873. at Sugargrove, Pennsylvania, 
and has been in the coal business for two years. 

MILLARD J. CLARK, Hamilton, New York, was born in 
Earlville, New York, June 14, 1863, and has been in the coal 
business for eleven years. Mr. Clark owns one of the best 
equipped electric power plants in the vicinity. 

YIIXXIE ELEANOR CLARK, "Westport, New Y'ork, was 
born at Westport October 11, 1851, and has been in the 
coal business eleven years, associated with her two sons. 
C. D. and A. P. Clark. 

RICHARD DYVIGHT CLARK, Second Vice President of 
the Clark & Kimble Co., Ellenville, New^ York, was born 
in Grahamsville, New York, July 11, 1857, and has been in 
the coal business thirty-two years. 

RICHARD EUGENE CLARK, President of the Clark & 
Kimble Co., Ellenville, New York, was born in South Falls- 
burg, New York, August 14, 1887, and has been in the coal 
business five years. 

YV. G. CLEMENTS, Edmeston, New York, was born in 
Newark, New Jersey, in 1883, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for six years. 

GEO. H. CLUNE. Rochester, New York, Treasurer The 
Rochester * Pittsburgh Coal & Iron Co. and Jefferson & 
Clearfield Coal & Iron Co., -was born in Burlington. Iowa, 
June 11, 1860, and has been mining and wholesaling bitumi- 
nous coal thirty-one years. 

FRANK A. COAKLEY, Utica, New York, was born at 
Utica August 12, 1887, and has been in the coal business 
nine years. He is a member of the various coal associa- 
tions of the state. 

HERBERT L. COBB, Ithaca. New York, was born in Alle- 
gany County, New Y'ork, May 2, 1884, and has been in the 
coal business for four years. 

ENOS BYRON COLE of the Lakewood Coal & Lumber Co., 
Lakewood, New York, was born in Bear Lake, Pennsylvania, 
July 22, 1876, and has been in the coal business for ten 
years. He is Secretary of the Coal Association of Chau- 
tauqua County. 

CY' S. COLLINS of the Cv S. Collins Koal Co., Gloversville, 
New York, was born in Gloversville in 1857, and has been 
in the coal business thirty-one years. He was formerly with 
the Coal Co. of Fulton County. 

JOHN 31. COLSON of Colson & Stapley, Geneseo, New York, 
was born at Thurston, New York, in 1863, and has been in 
the retail coal business for thirty years. He was formerly 
with Curtis, Carpenter & Co. and Colson, Carpenter & Co. 

AURIE J. CONINE of Goodfellow & Conine, East Syracuse, 
New York, was born in Manlius, New York, December 14, 
1877, and has been in the coal business for thirteen years. 

MATHEYV .1. CONLIN of Conlin & Co., Tuckahoe, New 
Y'ork, was born in Mount "Vernon, New York, April 19, 1866, 
and has been in the coal business for fourteen years. 

EDYY'ARD J. COOK, Oaks Corners, New York, was born in 
"Waterloo. New York, May 28, 1848, and has been in the retail 
coal business thirty-one years. 

W. SPENCER CORBIN, Gouverneur, New York, was born 
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1870, and has been in the 
coal business for twenty-five years. 

FRANKLIN C. CORNELL, Ithaca, New York, was born at 
Ithaca, Ne-w Y''ork, November 24, 1866, and has been in the 
coal business for seventeen years. He was formerly con- 
nected with Stephens & Cornell. 

FULLER F. CORNYVALL, Sole Owner of A. C. Cornwall & 
Son of Alexandria Bay. New YorK, was born October 13, 1879, 
in Alexandria Bay, and has been in the coal business for a 
number of years. He was formerly connected with the firm 
of Cornwall Bros. 



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E. n. COKWIIV of Corwin & Co., Newfane, New York, was 
born in Newfane and has been in the coal business five years. 

EDAVARD G. CRANNELL, retail coal merchant Of Alta- 
mont, New Tork, was born October 23, 1871, at Albany, New 
York, and has been in the coal business for twenty-one 
years. 

ELMER H. CRAVER, President Craver, Cowee & Baxter, 
Inc., Troy, New York, was born in North Greenbush, New 
York, Februa,ry 21, 1864, and has been in tlie coal business 
for twenty-six years. He was formerly with Lawson & 
Craver. 

EARL ]V. CROSS, Randolph, New York, was born in Ran- 
dolph in 1S78. and has been in the coal business twelve 
years. 

JAMES CITA'NING, Watervliet, New York, was born in 
Troy, New York, in 1840, and has been in the coal business 
for thirty-one years. 

ALAjV M. Cl'RTIS of the Curtis Coal Co., East Syracuse, 
New York, -was born in Baldwinsville, New York, and has 
been in the coal business Ave years, associated ■with Edward 
F. Curtis, his partner. Mr. Curtis was formerly with the 
Crescent Coal Mining- Co. 

EDWARD F. CURTIS of the Curtis Coal Co., East Syra- 
cuse, New York, has been in the coal business for five years, 
associated -^yith A. M. Curtis, his partner. He was formerly 
with the Crescent Coal Mining- Co. 

FRED D. CURTIS, Oriskany Falls, New York, was born in 
Solsville. New York, November 5, 1869, and has been in the 
coal business for eighteen years. 

FRAXK J. CUTTER, Utica, New York, was born at 
Watprville. New York, April 3, 1883, and has been in the 
retail coal business for five years. 

FRED DAVEY, retail coal merchant of Amsterdam, New 
York, was born May 8, 1868, at Cherry Valley, New York, and 
has been in tlie coal business twenty-seven years. He has 
served as Secretary of the Ne-v\' York State Coal Merchants 
Association. 

SABIiVE B. DAVID, Lebanon. New York, was born in 
Parish. New York, in 1860, and has been in the coal business 
thirty-two years. 

ORA^LIiE C. DAVIS, Secretary-Treasurer Clark-Davis Coal 
Co., Utica, New York, -was born August 6, 1868, in Verona, 
New York, and has been in the coal business seventeen years. 

JOHX R. DEA]V, retail coal merchant of Alden, New York, 
was born November 13, 1879, in St. Clair, Pennsylvania, and 
has been in the coal business for twelve years. 

JOHN DEAjVS of The Greenlawn Store, Greenlawn, New 
York, was born in New York City February 4, 1872, and has 
been in the retail coal business for fifteen years. 

JOHN DE CAMP, "West Haverstraw, Ne-w York, was born 
at Stony Point, New York, August 9, 1864, and has been in 
the coal business for thirty years. 

CHARLES P. DeLONG of Charles P. DeLong & Sons, Syra- 
cuse, New York, was born in Canaseraga, New York. March 
J., 1856, and has been in the coal business for twenty-two 
years. 

WILLIAM E. DESPARD, Honeoye Falls, New York, was 
born in LeRoy, New York, August 9, 1881, and has been in 
the coal business for eiglit years. 

HOWARD G. DEWEY, GloversviUe, New York, late Presi- 
dent Coal Co. of Fulton County, was born in Great Barring- 
ton, Massachusetts, October 7, 1857, and had been in the coal 
business thirty-three years up to the time of his deatli, Jan- 
uary 6, 1919. He was also connected with the Nay Aug 
Coal Co.. Scranton, Pennsylvania, the Rocket Brook Coal Co., 
Carbondale, Pennsylvania, and the New York & New England 
Coal Co., and had served as President of the New York Coal 
Dealers' Association. 

A. S. DILLINGHAM, Treasurer Dean Dillingham Co. of 
Auburn, New York, was born December 25, 1874, at Elba, 
New York, and has been in the coal business for fifteen 
years. B. A. Dean is President of the company. 

JOHN FREDERICK DINKEL, President Dinkel & Jewell 
Co., Tarrytown, New York, was born at Irvington, New 
York, in 1861, and has been in the coal business for nine- 
teen years. 

JOHN F. DOLAN, Oriskany Falls. New York, was born in 
Oriskany Falls June 17, 1867, and has been in the coal 
business nine years. 

THOS. DONOV.\N, Middletown, New York, was born in 
Bullville, New York, in 1868, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for twenty-six years. 

JOHN DOUGHERTY of the Dougherty Coal Co., Oswego, 
New York, was born at Otsego, New York, October 26, 1859, 
and has been in coal Ijusiness for thirty-three years. 

AUGUSTUS DOUGHTY, Poughkeepsie, New York, was 
born in New York in 1841 and has been in the coal business 
for thirty-seven years. 



FRED NORTON DOUNCE, Elmira, New York, was born in 
Elmira January 1. 1856, and has been in the coal business 
thirty-eight years. He was formerly Avith Wm. J. Dounce 
& Co. 

LEE A. DUBOIS of Ivennedy & DuBois, Johnson City, 
New York, was born in Vestal, New York, November 30, 
1875, and has been in the coal business six years. 

JOHN P. DUGAN, Treasurer John P. Dugan & Co. of Ams- 
terdam, New York, was born April 22, 1885, at Fonda, New 
York, and has been in the coal business for three years. 

HENRY AV. DUGUID, Syracuse, New York, was born in 
Syracuse October 4, 1869, and has been in the coal business 
eighteen years. 

ARTHUR T. DUNN, Owner and Manager of The A. T. 
Dunn Co. of Cortland, New York, was born in Cortland Octo- 
ber 13, 1880, and has been in the coal business for twelve 
years. He was formerly with Jennings &. Dunn, and has 
held positions of honor in the state coal associations. 

JOHN E. EDDY, Castile, New York, was born at Castile 
February 23, 1873, and has been in the coal business for 
nine years. 

JOHN \V. EDDY of Dickson & Eddy, Utica, Now York, was 
born at Whitehall, New York, in 1852, and has been in the 
coal business for nineteen years. 

ARNER G. EEDE, Manager for Mrs. Emma Eede, Balls- 
ton Spa, New York, was born August 14, 1889, and has been 
in the coal business for five years. 

JAMES ELTON, Manager Riverhead Coal Co., Riverhead, 
New York, was born in Riverhead in 1855, and has been in 
the coal business fifteen years. 

A. K. ENDERLIN, Roxbury, New York, was born in Rox- 
bury and has been in the retail coal business twenty-one 
years. 

COL. WILLIAM F, ENDRESS, Jamestown, New York, was 
born in Dansville, New York, August 2, 1855. He is a civil 
engineer, a graduate of tlie Rensselaer Polytechnic Insti- 
tute. Troy, New Yoj'k, served in the Spanish War and has 
been in the coal business for thirty-nine years. Colonel 
Endress was for five years President of the New York & 
Pennsylvania Retail Coal Association and of the Interna- 
tional Council of Coal Merchants for two years. 

FRED AV. EVANS, President-Treasurer F. W. Evans Coal 
Co., Inc., Rochester, New York, was born in Vienna, New 
York, April 27, 1877. and has been in the coal business for 
eleven years. He was formerly connected with the C. C. 
West Coal Co. 

HERBERT DAA'ID FAIRCHILD, Lowville, New York, was 
born in West Turin, New York, January 14, 1869, and has 
been in the coal business five years. 

JOHN H. FAUCETT, retail coal merchant of Bath, New 
York, was born July 31, 1874, in Bath, and has been in 
the coal business tliree years, succeeding his father, James 
Faucett, who established the business in 1871, and conducted 
it until his death in January, 1915. 

AV. L. FENNER, retail coal merchant of Almond, New 
York, has been in the coal business for over ten years. 

G. AV. G. FERRIS. President-Treasurer The Empire Mfg. 
Co., Franklinville, New York, -was born in Farmersville, 
New York, September 29, 1871, and has been in the coal 
business seventeen years. 

AVALLACE FINCH, Secretary-Treasurer "W. W. Finch & 
Co., Broadalbin, New York, was born December 4, 1874, in 
Broadalbin, and has been in the coal business seven years. 

FRANK FISH, Ticonderoga, New York, was born at Dres- 
den, New York, August 31, 1S71, and has been in the coal 
business for sixteen years, 

GLENN H. FOOTE, Ransomville, New York, was born in 
County Line, New York. Fel^ruarj^ 19, 1878, and has been in 
the coal business for eleven years. 

HARRA' C. FORCE, Manager J. H, Feroe & Sons, Tivoli. 
New York, was born at Tivoli, Ne-w York, October 18, 1872, 
and has been in the coal business for twenty-six years. 

ALFRED B. FORD of A. B. Ford & Co., Chatham, New 
York, -was born in Canaan, New York, in 1855, and has 
been in the coal business for t-wenty-nine years, associated 
with Caleb F. Dunham. 

EDAA'ARD TA'RON ERASER, Youngstown, New York, was 
born in Lewiston, New York. December 12, 1876, and has 
been in the retail coal business for four years. 

LOUIS F. ERASER, Secretary-Treasurer Ferrin & Eraser 
Coal Co., Inc., Lockport. New York, -was born at Lockport 
June 30, 1868, and has been in the coal business thirty-one 
, years. 

CADMAN H. FREDERICK, President Freeport Ice & Fuel 
Co., Freeport, New York, has been in the retail coal business 
for five years, associated with Roland M. Lamb. 

ERNEST A. FRIER of Frier & Niles, Schenectady, New 
York, was born in Hoosick Falls, New York, in 1S76, and has 
been in the coal business eight years. 



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CHARI.F.S I.. FHOST of C. L. Frost & Son, Cherry Creek, 
New York, is engaged in the retail coal business in Cherry 
Creek, associated with George S. Frost. 

CI. ARK A. FRO.ST of Clark A. Frost & Son. Oneida, New 
York, was born in Oneida in 1S.52. and has lu'on in the coal 
liusiness nineteen years. 

CiEORGE SHELDON FROST, Manager of the firm of C. L. 
Frost & Son, Cherry Creek, New Y'^ork, was born in Cherry 
Creek April 4, 1S96, and has been in the coal business for 
eight years. 

HV^IAN FRVMKIN, Schenectady, New York, Manager of 
tlie firm of M. Frumkin, -was born in North Adams, Massa- 
chusetts, September 12, 1894, and has been in the coal 
business ten years. 

>IAX FRITI^IKIN, Schenectady, New Y'ork, was born in Rus- 
sia in 1S70, and has been in the coal business ten years, 
associated with his son. Hyman Frumkin. 

HENRY FULLER, Glasco, New York, was born in Glasco 
February 28, 1879, and has been in the retail coal business 
for seventeen years. 

H.VRRY C. FUNSTOIV, Manager of Funston Bros., Schuy- 
lerville. New Y'ork, was born in Schuylerville July 5, 1883, 
and has been in the coal business fifteen years, associated 
with his father, Robert Funston. 

ROHERT FUNSTON, President-Treasurer Funston Bros., 
Schuylerville, New York, was born in Schuylerville April 3, 
1852. and has been in the coal business fifteen years. 

AVILLIAM T. GAGEN, Southold, New York, was born in 
Southold July S, 1S78, and has been in the retail coal busi- 
ness six years. 

AVILLIAM D. GARRISON, well known retail coal mer- 
chant of Bath, New York, was born September 30, 1872, in 
Hath and has been in the coal business for seventeen years. 

FRANCIS B. GARVEY, President Long Island Seed Co., 
New Hyde Park, New Y'ork, was born in Patchogue, New 
York, October 20, 1878, and has been in the coal business for 
eleven years. 

\V. H. GEIB, East Aurora, New Y'ork, was born in Horton- 
ville, New York, April 13, 1855, and has been in the coal 
business twenty-flve years. 

EMIL J. GEORG, Utica, New York, was born at Utica No- 
vember 9. 1871, and has been in the coal business twenty- 
two years. He was formerly with Joseph Georg's Sons. 

JOHN A. GIBLIN, Ilion, New York, was born In Frankfort, 
New Y'ork. Julj' 6, 1850, and has been in the coal business 
for forty-six years. He was formerly connected with Roche 
& Giblin and has numerous banking interests in Utica and 
Ilion. New York. 

HENRY GOODFELLOW of Goodfellow & Conine, East 
Syracuse, New York, was born in DeWitt December 20, 1849, 
and has been in the coal business for twenty-nine years, the 
firm previously being known as Goodfellow Bros. 

M. S. GOSS, retail coal merchant of Auburn, New York, 
was born October 22, 1854, in Auburn, and has been in the 
coal business for thirty-flve years. 

THOMAS B. GRACE, Jamesville, New York, was born in 
Cuyler, New Y'ork. May 1, 1865, and has been in the retail 
coal business thirty-two years. His son, Clovis J. Grace, 
born in Jamesville, September 28, 1896, is now associated 
with him in business. 

GEO. H. GREENaiAN, Utica, New York, was born at 
Bridgewater, New York, May 4, 1865, and has been in the 
coal business for four years. 

MAX GRIMM, Troy, New York, was born in Troy, New 
Y'ork, September 30, 1886, and has been in the coal business 
for thirty-one years. 

CHARLES P. GRUMAN of Gruman Bros., Syracuse, New 
Y'ork, was born in Clinton, New York, June 9, 1868, and has 
been in the coal business for fifteen years. Mr. Gruman has 
served as President of the Syracuse Retail Coal Dealers' As- 
sociation. 

FRED M. HAAS, Machias, New York, was born in Collins 
Center, New York, March 25, 1871, and has been in the coal 
business for thirteen years. 

WILLIAM I. HALLENBECK of the Haines Falls Coal & 
Lumber Co., H^aines Falls, New Y'ork, was born in Athens, 
New York February 14, 1857, and has been in the coal 
business thirteen years. 

. LUCIUS H. HALLOCK of Geo. W. Hallock & Son, Orient, 
New York, was born in Jamesport, New York, April 16, 1853, 
and has been in the coal business for twenty-eight years, 
succeeding his father, George W. Hallock. 

GEORGE HAMILTON HALSEY, Oriskany, New York, was 
born in Whitestown, New York, July 18,1875, and has been in 
the retail coal business for thirty-nine years, succeeding 
Theo. H. Halsey. 

EDWARD P. HANGEN, Treasurer-Manager Dinkel & 
Jewell Co., Tarrytown, New York, was born In Tarrytown 
September 20, 1886, and has been in the coal business six 
years. 



WILLIAM C. HARRIS Of Dickson & Eddy, Utica, New 
York, was born at Rome, New york, May 15, 1856, and has 
been in the coal business for foi-ty-three years. He was 
formerly with the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Coal 

Co. 

STANLEY S. HARRISON, Milford, New York, was born in 
Mt. Vision, New York, December 8. 1878, and has been in the 
coal business about twelve years. 

ELWIN E. HART, Manager-Treasurer Hart Coal Corp., 
Fulton, New York, was born in Fulton, New York, in 
April, 1854, and has been in tlie coal business for twenty- 
one years. He was formerly with Hart & Webb. 

JAMES A. HART, JR., Vice President and Treasurer of 
The Croton Docks Co., Croton-on-Hudson, New York, was 
born at Ossining, New York, in 1879, and has been in the 
co^l business for thirteen years. 

CHARLES HERSHBERGER of the Winfleld Coal Co.. Win- 
field, Long Island, New York, was born in Altoona, Pennsyl- 
vania, in 1878, and has been in the coal business for nine- 
teen years. 

ADAM HERSPERGER of the Chautauqua Lake Mills, 
MayvlUe, New York, was born at Bellevue, Pennsylvania, 
December 29, 1864, and has been in the coal business for 
thirteen years. He was appointed postmaster at Mayville 
in March, 191 7. 

LEAVIS H. HEWITT, Cortland, New York, was born in 
Locke, New York, in 1870, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness about twenty-one years. Mr. Hewitt has other coal 
interests in Tully, New York. 

CLIFFORD W. HIGLEA' of Higley & Barber, Hudson 
Falls, New York, was born in Benning-ton, Vermont, October 
9. 1869, and has been in the retail coal business for twenty- 
two years. 

CLIFTON SEA'MOUR HILL, Rochester, New York, was 
born in Rome, New York, October 19, 1849, and has been in 
tlie coal business for twenty-six years. 

J. HENRA' HOLDEN, Ossining, New York, was born in 
New York City April 1, 1859, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for twenty-nine years. He was formerly w^ith Nutler 
& Holden. 

GEO. S. HOLMAN, Fairport, New York, was born in 
Hilton, New York, July 12, 1868, and has been in the coal 
business twenty-five years. He was formerly with Chas. 
Efner & Co. 

GEO. W. HOLMES, Manager The Holmes Milling Co., 
Downsville, New York, was born in Downsville February 22, 
1867, and has been in the coal business twenty-nine years. 

NELSON HOPPER, retail coal merchant of Amityville, 
Long Island, New York, was born July 8, 1887, in Amityville 
and has been in the coal business for five years. 

HENRY G. HORSTMAN of Horstman & Meyers, Schenec- 
tady, New York, was born in Brownsville, Minnesota, March 
19, 1874, and has been in the coal business for four years. 
He is a member of the Schenectady and New York Coal 
Dealers' Associations. 

EDMUND W. HOA^EY, South New Berlin, New York, wa.?' 
born in Guilford, New York, June 2, 1879, and has been in 
the coal business seventeen years. 

JOHN C. HOWARD, President The Hall Coal Co., 
Ogdensburg, New York, was born in Heuvelton. New Y'ork, 
September 16, 1860, and has been in the coal business for 
thirty-seven years. He is Y'ice President of the Geo. Hall 
Coal Co. of Canada, Ltd., Montreal. George Hall is Presi- 
dent of the company. 

JOHN HENRY HOWARD, retail coal merchant, Albion. 
New York, was born August 23, 1868, in Albion, and has been 
in the coal business twenty-five years. His father, William 
A. Howard, started the business in 1870, and built the pres- 
ent yard and shed in 1873. 

BENJAMIN F. HOAVELL, Riverhead, New York, was born 
in New York City September 5, 1837. and has been in the 
coal business for over half a century and is well known 
throughout the community and trade. 

JOHN D. HOWELL, East Moriches, New York, was born 
in East Moriches, New York, October 19, 1874, and has been 
in the coal business for seven years. 

RAY F. HOWLAND, Oneonta, New York, was born in 
East Worcester. New Y'ork, November 1, 1887, and has been 
in the coal business for five years as partner in the firm of 
Piatt & Howland. 

WILLIAM M. HURLBUT, retail coal merchant of Arkport, 
New^ York, was born December 18, 1854, and has been in the 
coal business for thirty-three years. The first car of coal 
he bought in 1885 was 9,000 pounds or iVo tons. He recently 
unloaded three cars at over 100,000 pounds each. 

DAN B. HUSON, retail coal merchant of Adams, New York, 
was born April 1, 1874, in Adams and has been in the coal 
business for two years. Mr. Huson has four modern silo 
coal pockets. 



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SAMUEIi HUTCHINSOIV, Pittsford, New York, was born in 
Eng-land February 12. 1857, and has been in the retail coal 
business for twenty-three years. 

ISAAC V. HYATT of Hyatt & Wood, Jamaica, New York, 
was born in Newtown, New York, January 23, 1856, and has 
been in the coal business for eleven years. 

CLARENCE A. INGAI^SBE, Oakfield, New York, was born 
in Oakfield March 17. 1SS7, and has been in the retail coal 
business four years. 

RAIiPH N. IRISH, Thecal Manager of the Connell Anthra- 
cite Coal Co., Syracuse, New York, was born at Buffalo, New 
York. January 25, 1S88, and has been in the coal business for 
nine years. 

HENRY L. JESSERER, Rochester, New York, was born 
in Rochester December 23, 1875, and has been in the coal 
business sixteen years. 

JOHX E. JONES of John E. Jones & Son, Holland Patent, 
New York, was born in Floyd, New York, November 24, 1842, 
and has been in the coal business for twenty-seven years, 
associated with his son who was born in Floyd, New York, 
in 1872. 

SHEL.DEN F. JONES, Little Falls, New York, was born in 
Little Falls Aiigust 25, 1849, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness twenty-two years. 

WARD A. JONES, Canajoharie, New York, was born in 
Canajoharie December 23, 1886, and lias been in the coal 
business five years, succeeding- his father, F. Jones. 

ARTHITR V. KEITH of W. V. Keith & Son, Clinton, New 
York, was born in Clinton December 21, 1885, and has been 
engaged in the retail coal business for some time, asso- 
ciated with Wayne V. Keith. 

WAYNE V. KEITH, Sales Agent for W. V. Keith & Son, 
Clinton, New York, was born in Madison County, New York, 
January 15, 1856, and has been in the coal business for ten 
years, succeeding C. H. Smyth. 

ROBERT B. KEI.I.EY of R. B. Kelley & Son, Poughkeep- 
sie. New York, was born in Marlborough, New York, Sep- 
tember 9, 1848, and has been in the coal business for thir- 
teen years. 

IJARW^IN D. KENT, Manager of Kent & Smith, Watkins, 
New York, was born in Watkins May 18, 1883, and has been 
in the coal business six years. 

AI^FRED R. KETCHUM of Ketchum & Maloy. Clyde, New 
York, was born in Clyde November 11, 1881, and has been in 
the coal business eight years. 

OTIS W. KINLEY, retail coal merchant of Breesport, New 
York, was born August 3, 1889, in Breesport, and has been 
in the coal business five years. 

AVIIjIjIAM H. KINNE of Kinne Bros., Ovid, New York, was 
born in Ovid in 1847, and has been in the retail coal busi- 
ness thirty-six years. 

FRANK KINNIE, Liberty, New York, was born in Maple- 
wood, New York, September 3, 1867, and has been in the coal 
business for two years. 

JOHN R. KIRBY, partner in the firm of Kirby & Root, 
Cooperstown, New York, was born in Bainbridge, New York, 
in 1872, and has been in the coal business for eight years. 

EI.MER KNAPP of Thompson & Knapp, Pierrepont Manor. 
New York, was born in NeM^ York and has been in the coal 
business for three years. 

FRED KREISEti of Kreisel Bros., Amsterdam, New York, 
was born October 9, 1867, in Germany, and has been in the 
coal business for over twenty years. 

GEORGE KREISEL of Kreisel Bros., Amsterdam, New 
York, was born August 18, 1866, in Germany, and has been 
in the coal business for twenty years. 

.lOHN KREISEL., senior partner of Kreisel Bros'., Amster- 
dam, New York, was born July 16, 1865, in Germany, and 
has been in the coal business for twenty years. 

HENRY A. KREISS of Henry Kreiss & Son, Troy, New 
York, was born in Troy, New York, April 18, 1866, and has 
been in the coal business for thirty-seven years, succeeding 
his father, who established the business in 1867. 

JAMES J. LAFFERTY', President Clark-Davis Coal Co., 
rtica, New York. Avas born at Utica November 23, 1877, and 
has been in the coal business thirteen years. He was for- 
merly connected with Coakley & Co., Utica, New York. 

ORRIN C. LAKE, Manager Ewart & Lake, Groveland, New 
York, was born in Mt. Morris, New York, February 15. 1864. 
and has. been in the coal business for twenty-six years. He 
also nas coal interests at Tuscarora. Greigsville. Wyoming- 
and Pavilion. 

ROLAND M. LAMB, Treasurer Freeport Ice & Fuel Co., 
Freeport, New York, has been in the coal business for five 
years, associated with Cadman H. Frederich. 

LOLIS C. LANGIE, President-Treasurer L. C. Langie Coal 
Co., Rochester, New York, was born in Rochester October 
25, 1S53, and has been in the coal business forty-six years. 
He was formerly with H. H. Babcock. 



JAMES A. LATOUR, Saranac Lake, New York, was born in 
Harriettstown, New York, November 6, 1872, and has been in 
the coal business for twenty-one years. 

GORDON LAW, Middleville, New York, was born in Phila- 
delphia, Pennsylvania, January 20, 1871, and has been in the 
coal business for nineteen years. 

CHARLES P. LAWSON, proprietor C. P. Lawson & Sons, 
Brocton, New York, was born March 17, 1857, in Brocton, 
and has been in the coal business twenty-two years. 

LAVERN W. LAZELL, Stockton, New York, was born in 
Stockton April 24, 1858, and has been in the coal business 
eleven years. Mr Lazell is also in the banking business. 

JAMES E. LELAND, President-Treasurer Leland Coal Co., 
Han-iilton, New York, was born at Morrisville, New York, 
October 3, 1883, and has been in the coal business for 
thirteen years. 

EMRECK C. LEWIS, Saugerties, New York, was born in 
Woodstock, New York, July 11, 1853, and has been in the 
coal business under the firm name of Finger & Lewis for 
many years. 

HARV^EY K. LINES, Flushing, New York, was born in 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 19, 1873, and has been 
in the retail coal business for fourteen years, succeeding 
D. S. Jones in May, 1910. 

CHARLES M. LINK, East Greenbush, New York, was born 

in East Greenbuth May 8, 1875, and has been in the coal 
business eight years. 

ARTHUR M. LOOMIS, Fairport, New York, was born In 
Coventry, Connecticut, October 8, 1851, and has been in the 
retail coal business thirty years 

JOHN D. LOWN, Rhinebeck, New York, was born in Rhine- 
beck in 1865 and has been in the coal business for fifteen 
years. 

JOHN F. 3IAHLSTEDT, Vice President The J. A. Mahl- 
stedt Lumber & Coal Co., New Rochelle, New^ York, was 
l3orn in New Rochelle February 4, 1888, and has been in the 
coal business twelve years. He is also President of the 
Gramatan Coal & Supply Co., Bronxville. New York. He 
enlisted in the United States Navy, and is now Chief Petty 
Officer. 

C. W. MAIER, Secretary-Treasurer Fred Maier & Sons. Inc., 
Seneca Falls, New York, has been in the coal business there 
for thirty-four years, associated with Fred Maier, Sr., de- 
ceased, the founder of the business, and his successor, 
Fred Maier & Sons. 

FRED MAIER, President Fred Maier & Sons. Inc., Seneca 
Falls. New York, has been in the coal business there for 
fifty-one years with the founder of the business, Fred 
Maier, Sr.. deceased, and his successor, Fred Maier & Sons. 

DANIEL P. MALOY of Ketchum & Maloy, Clyde, New 
Y'ork, was born in B.arrie, New York, November 12, 1876, and 
has been in the coal business eight years, associated with 
Alfred R. Ketchum. 

HIRAM T. MANNING of The Manning Co., Unionville, 
New York, was born in Gardnerville, New York, February 
14, 1869, and has been in the coal business for twenty years. 
He is also interested in the branch at Sussex, New York, and 
in the Manning & Clark Co. of Unionville. He was formerly 
connected with Simpson & Manning. 

JUDSON A. MANNING, Manager C. A. Petrie & Co., Elmira, 
New York, was born November 17, 1864, in Horseheads, New 
York, and has been in the coal business thirteen years. 

JA3IES MANNIX, Saranac Lake, New York, was born in 
Peru, New York, and has been in the letail coal business for 
ten years. 

CHARLES GLEN MARTIN, Perry, New York, was born in 
Perry June 12. 1870, and has been in the coal business 
twenty-three years. 

THOMAS H. MARVIN, Fulton, New Y'ork, was born in 
Warners, New York, August 26, 1860, and has been in the 
coal business for twenty-two years. He was formerly with 
Webb & Marvin. 

ALBERT E. MAY of H. H. Babcock & Co., Rochester, New 
York, was born in Albany, New York. October 5, 1860, and 
has been in the coal business for thirty-nine years. He has 
represented the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Coal Co. 
as local agent. 

EDWARD S. McCarthy, victor, New York, was born in 
Victor June 4. 1865, and has been in the coal business four- 
teen years. He was formerly with Loomis & Woodworth. 

HUGH C. MoDOUGALL, Pattersonville, New York, was 

born in Pattersonville April 22. 1876, and has been in the 
retail coal business eleveri years. 

GEORGE WALTER McEATHRON, Sales Agent of the 
Syracuse and Oswego agencies of the Delaware, Lacka- 
wanna & Western Coal Co., Syracuse, New York, was born 
in Brockville, Ontario, Canada, November 13, 1858, and has 
been in the coal business twenty-seven years. He was 
formerly with Holden & Sons. 



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CHAHLKS A.XUKKW Mi-<;HKK. Cambridge, New York, 
was born in Fort Ann, New York. February 23, 1859, and 
has been in the coal business for nine years. 

EDAVARD T. McGII.I.. Kingston, New York, was born in 
Kingston and lias been in tlie coal business eleven years. 

\VILI,I AM GEORGK MoIXTOSH, junior partner in the firm 
of Temple I'i ^Mcintosh. 24fi Dodge Avenue, Corning-, New- 
York, was born at Dunbarton, Canada, August 30, 1867, and 
has been in the coal business for eighteen years. He was 
formerly with A. D. Coye of Corning. 

JOHX B. JIoMl'RKICH, Oswego, New York, was born in 
Canada in ISal and has been in the coal business for forty- 
five years. 

<iKO. I». MEAD of Mead & Mead, Oxford, New York, was 
born In Oxford September 5, 1856, and has been in the 
retail coal business twenty-four years. He w^as formerly 
with F. G. Clarke & Co. and Clarke & Mead. 

S. H. MEAD of Mead & Mead, Oxford, New York, was born 
in Oxford June 20, 1865, and has been in the coal business 
sixteen years. 

Hl'BBARD E. METCALF, Corning, New York, was born 
in New York. December 13, 184S, and has been in the coal 
liusiness nine years. 

CHAS. J. MILIjER, Newfane, New York, has been in the 
coal business for about thirteen years, connected with the 
Newfane Coal & Cooperage Co., Walke & Co. and Corwin 
& Co. 

HEXRY F. 3I1I-LER of H. F. Miller & Co., Utica, New 
York, was born in Oneida County, New York, in 1845, and 
has been in the coal business for thirty-one years. 

EDWARD JTjDSOIV MILLSPAUGH, Utica, New York, Presi- 
dent The Millspaugh & Green Co., was born in New York 
City June 20. 1861, and has been in the coal business 
thirty-one years. He is also interested in the Mohawk 
V.^lUy Coal Co. of Utica. New York, and the Genesee 
Valley Coal Co., Inc., of Rochester, New York. 

HARTMAN PERCY MONTAIVTE, who conducts the busi- 
ness under the firm name of G. N. Montanye & Son, Sara- 
toga Springs. New York, ■w'as born in Sloansville, New 
York, and has been in the coal business sixteen years. He 
was formerly with Durkee & Montanye and his father, G. 
N. Montanye. 

W. BOYD MOORE of W. B. Moore & Co., Spencerport, New 
York, was born December 1, 1887, and is continuing the 
retail coal business in which he was associated w^ith his 
father, W. B. Moore, for about twelve years. 

RAY3I01VD G. MOREY, Manager S. C. Gooding Co., Groton, 
New York, was born at Ellsworth, Connecticut, June 3, 1884, 
and has been in the coal business for four years. 

AXDREW D. 3IORGAN, Ilion, New York, was born in 
Uion December 6, 1859, and has been in the retail coal busi- 
ness twenty-seven years. He was formerly with A. A. 
Morgan. 

JOHN H. MURRAY, Waverly, New York, was born in 
.'^outh Waverly. Pennsylvania, September 5. 1867. and has 
i)een in the coal business twenty-seven years. He is also in- 
terested in the wholesale coal business, handling Shawmut 
bituminous coal. 

GEORGE "W. MtJRTAUGH, Ilion, New York, was born at 
Lockport. New York, January 29, 1880, and has been in the 
retail coal business for fourteen years. He was formerly 
with Wm. Murtaugh, Frankfort, New York. 

H. F. MURTAUGH, Frankfort, New York, son of William 
Murtaugh, was born in Lockport, New York, September 27, 
1888, and has been associated with his father in the retail 
coal business for the past eight years. 

WILLIAM MURTAUGH, Frankfort, New York, was born 
in Frankfort Novem.ber 11, 1846, and has been in the coal 
liusiness twenty-six years. 

ELMER J. NASH, Depew, New York, was born in South 
Bristol, Ontario, New York, in 1864, and has been in the 
retail coal business for twenty-one years. 

ABRAM NELLIS, Fort Plain, New York, was born at Nel- 
liston, New York, July 23, 1860, and has been in the coal 
l)usiness for twenty-six years. 

THOMAS NEVINS, Schuylerville, New York, was born in 
Schuylerville in 1860, and has been in the coal business 
twenty-one years. 

HARVEY H. NOBLE, Gouverneur, New York, was born in 
Verona, New York. August 14, 1847, and has been in the re- 
tail coal business for thirty-three years. 

EDW. H. NUTTING, Watervliet, New York, was born in 
Watervliet June 15, 1872, and has been in the coal business 
four years. He was formerly w^lth T. Richardson and Chas. 
A. Richardson. 

WILLIAM I. ODELL, proprietor of William I. Odell & Co., 
Ardsley. New York, was born December 14, 1861, in New 
York City, and has been in the coal business for over twenty 
years. 



JOHN l». O'H.lillA., Moravia, New York, was born at Scipio, 
New York, February 3, 1861, and has been In the coal busi- 
ness for twenty-three years. 

THOMAS J. O'HARA, Kingston, New York, was born in 
Kingston December 22, 1864, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness seventeen years. 

I. A. OLMSTEAD, Elmira, New York, was born in Schuyler 
County, New York, in 1850, and has been in the coal business 
for sixteen years. 

JAMES O'NEIL, Tro.N', New York, was born in Troy in 
1844. and has been in the coal business for over half a 
century. 

MELVIN OSBORN of Osborn & Son, Monticello, New York, 
was born in Centerville, New York, February 9, 1856, and 
has been in the coal business for twenty-two years. 

RICHARD B. OVERBAUGH of the Saugerties Coal & Lum- 
ber Co., Saugerties, New York, was born in Saugerties in 
1862, and has been in the coal business twenty-six years. 

STANLEY S. PALMER, Seneca Falls, New York, was born 
in Seneca Falls November 10, 1851, and has been in the coal 
business thirty-three years. He was with C. S. Hood two 
years. 

GEORGE H. PARKER, Bath, New York, formerly Agent 
for the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Coal Co., was born 
June 22, 1854, in Ithaca. New York, and has been In the coal 
business thirty-four years. 

GEORGE B. PATERSON, Burdett, New York, was born in 
Hector, Schuyler County, New York, August 18, 1853, and 
has been in the coal business for thirty-one years. 

A. EUGENE PAYNE of Payne & Rogers, Sodus, New York 
was born in Cook County, Illinois, December 4, 1856, and 
has been in the coal business twenty-five years. He was 
formerly with Tinklepaugh & Payne. 

EUGENE W. PECK, Gloversville, New York, was born in 
Johnstown. New York, March 6, 1859, and has been in the 
coal business thirty years. Mr. Peck was formerly with 
the Coal Co. of Fulton County and is a member of the New 
York State Coal Merchants' Association. 

C. A. PETRIE, President C. A. Petrie & Co., Elmira, New 
York, was born in Herkimer, New York, July 23, 1865, and 
has been in the coal business for twenty-one years. He was 
formerly with Sims, Petrie & Co. 

ALBERT S. PETTIT, President A. S. Pettit & Sons, Inc., 
Huntington, New York, was born in Hempstead, Long 
Island, in 1853, and has been in the retail coal business for 
thirty-six years. 

JAMES ELLSWORTH PETTIT, Wilson, New York, was 
born in Wilson November 28, 1868, and has been in the 
coal business twenty-one years. He Tvas formerly with 
Gifford & Pettit and S. H. Pettit & Son. 

ST-liNLEA^ E. PETTIT, Vice President A. S. Pettit & Sons, 
Inc., Huntington, New York, w^as born in Westbury, New 
York, December 29, 1883, and has been in the coal business 
for fifteen years. 

WALTER ROGERS PETTIT of A. S. Pettit & Sons. Inc., 
Huntington Station, Long Island, was born in Huntington, 
New York, June 21, 1886, and has been in the coal business 
for eleven years. The business was established in 1885. 

PERRY J. PHALEN, Owner of the Phalen Coal Co., .Syra- 
cuse, New York, was born at Syracuse March 8, 1864, and 
has been in the coal business eleven years. 

ARTHUR J. PIERCE, Little York. New York, was born at 
Cortland, New York, June 19, 1885. and has been in the coal 
business for ten years. 

NEAVTON A. PLATT, Oneonta, New York, was born in 
Maryland. New York, January 1, 1877, and has been in the 
coal business for five years, associated with R. F. Howland 
under the firm name of Piatt & Howland. 

HENRY POPPINK, Rochester, New York, was born in 
Rochester August 4, 1879, and has been in the coal business 
eleven years. He was formerly connected with Poppink 
Bros. 

EDWARD E. POWELL, President Powell Coal Co., Bing- 
hamton. New York, was born September 10, 1870, at Wales, 
England. 

WILL PRESTON, Earlville, New York, was born in Oaks- 
ville, Otsego County, New York, and has been in the retail 
coal business for eight years. 

HENRY B. PRUSER, Mt. Vernon, New York, wag born in 
New York City September 5, 1857, and has been in the coal 
business thirty-two years. 

AVILLIAM C. PRYTHERCH of the Acme Coal Co., Utica, 
New York, was born in Wales August 6, 1869, and has been 
in the coal business for twenty years. 

CHARLES PURDY, Oxford, New York, was born in M 
Donough, New York, February 2, 1860. and has been ir 
coal business for eleven years. 



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CLAYTON S. PUTNAM, Secretary-General Manager Dun- 
kirk Lumber & Coal Co., Dunkirk, New York, was born in 
Cassadaga, Now York, April 5, 1864, and has been in the 
coal business eight years. 

TREDERICIv WILLIAM PUTNA3I, Waterville, New York, 
was born in Waterville in 1861, and has been in the coal 
business twenty-eight years, suceeding his father, George 
Putnam, who established the business in 1867, and died in 
1891. 

FRANK PYE, President New York State Coal Co., Roch- 
ester, New York, was born in Ontario, New York, in 1862, 
and has been in the coal business for three years. 

HARRIS F. Q,UA, President-Treasurer Harris F. Qua Co., 
Saratoga Springs, New York, was born in Austin, Minnesota, 
October 29, 1879, and has been in the coal business for six- 
teen years. 

JACOB ftUINCER, Redwood. New York, was born in Jef- 
ferson County, New York, in 1856, and has been in the coal 
business twents'-one years. 

GEO. L. A. Q,TJIRIN, Olean, New York, was born at North 
Cambridge, Massacliusetts, In 1857, and has been in the coal 
business for sixteen years. 

JOHN REMSEN, East Pembroke, New York, was born in 
Pembroke, New York, May 28, 1875, and has been in the coal 
business for seven years, 

EDWARD IRVING RICE, President Edward I. Rice, Inc., 
Syracuse, New York, was born at Syracuse and has been 
In tlie coal business twenty-five years. 

LEWIS BENEDICT RICHARDS, Mt. Kisco. New York, 
was born in Mt. Kisco February 11, 1843, and has been in 
the coal business twenty-six years. 

R. RAYMOND RIKERT, General Manager-Treasurer of the 
Rhinebeck Coal Co., Rhinebeck, New York, was born in 
Rhinebeck November 14, 1871, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for sixteen years. 

CHAS. F. ROBERSON of Boyce & Roberson, Saranac 
Lake, New York, was born in Greenwich, New York, Septem- 
ber 26, 1879, and has been in the coal business for nine 
years. 

COURTLAND T. ROBINSON, Mechanicsville, New York, 
was born at Argyle, Nev»r York, July 12, 187|), and has been 
In the coal business for twenty-one years. 

FRANK E. ROBINSON, Nunda, New York, was born at 
Nunda, New York, February 25, 1866, and has been in the 
coal business for about twelve years. 

ORVILLE CLARK ROBINSON, General Manager D. C. 
Robinson & Co., Fort Edward, New York, was born in Ar- 
gyle, New York, October 16, 1878, and has been in the coal 
business for eleven years, succeeding his father, D. C. Rob- 
inson. 

DAVID G. ROGERS of Payne & Rogers, Sodus, New York, 
was born in Sodus March 25, 1868, and has been in the 
retail coal business about twenty-four years. 

W. SCOTT ROOT, partner in the firm of Kirby & Root, 
Cooperstown, New York, was born in Gilbertsville, New 
York, in 1862, and has been in the retail coal business for 
about eight years. 

WILLIAM J. ROWE, retail coal merchant of Brockport, 
New York, was born October 24, 1877, in Brockport, and has 
been in the coal business for fourteen years. 

IRA^'ING G. ROWLEY, Medina, New York, was born in 
Lyndenville, New York, July 5, 1882, and has been In the 
coal business for nine years. He was formerly with W. F. 
Barry. 

AUGUSTUS M. RYON, Flushing, New York, was born in 
New York City in 1862, and has been in the coal business 
twenty-one j'ears. 

JOSEPH HENRY SANDERSON, President Lake Keuka 
Fruit Sales Co., Inc., Penn Yan, New York, was born in Bluff 
Point, Yates County, New York, August 29, 1883, and has 
been in the coal business for about five years. 

LeROY A. SANDLE, Secretary Charlotte Coal & Supply 
Co., Rochester, New York, was born in Penfield, New York, 
April 28, 1893, and has been in the coal business for six 
years. 

JACOB W. SCHAUB of Chas. Paass & Co., Utica, New 
York, was born in Utica November 25, 1875, and has been 
in the coal business twenty-three years. He is a member 
of the various coal associations of the state. 

BENJAMIN SCHERMER, Herkimer, New York, was born 
at Herkimer December IS, 1872, and has been in the coal 
business for twenty-one years. 

EDW^ SCHMIDT, President The Birdsall Coal Co., Mineola, 
New York, was born in New Jersey January 7, 1872, and has 
been in the coal business for eleven years. Mr. Schmidt has 
held positions of honor in the coal associations of the state. 

GEORGE SEAMAN of Collingwood & Seaman, Pough- 
kcepsie, New York, was born in Pouglikeepsie October lo, 
1854, and has been in the coal business forty-six years. He 
was formerly with Collingwood. Millard & Co. 



H. G. SEELY, Walden, New York, was born at Walden 
and has been in the coal business seven years. He was 
formerly -with Seely & Thorne. 

CHARLES A. SESSIONS of C. A. Sessions & Son, Palmyra, 
New York, was born in Marathon, New^ York, in 1856, and 
has been in the coal business for thirty-two years. 

CHARLES F. SHELDON, Greenwich, New York, was born 
in Rupert, Vermont, August 18, 1881, and has been in the 
retail coal business for eleven years. 

LEE V. SHEPARD, Treasurer-Manager Elmira Coal Co., 
Elmira, New York, was born in Belvidere, Illinois, December 
25, 1858, and has been in the coal business for twenty-one 
years. He was formerly with W. H. Blight and C. W. Moore 
Co., and has held the position of Secretary of the New York 
State Coal Merchants' Association. 

JOSHUA SHILVOCK, retail coal merchant of Attica, New 
York, w^as born August 1, 1881, at New Castle, England, and 
has been in the coal business for four years. 

HARDING SHOWERS of the Tannersville Coal Co., Tan- 
nersville. New York, was born in Tannersville January 23, 
1879, and has been in the coal business nine years. He 
was formerly with the Tannersville Lumber & Coal Co. He 
is representing Greene County in the New York State 
Assembly. 

LeROY M. SHUTS, Syracuse. New York, was born at 
Bridgeport, New York, March 7, 1848, and has been in the 
coal business for twenty-three years. 

EDWIN V. SIDELL of Sidell's Black Diamond Fuel Co., 
Poughkeepsie, New York, was born in Brooklj^n, New York, 
May 14, 1858, and has been in the coal business all his life, 
being one of a second generation of coalmen. He w^as for- 
merly with Sidell & Finn of Brooklyn and has held positions 
of honor in the coal associations of the state. 

GEORGE J. SKINNER, Camden, New York, was born in 
Vienna, New York, February 16, 1869, and has been in the 
coal business for seven years. 

FRANK B. SMITH, Spencer, New York, was born in Fleet- 
ville, Pennsylvania, April 7, 1864, and has been in the coal 
business for a quarter of a century. 

FRANK R. SMITH of Far Rockaway, New York, was born 
in Brooklyn, New York, July 20, 1873, and has been in the 
coal business twenty-nine years, operating yards at Far 
Rockaway and Jamaica, New York. 

L. P. SMITH of the L. P. Smith Co., Fulton, New York, was 
born in Florence, New York, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness fifteen years. He was formerly located at Camden, 
New York. 

RAYMOND E. SMITH, Catskill, New York, was born at 
Catskill October 10, 1880, and has been in the coal business 
for fifteen years. He was formerly with Smith & Smith. 

JAMES H. SPOTTEN, Troy, New York, was born in Lan- 
singburgh. New York, November 15, 1841, and has been in 
the coal business for thirty-four years. 

WALTER J. STAFFORD "of Stafford & Burdick, Homer, 

Nevy York, was born in Blodgetts Mills, New York, Septem- 
ber 16, 1872, and has been in the coal business about nine- 
teen years. 

GEO. H. STANNARIUS, Wayland, New York, was born in 
Wayland April 29, 1875, and has been in tlie coal business 
five years. 

MILO L. STAPLEY of Colson & Stapley, Geneseo, New 
York, -wsls born at Geneseo in 1863, and has been in the coal 
business for about twelve years. 

DANIEL GARDNER STARK, Waverly, New York, was 
born in Montrose, Pennsylvania, May 5, 1873, and has been 
in the coal business for nine years. 

JOHN B. STEELE, Manager-Treasurer F. M. Graves Co., 
Marcellus, New York, was born in Camillus August 10. 1874, 
and has been in the coal business eight years. 

HENRY G. STILES, Tottenville, New York, was born in 
Jericho Center, Vermont, December 11, 1862, and has been in 
the coal business for twenty-four years. He w^as formerly 
with S. L. Hopping & Sons. 

CLARENCE A. STONE, Elbridge, New York, was born in 
Camillus. New York, December 24, 1863, and has been in the 
coal business for four years. 

ELTON GARRETT STORM, retail coal merchant of Bea- 
con, New York, was born March 3, 1887, and has been in the 
coal business for ten years. This business was established 
by Garrett Storm and conducted by him for forty-three 
years until his death, December 5, 1914. 

BERNARD SUYDAM, President-Treasurer Elmhurst Coal 
Co., Elmhurst, New York, was born in Queens, New York, 
August 10, 1865, and is engaged in the retail coal business. 

ADELBERT SAVARTHOUT, Dresden, New York, was born 
in Town Torrey July 5, 1852, and has been in the retail coal 
business for fifteen years. 



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\VII-I,AKD H. TAPPAX, retail coal merchant of Bald- 
winsville. New York, was born August 1, 1S56, in Baldwins- 
ville and has been in tlie coal business for fifteen years. 

BEXJV:>IIX XXnERHII.I, TVYl-OR, President of the B. T'. 
Taylor Co.. Olean, New \'ork. was born in Linneus, Maine, in 
1S54, and has been in the coal business for sixteen years. 
He has held positions of honor in tlie coal associations of 
the state. 

I^Ol'IS N. TEMPLE, senior partner in the firm of Temple 
& Jlclntosli, Corning-. New York, was born in Tioga County, 
Pennsylvania. September 4. 1867, and has been in the coal 
business for fifteen years, succeeding A. D. Coye. 

WILLIAM BERXARD TEXCH, President Monroe Coal Co., 
Monroe, New York, \vas born in Pittston, Pennsylvania, in 
1876, and has been in tlie coal business for nine years. 

JAMES A. THOMPSON of the E. H. Clark Coal Co., Roch- 
ester. New York, was born in Rochester April 27, 1874, and 
has been in the coal business twenty-nine years. He -was 
formerly with the Lehigh Valley Coal Sales Co. 

AVM. AV. THOMPSON of Thompson & Knapp, Pierrepont, 
New York, was born in New York in 1870, and has been in 
the retail coal business for three years. 

JOHN JOSEPH TOWX. Sales Agent for the Delaware, 
Lackawanna & Western Coal Co., 64 Martin Building, Utica, 
New York, was Ijorn in Syracuse, New York, March 22, 
1849. and lias been in the coal lousiness thirty-four years. 

CLIFFORD E. TOAVXSEXD, Owner of the South Side Coal 
Co.. Ithaca, New York, was born in Genoa, New York, March 
18, 1870, and has been in the coal business for eleven years. 
He was formerly with C. D. & C. E. Townsend, Myers, New 
York. 

CHAS. A. TRAISTER, Liverpool. New York, was born at 
Liverpool May 19, 1876, and has been in the coal business 
twelve years. 

JOHX TRALTWEIX of John Trautwein & Son. T\'atervliet, 
New York, was born in Germany June 30, 1841, and has been 
in the coal business twenty-six years. 

D. H. TRAVIS. President The J. H. Strait Manufacturing 
Co.. Canisteo. New York, was born in Jasper, New York, 
and has been in tlie coal liusiness for thirteen years. 

HENRY AV. TRUE of Cattaraugus, New York, was born 
in Maine August 31, 1856, and is engaged in the retail coal 
business. 

M. C. Tl'RXER, Fair Haven, New York, is engaged in the 
retail coal business and is a man of twenty-six years' coal 
business experience. 

ItVRRITT T. TVTHILL, Camden, New York, was born in 
Camden July 24, 1877, and has been in the coal business for 
six years. 

FRED B. TUTTLE, Poolville, New York, was born in 
Poolville June S. 1867, and has been in the retail coal busi- 
ness twenty years. 

EDW. A. UXDERHILL, Poughkeepsie, New York, was 
born in New Hackensack August 7, 1865, and has been in 
the coal business for over thirty-four years. 

AVM. H. VPSOX, Lockport, New York, was born at Canis- 
teo, New York, July 23, 1850, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for forty-one years. He was formerly connected with 
Upson & Fenton. Mr. Upson has held positions of honor in 
the coal associations of the state. 

BEXJAMIX FRAXKLIX VAIL of Tail & Morford, TVar- 
wick. New York, wss born in Chester, New York, October 
23, 1843, and lias been in the coal business twenty-eight 
years. January 1, 1917, Mr. A'ail took H. C. K. Morford 
into the firm. 

JOHX H. A'AX ATTA, Manager J. M. Davidge Coal Co. of 
Binghamton. New York, was liorn February 25, 1863, at Point 
Mills, New Jersey, and has been in the coal business for 
twenty-six years. This business was established by Aljel 
Bennett about sixty years ago. 

CORXELIVS VAX BUREX. retail coal merchant of Ams- 
terdam, New York, was born .Tuly 25, 1840, at Glen, and 
has been in the coal business since 1865. 

EDOAR T. A' AX BVREX. Hobart, New York, was born in 
Otsego County June 28, 1866. and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for sixteen years, operating yards at Holiart and South 
Kortright, New York. 

J. ELGEXE A'AX DEl'SEX, Gowanda, New York, was born 
in Lamont, New York, September 21, 1851. and has been in 
the coal business for forty-one years. He has held positions 
of honor in the coal associations of the state. 

JOHX A. A' AX IXGEN, President The Van Ingen Coal Co., 
Rochester, Ne'5\' York, -was born In Rochester October 21, 
1852. and has been in the coal business over half a century. 
He v.'as -nath Millspaugh & Green ten years and in business 
for himself the remainder of the time. 

3IA1RICE A'. AAX SAXTROORD, Cohoes. New York, was 
born in Albany, New Yorlv, January 20, 1857, and has been 
in the coal business for sixteen years. 



GEORGE EDAVARD B. A^AX AVIGXER, Hyde Park-on- 
Hudson. New York, was born in Pleasant Valley, New York, 
Jlarch 7, 1869, and has been in the coal business for twelve 
years. 

D. B. A' AN ZANDT, Manager of Newman Bros., Rochester, 
New York, was born in Spencerport, New York, December 15, 
1880, and has been in the coal business eleven years. 

EUGENE AA'. A'EEDER. Schenectady, New York, was born 
in Sclienectady June 11, 1887. and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for four years, succeeding his fatlier, founder of the 
business, in 1914. 

AVM. S. AEEDER, President-Treasurer The Crane-Veeder 
Co., Schenectady, New York, was born in Sclienectady May 
27, 1864, and has been in the coal business fifteen years. 

CHAS. H. A'ERMILYA. Fleishm.anns, New York, was born 
in Fleislimanns Marcli 17, 1851, and has been in tlie coal 
business twenty-six years. He was formerly with tlie 
Delaware & Hudson Co. 

JAMES G. AA'ALRADT. Castleton-on-Hudson, New York, 
was born at Castleton-on-Hudson October 21, 1884, and has 
been in the coal business ten years. 

HARRY' R. AA'ARREN, Port Byron, New York, was born in 
Port Byron June 7, 1877. and has been in the retail coal 
business twenty-one years. He was formerly witli Ricliard 
Warren & Son. 

PLATT V. A^'ASHBURN of Coxsackie. New York, was 
born at Bacon Hill January 3, 1853, and has been in the 
coal business for six years. 

SAMUEL M. AA'ATTS of Watts & Tammany, Kingston, 
New York, \vas born in Moscow, Pennsylvania, October 29. 
1877, and has been in the coal business for fifteen years. He 
was formerly with the North River Coal Co. 

ALOXZO HEPBURX AVELCH, Dansville, New York, was 
born in Georgetown, District of Columbia, now Washington, 
November 4, 1868, and has been in tlie coal business thir- 
teen years, operating one of the oldest coal yards in the 
vicinity, having succeeded his uncle, Alonzo Tunstall Wood. 
Mr. Welch has also held the position of Vice President of 
the Retail Coal Dealers of Livingston County, New York, 
and lias been Secretary of tlie Dansville Board of Trade 
since June, 1916. 

HEXRY' A. AA'ELCH, President Welch Coal Co.. Niagara 
Falls, Ne^v York, was born in Niagara Falls and has been 
in the coal business for nineteen years. 

GEO. S. AA'ELLER, Newburgh, New York, was born in 
Newburgli July 30, 1871, and has been in the coal business 
twenty-eiglit years. He -was formerly partner in D. S. 
T\'aring & Co., and has held positions of honor in the coal 
associations. 

CHARLES A\'EXDEROTH of the Winfield Coal Co., Win- 
field, Long Island, New York, was born at Wilmore, Penn- 
sylvania, in 1870, and has been in tlie coal business for about 
nineteen years. 

F. J. AA'ESSEL, JR., Schenectady, New York, was born in 
Sclienectady, and has Ijeen in tlie coal business twenty-one 
.vears. 

GEO. H. W^ESTON, Port Henry, New York, was born in 
Port Henry February 26, 1887, and has been in tlie retail 
coal business seven years. 

HEBER E. WHEELER of Wheeler Bros., Holcomb, New 
York, -was born in North Bergen, New York, and has been 
in the coal business thirty-three years, operating a modern 
coal elevator. 

ROBERT H. AA'HEELER of Wheeler Bros., Holcomb, New 
York, was born in North Bergen, New York, and has been in 
the coal business for about thirty-three years, associated 
with his brother, Heber E. Wheeler. 

ROA' L. AA'HEELER of R. L. "^"heeler & Co., Middleport, 
New York, was born in Johnson Creek, New York, June 8, 
1882, and has been in the coal business for twenty years. 

GEO. B. AA'ILKIXS of Geo. W. Wilkins & Son. Kinderhook, 
Xew York, ^vas born in Kinderhook April 7, 1875, and has 
been in the coal business for about tw^enty-eight years, suc- 
ceeding his father, Geo. W. Wilkins, in 1913. 

AA'. AA'ILTOX AA'OOD, Huntington, New York, was born in 
Huntington, and lias been in tlie coal business twenty-nine 
years, tlie business having lieen established in 1840. 

AA'ILFRED AAOODHEAD, Partner and Active Manager of 
the firm of Robinson & "Woodhead, Canton, New York, was 
born in Birtsall, England, December 17, 1870, and has been 
in tlie coal liusiness seven years. Mr. Woodliead is -well 
known in his part of tlie state. He is now serving liis third 
term as Mayor, and prior to his present service he was 
Village Trustee four years. 

CHARLES o. AA"ORDEX, Manager Roberson-Fowler Coal 
Co., Binghamton, New York, was l)orn January 12, 1879, in 
Yatesville. Pennsylvania, and has been in the coal business 
three years. He is also interested in the Archbald Coal Co, 

TOAI S. A'/OTKY^XS, Troy. New York, was born in Troy, 
New York. April 29. 1882, and lias laeen in the coal business 
for forty-six years. 



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NORTH DAKOTA 



NOl^TIi DAKOTA shares with Illiuois and ALon- 
tana the honor of having the largest coal-hearing 
areas of any states in the Union. Lignite heels, 
ranging in thickness from four to seven feet, underlie 
almost the entire western half of the state and are esti- 
mated to cover an area of 35,000 square miles. Accord- 
ing to reports of the Xorth Dakota State Geological 
Survey at least one Ijed of seven feet or more in thick- 
ness is found in parts of 97 townships and 100 other 
townships contain beds of from four to seven feet in 
thickness. While the heavy moisture content has lim- 
ited the commercial development of the deposits in 
competition' with bitiiminous and sub-bituminous coals 
produced in territories east and west of North Dakota, 
the use locally has received considerable impetus 
through the transportation difficulties limiting produc- 
tion throughout the United States as a whole during 
1916-1917. 

The Fort Union, constituting the hard rocks imder- 
lying most of the western half of the state, is the most 
important lignite bearing formation of jSTorth Dakota. 
Beds here vary in thickness from a few inches to 30 
fepf. B(^]ow the Fort Union is the Lance formation, 
"\7hich contains Ijeds of lignite that, in general, are too 
thm to be considered, but in places may be classed as 
workalile." This formation is not known in the noi'th- 
ern part of the state, but covers a large area extending 
southward from Bismarck to the South Dakota state 
line and a small ai'ea in the southwestern corner of the 
state. The Turtle Mountains in Bottineau and Bolot'ce 
counties also contain a small area of coal-bearing rocks. 
"\Vhile the United States Geological Survey believes 
that considerable areas of sub-bituminous coal of usable 
(juality and workable thickness underlie portions of tha 
lignite areas of the state, no attempt has been made to 
develop the sub-bituminous beds. 

Lignite has probably Ijeen used locally since the time 
North Dakota was a territory, but government produc- 
tion statistics do not appear before 1884, Avhen an out- 
put of 35,000 tons was reported. Output followed a 
fluctuating upward tendency until 1899, when the pro- 



duction reached 98,809 tons. Figures since that date 

are as folloAvs: 

Year. Ton. Year. Ton. 

1900 129,883 1909 422,047 

1901 166,601 1910 399,041 

1902 226,511 1911 502,628 

1903 278,645 1912 499,480 

1904 271,928 1913 495,320 

1905 317,542 1914 506,685 

1906 305,689 1915 528,078 

1907 347,760 1916 634,912 

1908 320,742 

I'ndcr normal conditions over 98.4 per cent, of the 
North Dakota production is consumed within the state. 
In 1915 out of a total production of 528,078 tons 17,499 
tons ^vere consumed at the mines, 151,957 tons were 
sold locally and 350,513 tons shipped to various North 
Dakota points. Interstate shipments, confined to South 
Dakota, approximated 5,000 tons. The railroads took 
3,109 tons for station use. While the high moisture 
content and rapid disintegration characteristics of the 
lignite of North Dakota have militated against it, it 
has been successfully used in brick-burning and the 
manufacture of producer gas. Government tests of the 
possibilities of briquetting have been favorable. 

From the point of view of per capita consumption 
North Dakota is helow the average for the country. In 
1915 the state per capita was 1.83 tons of bituminous 
coal and .50 ton of anthracite, or a total of 2.33 tons, 
against the average of 2.82 tons.. The more widely 
scattered population, as compared with eastern states, 
drags down the square mile consumption to 24 tons, or 
99 tons rrnder the average for the country as a whole. 
During the year mentioned the total bituminous con- 
sumption was 1,340,884 tons; Pennsylvania anthracite 
receipts approximated 360,000 tons. Shipments of east- 
ern dock coal, totaling 553,000 tons, outranked the ton- 
nage of North Dakota used within the state, which was, 
as before stated, 519,969 tons. All-rail shipments re- 
ceived from other states were as follows: Illinois, 106,- 
■ 674 tons : Indiana, 3,255 ; Kentucky, 418 ; Montana, 
44.814; Pennsylvania, 380; Virginia, 15,391; West 
Virginia, 425, and Wyoming, 96,558 tons. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



NORTH DAKOTA 



W. A. BOI/rox, proprietor Langdon Ice & Fuel Yard 
at Lang-don. N'orth Dakota, was born in England and has 
been in the coal business for six years. 

■WALTER R. BOIVD of the Bond Lumber Co., Minot, North 
Dakota, was born February 14. 1871, in Mayville, New York, 
and has been in the coal business fifteen years. 

E. D. BOOKER, retail coal merchant of Pembina, North 
Dakota, was born March 17. 1869. at Farnam, Virginia, and 
has been in the coal business for nineteen years. 

DANIEL AV. BO\V'KER, Manager Wallace-Bowker Coal 
Co., Minot, North Dakota, was born February 27, 1872, 
in Crystal Lake. Iowa, and has been in the coal business 
six years. He has served as President of the Minot Coal 
Dealers' Association. 

OSCAR FRAXKLIiV BROOKS, partner in the Pioneer Fuel 
Co , Minot, North Dakota, was born July 3, 1890, at 
Logan. Illinois, and has been in the coal business for two 
years. He was formerly with the O'Gara Coal Co., Purity 
Coal Co., and Dakota Coal Co. 

F. E. BRO^VlV, lessee of the Lidstorm coal mine at Glen 
I'llin. North Dakota, was born in 1881 at Plattsburg, Wis- 
consin, and has been in the coal business for eight years. 

W. D. CAMPBELL,, retail coal merchant of Edgeley, North 
Dakota, was born March 21, 1857, at Listowell, Ontario, and 
has been in the coal business for ten years. 

JAMES A. CHESLEY, President Chesley Lumber & Coal 
Co., Fargo, North Dakota, was born in Fargo sixty-six j'ears 
ago, and has been in the coal business thirty-nine years. 

JOHN W. DEEMY, President National Briquetting Co.. 
Kenmare, North Dakota, was born August 30, 1879, in 
Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, and has been in the coal 
business twenty-one years. He was formerly w^ith the 
Maplewood Coal Co. and ShoU Bros, of Peoria, Illinois. This 
company owns a lignite mine and expects later to manu- 
facture briquets. Mr. Deemy is also Secretary and General 
Manager of the Peoples Coal Co., Kenmare. 

FREDERICK E. DEITERS, General Sales Agent Dakota 
Lignite Mine Co., Dickson, North Dakota, was born May 
8, 1886. at St. Paul, Minnesota, and has been in the coal 
business for ten years. Mr. Deiters is very popular in the 
coal trade. He was formerly connected with the Dakota 
Fuel Co. 

LAAVRENCE DUCKHORN, retail coal merchant of Mar- 
inouth, North Dakota, was born February 15, 1884, at Dick- 
inson, North Dakota, and has been in the coal business for 
two years. 

CHARLES M. ENGLISH of English & Pickard, Niagara. 
North Dakota, was born in 1860 in New York and has been 
in the coal business for eighteen years. 

CHARLES A. FINCH. President and Manager C. A. Finch 
Lumber Co., La Moure, North Dakota, was born April 
1. 1861, in Ontario, Canada, and has been in the coal business 
twenty years. Mr. Finch operates six retail yards handling 
coal and lumber. 

F. C. FISHER of Duckhorn & Fisher Coal & Transfer 
Co. of Marmouth, North Dakota, was born in Boston, 
Massachusetts, July 15, 1892, and has been in the coal 
business for three years. 

GEORGE GAME, JR., retail coal merchant of Jamestown, 
North Dakota, was born September 19, 1892, in Jamestown 
and has been in the coal business for eleven years. 



JAMES E. HARMON. Manager Cash Feed & Fuel Store, 
Minot. North Dakota, was born August 16, 1876, In Minot 
and lias been in the coal business six years. 

MACK HINDRICKS, Manager Foxholm Coal Co., Foxholm, 
Nortli Dakota, was born April 10, 1873, at Chatham, Ontario, 
and has been in the coal business for sixteen years. 

J. ALBERT HUSEBYB, President Williston Coal & Ice Co., 
Williston, North Dakota, was born March 26, 1873, at De- 
corah, Iowa., and has been in the coal business for seven 
years. 

IRA C. JONES, proprietor Pioneer Fuel Co., Minot, North 
Dakota, was born November 4, 1859, in Minnesota, and has 
been in the coal business for two years. 

C. E. KNOX, proprietor of Knox Grain Co., Oakes, North 
Dakota, was born October 14, 1862, in Hudson, "Wisconsin, 
and lias been in the retail coal business twenty years. 

H. O. KUNZE, Manager and Treasurer H. O. Kunze Coal 
Co.. Havelock, North Dakota, has been in the coal business 
live years. He is associated with Fred S. Kunze. 

LAKE B. LATZER, retail coal merchant, Wahpeton, North 
Dakota, was born July 15, 1866, at Fond du Lac, "Wisconsin, 
and has been in the coal business for twelve years. He was 
formerly connected with the North "Western Fuel Co. 

NICHOLAS B. LCD01VESE, President and General Mana- 
ger of Black Diamond Coal Co., "Williston, North Dakota, 
was born October 6, 1881, at Hospers, Iowa, and has been in 
the coal business for five years. 

C. F. 3IASSINGHAM, wholesale and retail coal merchant 
of Mandan, North Dakota, was born in 1864 at Stockton, 
Minnesota, and has been in the coal business for six years. 

C. E. NUGENT, Secretary and Treasurer of Magill & Co., 
Fargo, North Dakota, is a native of Fargo and has been in 
the coal business thirteen years. 

O. S. ORR of O. S. Orr & Sons, Rugby, North Dakota, 
was born May 19, 1867, at Neilville, "Wisconsin, and has been 
in the coal business for twelve years. 

ALFRED "«\ PETERSON, President and Manager Cler- 
mont Coal Co., Haynes, North Dakota, was born Septem- 
ber 11, 1884, at Omaha, Nebraska, and has been in the 
coal business for ten years. Mr. Peterson settled in 
Haynes before the railroad was built as a pioneer In the coal 
industry in that locality. 

HALFDAN PETTERSON. retail coal merchant of Finley, 
North Dakota, was born June 17, at Bergen, Norway, ?,nd 
has been in the coal business for twelve years. 

\V. L. PICKARD of English & Pickard, Niagara, North 
Dakota, was born in 1858 on Manitou Island, Michigan, and 
has been in the coal business eighteen years. 

L. H. PIPER, General Manager Piper-Howe Lumber Co., 
Minot. North Dakota, was born August 9, 1888. in Mankato. 
Minnesota, and has been in the coal business ten years. 
This company no^v operates forty-seven retail yards. 

F. C. POTTER, Secretary, Treasurer and General Manager 
Crane-Johnson Co., Cooperstown, North Dakota, w^as born 
August 11, 1880. at Sanborn, North Dakota, and has been in 
the coal business for eighteen years. Mr. Potter has served 
as a Director of the Northwestern Retail Coal Dealers' Asso- 
ciation and the Northwestern Traffic and Service Bureau. 

HARRY L. SHERA\'OOD, General Manager Chesley Lum- 
ber & Coal Co., Fargo, North Dakota, w^as born September 
IS. 1878, in Renville County, Minnesota, and has been in the 
coal business for seventeen years. He started in with the 
Charles Belcher Lumber Co.. Bird Island, Minnesota. 



285 



OHIO 



WliETHEK the point of view be that of pro- 
duction or coiisnniption Ohio has a secure 
])lace among the leading states of the Union. 
Its output is fourth among the bituminous coal pro- 
ducers, while the great manufacturing enterprises that 
are possible in a large degree because of its own coal 
resources and its proximity to other large producing 
fields give it a consuming demand that under normal 
conditions exceeds the tonnage of bituminous coal used 
by the entire group of j^ew England states. Its record 
in this respect is exceeded only by those of Pennsyl- 
vania and Illinois. In addition to these local factors 
making for coal greatness the lower Lake Erie ports 
of Ohio are the clearing points through which the 
greater part of the vast water-borne tonnage supplying 
the jSTorthwest and Lake Michigan docks moves. 

The Ohio coal fields, which lie entirely within the 
eastern part of the state, are part of the Appalachian 
province. The original coal-bearing area in Ohio is 
estimated to have covered 12,600 square miles, but 
exhaustion has brought the workable territory con- 
siderably under that figure. The Ohio coal-hearing 
formations are known to contain at least sixteen differ- 
ent beds. Development of ten of these has been, for 
the most part, confined to small mines su]3plying local 
trade. The remaining six beds, however, have been 
worked upon a large scale. These beds have been classi- 
fied as follows : No. 1, Sharon block ; No. 2, Wellston ; 
No. 5, Lower Kittanning; No. 6, Middle Kittanning; 
No. 7, ITpper Freeport; No. 8, Pittsburgh and the 
Pomeroy and Meigs Creek l^eds. 

Coal No. 1 is mined in the northeastern caunties of 
the state, more particularly in Summit, Stark and Ma- 
honing counties and to a lesser degree in Portage coun- 
ty. "This coal,'"' says the United States Geological Sur- 
vey, "is very pure and is used principally in making 
pig iron, for which it is used in its raw state in the 
blast furnaces. It is dr}^, free burning and does not 
coke. m\s a domestic fuel it is known as Massillon coal 
and is highly prized for household use in Cleveland and 
other cities on the lakes."'" 

Coal No. 2, the Wellston bed, which lies above the 
l)lock or No. 1, furnishes the cliief output of the coun- 
ties in the southAvestern ]')avt of the state. It is from 
this bed that the well-known Jackson Hill coal is pro- 
duced. 



Coal No. 5, the Lower Kittanning, underlies an ex- 
tensive area from Mahoning county in the northeast to 
Lawrence countj^ in the southwest, but "it is not ex- 
tensively mined, being of workable thickness and qual- 
ity in but a few places." The principal center of pro- 
duction is in Lawrence county. 

Coal No. 6, the Middle Kittanning, is the celebrated 
Hocking Valley product mined so extensively in Ath- 
ens, Hocking and Perry counties. Like the No. 1 coal, 
"it is free-burning, non-coking and popular as a blast 
furnace fuel, for which purjjose it is used raw." It is 
also highly regarded for general steam and domestic 
uses. 

Coal No. 7, the Upper Freeport, is mined in Muskin- 
gum, Gallia, Lawrence and Guernsey counties and in 
})orLions of Perry county. Although a coking coal it is 
not so used because of its sulphur content, but is mar- 
keted as a high grade steam product. 

Pittsburgh No. 8 coal in Ohio is part of the bed 
underlying large areas in Pennsylvania, Maryland and 
West Virginia and Ohio and is considered by the United 
States Geological Survey as the most extensive and 
valuable bed in North America. The Ohio portion of 
this bed is estimated to cover an area in excess of 1.000 
square miles. The coal is mined on a large scale in 
Belmont, Jefferson, Harrison and Noble counties and, 
to a lesser degree, in Athens, Gallia, Gueruse}^, Meigs, 
Monroe and Morgan counties. 

The Pomeroy bed lies from 20 to 55 feet above the 
Pittsburgh No. 8 and is geologically correlated with the 
Redstone of Pennsylvania. The center of production 
is in Meigs county, although some coal of this bed is 
also mined in Gallia and Lawrence counties. The Meigs 
Creek coal, which lies from 80 to 100 feet above the 
No. 8, is correlated with the Sewickley bed of western 
Pennsylvania. "It is workable in portions of ]\Iorgan, 
Noble, Washington, Muskingum, Harrison, Belmont 
and ]\Ionroe counties, and will ultimately prove a most 
valuable reserve, though its variable thickness and lower 
grade subordinate it to the Pittsburgh and its exploita- 
tion is at present local and generally on a small scale." 

The fact that one of the early Ohio reports gives the 
state a production of 119.952 tons in 1838 makes it 
probable that operations Avere carried on before that 
date. Estimated production statistics credit the state 
with a stead V orowth until 1S.")8, when the estimate made 



286 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



ISIKI place the 
production had 



■was an even luillioii. Cciisus li<;ures loi 
production at Lv^fioaiOO tons. In 1S67 
reached 2.09-3,334 tons and in 18T3 5.315,294 tons. Pro- 
duction records were uuevcn until 1887 M'hen the out- 
put was 10,300.708 tons. Detailed figures since that 
date are as follows: 
Year. Ton. 

1888 10,910,951 

1889 9,976,787 

1890 11,494,506 

1891 12,868,683 

1892 13,562,927 

1893 13,253,646 

1894 11,909,856 

1895 13,355,806 

1896 12,875,202 

1897 12,196,942 

1898 14,516,867 

1899 16,500,270 

1900 18,988,150 

1901 20,943,807 

1902 23,519,894 



Year. Ton. 

1903 24,838,103 

1904 24,400,220 

1905 25,552,950 

1906 27,731,640 

,1907 32,142,419 

1908 26,270,639 

1909 27,939,641 

1910 34,209,668 

1911 30,759,986 

1912 34,528,727 

1913 36,200,527 

1914 18,843,115 

1915 22,434,691 

1916 34,728,219 



Study of Ohio production and distrihiition figures for 
1915 must take cognizance of the fact that conditions 
were subnormal because of the disasterous effects of the 
1914-1915 strikes. During the year in question nearly 
SO per cent, of the output was consrmed within the 
state or sold to the railroad companies. About 11 per 
cent, of the output was shipped to the lower Lake Erie 
ports for trans-shipment to the Northwest, Canada and 
Tjake Michigan docks. All-rail shipments to Canada 
accoimted for 60,811 tons, while approximately 15,000 
tons were shipped to tidewater. This latter movement 
must, of course, be considered an offshoot of the ab- 
normal conditions further east as a result of the present 
Great War. In detail the Ohio distribution for the year 
Avas as follows: 
Used in Ohio: Ton. 

Used at mines for steam and heat 465,701 

Sold to local trade, not shipped 1,916,188 

Made into coke at mines 1,217 

Shipped to Ohio points 7,280,390 



Shipped to other States: 

Illinois 287,561 

Indiana 350,251 

Iowa 1,666 

Kentucky and South Dakota 371 

Michigan 1,453,869 

Minnesota 65,094 

New York 115,221 

Pennsylvania 17,075 

West Virginia 15,500 

Wisconsin 10,428 

Total shipped to other states, all rail 2,317,036 

Shipped to Great Lakes for cargo 2,482,615 

Exported by rail 60,811 

Shipped to tidewater 15,000 

Used by railroads 7,895,733 

Total production 22,434,691 

The heavy consumption of bituminous coal for manu- 
facturing and domestic purposes within the state brings 
the per capita up to. 4.09 tons, which is more than dou- 
ble the country average. Per capita anthracite con- 
sumption^ .12 ton, was approximately 15 per cent, of 
the anthracite average of .78 ton, but the Ohio total av- 
erage of 4.21 tons is within .02 ton of being 50 per cent, 
greater than the average for the United States as a 
whole. The square mile consumption, 560 tons, is over 
four and one-half times the country average of 123 tons. 

The total receipts, exclusive of railroad and bunker 
fuel, were 22,668,036 tons. In detail the sources of 
supply for the year were as follows : 

Source. Ton. Source. Ton. 

Illinois 3,036 Bunker fuel 1,461,593 

Kentucky 1,359,813 

Maryland 37,305 Net bituminous 

Ohio 9,663,496 ' land con- 
Pennsylvania . . . 7,197,013 sumption . . . 22,368,036 

Tennessee 23,974 Pennsylvania an- 

Virginia 169,432 thracitre 300,000 

West Virginia... 5,375,560 

■ Total 22,668,036 

23,829,629 



Total used in Ohio 9,663,496 



287 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





COL,. E. O. DAXA, Cincinnati, Ohio, 

President of The Campbells Creek Coal Co., was born in 
Vanhornesville, New York, February 22, 1861, and has been 
in the coal business thirty-eight years, all the time with his 
present company. 



S. F. DANA, Cineir.nati, Ohio, 

Chairman of the Board of Directors of The Campbells Creek 
Coal Co., was born in Otsego County, New York, in 1836, 
and had been in the coal business from 186S up to the time 
of his death, August 3, 1918. The company with which he 
was so long' associated is unique in that it is the only one 
of the old-time West Virg-inia organizations still intact and 
in active service. 





ROBERT P. GIM-HAM, ( inrinnati, Ohio, 

Vice President and General Manager of The Campbells 
Creek Coal Co., was born in Cincinnati January 9, 1854, 
and has been in the coal business nearly half a century. He 
was formerly with George W. C. Johnston. John Barrett, 
Moulton & Barrett, but has been with the present company 
forty-three years. 



MEI.VIN EBERHARDT I.AIVIV, Cincinnati, Ohio, 

Manager of Sales The Campbell's Creek Coal Co., 918 Union 
Central Building, Cincinnati, has been in the coal business 
over a quarter of a century. He organized The Queen City 
Coal Co. of Cincinnati and for fifteen years was its Treas- 
urer and General Manager. His experience and well-known 
ability especially fitted him for his position as Manager of 
Sales with his present company, which position he assumed 
six years ago. 



288 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 




EDWARD H. DOYLE, Cincinnati, Ohio, 

Treasurer and General Manager Middle West Coal Co., was born 
in Butler County, Ohio, in October, 1864, and has Ijeen in the coal 
l)usiness twenty years. He is also interested in the North East 
Coal Co. and Soutli East Coal Co., mining companies whose out- 
puts are handled by the Middle AVest Coal Co. 

Mr. Doyle is highly respected and has many friends in the 
coal trade. 



289 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





CHARLES GROA ERMAA BLAKE, Cincinnati, Ohio, 

President The C. G. Blake Co., was born in Calvert County, 
Maryland, February 14, 1847, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness over thirty years. Mr. Blake is interested in several 
other coal companies in the New River field in West Virginia. 



FRANK ELLISOIV, Cincinnati. Ohio, 

General Manager The C. G. Blake Co., was born in Manches- 
ter, Ohio, March 28, 1865, and has been in the coal business 
thirty-one years. He is also' interested in several West 
Virginia mines. 





WILLIAM BURLINGHAM, Cincinnati, Ohio, 

President Burlingham Coal Co., was born in Baltimore, 
Maryland, October 15, 1879. and has been in the coal busi- 
ness twenty-two years. He was formerly with the Lens 
Creek Colliery Co., High Carbon Fuel Co., and was the first 
Western Manager Chesapeake & Ohio Coal & Coke Co. 



PRENTICE H. BURLINGHAM, Cincinnati, Ohio, 

Vice President and General Manager Burlingham Coal Co., 
was born in Baltimore, Maryland, October 14, 1881, and has 
been in the coal business fifteen years. He was formerly 
Western Manager of the Chesapeake & Ohio Coal & Coke Co. 



290 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





EDWARD P. AVENT, JR., Cincinnati, Ohio, 

Western Manager Bewley-Darst Coal Co , was born in Ver- 
sailles, Kentucky, in 1889, and has been in the coal business 
six years. 



ERNEST PRANK BARDIIV, Cincinnati, Oliio, 

President MacBard Coal Co., was born in Black Creek, North 
Carolina, March 23, 1881, and has been in the coal business 
seventeen years. For many years he was Western Manager 
and General Western Manager of the Chesapeake & Ohio 
Coal & Coke Co., resigning the latter position to become 
General Sales Manager of the Wyatt Coal Co. 



RALPH HAI,I, BARTLIT, Cincinnati, 

Vice President and Treasurer Darby 
Coal Sales Co., has been in the coal 
business seventeen years. He is also 
President of the Old Virginia Coal Co. 




DORRIXGTOX CAVE, Cincinnati, Ohio, 

Cincinnati Manager Norfolk & Chesapeake Coal Co., was 
born in Barnwell, South Carolina, January 22, 1871, and has 
been in the coal business sixteen years. He was formerly 
with Edwin F. Daniels & Co. and Superior Coal Co., Chicago, 
Illinois. 



291 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





HALI,STEAD E. CHRISTMAN, Cincinnati, Ohio. 

Cincinnati Manager Southern Coal & Coke Co.. was born in 
Utica, Ne'w York, November 24, 1877, and has been in the 
coal business six years. He was formerly with the Atlantic 
Ice & Coal Corp., Atlanta, Georgia. 



CAI..VI1V HOLMES, Cincinnati, Oliio, 

A^ice President Blue Diamond Coal Co., was born in Charles- 
ton, South Carolina, June 21, 1878, and has been in the coal 
business twenty-three years. He Avas formerly with the 
R. O. Campl)ell Coal Co. and Bewley-Darst Coal Co. 





BENJAMIN NEWTON FORD, Cincinnati, OIilo, 

Vice President The Matthew Addy Co., w^as born in Bour- 
bon County, Kentucky, June 13, 1861, and has been in tlii» 
coal business four years. 



P. H. HENRY, Cincinnsiti, Ohio, 

President Kentenia Coal Sales Co., was born in Port Hope, 
Ontario, Canada, January 17, 1875, and has been in the coal 
business twelve years. He was formerly Manager of the 
Manufacturers & Consumers Coal Co., Fayette, West Vir- 
ginia, and until May 1, 1918, Western Manager of the West 
Virginia Coal Co. 



292 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





KUPER HOOD, Cincinnati, Ohio, 

General Manager Houston Coal Co., wan born in Staunton. 
Virginia. November 23, 1874, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness eleven years. He was formerly with the Big Hill Coal 
Co.. Kentucky Fuel Co. and the R. O. Campbell Coal Co. 



KRXEST J. HOAVB, Cincinnati, Ohio, 

Manager Pocahontas Fuel Co., was born in Kenton, Ohio, 
April 11, 1872, and has been in the coal business twenty-one 
years. He is President of the Welch Coal Co. and interested 
in the Welch Coal & Coke Co. and Hemphill Colliery Co.. 
Welch, West Virginia. He was formerly ■with the Boomer 
Coal & Coke Co., Sunday Creek Coal Co., Oregon Coal Co.. 
and the C. M. Anderson Coal Co. He served as President of 
the Cincinnati Coal Exchange of the Cincinnati Chamber of 
Commerce in 1915. 





BERNARD LEE HUTCHIXSOX. Cincinnati, Ohio, 

Cincinnati Manager Hutchinson Coal Co.. was born in 
Beechwood, West Virginia, January 12, 1890, and has been 
in the coal business eight years. He is also General Mana- 
ger of the Empire Fuel Co. and Vice President of the Rich 
Creek Coal Co. For five years he was with the Logan 
Mining Co. 



D. H. JEXKS, Cincinnati, Ohio, 

Secretary and General Manager Producers Coal Co., was born 
October 30. 1882. in Raleigh, North Carolina, and has been 
in the coal business twenty-one years. He was formerly 
with Castner, Curran & Bullitt and The Thacker Co. Mr. 
.Tenks organized the Producers Coal Co. in 1907. 



293 



COAL MEN OF AAIERICA 





W. U. KERNOHAN, Cincinnati, Ohio, 

Cincinnati Manager for M. A. Hanna & Co., has been in the 
business for twenty-two years, formerly with the Kanawha 
Fuel Co., the Carbon Fuel Co., the Zeigler Coal Co. and the 
Pocahontas Coal Sales Co. He was born at Perintown, Ohio, 
September 10, 1879. Mr. Kernohan has served as Vice Presi- 
dent of the Chicago Coal Merchants' Association and is very 
popular in the trade. 



WILLIAM J. MAGEE, Cincinnati, Ohio, 

Manager and Treasurer The Carbon Fuel Co., was born in 
Owensville, Ohio, January 18, 1870, and has been in the coal 
business twenty years. He is also Secretary and Treasurer 
of the Brier Creek Coal Co. He "was formerly with the 
Chesapeake & Ohio Fuel Co. and the Kanawha Fuel Co., 
both firms now out of existence. He was the first President 
of the Cincinnati Coal Exchange. 





WILLIAM ERNST MINOR, Cincinnati, Oliio, 

Vice President and General Manager Reliance Coal & Coke 
Co., was born in Cincinnati February 10, 1878, and has been 
in the coal business six years. He is a Director of the Hat- 
field Coal Co., Plymouth Coal Co., Hickey Transportation 
Co., Blue Grass Coal Co., and several others. He was for- 
merly witli the Standard Oil Co. 



THOMAS R. MORGAN, Cincinnati, Ohio, 

Sales Manager Eaton, Rhodes & Co., was born in KnoxvUle, 
Tennessee, November 10, 1863, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness twenty-one years. He is Treasurer of Nats Creek Min- 
ing Co. He was formerly Sales Manager of the Kentucky 
Block Cannel Coal Co. 



294 



COAL AIKN OF AMERICA 





CHARLES R. MORIARTY, Cincinnati, Oliio, 

Of the Cabin Creek Consolidated Coal Co., was born in Indi- 
anapolis, Indiana, August 22, 1869, and has been in the 
coal business thirteen years. He has held many positions 
of honor in various coal associations. 



C. AVILLIAM POYSELL, Cincinnati, Ohio, 

General Manager The Marmet-Halm Coal & Coke Co., ■was 
born in Urbana, Ohio, February 19, 1868, and has been In 
the coal business sixteen years. Mr. Poysell is also Presi- 
dent of the Consumers Coal & Supply Co., Covington, Ken- 
tucky, and Sales Manager of The Otto Marmet Coal & Min- 
ing Co., as well as Receiver and Manager of the Marmet 
Coal Co. He was formerly with the Smokeless Fuel Co. 





W. J. QUIIV, Cincinnati, Oliio, 

Secretary Logan & Hazard Coal Co., Cincinnati, was born 
in Girardville, Pennsylvania, April 7, 1894, and has been in 
the coal business six years. This company succeeded the 
Ruffner Coal Co. Mr. Quin is also interested in the Carbon 
Hill Collieries Co. He was formerly with the "Winifrede Coal 
Co. and New River & Pocahontas Consolidated Coal Co. 



JL'LIUS B. RATTERMAA", Cincinnati, Oliio, 

Manager Blue Ash Coal Co., was born in Cincinnati August 
16, 1878, and has been in the coal business seventeen years. 
He was formerly with the White Oak Coal Co. and Con- 
tinental Coal Corp. 



295 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 




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JAMES A. REILL.Y, Cincinnati, Ohio, 

Manager The Queen City Coal Co. and General Manager 
Southern branches of Pittsburgh Coal Co., -was born In Cin- 
cinnati September 25, 1875, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for the past twentj^-eight years, starting- with the 
Queen City Coal Co. when a. boy. Mr, Reilly takes an active 
part in civic and inc^ustrial activities of the city, including 
the coal associations. He has served as President of the 
Cincinnati Coal Exchange, yice President of the Retail Coal 
Dealei's Credit Association, and is Vice President of the 
Cincinnati Chamlier of Commerce. 



THOMAS H. RICHAHDSON, Cincinnati, Ohio, 

Manager The. Consolidation Coal Co., was born in Glendale, 
Ohio. He was . formerly Western Manager of the Youghi- 
ogheny & Ohio Coal Co. and has served as President of the 
Cincinnati Coal Exchange of the Cincinnati Chamber of 
Commerce. 





AVILLIAM P. SLAUGHTER, Cincinnati, Ohio, 

President Glen Alum Fuel Co. and Pocahontas Coal Sales 
Co., v/as born in Richmond, Virginia, and has been in the 
coal business a quarter of a century. He is also General 
Sales Manager of the Thacker Coa) Mining Co. He was for- 
inerly with the Pocahontas Coal Co. and the Thacker 
Coal Co. 



O. O. SMITH, Cincinnati, Ohio, 

District Manager The Sun Coal Co., was born in Pomeroy, 
Ohio, November 5, 1876, and has been in the coal business 
eighteen years. He is the owner of the Richmond Coal Co., 
Richmond, Indiana. He was formerly with the Chesapeake 
& Ohio Coal & Coke Co. and the Bewley-Darst Coal Co. 



296 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





JOHN AV. STEVENSON, Ciiioiiiiiati. Ohio, 

Of John "V\^. Stevenson Coal Sales Co., successors to Steven- 
son. Brown & Co.. was born in Cincinnati January 31, 1S93, 
and has been actively engagrecl in the distributive end of the 
coal business since leaving- school. Mr. Stevenson, on 
October 10, 1917, purchased Mr. Brown's interest in Steven- 
son, Brown & Co. He is a grandson of the former John 
W. Stevenson, ex-Governor of Kentucky. 



CHARLES A. TRIBBEY, C inoiiiiiati, Ohio, 

President Tribbey Coal Co., was born in Blanchester, Ohio, 
in 1874, and has been in the coal business fifteen years. He 
is also Secretary and Treasiarer of the Midland Mining Co. 
He was formerly with the Consolidation Coal Co., C. G. 
Blake Coal Co., and White Oak Coal Co. He has been Vice 
President of tlie Cincinnati Coal Exchang-e. 




CLARENCE E. TUTTL,E, Cincinnati. Ohio, 

Vice President and General Manager Tuttle Coal Co., Presi- 
dent Riverside Coal Co., and Vice President and General 
Manager Guthrie Coal Mining Co., was born May 17, 1884, 
in Hastings, Minnesota, and has been in the coal business 
fifteen years. Mr. Tuttle was formerly connected with the 
Lehigh Valley Coal Co., the Northern Coal & Dock Co., 
Berwind Fuel Co., and the Carnegie Fuel Co. 



LEWIS M. WEBB, Cincinnati. Ohio. 

President and Treasurer Webb Fuel Co. 
and Webb Coal Mining Co., was born in 
Nashville, Tennessee, May 1, 1875, ami 
has been in the coal business nine 
vears. 



297 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 




GAYLE E. WEBER, Cincinnati, Ohio, 

Of Cumberland Coal Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, was 
Newport, Kentucky, Marcli 8, 1S87. 



born in 



CHESTER M. AIVDERSORT, Columbus. 

"Western Sales Manager Elk River Coal 
& Lumber Co., Columbus. Ohio, was 
born in Gallon, Ohio, May 16, 1871, and 
has been in the coal business twenty- 
four years. He was formerly connected 
■with the Somers Coal Co., General 
Hocking Coal Co., Sunday Creek Coal 
Co.. Boomer Coal & Coke Co., and The 
C. M. Anderson Coal Co. 



BARTOW CHARLES TUCKER, 
Cleveland, Ohio, 

President Lake City Coal Co., Jean 
Coal Mining Co., and Brilliant Coal 
Mining Co., Cleveland, was born Sep- 
tember 21, 1873, in Cleveland. He 
was formerly Vice President of the 
Lorain & "West Virginia Railway. Mr. 
Tucker represents many interests in 
the lake transportation business, and 
is active as a Director in a number of, 
Cleveland industries. 




H. L,. PORSTBAUER, Cleveland, Ohio. 

"With the Lake City Coal Co. 



298 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





ROSAVELIi S. PRICE, Clevelaml. Ohio. 

President Lake Erie Coal Co., Inc., Cleveland, Ohio, was born 
in Newark. New York, in 1870, and has been in the coal 
business twenty-one years. He was previously connected 
with the Underbill Coal Co., Stickney-Price Coal Co., and the 
Richland Coal Co. 



GEORGE D. ROWIiAND, Cleveland, Ohio, 

President and General Manager The Coal Ridge Mining Co., 
Vice President and General Manager The Apex Coal Co., and 
Vice President and Secretary Lake Erie Coal Co., all of 
Cleveland, was born in Plymouth, Ohio, in 1870, and has- 
been in the coal business twenty years. He is also inter- 
ested in the Richland Coal Co. 



F. G. DANIELSON, Olin.stead Fails, 

Sales Manager Lake Erie Coal Co., 
Cleveland, Ohio, was born in Chicago. 
Illinois, January 16, 1883, and has been 
in the coal business sixteen years. He 
was formerly with the Youghiogheny 
& Ohio Coal Co. and the Cleveland & 
"Western Coal Co. 




GEORGE A. HUGHES, Cleveland. Ohio, 

Treasurer Lake Erie Coal Co., Inc., and Secretary Coal 
Ridge Mining Co., Cleveland, was born in Aurora, Ontario, 
in 1876, and has been in the coal business twenty-five years. 
He was formerly with the D. J. Stickney Coal Co. 



299 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





JOHN N. GELLATLY, Cleveland. Ohio. 

President and General Manag-er Kanawha Rail & River Coal 
Co., Cleveland, was born in Orange, New Jersey, Novemlier 
5, 1S78, and has been in the coal business eighteen years. 
He was previously connected witli the H. L. Herbert Co., 
prominent New York retailers at one time, and J. N. Gel- 
latly & Co. of Cleveland. 



WALTER A. SMITH, Cleveland. Ohio. 

Secretary and Treasurer Kanawha Rail & River Coal Co., 
Cleveland, Ohio, was born in Jersey City. New Jersey, Feb- 
ruary 27, 1884, and has been In the coal business ten years, 
part of the time with J. N. Gellatly & Co. 





JOHN SMINCK VAN EPPS. CleveLind, Ohio, 

Western Sales Agent The Millspaugh & Green Co., with 
headquarters at 1013 Citizens Building, Cleveland, was born 
in Cleveland August 13, 1855, and has been in the coal 
business thirty-nine years. He is also Secretary of the 
Trevorton Colliery Co., Trevorton, Pennsylvania. Earlier 
business connections were the Delaware & Hudson Co. and 
the Hudson Coal Co Mr. Van Epps, because of his interest 
in all trade movements and his personality, has probably 
as wide a aircle of friends and acquaintances as any man in 
the coal trade. 



LESLIE I. VAN EPPS, Cleveland, Ohio, 

Secretary and Treasurer The Van Epps Coal Co., 1450 Rocke- 
feller Building, Cleveland, was born in Cleveland May 9. 
1883, and has been in the coal business ten years, part of 
the time as superintendent of the anthracite mine of the 
Tre^•orton Colliery Co. at Trevorton, Pennsylvania. The 
name of Van Epps is a well-known one in anthracite circles. 



300 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





HAROLD P. ARNT, Cleveland, Ohio, 

Trfasurer and General Manag-er The Stillwater Coal Mining 
Co. and President Indian Hill Coal Co.. Rockefeller Build- 
ing-, Cleveland, was born in Denmark, October 4, 1S69, and 
has been in the coal business twelve years. Mr. Arnt is 
influential In Ohio coal minin.g circles. 



ROY S. BAIN, Cleveland, Ohio, 

Secretary and General Sales Manager of the Central Coal 
Mining Co. and Sales Manager and a Director of the River 
Ridge Coal Co.. Cleveland, was born in Cleveland, November 
15, 1889, and has been fifteen years in the coal business. His 
experience, while with the Pittsburgh Coal Co., Glens Run 
Coal Co.. and as Sales Agent of the Lake Erie Coal Co., 
well qualifies him for his present position. 





LLTE HORMCKEL,, Cleveland, Ohio, 

President and General Manager Anchor Coal Co., Cleveland, 
was born in Toungstown, Ohio, and has been in the coal 
business for over forty years. As a youth he was employed 
by the C. H. & W. C. Andrews Co. and the Todd-Stambaugh 
Co. in the Mahoning Valley. Later he was connected with 
the Youghiogheny Gas Coal Co., Panhandle Coal Mining Co., 
the Pittsburgh Coal Co., the Monongahela River Consoli- 
dated Coal & Coke Co., and the M. A. Hanna Co. of Cleve- 
land. 



FRANK M. KIRK, Cleveland, Ohio, 

Owner of the Frank M. Kirk Coal Co., 1216 Swetland Build- 
ing, Cleveland. Ohio, was born in Jackson, Ohio, November 
5, 1863, and has been in the coal business twenty-six years. 
He is also President and Treasurer of the Kirk-Dunn Coal 
Co. and the Beaver Coal Co. and Cleveland agent for the 
Crozer-Pocahontas Co. of Philadelphia. Mr. Kirk was for- 
merly connected with the Hazel-Kirk Coal Co. and the Kirk- 
"\\'oods Coal Co. 



301 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





I.AA^'RENCE H. LANG, Clevelaiid, Oliio, 

Secretary The Stillwater Coal Mining Co., Rockefeller Build- 
ing-, Cleveland, was born in Cleveland July 29, 1886, and has 
been in the coal business fifteen years. He began at the age 
of fifteen with the Cuyahoga Coal Co., went to the Steiner 
Coal Co. in 1905, and was with that company eight years. 
Mr. Lang is also President of the Quaker Coal Co. 



DOrGLAS W. MILLER, Cleveland, Ohio, 

Secretary and Treasurer Rail & River Coal Co., Cleveland, 
Ohio, was born in Red Hook, New York, May 25, 1865, and 
has been in the coal business five years. 





CLARENCE L. THOMPSON, Cleveland, Ohio, 

Sales Agent for M. A. Hanna & Co., Cleveland, Ohio, was 
born in Erie, Pennsylvania, January 21, 1862, and has been 
previously with R. W. Russell, R. J. Saltsman, retailers, 
Erie, 1879 to 1885; the W. L. Scott Coal Co., 1885 to 1905, 
and the Susquehanna Coal Co., 1905 to 1917; and M. A. Hanna 
& Co. He entered the coal business as an office boy 
December 21, 1879, and May 1, 1885, went with the W. L. 
Scott Coal Co., and continued up to January 1, 1905; from 
January 1, 1909, to 1917, General Western Agent Susque- 
hanna Coal Co., and then with M. A. Hanna & Co. 



\I'^HITNEY WARNER, Cleveland, Ohio, 

Partner in the firm of W. H. Warner & Co., Union National 
Bank Buiding, Cleveland, Ohio, and also financially inter- 
ested in operating companies in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West 
Virginia and Kentucky, was born in Mineral Ridge, Ohio, 
June 3, 1878, and has been in the coal business twenty years. 
Mr. Warner is a well-known and progressive operator. 



302 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





JESSE G. WOLFE, Cleveland, Ohio, 

Western Manager of the Hutchinson Coal Co., 942 Rocke- 
feller Building-, Cleveland, Ohio, was born in Grafton, West 
Virginia, December 19, 1881, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for seventeen years. He was previously with the Davis 
Coal & Coke Co.. L. B. Brydon & Co., and the Grafton Coal 
& Coke Co. Mr. Wolfe is well known and has many friends 
in the trade. 



WALTER R. ^VOOnFORD, Cleveland, Ohio, 

President of the Rail & River Coal Co.. Cleveland, Ohio, 
was born at Dunkirk, New York, November 9, 1857, and has 
been in the railroad and coal business for many years. Mr. 
W^oodford is a prominent factor in operating circles. He was 
formerly in the railroad service and has been President of 
the Wheeling, Lake Erie & Pittsburgh Coal Co. and Midvale- 
Goshen Coal Co., Vice President of the Pittsburgh Coal Co., 
and a Director of various coal companies. Mr. Woodford 
was for two years President of the Pittsburgh Vein Oper- 
ators' Association. 



JAMES H. WOODS, Cleveland, Ohio, 

Manager for the Pittsburgh Coal Co., 
Rockefeller Building, Cleveland, Ohio, 
and also Secretary of the Anchor Coal 
Co.. was born at Warren, Ohio, Janu- 
ary 12, 1870. and has been in the coal 
business for twenty years. He was 
formerly associated with the Kirk- 
Woods Coal Co. and the Hazel Kirk 
Gas & Coal Co. Mr. Woods is widely 
known and one of the most popular 
men in the coal trade of the middle 
west. 




HOMER C. GILL, Colunibu.s, Ohio, 

Well-known retail coal merchant of Columbus, Ohio. Mr. 
Gill has always taken an active interest in bettering coal 
trade conditions and is Prepidont of the Michigan-Ohio- 
Indiana Coal Association. 



303 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





E. M. POSTOX, Columl)us, Ohio, 

President New York Coal Co., was born in Nelsonville. Ohio, 
October 26, 1861, and has been in tlie coal business eighteen 
years. He is also President of several subsidiary companies 
controlled by the New York Coal Co. He was formerly 
President of the Slater-Poston Coal Co. and the Dover Coal 
Co. 



JOHN A. TEEGARDIN, Columbus, Ohio, 

Vice President New York Coal Co.. Columbus, in charg-e of 
sales, was born in Pickaway Countj-. Ohio, in 1879, and 
entered the coal business in 1901 as salesman for The Slater- 
Poston Coal Co. In 1906 he was cippointed Northern Sales 
-Agent of the New York Coal Co., with headquarters at 
Detroit. Michig-an, and in 1908 was appointed General Sales 
.\gent for the same company at Columbus, Ohio. In 191.5 
he was elected Vice President of the company in charge 
of sales, which position he still occupies. 



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CLARENCE W. THOMPSON, Columbus, Ohio, 

Secretary and Treasurer New York Coal Co., was born in 
.N'ashport, Ohio. June 21, 1872, and has been in the coal 
business eighteen years. He is also interested in several 
of the company's subsidiary companies. He was formerly 
with the Slater-Poston Coal Co. and the Dover Coal Co. 



E. F. MoMANIGAI,, Columbus. Ohio, 

Associated with the New York Coal Co. 



304 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





EDMUND A. COLE. Columbus, Ohio, 

Of Edmund A. Cole & Co., was born in Barnesville, Ohio, No- 
vember 8, 1854, and has been in the coal business forty-two 
years. He was formerly with the Straitsville Central Min- 
ing- Co., Columbus & Hocking- Coal & Iron Co., President 
Hocking- Valley Coal Co., Treasurer General Hocking- Coal 
Co., and President Sunday Creek Co. 



JOHN RtJSSEl, COLE, Columbus, Ohio, 

Of Edmund A. Cole & Co., was born in Columbus January 
21, 1886, and has been in the coal business ten years. 





FREDERIC G. HATTON, Columbus, Ohio, 

President Hatton, Brown & Co., was born in Delta, Ohio, 
March 13, 1883, and has been in the coal business seventeen 
years. He is also President of the Blue Ridge Coal Co. He 
wa.s formerly with the Sunday Creek Coal Co. and the 
Clinchfield Coal Corp. 



AVILLIAM 31. BROWN, Roanoke, Virginia, 

Vice President of Hatton, Brown & Co., Roanoke, Virginia, 
was born in Wilmington, Ohio, February 26, 1881, and has 
been in the coal business fifteen years. Mr. Brown was for- 
merly with the Sunday Creek Coal Co. and later Secretary to 
the President of the Clinchfield Coal Corp. Mr. Brown is in 
charge of the Roanoke office of this company, while Mr. Hat- 
ton makes his headquarters at Columbus. 



305 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





HARRY H. HEINER, Columbus, Ohio, 

President The Maynard Coal Co., was born in Washington, 
Ohio, February 14, 1869. and has been in the coal business 
twenty-three years. He is also Interested in the Superior 
Coal & Dock Co. and the Daniel Boone Coal Co. He was 
formerly with the Big- Mountain Mining Co. and the Sunday 
Creek Coal Co. 



GEORGE HOMER BARKER, Columbus, Ohio, 

Vice President and Treasurer The Maynard Coal Co., -was 
born in Hocking County, Ohio, July 27. 1873, and has been 
in the coal business twenty-one years. He is also Vice 
President and Treasurer of the Daniel Boone Coal Co. and 
the Superior Coal & Dock Co. He was formerly with May- 
nard Brothers, prominent operators in the Hocking District 
of Ohio. Mr. Barker was one of the founders and the first 
Treasurer of the National Coal Association, Washington. 





JOSEPH WALLETT BLOWER, Columbus. Ohio, 

President The Hisylvania Coal Co. and The Piney Fork 
Coal Co. and Vice President The D. C. Thomas Coal Co.. 
was born' in Bilston, England, May 24, 1862; started in as 
a trapper boy at 91/2 years of age, and has worked at every 
job around mines from trapper to operator. He came to 
the United States in May, 1881, and attended the School of 
Mines, Ohio State Univer.sity. Later he was with the 
Equitable Coal Co. and the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad. 
In 1901 he opened mines in the Hocking field in the Sunday 
Creek Valley. He has resided in Columbus the past tw^elve 
years. 



FREDERICK W. BRAGGIIVS, Columbus, Ohio, 

President The Lorain Coal & Dock Co., was born in Green- 
ville, Pennsylvania. February 14, 1874, and has been in the 
coal business nearly a quarter of a century. He was for- 
merly with the Pittsburgh & Wheeling Coal Co. and Mid- 
vale Goshen Coal Co. Pie has served as Vice President of 
the Pittsburgh Vein Operators Association of Ohio. 



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COAL MEN OF AAJ ERICA 





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ALFRKD BREXHOLTS, Columlius, Ohio. 

President General Hocking- Fuel Co., was born in Zanesville, 
Ohio, in 1857, and has been in the coal business thirty-six 
years. He is also interested in the Poston Consolidated 
Coal Co. and Pike-Floyd Coal Co. He was formerly with 
the General Hocking Coal Co. and Imperial Coal Mining Co. 



PEARL, AUGUSTUS COEN, Columbus. Ohio, 

President Buckeye Coal & Railway Co., was born in Old 
Washington. Ohio, September 26, 1877, and has been in the 
coal business fourteen years. He is also President of the 
Ohio Land & Railway Co. He was previously with the 
Pittsburgh Coal Co., Sans Bois Coal Co., Rail & River Coal 
Co., and Sunday Creek Coal Co. 





CHARLES COHEXAIR. Columbus. Ohio, 

President The Alma-Thacker Fuel Co., was born in Pekin, 
Illinois, August 17. 1868, and has been in the coal business 
thirty-one years. He is also interested in tlie Elmer Miller 
Coal Co. and the Central Hocking Coal Co. He was for- 
merly 'with the Lehigh Coal & Coke Co., St. Paul, Minnesota. 



S. F. U. DEAX, Columbu.s, Ohio, 

President Dean Coal & Coke Co., was born in Sugar Grove, 
Ohio, in 1869, and has been in the coal business thirty-one 
years. He is President of the West Virginia Rail & River 
Coal Co. He was formerly General Manager of the Co- 
lumbus & Hocking Coal & Iron Co. 



307 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





ARTHUR P. DeVENNISH, Columbus, Ohio, 

Sales Manager Hocking Valley Products Co., has been In 
the coal business for twenty-five years. He was formerly 
with the Columbus & Hocking Coal & Iron Co., The W. J. 
Hamilton Coal Co. and W. A. Gosline & Co. 



FREDERICK EBERSBACH, Pomeroy, Ohio, 

Secretary, Treasurer and General Manager Peacock Coal 
Co., President Martin-Ebersbach Co., President Peoples Coal 
Co., and President Pomeroy Machine Co., was born in Pom- 
eroy November 3. 1859, and has been in the coal business 
forty-four years. He is well and favorably known through- 
out the trade. 





WIL,I,IAM J. HAMILTON. Columbu.s, Ohio, 

General Manager W. J. Hamilton Coal & Coke Co., Columbus, 
was born in Liverpool, England, March 14, 1877, and has 
been in the coal business eighteen years. He was formerly 
with the Thacker Coal Co. 



ELMER E. LEARNED, Columbus, Ohio, 

Sales Manager and Purchasing Agent Tlie Hisylvania Coal 
Co., The Piney Fork Coal Co., The Pan Handle Collieries 
Co., and The D. C. Tliomas Coal Co., has been in the coal 
business nineteen years. He was formerly with the Wil- 
liam Job Coal Co. and the Elk Coal Co. 



308 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





J. S. McVEY, Columbus, Ohio, 

President Central West Coal Co., Columbus, was born on 
a farm near Lancaster, Ohio, Julj' 12, 1884, and has been 
in the coal business eleven years. He is also President of 
the Southern Ohio Coal Co. 



WALTER HARRISOIV PLANT, Columbus, Ohio, 

Secretary and General Manager Colonial Coal & Supply Co., 
Columbus, Ohio, was born in Columbus July 27, 1881, and 
has been in the coal business nineteen years. He is also 
General Manager Bell Block Coal Co., Colonial Pocahontas 
Coal Co., and the Red Ash Pocahontas Coal Co. He was 
formerly with the Hamilton Coal Co. and the Gillam-Min- 
shall Coal Co. 





A. SIMONS, New Lexin^on, Ohio, 

Of A. Simons & Son, Columbus, Ohio, was born in Virginia 
in 1853, and has been in the coal business thirty-two years. 
Mr. Simons is a thoroughly experienced coal man and has 
held positions of honor in the coal operators' association. 



GEO. CONRAD WEITZELl,, Columbus, Ohio, 

President New Pittsburgh Coal Co., was born in McConnells- 
ville. Ohio, August 25, 1853, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness thirty-three years. He is also Vice President and Gen- 
eral Manager of the Great Lakes Coal Mining Co. He has 
served as President of the Hocking Coal Operators Asso- 
ciation and was one of seven Commissioners appointed by 
former Governor Andrew L. Harris of Ohio to revise and 
recommend a new code of mining laws. 



309 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 




WILLIAM A. GOSLINE, Toledo, Ohio, 

President of W. A. Gosline & Co., wholesalers, with offices 
in the Ohio Building, Toledo, Ohio, was born at Toledo, 
October 25, 1&73, and has been in the coal business almost 
twenty-five years. He is also interested in the Bear Run Coal 
Co. Mr. GosLine is highly respected in the coal trade and has 
served as President of the Toledo Chamber of Commerce. 





HARRY J. HEYWOOD, Toledo, Ohio, 

Member of W. A. Gosline & Co , large wholesalers with of- 
fices in the Ohio Building, Toledo, Ohio, was born at New- 
bury, Ontario, Canada, June 27. 1863, and has been in the 
coal business for almost twenty-five years. Mr. Heywood is 
also interested in the Bear Run Mining Co. and was for- 
merly connected with the J. H. Durkee Coal Co. and the 
Wainwright Coal Co. Mr. Heywood has served as Vice 
President of the Michigan-Ohio-Indiana Coal Association. 
President National Coal Trade Golf Association, and is one 
of the best known coalmen in the Middle "West. 



HERBERT G. HEYAVOOD, Toledo, Ohio, 

City Sales Manager of both wholesale and retail depart- 
ments for W. A. Gosline & Co. of Toledo, Ohio, was born at 
Wardsville, Ontario, Canada, in 1883, and has been in the 
coal business for fourteen years. He is a nephew of Harry 
J. Heywood and has many friends in the trade. 



310 



COAL. MEN OF AMERICA 





SCHUYLER C. SCHEXCK, Toledo, Ohio, 

Was for more than thirty years before his death a promi- 
nent factor in the coal trade. Representing the Delaware, 
Lackawanna and Western Railroad Co., he operated docks 
at Toledo and Ob'""'^-" '■"'1 was one of the largest handlers 
of anthracite in the West. I 



DAXIEL, DOW SCHEXCK, Toledo. Ohio, 

Late President The S. C. Schenck Co., large wholesalers 
with offices at Chicago and Toledo, Ohio, was born in Toledo 
December 9, 1875, and had been in the coal business twenty 
years up to the time of his death. Mr. Schenck was Sales 
Agent for the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Coal Co. 
at Toledo, and was one of the most highly respected mem- 
bers of the anthracite trade. 





LEWIS R. SCHEXCK, Toledo, Ohio, 

Secretary and Treasurer of the S. C. Schenck Co., prominent 
wholesalers at Toledo, with offices at the Nicholas Building, 
was born at Toledo in 1880, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for four years. 



CHARLES L. DERIXG, Chicago, Illinois, 

Manager S. C. .Schenck Co., is one of the prominent coalmen 
of Chicago. He served for two years as President of the 
Illinois and Wisconsin Retail Coal Dealers Association and 
also as President of the Chicago Association of Commerce. 
Mr. Dering has always taken an active interest in civic and 
trade affairs and is highly regarded. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





CHARLES T. HARTHER. Toledo, Ohio, 

President of the Central States Coal Co., wholesalers with 
offices in the Second National Bank Building/ Toledo, Ohio, 
was born at Columbus, Ohio, September 16, 1886, and has 
been in the coal business for fourteen years. Mr. Harther 
was formerly connected with the New York Coal Co. and the 
Johnson Coal Mining Co. He is Vice President of the Michi- 
gan-Ohio-Indiana Coal Association and very popular in the 
trade. 



S. T. WALBOLT, Toledo, Ohio, 

General Manager of the Central States Coal Co., wholesalers 
with offices in the Second National Bank Building, Toledo, 
Ohio, was born at Monclova. Ohio, June 9, 1880, and has been 
in the coal business for fifteen years. Mr. Walbolt was 
formerly connected with the Northwest Coal Co., the New 
Pittsburgh Coal Co., and the Pittsburgh Coal Co. 





THOMAS A. McNERNEY, Toledo, Ohio, 

President and Treasurer of the General Western Fuel Co. 
with offices in the Ohio Building, Toledo, was born in Point 
Edward, Ontario, Canada, September 6, 1871, and has been 
in the coal business twenty-two years. Mr. McNerney 'w^as 
previously connected with I. W. Copelin of Toledo, whole- 
sale coal and coke, for nine years. 



JOHN V. MAYHEVV, Toledo, Ohio, 

Vice President and Secretary of the General "Western Fuel 
Co., wholesalers w^ith offices In the Ohio Building, Toledo. 
Ohio, was born in Toledo, January 1, 1869, and has been in 
the coal business seventeen years. Mr. Mayhew was for- 
merly connected with Hesser & Wickham, shippers of coal 
and coke, and with the Purchasing Department of the Mis- 
souri Pacific Railway of St. Louis, Missouri, and I. W. Cope- 
lin, coal and coke jobber, Toledo. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





AKTOIV BlIESCHEN, Toledo, Oliio, 

Well known retailer doing business at Toledo, Ohio, was 
born in Germany January 4, 1854, and has been in the coal 
business twenty years. Mr. Bueschen formerly owned the 
AV. P. Hubbs Co. Mr. Bueschen has been very successful 
and stands well in the trade. 



CHARLES EVERETT CARTWRIGHT, Toledo, Ohio, 

Vice President of the West-Crescent Fuel Co., wholesalers 
with offices at 620 Madison Ave., Toledo, was born in Toledo 
May 17, 1877, and has been in the coal business sixteen 
years. Mr. Cartwright is interested In the Youghiogheny 
Gas Coal Co. and was formerly connected with the A. G. 
Blair Coal Co. 





ALBERT MACKENZIE DONOVAN, Toledo, Ohio, 

President and General Manager of the Toledo Fuel Co.. 
retailers and wholesalers, with offices in the Second National 
Bank Building, Toledo, was born in Chatham, Ontario, Can- 
ada, June 22, 1874, and has been in the coal business twenty- 
two years. Mr. Donovan was formerly connected with Stan- 
ley B. Smith & Co., Detroit, Michigan, and Stanley B. Smith 
Coal & Dock Co., Toledo, Ohio, both of which firms are now 
out of business. He is a graduate of the Detroit College 
of Law, and active in Masonic circles, being a Past High 
Priest and a member of Zenobia Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. 



EDGAR W. ERVIN, Toledo, Ohio. 

Northern Sales Manager of the Pocahontas-Winifrede Coal 
Co., with offices in the Ohio Building, Toledo, Ohio, was born 
at Jackson, Ohio, September 29, 1863, and has been in the 
coal business for twenty years, having had ten years' ex- 
perience in coal production and ten in the selling end. Mr. 
Ervin was formerly connected "with the Geo. M. Jones Co. 
and the Royal Collieries Co., and still is a stockholder and 
Director in the latter company. 



313 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





LEWIS JAY GIPFORD, Toledo, Ohio, 

Secretary and Treasurer of the Oakland Coal Co., whole- 
salers with offices in the Ohio Building, Toledo, was born 
in Bucyrus, Ohio, October 17, 1884, and has been in the 
coal business fourteen years. Mr. Gifford is also General 
Sales Agent of the Standard Kanawha Coal Mining Co. and 
was formerly connected with the Crescent Fuel Co. as Vice 
President. 



ROY O. HART, Toledo, Ohio, 

Vice President of the Oakland Coal Co., well-known whole- 
salers at Toledo, Ohio, was born in Toledo in August. 
1879, and has been in the coal business fifteen years. Mr. 
Hart was formerly connected with the GiMam-Minshall Coal 
Co., Minshall Coal Co., Pittsburgh & Indiana Coal Co., and 
Akron Coal Co. 





HARRY R. HEIiVER, Toledo, Ohio, 

Sales Agent for the Maynard Coal Co. witli offices in the 
Nicholas Building, Toledo, Ohio, was born at Point Pleasant, 
West Virginia, March 1, 1892, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for five years. Mr. Heiner was formerly connected with 
the Sunday Creek Co. 



WILLIAM P. HUBBS, Toledo, Ohio, 

Well-known wholesaler at Toledo, Ohio, with offices in the 
Spitzer Building, was born in Antioch, Ohio, March 18, 1862, 
and has been in the coal business twenty years. Mr. Hubbs 
was formerly connected with Gosline & Barbour, I. W. 
Copelin and the General Hocking Fuel Co. 



314 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





ELMER MILLER, Toledo, Ohio, 

President of the Elmer Miller Coal Co., well-known whole- 
salers with offices in the Nicholas Building-, Toledo, Ohio, 
was born in Augusta County, Virginia, and has been in the 
coal business twenty years. Mr. Miller is President of 
the Ohio Block Cannel Coal Co. and Vice President of the 
Kenmont Coal Co. He was formerly connected with the 
Turney & Jones Co. of Columbus and the Powhatan Coal Co. 
of Toledo. 



LEON Z. jVETZORG, Toledo, Ohio, 

President L. Z. Netzorg Coal Co.. organized April 1, 1918, 
Toledo, Ohio, was born in Greenville, Michigan, in 1885, and 
has been in the coal business nine years. Mr. Netzorg is a 
graduate of the Michigan College of Mines, with degrees of 
Bachelor of Science and Mining Engineer. Before his en- 
trance into the coal business he was with the Calumet & 
Hecla Co. and the American Smelting & Refining Co. He 
was associated with The W. H. Warner Coal Co. of Toledo 
and is still its Vice President. 





JOHN T. SOLON, Toledo, Ohio, 

Well-known wholesaler at Toledo, Ohio, with offices in the 
Nicholas Building, was born in Green Spring, Ohio, and 
has been in the coal business thirty years. Mr. Solon was 
previously connected with the Snawnee Coal Co.. Columbus 
& Hocking Coal & Iron Co.. Southern Ohio Coal & Iron Co., 
Solon Coal Co.. and Courtright, Kisler & Co. 



ROBERT JAMES WEST, Toledo, Ohio, 

President of the West-Crescent Fuel Co., prominent whole- 
salers engaged in business at Toledo, Ohio, was born at 
Toledo, May 18, 1867, and has been in the coal business over 
a quarter of a century. Mr. West was formerly connected 
with Barker & Dwight, Sunday Creek Coal Co., and the 
Phenix Coal Co. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 






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W. ED. MoCUE, Akron, Ohio, 

Manager of the City Coal Co., Akron, Ohio, was born in 
North Lawrence, Star County, Ohio, June 7, 1877, and has 
been in the coal business twelve years. He -was formerly 
connected with the Davis Coal Co. and is a son of Thomas 
W. McCue, well-known operator and jobber, the first man 
to introduce Pittsburgh coal into Akron. 



JOHIV A. aicALOXAJV, Akron, Ohio, 

Treasurer of the City Coal Co. of Akron, Ohio, was born at 
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, June 7, 1877, and has been in the coal 
business for twelve years. The wagons and trucks of this 
company are all painted white with red lettering and they 
have taken many first prizes in horse show parades. Mr. 
McAlonan is well known and has many friends. 





LOUIS A. KLAGES, Akron, Ohio, 

Secretary and Treasurer of The Klages Coal & Ice Co.. 
Akron, Ohio, was born in Akron May 27, 1884, and has been 
in the coal business seventeen years. He is the son of the 
late Henry Klages, founder of the company. 



HOWARD W. HAUPT, Akron, Ohio, 

General Manager Klages Coal & Ice Co., retailers at Akron 
Ohio, was born in Loyal Oak, Summit County, Ohio, June 27, 
1870, and has been in the coal business twenty-seven years. 



316 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





RALPH O. GL.ESSNER, Akron, Ohio, 

General Manager of the City Ice & Coal Co., doing' a retail 
business at Akron, Ohio, was born at Polk, Ashland Coun- 
ty, Ohio, August 13, 1879, and has been in the coal business 
for six years. Mr. Glessner was formerly in the railroad 
business for fifteen years before going with this company. 



CORA E. OBERLIN, Canton, Ohio, 

Proprietor of the Oberlin Coal Co., ■well-known retail coal 
merchants at Canton. Ohio, was born in Canton May 11, 1891, 
and has been in the coal business since 1909. 





THOMAS H. JOHNSON, Bellaire, Ohio, 

President Ohio Consolidated Coal Co., -was born in Mercer 
Countj', Pennsylvania, March 17, 1865, and has been in the 
coal business almost half a century. He is a Director of the 
"W^est Wheeling Coal Co. Mr. Johnson was formerly con- 
nected with Johnson Brothers Coal Co. and Johnson Coal Co., 
and has held every position from water bailer up to General 
Manager. 



CARL, H. EBERTS, ^Varwood, West Virgrinisi, 

Vice President and Secretary-Treasurer Ohio Consolidated 
Coal Co., "Warwood, was born in Wheeling. "West Virginia, 
December 18, 1888. Before starting in the coal business Mr. 
Eberts worked in the Quarter Savings Bank of Wheeling, 
and after having worked his way up in this bank he organ- 
ized the Bank of Warwood and became its cashier, which 
position he still holds. He is also a stockholder in .the 
West Wheeling Coal Co. 



317 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





CHARLES A. McDOiVAL,D, Canton, Ohio, 

President of the Canton Coal Co., Canton, Ohio, was horn 
in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, April 4, 1862, and has been in 
the coal business thirty-three years. Mr. McDonald is 
Treasurer of the James MuUins Coal Co. and Vice President 
of The Storm-Loomis Coal Co. 



D. PRENTICE LOOMIS, Canton, Ohio, 

Treasurer Canton Coal Co., Canton, Ohio, wa.s born in New 
Philadelphia, Ohio.. June 14, 1877. He is Treasurer of The 
Storm-Loomis Coal Co. and of The Brown Coal Mining Co., 
President of the Myers Coal & Coke Co., and Manager of 
the James Mullins Coal Co. He has been in the coal busi- 
ness eighteen years, part of the time with the Rhodes & 
Beidler Coal Co., Cleveland, Ohio. ' 



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GEORGE A. WILLIAMS, Canton, Ohio, 

President of the Storm-Loomis Coal Co., which is a mining 
concern, President of the Navarre Street Coal Co.. a retail 
coal concern, and Sales Manager of The Canton Coal Co., a 
wholesale and jobbing company, was born in Thomastown, 
Ohio, May 28, 1873, and has been in the coal business thirty- 
four years. Mr. Williams was formerly connected with the 
Munter-Williams Coal Co., the G. A. Williams Coal Co. of 
Canton, the H. S. Odbert Coal Co. of Cleveland, Ohio, and 
the Steiner Coal Co. of Canton. 



ADAM P. SONNHALTER, Canton, O., 

Owner of the Sonnhalter Coal Mining 
Co. of Canton. Ohio, was born at Mas- 
sillon, Ohio, October 4, 1878, and has 
been in the coal business for twenty 
years. Mr. Sonnhalter -was forinerly 
connected with the Sonnhalter Coal 
Co., Massillon Coal Mining Co., and the 
Elm Run Coal Mining' Co., and is well 
known in that section. 



318 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





WILLIAM R. WORLEY, Canton, Ohio, 

President and Treasurer of the Steiner Coal Co., which con- 
ducts the largest wholesale and retail coal business in the 
vicinity of Canton, Ohio, is a native of Canton, born Novem- 
ber 14, 1873. and has been in the coal business for the past 
ten years. The business is growing steadily. 



T. FRANK SNYDER, Canton, Ohio, 

Secretary of the Steiner Coal Co , engaged in business at 
Canton, Ohio, was born in Oneida, Ohio, August 21, 1876, 
and has been in the coal business six years. The Steiner 
Coal Co. was incorporated in 1900 as tlie Indian Run Coal 
Co. and the present name was assumed December 21, 1903. 
This company operates four yards 'with excellent facilities. 





JAMES JIILTOjV RITTENOUR, Chillicothe, Ohio, 

President and Treasurer of the Mohawk Coal Co., Chilli- 
cothe, Ohio, was born at Chillicothe, October 30, 1861, and 
has been in the coal business for ten years. Mr. Rittenour 
is associated with J. A. Lockard of "Wellston, Ohio, and they 
have a number of coal interests in common. 



HARRY PL.UHART, Dayton, Ohio. 

Born in Dayton August 16, 1865, has been in the coal busi- 
ness thirty-three years. He was formerly with the Fluhart 
Coal & Mining Co. He had fifteen years practical sales 
experience on the road before going into the business for 
himself. 



319 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





VIRGINIA E. MYERS, Gallipolis, Ohio, 

Of V. E. Myers & Co., was born in Gallipolis, and has been 
in the coal business fifteen years. She is also proprietor of 
the Big Bone and Giant mines. 



C. A. SLOAN, Jackson, Ohio, 

President Jackson Hill Coal Co., was born in Harrisville, 
Ohio, Aug-ust 15, 1879, and has been in the coal business 
sixteen years. He is also a Director in the Coalton Fuel 
Co., proprietor of the C. A. Sloan Coal Co., and interested 
in the Jenkins-Lama Coal Co. His previous experience has 
been with the Superior Coal Co. 








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DAVID ARMSTRONG, Jncksoii, Ohio, 

Of the Armstrong- Coal Co., was born in Waverly, Ohio, 
March 7, 1873, and has been interested in the mining of coal 
since 1891. He is also Secretary and Treasurer Jackson 
Colliery Co. and Jackson Hill Coal Co., Vice President 
Royal Collieries Co., Treasurer Jenkins-Lama Coal Co., a 
Director in the Sun Coal Co., Coalton Fuel Co., and Jackson 
Hocking Coal Co., and interested in the Diamond Coal Co., 
Ohio & Kentucky Coal Co., Ohio & Indiana Collieries Co., 
Rowland Block Coal & Clay Co., and Power Collieries Co. 



JOHN M. ARMSTRONG, Jackson, Ohio, 

Of the Armstrong Coal Co., was born in "Waverly, Ohio, 
April 19, 1869, was interested in coal operations since 1895, 
and died March 23, 1918. He was a Director in the Jackson 
Collierj^ Co. and the Jackson Hill Coal Co. and interested 
in the Diamond Coal Co., Ohio & Indiana Collieries Co., 
Rowland Block Coal & Clay Co., and Power Collieries Co. 
Previous to his entrance in the coal business he was inter- 
ested in the banking business. 



320 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





PHAROIV ai. HAASBARGER, Laura, Ohio, 

A pi-ogressive retail coal merchant, was born near Pitts- 
burg-, Ohio. April 7. 188G, and embarked in the coal business 
in May, 1917, just in time to contend with the most serious 
conditions that have ever come into the business experience 
of the coal trade. Mr. Hansbarg-er, by close attention and 
by following sound business principles was able to render 
excellent fuel service to the community in which he resides. 



FRANK W. DRAKE, Lima, Olilo, 

Retail coal merchant, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, 
November 22, 1852, and has been in business sixteen years. 
He also is in the supply business and is a jobber of varioua 
lines of equipment. 





ELMER E. FOX, 3IassiIlon, Oliio, 

President and General Manager Goshen Central Coal Co. and 
Treasurer Coal River Mining Co., was born in Tuscarawas 
County, Ohio, February 4, 1869, and has been in the coal 
business thirty years. He was formerly with the Warwick 
Coal Co. He has served as President of the Central Ohio 
Operators Association. 



PRAIVK FtJLTON TAGGART, Massillon, Ohio, 

Secretary, Treasurer and General Manager Spruce River Coal 
Co., was born in Canal Fulton, Ohio, August 27, 1873, and 
has been in the coal business twenty-six years. He is also 
Treasurer and General Manager of the Jellico Cannel Co. 
and President and General Manager of the Goshen Valley 
Coal Co. He organized the Pigeon Run Coal Co., South 
Massillon Coal Co.. Clendennin Coal Co. and City Ice & Coal 
Co. He was with the Midvale Coal Co. and the "Wheeling & 
Lake Erie Co. previous to his connection with the com- 
panies enumerated above. Mr. Taggart is not only a well 
known coal man in Ohio but is a man active in local and 
state politics and a member of the leading clubs of his city. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



CHARLES O. SCOTT, Blidvale, Ohio, 

Of the Scott Coal Co.,. was born in Mill 
Township, Ohio, Jul5^ 2, 1876, and has 
been in the coal operating business 
twenty-three years. He \vas formerly 
with tlie M. A. Hanna Coal Co. and the 
J. W. Ellsworth Coal Co. 



JOHN S. SCOTT, Midvale, Ohio, 

Of the Scott Coal Co., was born in Mill 
Township, Ohio, February 25, 1879, and 
has been in the coal operating busi- 
ness seventeen years. 



THOMAS Li. SCOTT, Midvale, Ohio, 

Of the Scott Coal Co., was born in Mill 
Township, Ohio, September 10, 1866, 
and has been in the coal business 
thirty-six years. He was formerly 
with the M. A. Hanna Coal Co., Wheel- 
ing- & Lake Erie Coal Co., Pittsburgh 
Coal Co., Akron Coal Co., Fuller Coal 
Co., Goshen Coal Co. and Beaver Dam 
Coal Co. 




GEORGE J. MARKLEY, Mineral City, Ohio, 

Owner of Acme, Silver Ash, Huff Run, MassiUon Peacock, 
and Acme No. 6 mines, was born in Mineral City July 22, 
1854, and has been in the operating end of the coal industry 
thirty-one years. He was formerly connected with the 
Cisco Mining Co. and Ohio Coal Mining Co., and owned at 
one time the Sutter mines in Indian Territory. He is an 
extensive manufacturer of clay products, operating four 
brick factories. He supplies Mineral City with natural gas 
from his own well, 5,235 feet deep, the deepest in the state. 
He lias also extensive real estate holdings. At the age of 
20, he paid his father $350 for his freedom. After twelve 
years he bought his first mine. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



J. WALT GRAHAM, Aelsonville, O., 

President and Superintendent Graham- 
Rosser Coal Co.. was born in Middle- 
port, Ohio, July 30, 1881, and has been 
in the coal business eight years. He 
was formerly with the Imperial Coal 
Co. 




C. J. ROSSCR, jVelsonville, Ohio, 

Vice President and Secretary-Treasurer Graham-Rosser Coal 
Co., was born in Nelsonville December 14, 1859, and has 
been in the coal business fourteen years. 



JOHX 3Ic3IILL,EX, Xelsonville, Ohio, 

President East Hill Coal Co., was born 
in Meg-gs County, Ohio, August 20, 
1862, and has been in the coal business 
thirty-nine years. He is also Treas- 
urer and General Manager of the Car 
Run Coal Co. and President and Treas- 
urer of the Big Bailey Coal Co. 




HERMAN H. WEISKE, New Lexington, Ohio, 

Secretary Lewiston Block Coal Co., Lewiston, "West Virginia, 
and Ohio Consolidated Coal Co., Bellaire, Ohio, was born in 
Wheeling, West Virginia, in 1888, and has been in the coal 
business seven years. He is also interested in coal lands, 
and has taken an active part in the Kanawha Coal Oper- 
ators' Association and the Kanawha Coal Shippers' Asso- 
ciation. Mr. Weiske was formerly connected with the 
Hitchman Coal & Coke Co., Wheeling, West Virginia. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





JOHN A. LOCKARD, Wellston, Ohio, 

Manag^er Mohawk Coal Co., was born in Jackson County, 
Ohio, February 15, 1859, and has been in the coal business 
fifteen years. 



F. W. WALKER, Xeiiia, Ohio, 

Of P. W. Walker & Co., was born near Xenia, Ohio, August 21, 
1867, and has been in the coal business seventeen years. 
He was formerly with Wright & Carruthers and Carruthers 
& Walker. Mr. Walker takes a great interest in civic 
affairs of his community. 



.JOHN V. HORGER, New Philadelphia, 

President and General Manager The 
Horger-Heldt Coal Co., was born in 
Port Washington, Ohio, November 29. 
1878. and has been in the coal business 
twenty-eight years. He was .one of 
the organizers of the Andreas Coal Co. 
in 1917, and is now. Vice President and 
Generar Manager of the company. He 
was formerly with the Midvale-Goshen 
Coal Co. and the Goshen Coal Co. 



H. C. SCHNEIDER, New Phil.-idelyhia, 

Owner of the Goshen Valley mine, was 
born in Lake Baden. Germany, .January 
18, 1876, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness nineteen years. He was formerly 
with the Goshen A^alley Coal Co., 
Beaver Dam Coal & Mining Co., and 
the Old Town Coal Co. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 




JERRY MORROW, Wellstoii.. Ohio, 

President Elko Colliery Co.. was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, 
October 18, 1843, and has been in the coal business fifty- 
three years. He is also President of the "Wellston Hill Coal 
Co. and Morro\v Manufacturing Co. and Vice President of 
the Hickory Ash Coal Co. He was formerly with the Wells- 
ton Colliery Co., Hitt-Davis Coal & Mining Co., Jackson 
Mining Co., Spring Valley Iron Co., Federal Creek Coal Co., 
Petrea Coal Co., Chapman Coal Co., and John F. Hall Coal 
Co. The Elko Colliery Co. mines and ships Elko No. 2 
Wellston shaft coal. Mr. Morrow is well-known throughout 
the trade and has served as President of the Jackson 
County Operators Association. 





FRANK C. MORROW, Wellston, Ohio, 

General Manager Elko Colliery Co., was born in Chapman, 
Ohio, August 4, 1883, and has been in the coal business 
ten years. He is also Vice President and General Manager 
The Morrow Manufacturing Co., Wellston, Ohio, builders of 
coal tipple equipment. He was formerly with the Wellston 
Colliery Co., Jackson Mining Co. and Hickory Ash Coal Co. 



JOSEPH H. BROAVNE, Wellston, Ohio. 

Secretary and Treasurer The Elko Colliery Co.. was born in 
Ironton, Ohio, June 23, 1875, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness ten years. He is also Secretary-Treasurer of the 
Wellston Hill Coal Co., Treasurer-Manager of the Browne 
Coal Co., and Secretary-Treasurer of the Spring Valley Iron 
Co. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



OHIO — Cincinnati 



WIXFRED W'lIVDSOR CARVER, Cincinnati, Ohio, Man- 
ager Percy Heilner & Son, was born in West Virginia in 
1883, and has been in the coal business fourteen years. He 
was formerly with the Carver Bros. Co. and Cabin Creek 
Consolidated Coal Co. 

RUSSELL DBS COGNETS, Treasurer Tuttle Coal Co., of 
Cincinnati, Ohio, was born January 6, 1890, in Lexington, 
Kentucky, and has been in the coal business ten years. He 
was formerly connected with the Louis Des Cognets Co. of 
Lexington, Kentucky. 

ROBERT A. COLTER, Secretary and Treasurer The C. G. 
Blake Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, was born in Cincinnati Septem- 
ber 9, 1868, and has been in the coal business twenty-six 
years, the entire time with his present company. He has 
held positions of honor in the coal associations of the state. 

WILLIAM E. DARNABY, Manager R. O. Campbell Coal 
Co., was born in Fayette Countj', Kentucky, February 8, 
1883, and has been in the coal business thirteen years. He 
was formerly with the Asher Coal Mining Co. 

IRVIN DAVIS, Secretary Reliance Coal & Coke Co.,' Cin- 
cinnati. Ohio, was born in North East, Maryland, December 
19, 1891, and has been in the coal business five years. 

HARRY W. DICKERSOjV, Assistant Manager of Sales 
Reliance Coal & Coke Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, was born in 
Grant County, Kentucky, January 18, 1890, and has been 
in the coal business six years. He was formerly with the 
Marmet-Halm Coal & Coke Co. 

ROBERT H. DOEPKE, President of the Blue Ash Coal Co., 
ofRce in First National Bank Building. Cincinnati, Ohio, was 
born in Cincinnati November 3, 1884, and has been in the 
coal business ten years. He is interested in coal and other 
mining properties. 

FREDERICK H. DL'JVKER, Vice President John T. Hesser 
Coal Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, was born August 7, 1879, in Cin- 
cinnati and has been in the coal business nineteen years. 
He is also Vice President and Treasurer of the Miami Coal 
Co., Miami, West Virginia. 

F. V. FISHER, Cincinnati, Ohio, Manager Interstate Coal 
& Dock Co., was born in Belspring, Virginia. May 27, 
1885, and has been in the coal business sixteen years. He 
was formerly with the Consolidated Coal Co.. La Mont Min- 
ing Co. and Chesapeake & Ohio Coal & Coke Co. 

F. L. GARRISON, President Shonk-Garrison Coal Co., 
Cincinnati, Ohio, was born in Shickshinny, Pennsylvania. 
January 9, 1853, and has been in the coal business forty-six 
years. He is also interested in the Webb Coal Mining Co., 
Webb Fuel Co., and Cabin Creek Consolidated Coal Co. He 
w^as formerly with the Stevens Coal Co., Kanawha Coal & 
Coke Co., Cabin Creek Kanawha Coal Co., and Williams Coal 
Co. of Kanawha. The two last named owned and operated 
the Kanawha Railway Co.. which is now the Cabin Creek 
branch of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway. 

PAUL \v. GILLHAM, Vice President MacBard Coal Co., 
Cincinnati. Ohio, was born in Covington, Kentucky, June 24, 
1880. and has been in the coal business twelve years. 

R. R. GLOVER, Traffic and Sales Manager Tuttle Coal Co., 
Cincinnati. Ohio, was born in New Albany, Indiana, May 9, 
1879, and has been in the coal business two years. He was 
formerly with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad fifteen years. 

ROY O. HEYSER, Cincinnati representative of the Solvay 
Collieries Co., was born in Leitchfield, Kentucky, May 3, 
1876, and has been in the coal business thirteen years. He 
was formerly with the Chesapeake & Ohio Coal & Coke 
Co., Norfolk & Chesapeake Coal Co., and Eaton, Rhodes & Co. 
He is a District Coal Agent of the United States Fuel 
Administration. 

GEORGE W. JOHIVSOIV, Manager Domestic Department 
Island Creek Coal Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, was born in Cin- 
cinnati August 5, 1877, and has been in the coal business 
eighteen years. He was formerly with the Marmet-Halm 
Coal & Coke Co. and Reliance Coal & Coke Co. 

FRANK H. KINNEY, Manager Hyde Park Supply Co., 
Cincinnati, Ohio, was born in Kansas City, Missouri, Novem- 
ber 24, 1866, and has been in the coal business nine years. 

FRED LEGG, President Logan & Kanawha Coal Co., Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio, was born in Maiden, West Virginia, May 11, 
1885, and has been in the coal business eleven years. He 
was previously with the Kanawha Independent Coal Co. 
and Chesapeake & Ohio Coal & Coke Co. 

CHARLES K. LITKOWSKI, Secretary and Treasurer Nau- 
gatuck Coal Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, was born in Middletown, 
Ohio, June 27, 1883, and has been in the coal business nine 
years. 

ROBERT S. MAGEE, Assistant General Manager Pro- 
ducers Coal Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, was born in Covington, 
Kentucky, September 2, 1872, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness twenty years. He was formerly with the Carbon Fuel 
Co. and M. A. Hanna & Co. 



C. DeLANEY MARTIN, President Halmar Coal Mining Co., 
Cincinnati. Ohio, was born in Rensselaer, Indiana, in 1881, 
and has been in the coal business fifteen years. He was 
formerly with the Chesapeake & Ohio Coal & Coke Co. and 
the George Halm Coal Co. 

M. P. McDERMOTT, Manager Amherst Fuel Co., Cincin- 
nati, Ohio, was born in Alpsville, Pennsylvania, December 
23. 1885, and has been associated with the Pittsburgh-Buf- ' 
falo Co. and the Four States Coal & Coke Co. 

ROBERT STUART McVEIGH, Vice President Island Creek 
Coal Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, was born in Loudon County, 
Virginia, December 15, 1872, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness twelve years. He was formerly in the railroad busi- 
ness. 

JOHN MUELLER, President and Treasurer The John 
Mueller Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, was born in Reading, Ohio, 
April 20, 1855, and has been in the coal business since 1876. 

LOUIS J. MUELLER, Secretary and Treasurer MacBard 
Coal Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, was born in Cincinnati, and has 
been in the coal business seven years. 

D. E. RICHARDS, President Bell Coal & Mining Co., Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio, was born in Zanesville, Ohio, April 21, 1859, 
and has been in the coal business sixteen years. 

CHARLES A. SARGEANT, Secretary and Assistant Treas- 
urer The Domhoff & .Toyce Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, has been 
in the coal business nine years. 

JOHN SARGEANT, President The Domhoff & Joyce Co., 
Cincinnati, Ohio, has been in the coal business thirty-one 
years 

E. L. STEPHENSON, President E, L. Sternberger Coal Co., 
Cincinnati. Ohio, was born in Jackson, Ohio, October 3, 1862, 
and has been in the coal business thirty-eight years. He 
is also President of the Standard Colliery Co., Coalton, Ohio. 
He has been a Director of the Cincinnati Coal Exchange 
and President of the Commercial Bank of Jackson, Ohio. 

HAROLD GEORGE TILDESLEY, President The Tildesley 
Coal Co.. Cincinnati, Ohio, was born in Boston. Massachu- 
setts, December 13, 1S85, and has been in the coal business 
eight years. He was form.erly with The Halmar Coal 
Mining Co. 

DAVID ELKANAH ULLAND of the Ulland Coal Co., Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio, was born in Cincinnati December 11, 1872. and 
has been in the coal business twenty-three years. He is also 
connected with the Pocahontas & Jellico Coal Co. He 
was fonnerly with the Kineon Coal Co. 

AVILLIAM THOM.AS tiLLAND of the Ulland Coal Co., Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio, was born in Cincinnati March 25, 1867. and 
has been in the coal business thirty j'ears. He is also inter- 
ested in the Pocahontas & Jellico Coal Co. He was formerly 
with the Kineon Coal Co., Cincinnati Coal & Coke Co., and 
the Carlisle Coal Co. 

EDWARD B. ULRICH, President Naugatuck Coal Co., Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio, was born in Cincinnati November 6, 1880, and 
has been in the coal business nine years. He is Manager of 
the Grey Eagle Coal Co. 

E. S. VAN HART, Cincinnati Manager Columbus Mining 
Co., -was born in Cincinnati in 1875, and has been in the 
coal business twenty-three years. He was formerly with 
the Glen Alum Fuel Co., "War Eagle Coal Co., Houston Coal 
& Coke Co., and the old Pittsburgh Coal Co. 

•OHIO — Cleveland 

HARRY ABELS, Vice President The Kendall Coal Mining 
Co., 1444 Rockefeller Building, Cleveland, Ohio, was born in 
Cleveland December 29, 1864, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness thirty-three years. He was a member of the Executive 
Board of the Wholesale and Retail Coal Dealers' Association 
of Ohio 1909-10. 

CHARLES ANTHONY ALBRIGHT, Secretary The Albright 
Coal Co., 746 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, was born in 
Massillon. Ohio, January 21, 1875, and has been in the coal 
business twenty-six years. He is also Vice President of 
the Oak Hill Coal Co. Mr. Albright was with the Howells 
Coal Co. and the Howells Mining Co. earlier in his business 
career. 

FRED E. BAEHR, Secretary and Treasurer The Somers 
Coal Co., 521 Cuyahoga Building, Cleveland, Ohio, was born 
in West Park, Ohio, June 19, 1877, and has been in the 
coal business twenty years. 

ROBERT BURSNER, President The Quaker Splint Coal 
Co. and General Manager Copen Creek Coal Co., 231 The 
Arcade. Cleveland, Oliio, was born in Wheeling, West Vir- 
ginia, December 24, 1876. and has been in the coal business 
twenty years. Pie is also a Director of The Indian Hill 
Coal Co. 

JONATH.\N PRESCOTT BURTON, President Trevorton 
Colliery Co., Kennon Coal & Mining Co., and Ridgway-Bur- 
ton Co., Cleveland, Ohio, was born in Massillon, Ohio. Jan- 
uary 12, 1876, and has been in the coal business twenty-one 
years. Mr. Burton is a graduate of Tale University, Scien- 
tific department, class of 1896. 



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CHVRLES I,. CVSSIXGH.VM. President The West Virginia 
& Oliici (^oal i*c ("oke Co. and Secretary The Drake Coal Co.. 
Rockefeller Building'. Cleveland. Ohio, was born in Coshoc- 
ton, Ohio, Februar.v 9, 1S65, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness twenty-eight years. He is also President of the "W^ar- 
^vick Coal Co., Vice President of the Coal River Mining- 
Co., with operations in Boone and JIadison counties. West 
Virginia, and is interested in a large acreage of unde- 
veloped V.'est Virginia coal lands. Mr. Cassingham has been 
President of the Central Ohio Operators' Association. 

>VII,MAM P. CAYTON, Assistant to the President and 
Audit< r of the Rail ><: River Coal Co., Cleveland, Ohio, was 
born in Erie, Pennsylvania, March 16. 1880, and has been in 
the coal business sixteen years. His business experience 
began in the auditor's office of the Louisville. Evansville & 
St. Louis Consolidated Railroad at Louisville, Kentucky, in 
1898. followed by eight years as an accountant for the 
Pittsburgh Coal Co. 

GEORGE EASTERBROOK, President The Easterbrook 
Coal Co., 3S41 West 25th Street, Cleveland, Ohio, was born 
in Cleveland May 16. 1863, and has been in the coal business 
thirty-one years. He was previously with the Morgan, 
Moore & Baine Co. and Stout, Van Wickle & Co. 

JOSEPH LOriS FOREPAUGH, 1315 Rockefeller Building, 
Cleveland, Ohio. Lake Forwarding Agent North Western 
Fuel Co.. was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, July 27, 1873, and 
has been five years in the coal business. 

J. L. GOOD, General Sales Manager The National Coal Co., 
1503 Rockefeller Building. Cleveland. Ohio, was born in 
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 17, 1869. and has been in the 
coal business twenty years. He was formerly Vice Presi- 
dent The Pittsburgh & Buffalo Co. of Ohio. 

R. A. GROCH, Manager The Cleveland-Belmont Coal Co., 
618 Hickox Building, Cleveland. Ohio, has been in the coal 
business twenty-six years. He was formerly witli the 
O'Gara Coal Co 

I.Al'RENCE AV. HART, Manager of Sales W. H. Warner 
& Co.. 1606 I'nion National Bank Building. Cleveland, Ohio, 
was born in South Brownsville, Pennsylvania, November 24, 
1879. and has been in the coal business sixteen years. He 
Is also interested in the Crawford Hill Coal Co., Pocahontas 
Domestic Coal Co., Warner-Youghiogheny Coal Co., Warner 
Block Coal Co., and Wolf Run Coal Co. He was formerly 
Assistant Manag-er of Sales of The Monongahela River Con- 
solidated Coal & Coke Co. 

AXTHONV J. HICKEY, Manager Berwind Fuel Co.'s office 
at Cleveland, Ohio, was born in Cleveland, January 11, 1890, 
and has been in the coal business nine years. 

FRANK C. JOHNS, Sales Manager The Van Epps Coal Co., 
1450 Rockefeller Building, Cleveland, Ohio, was born in 
Cleveland December 26, 1875, and has been fourteen years 
in the coal business. He was previously with Burton, 
Beidler & Phelps. 

HARRY" E. LOOMIS, Vice President and General Manager 
The National Coal Co., 1503 Rockefeller Building, Cleveland, 
Ohio, has been in the coal business thirty-six years. 

AVII.I^IAM J. MAC FARLIN, Treasurer The National Coal 
Co., 1503 Rockefeller Building, Cleveland, Ohio, was born in 
Bvicksville, Ohio, in 1872, and has been in the coal business 
ten years. He is also President of the Citizens Coal Co., 
AKron. Ohio. 

HENRY DOAV MARBLE, President The Hutson Coal Co., 
911 Park Building, Cleveland, Ohio, was born in Newburgh, 
now Cle^■eland_. June 26, 1853, and has been in the coal 
business thirty-four years. 

C. E. MAURER, President The Glens Run Coal Co. and 
the Standard Pocahontas Coal Co., 1414 Rockefeller Build- 
ing, Cleveland, Ohio, w^as born in Austintown, Ohio, No- 
vember 21, 1865, and has been in the coal business eighteen 
years. Mr. Maurer was President of the Pittsburgh Vein 
Operators' Association from 1911 to 1914. 

GEORGE C. McKITTERICK, Secretary, Treasurer and 
General Manager The Russell Coal & Mining Co., Cleveland, 
Ohio, was born in Jackson, Ohio, July 23, 1853, and has been 
in the coal business forty years. For twenty-three years 
he was connected with McKitterlck Bros. 

W. E. MILES, Secretary and Treasurer of the Whittle- 
Miles Coal Co.. Cleveland, Ohio, was born at Merthys Tydoil, 
South Wales, July 25, 1859. He has been eleven years in the 
coal business. 

W. P. 3IITRRAY, member of the firm of Pickands, Mather 
& Co., Cleveland. Ohio, was born in Mentor, Ohio, July 12, 
1854, and has been identified with the coal trade thirty-five 
years. He is also a Director of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. He 
vi^as previously connected with Todd, Stambaugh & Co. and 
Weaver, Todd & Co. 

WALTER C. MYERS of The Myers Coal & Coke Co., 306 
Arcade, Cleveland. Ohio, was born in Cleveland July 22, 1886, 
and has been in the coal business eight years. His first coal 
experience was with the Goshen Coal Co. and the Goff- 
Kirby Coal Co., both of Cleveland. 



SAMliEL H. \EEnS, A'ice President and General Manager 
Bergholz Coal Mining Co., 509 Commercial Bank Building-, 
Cleveland, Ohio, was born in Tiverton. England, September 
30, 1859, and has been in the coal business thirty-one years. 
He is also interested in the Ohio & Pennsylvania Coal Co., 
with which company and Thomas Axworthy he was earlier 
connected. 

HENRY S. ODBERT. President H. S. Odbert Coal Co., 1410 
Rockefeller Building, Cleveland, Ohio, was born in Youngs- 
town. Ohio, August 18. 1875, and has been twenty years in 
the coal business. 

CH.\RLES L. PATE, Sales Agent H. S. Odbert Coal Co., 
1410 Rockefeller Building-, Cleveland, Ohio, was born in 
Cleveland, November 5, 1879, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness twelve years. He was with M. A. Hanna & Co., Cleve- 
land, earlier in his coal career. 

DON A P03IER0Y, Secretary H. S. Odbert Coal Co., 1410 
Rockefeller Building, Cleveland, Ohio, was born in Ashta- 
bula, Ohio, in 1874. 

FRANK J. POSEKANY, Manager F. Posekany Coal & 
Stone Co., 8619 Woodland Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, was born 
in Cleveland September 16, 1888, and has been in the retail 
coal business twenty years. 

PRANK ABEL PRENDERGAST, President and General 
Manager The Baltimore & Ohio Coal Co., 1325 Rockefeller 
Building, Cleveland, Ohio, was born in Ripley. New York, 
August 15. 1858, and has been in the coal business thirty- 
eight years. He is also interested in the Pittsburg-Belmont 
Coal Co. and the Number Eight Coal Co. His former con- 
nections were the Laurel Hill Coal Co.. Guild. Prendergast 
& Co., F. A. Prendergast & Co., Raybould Coal Co., Wallace 
& Brooks, all of Columbus, Ohio, and the Wisconsin Coal & 
Dock Co. of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 

JAMES PRENDERGAST of the Baltimore & Ohio Coal Co., 
Cleveland, Ohio, was born in Columbus, Ohio, October 14, 
1881, and has been in the coal business eleven years. He 
was Chairman of the Scale Committee, Operators and Miners, 
for the Cambridge district of Ohio in 1915-16. Mr. Prender- 
gast was formerly with the Morris Coal Co. 

AMBROSE M. QTJAl'LE, Secretary and Treasurer Ohio 
Coal & Supply Co., 814 Columbia Building, Cleveland, Ohio, 
was born in Cleveland, February 16, 1872, and has been in 
the retail coal business twenty-seven years. He -was for- 
merly connected with the Independent Coal Co. and the 
Cleveland & Pittsburgh Coal Co., both of Cleveland. 

PERRY' P. aUAYLB, President Ohio Coal & Supply Co., 
814 Columbia Building, Cleveland, Ohio, was born in Cleve- 
land, .November 28, 1867, and has been in the retail coal 
business twenty-seven years. He was formerly connected 
with the Independent Coal Co., and the Cleveland & Pitts- 
burgh Coal Co., both of Cleveland. 

.JAMES J. ROBY, Cleveland, Ohio, was born in Carroll 
County, Ohio, May 16, 1865, and has been thirty years in 
the coal business. He was a member of the Ohio Mining 
Commission. Mr. Roby was formerly connected with the 
Roby Coal Co. and the Roby-Somers Coal Co., both of 
Cleveland. 

ARTHUR B. RAGON, Western Sales Manager Weston Dod- 
son & Co., Illuminating Building, Cleveland, Ohio, was born 
in Belmont, New York, December 25, 1885. and has been In 
the coal business twelve years. He was formerly Treasurer 
of the Alden-Ragon Coal Co., Corry, Pennsylvania, and 
Sales Manager of the J. Harold Thompson Co., Pittsburgh. 

W1LLIA31 \V. RAWSON, a salesman of Lorain Coal & 
Dock Co., 708 Rockefeller Building, Cleveland, Ohio, was 
born in Cleveland September 13, 1872, and has been fourteen 
years in the coal business, all the time with his present 
company. 

HARRY MILTON SCHAFF, Treasurer Baltimore & Ohio 
Coal Co., 1325 Rockefeller Building, Cleveland, Ohio, was 
born in Nelsonville, Ohio, May 19, 1880, and has been in the 
coal business seventeen years. He is also interested in 
the Pittsburg-Belmont Coal Co. and the Number Eight Coal 
Co. Mr. Schaff was formerly Auditor of the Globe Coal & 
Coke Co. of West Virginia and the Wisconsin Coal & Dock 
Co. of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 

"WILLIAM GRANT SCHROYER, President Mackenzie & 
Sch-over. 2692 f-Tampshire Road, Cleveland. Ohio, was born 
in Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania, April 21, 1877, and has been 
in the coal business seventeen years. He is also President 
of the Ajax Coal Co. of Linton, Indiana. Mr. Schroyer wa.s 
formerly connected with the Youghiogheny & Ohio Coal 
Co., Cleveland. 

HOYT L. WARNER, partner in the firm of W. H. War- 
ner & Co.. Union National Bank Building, Cleveland, Ohio, 
is also financially interested in operating companies in Penn- 
sylvania. Ohio, Virginia and Kentucky. He was born in 
Mineral Ridge. Ohio. December 25, 1880, anc', has been in the 
coal business fourteen years. 



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WIIiLIAM H. WARNER, partner in the firm of W. H. 
Warner & Co., Union National Bank Building-, Cleveland, 
Ohio, and also financially interested in operating companies 
in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky, was 
born in Toungstown, Ohio, October 12, 1849, and has been in 
the coal business for forty-five years. He is one of the 
prominent factors in the coal trade of that section. 

LEWIS D. WATERS, President and Treasurer of the 
Prospect Coal Co., 2028 East 77th St., Cleveland, Ohio, was 
born in New Jersey, June 17, 1875, and has been twenty-five 
years in the coal business. 

ARTHUR C. WHITTLE, President and Manager of the 
"Whittle-Miles Coal Co., 10806 Miles Ave., S. E., Cleveland. 
Ohio, was born in Manchester, England, April 22, 1872, and 
has been twenty-four years in the coal business. 

K. B. WHITWORTH, Auditor of W. H. Warner & Co. 
Union National Bank Building, Cleveland, Ohio, was born in 
Bellefontaine, Ohio, October 2, 1SS6, and has been In the 
coal business for six years. 

JOHN V. N. YATES, proprietor of the J. V. N. Yates Coal 
& Coke Co., Rockefeller Building, Cleveland, Ohio, was born 
in Albany, New York, in 1838, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness sixty years. During that time he has sold anthracite 
as higli as $27.50 per ton and as low as $3.45 per ton deliv- 
ered. He is one of the best known retailers in Cleveland. 

WILLIAM E. ZEHNER, Secretary of the Wright & Zehner 
Co., Rockefeller Building, Cleveland, Ohio, was born in Cleve- 
land December 7, 1873, and has been in the coal business 
seven years. 



OHIO — Columbus 



HENRY H. BAUCH, President and General Manager The 
John Wilhelm Co., Columbus, Ohio, was born in Columbus 
August 6, 1887, and has been in the coal business thirteen 
years. He was formerly with J. Rapp & Co. 

RAYMOND H. BELL of the Bell Coal Co., Columbus, Ohio, 
was born in Racine, Ohio, April 27, 1875, and has been in 
the coal business seventeen years. 

C. H. BOARDMAN, President Murray City Coal Co., Co- 
lumbus, Ohio, General Manager King Coal Co. and also 
Tidewater Coal & Coke Co., was born in Akron, Ohio, No- 
vember 19, 1860, and has been in the coal business forty 
years. He was formerly with the Akron Iron Co., Columbus 
& Hocking Coal & Iron Co., Greendale Coal Mining Co., 
and Columbus Coal Co. 

WILLIAM S. CONNOR, owner of M. A. Suydam & Co., Co- 
lumbus, Ohio, was born in Dayton, Ohio, February 27, 1859, 
and has been in the coal business forty-four years. Mr. 
Connor has held positions of honor in the coal associations 
of Ohio. 

T. S. CROCKETT, President and General Manager Leckie 
Coal Co., Inc., Columbus, Ohio, was born in Wytheville, Vir- 
ginia, December 6, 1873, and has been in the coal business 
twenty-one years. Mr. Crockett is also interested in the 
Leckie Collieries Co.. Lathrop Coal Co., Panther Coal Co. and 
Leckie Fire Creek Coal Co. He was formerly connected with 
the Pocahontas Collieries Co. and Pocahontas Consolidated 
Co. and has had experience in both the operating and sell- 
ing end of the coal business. 

GLENN H. DUKES, Chief Engineer Buckeye Coal & Rail- 
•way Co., Columbus, Ohio, was born in Benton Ridge, Ohio, 
January 18, 1867, and has been in the coal business seven- 
teen years. He was formerly with the General Hocking 
Coal Co. a.nd the Sunday Creek Coal Co. 

FRED ESSEX, Secretary Essex Coal Co., Columbus, Ohio, 
was born in New Straitsville, Ohio, in 1888, and has been 
In the coal business twelve years. He is also interested in 
the Kimberly Coal & Land Co., Hocking Block Coal Co., The 
Stalter & Essex Coal Co., and the Ohio Mining Co. 

PRANK EUGENE FALK, owner of the Falk Coal Co., 
Columbus, Ohio, was born in Akron, Ohio, April 14, 1867, 
and has been in the coal business sixteen years. He is also 
interested in the Cambria Hocking Coal Co. He w^as for- 
merly Purchasing Agent of the Sunday Creek Coal Co. 

CHARLES A. GIBSON, President Gibson-Spence Coal Co., 
Columbus, Ohio, was born in Cambridge, Ohio. December 22, 
1879, and has been in the coal business fifteen years. He 
was previously with the W. J. Hamilton Coal Co. and the 
Elk Coal Co. 

ELBERT E. HYDE. President and Manager Ohio River 
Coal Co., Columbus, Ohio, -was born in Delaware County, 
Ohio, November 17, 1858, and has been in the coal business 
twenty-six years. He is also interested in Ohio coal lands. 
He was formerly w^ith the Maynard Coal Co. 

HENRY AV. JENKINS, President Jenkins-Lama Coal Co.. 
Columbus, Ohio, was born in Zanesville, Ohio, in 1881, and 
has been in the coal business sixteen years. He is a Direc- 
tor of the Greendale Mining Co. He -was formerly -with the 
Columbus 1^- Hocking Coal & Iron Co. and the Borderland 
Coal Sales Co. 



FRANK KOEHNE, Columbus, Ohio, was born in Germany 
December 7, 1849, and has been mining and selling- coal 
thirty-five years. He was with Slater & Boston and the 
General Hocking- Fuel Co. In 1917 he bought a mine at 
Viper, Kentucky, but sold out in January, 1918. 

AUGUSTUS M\ KUHNS, Sales Manager Peacock Coal Co., 
Columbus, Ohio, was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1879, and 
has been in the coal business thirteen years. He was with 
Hunter W. Finch & Co. seven years. 

W^ILLIAai A. LAMA, Secretary Jenkins-Lama Coal Co., 
Columbus, Ohio, was born in Wilsonville, Ohio, in 1876, and 
has been in the coal business twenty-one years. He ^vas 
formerly with the Hocking Domestic Coal Co., J. M. Lama 
Coal Co. and Hatton, Bro-wn & Co. 

JOHN C. LA-U'LER, General Manager John L. Lawler & 
Son, Columbus, Ohio, was born in Minerton, Ohio, October 
8, 1887, and has been in the coal business thirteen year.^. 

JOHN C. McINTYRE, General Manager Gem Coal & Supply 
Co., Columbus, Ohio, -was born in Columbus November 29, 
1889, and has been in the coal business ten years. He has 
served as Vice President of the Columbus Coal Exchange. 

WALTER D. McKINNEY, Secretary Southern Ohio Coal 
Exchange, Columbus, Ohio, was born in Dayton. Ohio, in 
1864, and has been in the coal business for some years. 

■SIDNEY A. McMANIGAL, President Maple Hill Coal Co., 
Colui-nbus. Ohio, was born in Pennsylvania in 1857, and has 
been in the coal business thirty-four years. He -was for- 
merly with the Columbus & Hocking Coal & Iron Co. and 
the Maple-Gallea Coal Co. 

H. S. MERVIN, Secretary and Treasurer New Pittsburgh 
Coal Co. and Resident Treasurer Pittsburgh Coal Co., Co- 
lumbus, Ohio, was born in Zanesville, Ohio, and has been 
in the coal business sixteen years. 

J. C. MILLER, General Manager Blast Furnace Division of 
The American Rolling- Mill Co., Columbus, Ohio, was born 
in Madison Furnace, Ohio, February 15, 1874, and has been 
in the coal business sixteen years. He is President of the 
Southern Ohio Portland Cement Co., -vvith coal lands in 
Southern Ohio, and a Director of the Portsmouth-Solvay 
Coke Co., with coal mines in Pike County, Kentucky, and 
by-product coke ovens at Portsmouth, Ohio. 

JOHN W. MOORE, President Elk Coal Co., Columbus, Ohio, 
was born in Newark, Ohio, August 25, 1879, and has been in 
the coal business sixteen years. He is also President of the 
Jones Coal & Coke Co., D. M. Moore & Sons Co., and the 
Columbus Business College. 

JAMES PRENDERGAST, Sales Manager The Baltimore 
& Ohio Coal Co., Columbus, Ohio, was born in Columbus 
October 14, 1882, and has been in the coal business ten years. 
Mr. Prendergast was formerly connected -with the Pitts- 
burgh-Belmont Coal Co., and was General Superintendent 
of the Morris Coal Co. before taking his present position. 
He was Chairman of the Joint Conference of the Miners 
and Operators, Cai-nbridge District, 1916. 

GEORGE FRANCIS SCHWARTZ, Vice President Hatton, 
Brown & Co., Columbus, Ohio, was born in Richmond, Indi- 
ana, September 11, 1884, and has been in the coal business 
sixteen years. He was formerly -with the Sunday Creek 
Coal Co. and the Buckeye Coal & Railway Co. 

DA-VID SHERTZER, President and Manager Hamilton- 
Parker Fuel & Supply Co., Columbus, Ohio, was born in 
Michigan December 4, 1856, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness twenty-six years. He -was formerly with J. Rapp & 
Co., Columbus Coal & Lime Co., Ohio Coal & Foundry Supply 
Co., and Statler Coal Co. 

PAUL G. SPENCE, Secretary and Treasurer Gibson-Spence 
Coal Co., Columbus, Ohio, was born near Cambridge, Ohio, 
July 11, 1883, and has been in the coal business six years. 

JOHN MYERS TAYLOR, President John M. Taylor Coal 
Co. and The Taylor-Williams Coal Co., Columbus, Ohio, was 
born in Columbus February 13, 1867, and has been in the 
coal business thirty-one years. He was formerly with the 
Sunday Creek Coal Co. He has served as President of the 
Columbus Retail Coal Dealers Association. 

"WILLIAM S. TAYLOR, "Western Sales Agent Leckie Coal 
Co., Columbus, Ohio, was born in 1861 at Langley, Virginia, 
and has been in the coal business for twenty-two years. Mr. 
Taylor has many warm friends in the coal trade and was 
formerly connected with the AUeg-heny Coal Co. of Wash- 
ington, D. C, and the Kellys Creek Collieries Co. of Charles- 
ton, West Virginia. 

DAA^ID C. THOMAS, President D. C. Thomas Coal Co., Co- 
lumbus, Ohio, was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Sep- 
tember 10, 1861, and has been in the coal business forty-one 
years. He is also interested in the Piney Fork Coal Co. He 
-ivas formerly with the Courtright Coal Co.. Continental Coal 
Co., Pittsburgh Coal Co., and United Coal Co. 

P. R. WEISZ. Columbus, Ohio, President and Manager 
Powells Run Coal Co., was born in Columbus. Ohio, in April, 
1856, and has been in the coal business thirty-one years. 



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AVALTEll H. WHISSEX. General Manager and Treasurer 
Murray City Coal Co., Columbus, Ohio, was born in Newark, 
Ohio. August 2, 1878, and has been in the coal business 
twenty-one years. 

JOHX H. AVIXDER, President Sunday Creelc Coal Co., Co- 
lumbus, Ohio, was born in Raleig-h. North Carolina, August 
23, 1862, and has been in the coal business twenty years. 
He was formerly with the Clinclifield Coal Corp. He was 
Chairman of the Operators of the Central Competitive Field, 
succeeding: Frank L. Robbins in 1906. 

BEXJAMIX F. AVRIGHT, Vice President Leckie Coal Co., 
Columbus. Ohio, was born in Clarksville, Virginia, .Tuly 26, 
1874, and has been in the coal business nine years. 

EDMOXD XITSCHKE YAXTES, Secretary, Treasurer and 
General Manager The Fifth Avenue Coal Co., Columbus, 
Ohio, was born in Columbus May 13, 1893, and has been in 
the coal business seven years. 

ELMER AVILLIS YAXTES, President The Fifth Avenue 
Coal Co.. Columbus, Ohio, was born in Columbus in 1853, and 
has been in the coal business twenty-six years. He has 
served as President of the Columbus Coal Exchange ever 
since its org'anization in 1912. 



OHIO — Toledo 



ALBERT G. BLAIR, JR., President A. G. Blair Mining Co., 
with offices in tlie Spitzer Building, Toledo, Ohio, was born 
at Toledo, June 19, 1872, and has been in the coal business 
almost a quarter of a century. Mr. Blair is also Secretary 
of the A. G. Blair Co. and was formerly connected with J. 
H. Somers & Co., Cleveland, Ohio. 

JOHX LOUIS BUESCHEX, doing a retail coal business at 
1S12 Starr Ave., Toledo, Ohio, was born In Toledo January 5. 
1884, and has been in the coal business for fourteen years. 
He is a son of Anton Bueschen. 

"WILLIAM M. BUESCHEX, retail coal merchant at 3129 
Maplewood Ave., Toledo, Ohio, was born in Toledo January 
8. 1882, and has been in the coal business for himself for 
eight years. He was associated -with his father, Anton 
Bueschen, for ten years before branching out for himself. 

FRANK R. CORNELL, President Home Fuel & Supply 
Co., 2303 Broadway, Toledo, Ohio, was born in Toledo, De- 
cember 3, 18S4, and has been in the coal business four years. 
Mr. Cornell was previously Traveling Freight Agent for 
the Wabash Railway and prior to that was employed by 
the Powhatan Coal Co. 

SAM DAVIS, prominent retailer with offices at 1502 Elm 
St., Toledo. Ohio, was born in Toledo June 27, 1883. He has 
been in the coal business for eleven years and now handles 
a large tonnage. 

GEORGE M. GANG, Secretary of the France Coal Co. with 
offices in the Spitzer Building, Toledo, Ohio, was born in 
Toledo. November 7, 1898, and has been in the coal business 
since 1913. 

CARL J. GIESE, Manager and Treasurer of the Giese 
Bros. Co.. doing a large retail coal business with two yards, 
at 1724 Starr Ave. and 4093 Detroit Ave., Toledo, Ohio, was 
born in Fremont, Ohio, May 25, 1877, and has been In the 
coal business five years. Mr. Giese "wsls formerly connected 
with the Crescent Fuel Co. and the Toledo Fuel Co. 

EDGAR C. HALL, General Sales Agent of the Elmer Miller 
Coal Co., Nicholas Building, in Toledo, Ohio, was born at 
Bluffton, Ohio, March 3, 1887, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness fifteen years. Mr. HcU "was formerly connected with 
the Powhatan Coal Co. of Toledo. 

G. HERMAX, founder of G. Herman & Son, retail coal 
merchants at Toledo, Ohio, was born in Germany in 1836, 
and has been in the coal business for thirty-six years. Al- 
though he has now retired, the business is being continued 
under the same firm name. 

RALPH E. HERMAN, Manager of G. Herman & Son, re- 
tailers doing business at 1402 Summit St., Toledo, Ohio, was 
born at LaSalle. Michigan. March 20, 1868, and has been in 
the coal business for thirty years. 

CLYDE H. HOYT, Secretary and Treasurer of the Clyde H. 
Hoyt Co., "Wholesalers with offices in the Nicholas Building, 
Toledo, Ohio, "was born at Liberty Center, Ohio, September 
4, 1879, and has been in the coal business for eighteen years. 
Mr. Hoyt "was formerly connected with the Hiawatha Coal 
Co.. New York Coal Co., and W. P. Hubbs. 

AXDREW J. JOHNSON, a partner in the Johnson Coa". Co., 
wholesalers with offices in the Spitzer Building, Toledo, Ohio, 
"was born at Toledo, January 12, 1869, and has been in the 
coal business ten years. 

ARTHUR L. JOHNSON, General Manager and partner with 
the .Johnson Coal Co., wholesalers with offices in the Spitzer 
Building, Toledo, Ohio, was born at Toledo, April 18, 1879, 
and has been in the coal business twenty-two years. Mr. 
Johnson -was formerly connected with John T. Solon and 
Solon Lowery Mining Co., both of Toledo. 



LESLIE G. MILLER. Manager of the Miller Coal Co., do- 
ing a retail business at Millard Ave. and T. T. Ry., Toledo, 
Ohio, was born at Toledo, January 31, 1893, and has been in 
the coal business for five years, Mr. Miller also does a 
general motor trucking business. 

JOHN NAGY, retailer doing business at 2012 Front St., 
Toledo, Ohio, was born at Lanez, Hungary, January 14, 1869, 
and has been in the coal business for twenty years. 

MICHAEL C. SULLIVAN, Agent M. A. Hanna & Co., large 
wholesalers with offices in Toledo, Ohio, was liorn in Ireland 
July 10, 1862, and has been in the coal business for sixteen 
years. Mr. Sullivan is also interested in the Ironville Dock 
& Coal Co. 

ARLO A. TAYLOR, of the A. A. Taylor Coal Co.. wliole- 
salers at Toledo, Ohio, with offices in the Ohio Building, 
•was born in Toledo October 27, 1880, and has been in the 
coal business fifteen years. Mr. Taylor was previously con- 
nected with the M. A. Hanna Coal Co., Frisbie-Morgan Coal 
Co., and the Toledo Coal Sales Co. 

ROBERT \V. TAYLOR. Secretary and General Manager of 
the Home Fuel & Supply Co., doing a retail coal business at 
Toledo, Ohio, was born in Toledo in 1882 and has been in 
the coal business five years. 

JOHN M. VOLLMAYER, retail coal merchant in business 
at Toledo, Ohio, was born in Toledo April 26, 1864, and has 
been in the coal business for thirty years. Mr. Vollmayer is 
continuing the business started by his father, John Voll- 
mayer, in 1870. 

A. BOYD WILSON, Sales Agent of the Cleveland & West- 
ern Coal Co., doing a wholesale coal business, with offices 
in the Second National Bank Building, Toledo, Ohio, was 
born in Madison County, Ohio, December 6, 1892, and has 
been in the coal business for two years. 



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CLARENCE J. AMOS, Portage, Ohio, was born in Portage 
January 23, 1884, and has been in the coal business eight 
years. 

JAMES H. ANDREW, General Manager of the retail coal 
business of Andrew Bros., Cedarville, Ohio, was born in 
Cedarville September 6, 1848, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness over forty years. 

JAMES C. ANKNEY of Ankney & Co., Sycamore, Ohio, 
was born in Sycamore October 2, 1870, and has been in the 
coal business three years. 

X. ESTA AHXOLD of the Chapman Coal & Supply Co., 
Marion, Ohio, was born in Pomeroy, Ohio, July 23, 1868, and 
has been in the coal business fifteen years. He is now in- 
terested in a mine at Moxahola, in the Thin Vein district 
of Ohio. He was for nine years Sales Agent for the Jones 
& Adams Coal Co., Chicago. He was formerly "nath W. P. 
Hubbs and the Charter Oak Coal Co., Toledo. 

AUGUSTUS ASHWORTH, owner of the Ashworth Coal 
Co., Middletown, Ohio, was born in Ohio in 1S55, and has 
been in the coal business fifteen years. Previously to his 
present business proposition he was buyer fifteen years for 
the Tylus-Gardner Paper Co. 

GEORGE S. BACON, Manager Bacon & Son, Leesburg, 
Ohio, was born in Leesburg, and has been in the retail coal 
business eleven years. 

L. E. BALDWIX, West Liberty, Ohio, was born in West 
Liberty April 3, 1868, and has been in the coal business 
sixteen years. He was formerly with Baldwin & Elliott. 

LUMAN BALYEAT, President Balyeat Coal & Builders 
Supply Co., Van Wert, Ohio, was born in Van Wert County, 
Ohio, September 23, 1863, and has been in the coal business 
fourteen years. 

JAMES H. BARNETT of Barnett & Dustman, Columbus 
Grove, Ohio, has been in the coal business three years. 

HEXRY O. BARXT, Secretary, Treasurer and General 
Manager Lutz. Barnt & Lutz, Delphos, Ohio, was born in 
Elida, Ohio, June 22, 1883, and has been in the retail coal 
business ten years. 

CHARLES O. BARXTHOUSE, retail coalman of Agosta, 
Ohio, was born in Marion County, Ohio, July 30, 1868, and has 
been in the coal business for thirteen years. 

FRED W. BAUER, Springfield, Ohio, with Rogers, Brown 
& Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, was born in Springfield November 
9, 1878, and has been in the coke business sixteen years. 

,1. E. BAUMGARTNER, President Minglewood Coal Co., 
Wellston, Ohio, "was born in North Lawrence, Ohio, Febru- 
ary 6, 1880, and has been in the coal business twenty-six 
years. He is also interested in the Detroit & Wellston Coal 
Co. and the Milton Colliery Co. He was formerly with M. 
A. Hanna & Co. and General Manager of the Superior Col- 
liery Co. 



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CHAS. A. BECHERER, Secretary and Manager of the Crys- 
tal Park Lumber & Coal Co., Canton, Ohio, has been in the 
coal business for seven years. 

ESTEL R. BECK, retail coal merchant at Bethel, Ohio, 
was born in Bethel March 16, 18S2, and has been in the coal 
business since 1916. He succeeded G. O. Rush at Bethel. 

E. F. BECKERT of Beckert Bros., Piqua, Ohio, was born 
in Piqua thirty-tw^o years ago, and has been in the retail 
coal business six years. 

F. A. BECKERT of Beckert Bros., Piqua, Ohio, was born 
in Piqua thirty-seven years ago, and has been in the retail 
coal business thirteen years. He was formerly with E. M. 
Wilbee. 

JOHiV A. BENNETT, Ravenna, Ohio, was born in Niagara 
County, New York, and has been in the retail coal business 
twenty-three years. 

CHARLES J. BENTON, President Chapman Coal Co., Jack- 
son, Ohio, was born in Potter County, Pennsylvania. No- 
vember 6, 1860, and has been in the coal business thirty- 
five years, Avith the same company. He is Secretary of the 
Jackson County Coal Club. 

ALEXANDER BERGER, retail coal merchant of Berea, 
Ohio, was born in Germany, December 29, 1853, and has been 
in business for himself thirtj^-one years. 

THOMAS R. BIDDLE, Vice President and General Mana- 
ger of the Morris-Poston Coal Co. of Athens, Ohio, was born 
In Pleasant County, "West Virginia, in November, 186.3, and 
has been in the coal business for sixteen years. He is also 
Treasurer of the Poston Consolidated Coal Co., Vice Presi- 
dent of the Sugar Creek Coal & Mining Co., and a Director of 
the Millfleld Coal & Mining Co. 

WALLACE C. BIERCE, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, was born 
in Tallmadge, Ohio, September 5, 1863, and has been in the 
retail coal business six years. 

IRA F, BIGONY, Manager The Fuel & Supply Co., Leb- 
anon, Ohio, was born in Fairfield County, Ohio, in 1864, 
and has been in the retail coal business three years. 

LLOYD B. BIRNEY, Secretary and Treasurer of the Purl- 
tan Coal Co., Cambridge, Ohio, was born in Harrison 
County, Ohio, October 18, 1875, and has been in the coal 
business nine years. Before coming with this firm Mr. 
Birney was connected with the Central National Bank of 
Cambridge for eight years. 

F. G. BLACK is Manager of the retail coal business of M. 
L. Branyan & Bro., Mansfield, Ohio. 

\V. F. BLACK of W. F. Black & Co., Good Hope, Ohio, was 
born in Danville, Ohio, in 1861, and has been in the coal 
business thirteen years. 

WILLIAM HENRY BLANEY, President and General Mana- 
ger of the Little Gem Coal Co. of Cannelville, Ohio, was 
born at Pomeroy, Ohio, November 28, 1858, and has been in 
the coal business for twenty years. Mr. Blaney was for- 
merly connected with Walnut Hill Coal Co., Duncan Run 
Coal Co., Oak Knob Coal Co., W. H. Blaney Coal Co., Red 
Bud Coal Co., Rose Hill Coal Co., Black Hawk Coal Co., and 
Big Creek Coal Co. 

FRANK H. BOGARDUS, owner Scioto Coal & Feed Co., 
Kenton, Ohio, was born in Kenton August 17, 1878, and has 
been in the retail coal business six years. 

WILLIAM BOREN, doing a retail coal business at Ash- 
land, Ohio, was born in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, on 
May 5, 1850, and has been in business for thirty-five years at 
Ashland. 

T. A. BOYD, Manager Richards & Boyd, New Paris, Ohio, 
was born in Tipton, Indiana. October 30, 1859, and has been 
in the coal business thirteen years. 

M. L. BRANYAN of M. L. Branyan & Bro., Mansfield, Ohio, 
has been in the retail coal business thirty-five years. 

CHARLES C. BRONSON, retail coal merchant at Bloom- 
ville, Ohio, was born in Adrian, Michigan, November 22, 1S63, 
and has been in the coal business five years. 

HARRY BROW^N, President Miners Block Coal Co., Ray- 
land. Ohio, was born in England September 6, 1879, and 
has been in the coal business twenty-four years. He is 
also interested in the Bertha Coal Co. He was formerly 
with the Pittsburgh-Buffalo Coal Co. 

AMOS BRUBAKER of Amos Brubaker & Son, Ohio City, 
Ohio, was born in Ashland, Ohio, in 1858. and has been in 
the coal business eight years. 

FOREST BRUBAKER of Amos Brubaker & Son, Ohio 
City, Ohio, was born in Ohio City in 1892, and has been in 
the coal business eight years. 

LEWIS J. BUCHER, Superintendent Bucher Bros. Coal 
Co., New Philadelphia, Ohio, was born in Mineral City, Ohio, 
June 6, 1876, and has been in the coal business eight years. 

CHARI,ES M. BURRis, Dresden, Ohio, was born in Dres- 
den, June 12, 1S52, and has been in the retail coal business 
ten years. 



C. W. CAINE, retail coal merchant doing business at 
Cleves, Ohio, is a native of Cleves, born in 1870, and has 
been in the coal business for fifteen years. 

G. MORGAN CALLANDER, Secretary and Treasurer Kir- 
by-Callander Co., Painesville, Ohio, was born in Paines- 
ville, and has been in the coal business seventeen years. 

REESE GARRETT CALVERT, Selma, Ohio, was born in 
Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, January 21, 1857, and has 
been in the retail coal business thirty-four years. 

JAMES A. CAMERON, General Superintendent of the Mor- 
ris Coal Co., doing a retail business at Cambridge, Ohio, was 
born in London, Ontario, Canada, September 10, 1891, and has 
been in the coal business five years. Mr. Cameron was 
formerly connected with the Pond Creek Coal Co., United 
States Coal & Oil Co., and the Ellsworth Collieries Co. He 
is now serving in the United States Army as First Lieuten- 
ant, 319th Engineers. 

GEORGE W. CASSINGHAM, President and General Mana- 
ger Oden Valley Coal Co., Coshocton, Ohio, was born in Co- 
shocton January 8, 1867, and has been in the coal business 
thirty-one years. He was formerly with the Hudson Coal 
Co. 

ARNOLD F. CHAMPNEY, half owner Ackelson & Champ- 
ney, Oberlin, Ohio, w^as born in Vermilion, Ohio, January 
29, 1871, and has been in the coal business twelve years. 

H. G. CLORE, President and Manager Fostoria Ice & Coal 
Co., Fostoria, Ohio, was born in Rising Sun, Indiana, in 
1863, and has been in the coal business eight years. 

HORACE ELLSWORTH COLE, President Midvale Coal 
Co., Midvale, Ohio, was born in Dellroy, Ohio, April 11, 1862, 
and has been in the coal business sixteen years. He ■was 
formerly ycith the Royal Goshen Coal Co. 

JOHN B. CONNERS of the J. B. Conners Coal Co., Day- 
ton, Ohio, was born in Toronto, Canada, June 4, 1856, and 
has been in the coal business fourteen years. He has 
served as President of the Dayton Coal Exchange. Thirty- 
four years of his life was passed in railroading. 

JAY F. CONVERSE, Sales Manager of the Stillwater Coal 
Mining Co. of Akron, Ohio, was born at Grafton, Ohio, July 
1, 1875, and has been in the coal business for sixteen years. 
Mr. Converse is also President and Treasurer of the Quaker 
Coal Co. and was formerly connected with the Cuyahoga 
v„oal Co. and Steiner Coal Co., both of Cleveland, Ohio. 

GEORGE T. COOK of George Cook & Son, Sylvania, Ohio, 
■was born in Sylvania September 12, 1866, and has been in 
the retail coal business thirteen years. 

ROLLIE F. COOK of Cook's Coal & Tile Yards, Republic, 
Ohio, ■was born in Republic October 25, 1893, and has been 
in the coal business three years. 

SETH COOK, Waynesville, Ohio, was born in 1846, and 
has been in the retail coal business thirty-one years. 

JOHN MILTON COOLEY, General Manager and Secretary 
Majestic Coal Co., Nelsonville, Ohio, was born in Athens 
County, Ohio, May 1, 1884, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness fourteen years. He was formerly with the New York 
Coal Co. and the Sunday Creek Coal Co. 

JOHN E.- COOPER, Chief Electrician of the Carnegis Steel 
Co., miners of Bellaire, Ohio, -was born in England in 1872, 
and has been in the coal business for a quarter of a cen- 
tury. He was formerly connected --with the Cooper Coal 
Works and is interested at present in the Bellaire mines, 
steel ■works and blast furnaces. 

LEE A. CRISP, Secretary and Treasurer of John Crisp & 
Sons Co., Akron, Ohio, ■was born at Akron, May 6, 1883, and 
has been in the coal business for fifteen years. He is also 
Vice President of the Interstate Coal Mining Co. and has 
been Secretary and Treasurer of the Akron Coal Club for 
three years. 

NORRIS L. CURTIS, Manager and Vice President Charles 
L. Koch Co., Maumee, Ohio, was born in Olivet, Michigan, 
August 23, 1868, and has been in the retail coal business 
twenty-six years. He has other coal interests at Perrys- 
burg and Waterville. He was formerly with F. J. Matzinger. 

E. A. CUTLER, Russellville, Ohio, was born in Russell- 
ville November 27, 1855, and has been in the retail coal 
business six years. 

A. M. DAUGHERTY, Manager Daugherty & Co., Derby, 
Ohio, was born in Franklin County, Ohio, June 10, 1872, and 
has been in the retail coal business sixteen years. He ■was 
formerly with Jones & Co. 

HARRY GIBSON DAVID, Findlay, Ohio, was born In 
Cleveland, Ohio, August 18, 1875, and has been in the coal 
business thirteen years. He was formerly with Howe & 
David. 

B. T. DAVISj Westerville. Ohio, was born in Dublin, Ohio. 
June 28, 1848, and has been in the retail coal business 
thirty-one years. He was formerly with Adams & Davis. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



DAVID DAVIS. Conesville, Ohio, was born in Conesville 
June 17, 1SS4. and has been in the coal business since 1885. 
Mr. Davis lias had experience in all branches of the coal 
industry and now has active charge of coal properties con- 
sisting- of 3.000 acres, with two plants each and with three 
miles of railway. Aside from being- a pioneer coal man Mr. 
Davis served his country in the Civil War, having enlisted 
when but seventeen years of age. 

ALBERT XEWTO.N' DEATON. General Manager A. N. 
Deaton & Son. Dayton. t)hio. was born in Donnelsville, Ohio, 
in ISSy. and has been in the retail coal business fourteen 
years. He was formerly with J. C. Ensley. 

CHARLES F. DECKER, Vermilion, Ohio, was born in 
Vermilion November 0. 1S62. and has been in the retail 
coal business thirty-two years. He was formerly with 
Decker Bros. 

E. K. DELAXEV, President Burlington Coal Co., Martins 
Ferry. Ohio, was born in Short Creek. "West Virginia, Febru- 
ary 14, 1S62, and has been in the coal business six years. 

S. L,. DEMOXGE, FayetteviUe, Ohio, was born in France 
in 1858, and has been in the coal business eight years. 

THEO. DETWILER, retail coal merchant at Brookville, 
Ohio, was born in Brookville July 3, 1858, and has been in 
the coal business twelve years. 

CHARLES DIEXSTBERGER, Delphos, Ohio, was born in 
Delphos July 21, 1854, and has been in the coal business 
forty-one years, succeeding his father. 

L. C. DOUGLASS, Manager L. C. Douglass & Co., Jeffer- 
son. Ohio, has been in the retail coal business nineteen 
years. 

M. R. DOWXIXG, coal jobber and operator, Middleport, 
Ohio, was born in Middleport August 4, 1870, and has been 
in the coal business sixteen years. He was formerly with 
the Cincinnati Gas, Coke, Coal & Mining Co., Smokeless 
Fuel Co., Jackson Coal & Coke Co., and West Virginia 
Standard Coal Co. 

BERT DRAKE of Lewis & Drake, Lebanon, Ohio, was 
born near Lebanon October 18, 1872, and has been in the 
retail coal business sixteen years. 

JOHX C. DR.AKE, Kimball, Ohio, was born in North Mon- 
roeville. Ohio, December 13, 1860, and has been in the retail 
coal business t^venty-eight years. 

PLERRE W". DRAKE, Tellow Springs, Ohio, was born 
January 6, 1876, and has been in the coal business six years. 

ELMER DREW of Drew Bros., retailers of Arcanum, 
Ohio, was born at Arcanum in 1870, and has been in the coal 
business for ten years. 

CARL F. DLDTE, Manager C. F. Dudte & Co., Loudon- 
ville, Ohio, ^vas born in Loudonville December 31, 1888, and 
has been In the retail coal business nine years. 

EDWARD F. DUERR, Hamilton, Ohio, was born in Ham- 
ilton August 26, 1882, and has been in the retail coal busi- 
ness fifteen years, 

JOHX G. ECK3IA1V, Secretary, Treasurer and Manager 
Eckman Coal Co., Girard, Ohio, "was born in Niles, Ohio, 
January 4, 1874, and has been in the coal business sixteen 
years. 

F. W. ELBRECHT of the Piqua Coal & Iron Co., Piqua, 
Ohio, was born in Hanover. Germany, August 25, 1853, and 
has been in the coal business twenty-four years. 

C. F. ELSCHLAGER, Georgetown, Ohio, was born in 
Brown County, Ohio, May 17, 1860, and has been in the coal 
business fourteen years. He was formerly with John 
Donald. 

CALA'IX ESSEX, President Essex Coal Co., Statler & 
Essex Coal Co., Lost Run Coal Co. and Halestock Coal Co., 
New Straitsville, Ohio, was born in Morgan County, Ohio, 
August 5, 1848, and has been In the coal business twenty- 
four years. 

CHARLES ESSEX of the Essex Coal Co., New Straitsville, 
Ohio, was born in New Straitsville August 13, 1874, and has 
been associated in the coal business with his father, Calvin 
Essex. 

FRED ESSEX, Manager Essex Coal Co., New Straits- 
ville, Ohio, was born in New Straitsville thirty years ago. 
He is in charge of the Columbus office. 

ROBERT LOGAX ESSEX, Superintendent Essex Coal Co., 
Ne-^v Straitsville, Ohio, "was born in New Straitsville Janu- 
ary 6. 1886, and has been in the coal business eleven years. 

EVAX E. EUBANKS, President Rowland Block Coal & 
Clay Co., Jackson, Ohio, was born in Jackson October 13, 
1872, and has been in the coal business six years. He is 
also interested in the Ohio & Indiana Collieries Co. He 
was formerly w^ith the Wood Coal Co. 

ED. T. EVANS, General Manager T. J. Evans Coal Co., 
Coalton, Ohio, was born in Oak Hill, Ohio, April 6, 1869, and 
has been in the coal business since 1888. Mr. Evans has 
other coal interests in Eastern Ohio and Kentucky. 



WALTER D. .1. EVERETT, West Mllton, Ohio, was born 
in West Millon February 5, 1859, and has been in the retail 
coal business tlnrty-fi\-e years. 

FR.VXK FARaUHAR, Wilmington, Ohio, was born in 
Clinton County, Ohio, April 10, 1835, and has been in the 
retail coal business seventeen years. 

-MRS. .L T. PEXXESSY, Urbana, Ohio, was born in St. 
Paris, Ohio, April 17, 1874, and has been in the retail coal 
business three years. 

COXRAD C. PERXSELL, President and Treasurer Reeves 
Coal Co., New Philadelphia, Ohio, was born in Strasburg, 
Ohio, November 24. 1882, and has been in the coal business 
five years. 

E. M. FIXDLEY, Edge Hill, Bellaire, Ohio, was born in 
Freeport. Pennsylvania, October 31, 1870, and has been in 
the coal business eighteen years. He was Mine Manager for 
the West Virginia-Pittsburgh Coal Co. and the Lewis-Find- 
ley Coal Co. Mr. Findley organized the first electric coal 
stripping company. 

H. R. FIXFROCK of H. R. Finfrock & Son, retailers at 
Brookville, Ohio, is a native of Brookville, and has been in 
the coal business for fourteen years. He was formerly con- 
nected with Detwiler & Finfrock. 

ALBERT L. FLACK, Holmesville, Ohio, was born In 
Holmesville January 4, 1875, and has been in the retail coal 
business four years. 

PAUL B. FLACH, Manager Flach Bros., Piqua, Ohio, was 
born in Charleston, South Carolina, May 10, 1873, and has 
been in the retail coal business twenty-five years. 

AVM. H. FLACH of Flach Bros., Piqua, Ohio, was born 
in Charleston, South Carolina, October 2, 1871, and has 
been in the retail coal business twenty-five, years. 

J. R. B. FLAGG, General Manager The Anderson-Shaffer 
Co., Hamilton, Ohio, was born in Hamilton April 25, 1881, 
and has been in the retail coal business six years. 

J. F. FLAXXIGAX of J, P. Flannigan & Son, Portsmouth, 
Ohio, was born in Mount Savage, Maryland. March 16. 1848, 
and was in the retail coal business up to his sudden death 
January 27, 1918. The business is being continued under 
the same name. 

HOMER A. FORSYTHE, Treasurer and General Manager 
Forsythe Coal Co., Cambridge, Ohio, is a native of Cam- 
bridge, and has been in the coal business twenty-six years. 
He is also interested in the Pittsburgh-Belmont Coal Co. 
and the Number Eight Coal Co. He was formerly connected 
with the New Camta-Coal Mining Co. 

CHARLES F. FRAXKLIX^ Secretary and Manager of the 
Franklin Bros. Co. of Akron, Ohio, was born at Cleveland, 
Ohio, April 28, 1873, and has been in the coal business for 
three years. 

LEWIS F. FREDERICK, Manager of B. F. Fiederick & 
Son, Akron, Ohio, was born in Copley, Ohio, August 28, 
1880, and has been in business four years. 

JOHX D. FREYHOF, Glendale, Ohio, was born in Glen- 
dale May 16, 1864, and has been in the retail coal business 
thirty-four years. He was formerly with Dooley & Frey- 
hof and Freyhof & Lehrer. 

CORNELIUS FRIEDLY of C. Friedly & Sons, Dunkirk, 
Ohio, was born in Stark County, Ohio. May 27, 1849, and has 
been in the coal business forty-one years. Associated with 
him are his three sons, who took over the management of 
the business in 1913. 

OHLEX FRIEDLY of C. Friedly & Sons. Dunkirk, Ohio, 
was born in Dunkirk in 1876, and has been in the coal 
business thirty-one years. 

WILLARD GALLEHER, President Delaware Ice & Coal 
Co., Delaware, Ohio, was born in Delaware in 1858, and has 
been in the coal business thirty-one years. 

ELMER E. GAXSTER President Ganster-Keller Coal Co., 
Dayton, Ohio, was born in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, Octo- 
ber 7, 1868, and has been in the coal business eighteen 
years. He has served as Secretary of the Dayton Coal Ex- 
change. 

KARL W. GAXSTER, Vice President Ganster-Keller Coal 
Co., Dayton, Ohio, was born in Dayton April 20, 1890, and 
has been in the coal business five years. 

AUGUSTUS H. GAUMER of the Gaumer Coal Co., Ur- 
bana, Ohio, was born in Urbana, and has been in the coal 
business five years, succeeding H. C. Johnson. 

GEORGE E. GAUMER of the Gaumer Coal Co., Urbana. 
Ohio, was born in Urbana, and has been in the retail coal 
business five years. 

JACOB F. GEPHART, General Manager Versailles Grain 
Co., Versailles, Ohio, was born In Shelby County, Ohio, 
September 15, 1864. and has been in the retail coal business 
fourteen years. He was formerly with Gephart & Hile. 
Mcffit Grain Co., Russia Grain Co., and Ansonia Grain Co. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



GEOHGE F. GERMAIIV. President Corning Mining- Co., 
Corning-, Ohio, was born in Petrolia, Ontario, Canada, Feb- 
ruary y, 1879, and has been in the coal business three years. 

EMMETT GHERST, Sales Manager at Cleveland, Ohio, for 
Weston Dodson & Co., Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, -was born 
in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, January 5, 1S81, and has been 
in the sales end ot the coal business t-wo years. 

CHARLES FREMONT GIU,, Richvi'ood. Ohio, -was born in 
Richwood June 9, 1856, and has been in the coal business 
thirty-seven years. 

CHARLES S. GINN, President The Ginn Co., Ironton, Ohio, 
-^vas born in New England, Ohio, January 25, 1866, and has . 
been in the coal business t-wenty-five years. 

HARVEY GLASS, Minerva, Ohio, was born in East Roch- 
ester, Ohio, July 28, 1876, and has been in the retail coal 
business two years. 

J. W\ GOMPF, Waldo, Ohio, was born in Waldo May 29, 
1873, and has been in the retail coal business twenty-two 
years. 

JAMES GARFIELD GRAHAM, General Manager of the 
Navarre' Street Coal Co., Canton, Ohio, was born in Wooster, 
Ohio, September 3, 1885, and has been in the coal business 
two years. Mr. Graham is now a Lieutenant in the Service. 

R. W. GRAHAM, Manager Liberty Center Grain & Stock 
Co., Liberty Center, Ohio, was born in Wood County, Ohio, 
September 29, 1888, and has been in the retail coal busi- 
.ness four years. He was formerly with Cruikshank & 
Wright and Cruikshank & Bennett. 

C. P. GRESS, New Bremen, Ohio, was born in New Bre- 
men April 15, 1861, and has been in the retail coal business 
thirty-six years. 

CHARLES E. GRUBE of the Charles E. Grube Coal Co., 
Springfield, Ohio, was born in Springfield November 30, 1865, 
and has been in the retail coal business eleven years. 

JOHN H. GRUTB, Sales Agent at Cleveland, Ohio, for The 
Pocock Coal Co., Massillon, Ohio, was born in Youngstown, 
Ohio, October 19, 1851, and has been in the coal business 
thirty-four years. He was formerly connected with the 
Lake View Coal Co. of Akron, Ohio, and the Todd-Stam- 
baugh Co. of Cleveland. 

FRANK J. HALL, Secretary and Treasurer Jackson & 
West Virginia Fuel Co., Dayton, Ohio, was born in Wells- 
ton, Ohio, August 21, 1875, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness twenty-one years. He is also interested in the Remple 
Fuel Co. 

VORIS E. HALL, President and General Manager Jack- 
son & West A^irginia Fuel Co., Dayton, Ohio, was born in 
Coalton, Ohio, and has been in the coal business forty-one 
years. He is Manager of the Jackson Low Ash Coal Co. 

.T. A. HAMH.TON of the Niles Fuel & Supply Co., Niles, 
Ohio, has been in the coal business four years. 

FRANK K. HAMMETT, Leipsic, Ohio, was born in Cov- 
ington, Ohio, March 21, 1861, and has been in the retail coal 
business thirty-seven years. 

ERNST F. HANSON, Secretary, Treasurer and General 
Manager The E. P. Hanson Co., Wauseon, Ohio, was born in 
Norwalk. Ohio, in 1882, and has been in the retail coal 
business sixteen years. He was formerly with Bartlett & 
Hanson. 

J. C. HARING, Massillon, Ohio, Secretary and Treasurer 
Pocock Coal Co. and President and Treasurer of the Mas- 
sillon City Coal Co. and of the Massillon-Belmont Coal Co., 
was born in Wurtemberg. Germany, August 7, 1846, and has 
been in the coal business twenty-one years. 

W. J. HARPER, Manager Indian Coal Co., Wauseon, Ohio, 
was born in Ontario. Canada, March 21, 1854, and has been 
in the retail coal business six years. 

E. A. HARRIS, Secretary and Manager Crystal Ice & Coal 
Co., Lima, Ohio, was born in Ohio in 1891, and has been 
in the retail coal business six years. 

HARRY D. HARRIS, Marysville, Ohio, was born in Dela- 
ware County, Ohio, April 20, 1868, i^nd has been in the coal 
business two years. 

LTJCITJS F. HARRIS, junior member of Harris Bros., re- 
tailers at Chagrin Falls, Ohio, was born in Chagrin Falls, 
February 5, 1874, and has been in the coal business for twen- 
ty years. He was formerly connected with Baer & Rehbery. 
STANLEY' P. HARRIS, Secretary and Manager Springfield 
Coal & Ice Co., Springfield, Ohio, was born in Champaign, 
Illinois, January 7, 1872, and has been in the retail coal 
business six years. 

C. M. HARRISON of Harrison Bros.. Wauseon. Ohio, was 
born in Wauseon, Ohio, November 16, 1871, and has been in 
the coal business twenty-two years. 

ERVIN HARSH, Kensington, Ohio, was born in Augusta, 

Ohio, January 15, 1876, and has been mining coal five years. 

SA3HJEL HART, retail coal merchant at Bradford, Ohio, 

was born at Richmond, Indiana, January 17, 1866, and has 

been in the coal business for fifteen years. 



SHERMAN S. HEABLER, Manager and a member of the, 
coal firm of Heabler & Heabler of Attica, Ohio, was born in 
Sandusky, Ohio, February 27, 1874, and has been in the 
coal business since 1906. This firm owns and operates the 
Attica Flour Mills and Elevator, the latter formerly known 
as the J. I. Friedley Elevator. Sheridan L. Heabler, a 
brother, and Kenneth J. Heabler, a cousin, are also inter- 
ested in the firm. 

THOMAS HEAP, Urbana, Ohio, was born in Littleborough, 
England, August 9, 1862, and has been in the coal business 
thirteen years. 

GERALD LEE HEILNER, President and Treasurer of the 
Crystal Park Luinber & Coal Co., doing a retail coal business 
at Canton, Ohio, was born at Dalton, Ohio, September 9, 1888, 
and has been in the coal business for seven years. 

HERBERT B. HEIMANN of Heimann Bros., retailers 
jf coal at Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, is a native of Massillon, 
Ohio, born August 8, 1886, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for one year. 

LEE C. HEINLON, Manager of the Bucyrus Lumber Co.. 
doing a retail coal business at Bucyrus, Ohio, was born in 
Bucyrus June 23, 1885, and has been in the coal business fif- 
teen years. 

LOUIS H. HELLING, Treasurer and Manager Burlington 
Coal Co., Martins Ferry, Ohio, -was born in Martins Ferry 
April 8. 1886, and has been in the coal business eleven years. 
He was formerly with Helling Bros. 

CHARLES H. HERNER of Herner Bros., Newton Falls, 
Ohio, was born in Newton Falls, March 25, 1865, and has 
been in the retail coal business twenty-seven years. 

WILLIAM P. HIEGEL, Dawn, Ohio, was born in Shelby 
Countj', Ohio, and has been in the retail coal business three 
years. 

M. K. HITCHCOCK, Sales Agent, Portsmouth, Ohio, was 
born in Sciotoville, Ohio, June 15, 1887, and has been in 
the coal business seven years. He was formerly with the 
Black Fork Co. 

EDWARD HITE, Martins Ferry, Ohio, was born in Peoria, 
Illinois, October 18, 1870, and has been in the coal business 
thirty-one years. Mr. Hite leases and operates the Laughlin 
mine of the United States Steel Co. He has been a coal 
operator twenty years. 

CHARLES DELNOW HOPKINS, President and Treasurer 
of the Hocking Mining Co. and the Eureka Coal Co., Athens, 
Ohio, was born in Athens July 28, 1869, and has been in the 
coal business twenty years. 

D. E. HOWELL, Lewisburg, Ohio, was born in Lewisburg 
March 13, 1875, and has been In the retail coal business 
three years. 

CURTIS G. HURSH, President of the Hursh Coal Co., re- 
tailers at Canton, Ohio, was born at Minerva, Oliio, February 
17, 1869, and has been in the coal business for ten years. 

DANIEL HUDSON of the Dan Hudson Coal Co., Coshoc- 
ton, Ohio, was born in Coshocton in 1870, and has been in 
the coal business thirty-one years. 

FRANK R. HURLEY, Manager of the Stiles Co., Xenia, 
Ohio, was born in New Burlington, Ohio, November 23, 1871, 
and has been in the retail coal business twenty-two years. 

E. A. HURSH, Vice President of the Hursh Coal Co. of 
Canton, Ohio, was born at Minerva, Ohio, December 6, 1872, 
and has been in the coal business for six years. He was 
formerly Manager of the City Coal Co. 

F. M. HURSH, Secretary and Treasurer of the Hursh Coal 
Co., doing retail business at Canton. Ohio, -was born at Kil- 
gore, Ohio, October 8, 1858, and has been in the coal business 
for thirteen years. This company has two yards, one at 
eitlier end of the city. 

J. S. HUTTON, Findlay, Ohio, was born in Peru, Indiana. 
in 1854, and has been in the coal business sixteen years. 

J. B. JACKMAN of J. B. Jackman & Son, Lima, Ohio, was 
born in France July 27, 1837. The company does a retail 
coal business. 

AV. J. JACK3IAN of J. B. Jackman & Son, Lima, Ohio, 
was born in Carey, Ohio, August 23, 1865, and has been in 
the retail coal business seventeen years. 

EDWIN H. JAEGER, Secretary Sheridan Coal Co., Day- 
ton, Ohio, was born in New Bremen, Ohio, August 29, 1884, 
and has been in the coal business eighteen years. He is 
also Secretary of the Steele Coal Co. and the Ohio Coal & 
Iron Co., Dayton, and the Fidelity Coal Co., Troy, Ohio. 

GEORGE R. JAMES, Secretary, Treasurer and Manager 
The Falls Lumber Co., Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, was born in 
Cuyahoga Falls in 1854. and has been in the coal business 
twenty-three years. 

RICHARD JAMES, General Manager James Bros. Coal 
Co., Magnolia, Ohio, was born in Youngstown, Ohio, in 
1880, and has been in the retail coal business four years. 



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A. M. JENKINS. Springfleld, Ohio, was born in Clark 
County, Oliio. in 1855, and has been in the retail coal busi- 
ness fifteen years. He was formerly with Jenkins & Black 
and Jenkins & Otstat. 

fH.VULKS E. JOHN of John Bros., Lafayette, Ohio, was 
born in Elida, Ohio, in 1S66. and has been in the retail coal 
business seven years. 

ALFRED CHAKLES JONES, Dayton. Ohio, was born in 
Dayton June 1), 1869, and has been in the coal business 
twenty-six years. He is also a Director in the Coal Deal- 
ers' Association. 

JOHN SITPHIN JONES, Granville, Ohio, Chairman of 
Board Buckeye Coal & Railway Co., Columbus, Ohio, was 
born in Washington Court House, Ohio, January 4, 1849, 
and has been in the coal business twenty-nine years. He 
is also interested in The Jones & Adams Coal Co. and Sun- 
day Creek Coal Co. He was formerly with the Columbus 
& Hocking Valley Coal & Iron Co. He is also President of 
the Wisconsin & Northern Railroad Co. 

C. \V. .lOSI.IN, Secretary Zanesville Coal Co., Zanesville, 
Ohio, was born in Albion, Pennsylvania, October 29, 1859, 
and has been in the coal business twenty-four years. 

A. V. KENNEDY, Milford Center, Ohio, w^as born in Union 
County, Ohio, August 10. 1855, and has been in the retail 
coal business twenty-seven years. 

ARTHUR R. KERR of A. R. Kerr & Co., retailers at Belle- 
fontaine, Ohio, was born in Bellefontaine February 10. 1877, 
and has been in the coal business fifteen years. His father, 
R. S. Kerr, who died in 1915, was in the coal business at the 
same location forty years. 

CHARLES F. KELLER, Secretary-Treasurer Ganster- 
Keller Coal Co., Dayton, Ohio, was born in Dayton Novem- 
ber 25, 1877, and has been in the coal business twelve years. 

JOHN CAMPBELL KERR, Manager Kerr & Kubbs, Shel- 
by, Ohio, was born in Napoleon, Ohio. June 27, 1861, and has 
been in the retail coal business eight years. 

ALBERT H. KING of Albert H. King & Co., Lemoyne, 
Ohio, was born in Monroe County, New York, May 3, 1845, 
and has been in the coal business eight years. 

JAMES J. KIRBY, President Kirby-Callander Co., Paines- 
ville, Ohio, was born in Painesville June 22, 1864. and has 
been in the coal business thirty-eight years. He was for- 
merly with the S. R. King Co. and Truby Coal Co. 

DORR S. KNIGHT of the Knight Coal Co., Wauseon, 
Ohio, was born in Fulton County, Ohio, February 1, 1874, 
and has been in the retail coal business four years. 

F. E. KRAMER of Kramer Bros., New Straitsville, Ohio, 
■was born in New Straitsville in 1886, and has been in the 
coal business eleven years. 

J. P. KRAMER of Kramer Bros., New Straitsville, Ohio, 
was born in New Straitsville in 1875, and is associated with 
F. E. Kramer, mining and selling their own coal. 

FREDERICK J. KROMER of the F. J. Kromer Coal Co., 
Sandusky, Ohio, was born in Monroeville, Ohio, August 10, 
1857, and has been in the retail coal business twenty years. 
Mr. Kromer, although sixty years of age, is a very active 
man. 

A. FRANK KUBBS of Kerr & Kubbs. Shelby, Ohio, was 
born in Shelby September 4. 1884, and has been in the retail 
coal business two years. 

H. D. KUNKLE, Secretary and General Manager of the 
Crystal Ice Manufacturing & Coal Sales Co., Ashtabula. Ohio, 
was born in Ashtabula in 1S86, and has been in the coal 
business four years. 

OTIS FRANCIS LAKE, President Otis F. Lake Coal & 
Ice Co., Dayton, Ohio, 'wa.s born in Jackson County, Ohio, 
November 11, 1877, and has been in the coal business twenty 
years. 

CHARLES C. LAMAN, Manager Laman Bros., Spencer- 
ville, Ohio, \vas born in Allen County, Ohio, in 1879, and 
has been in the coal business nine years. 

CHARLES W. LANG, Manager F. M. Lang & Son, Man- 
chester, Ohio, was born in Manchester November 27, 1873, 
and has been in the retail coal business twenty-seven years. 

THOMAS W'. LAWSON, General Manager Thomas Coal 
Co., Racine, Ohio, was born in New Straitsville, Ohio, in 
187C, and has been in the coal business twenty-eight years. 

GEORGE LAZEAR, Manager Mt. Vernon Hay Co., Mt. 
Vernon, Ohio, was born in West Virginia November 19, 1875, 
and has been in the coal business eleven years. 

CHARLES \V. LEPFLER, Manager Leffler & Bland, Mar- 
lon, Ohio, was born November 1, 1854, and has been in the 
retail coal business fifteen years. 

R. W. LENOX, Richwood. Ohio, was born in Richwood, and 
has been in the coal business tw^enty-one years. He also 
operates yards at North Lewisburg and Woodland, Ohio. 



HEUEH s. LEONARD, Secretary and Treasurer Leonard 
Coal & Supply Co., Dayton, Ohio, was born in West Wood- 
ville, Ohio, March 15, 1882, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness ten years. He served as a Director of the Dayton 
Coal Clearing House during the fuel shortage of the win- 
ter of 1917-18. He is serving now as Secretary of the 
Dayton Coal Dealers Credit Association. 

WILLIAM ELMER LEONARD, President Leonard Coal & 
Supply Co., Dayton, Ohio, was born near West Woodville, 
Ohio, August 31, 1869, and has been in the coal business 
eighteen years. He has served as Treasurer of the Dayton 
Coal Exchange. 

CHARLES E. LEWIS of Lewis & Drake, Lebanon. 
Ohio, was born in Lebanon August 24, 1861, and has been 
in the retail coal business twenty-three years. 

D. F. llvICKLIDER of Morrow & Licklider, Piqua, Ohio, 
was born in Piqua July 27, 1845, and has been in the retail 
coal business eleven years, 

EDWARD M. LINCKE, retailer in business for himself at 
Alliance, Ohio, was born in Stark County, Ohio, on January 
19, 1S73, and has been in the coal business for ten years. 
He was formerly connected with Munter-Lincke Coal Co, 

MARTIN J. LINGLER, Hamilton, Ohio, was born at Ham- 
ilton April 4, 1884, and has been in the retail coal business 
nine years. He was formerly with the Wirtz & Lingler 
Coal Co. 

T. F. LININGER, Conneaut, Ohio, was born in Listonburg, 
Pennsylvania, April 7, 1875, and has been in the retail coal 
business ten years. 

WILLIAM LIPSTRAW of Wm. Lipstraw & Co., Oak Har- 
bor, Ohio, was born on a farm near Trowbridge, Ohio, 
August 24, 1876, and has been in the coal, hay and grain- 
business twenty-eight years. 

FRANK LITTLER of Littler & Leary, East Monroe, Ohio, 
was born in Highland County, Ohio, in 1855, and has been 
in the retail coal business five years. 

D. J. LLOYD, Manager and Secretary Waterville Farmers 
Elevator Co., Waterville, Ohio, was born in Sylvania, Ohio, 
April 2. 1871, and has been in the coal business slightly over 
a year. 

G. U. LLOYD, Farmersville, Ohio, was born in Dublin, 
Ohio, June 25, 1865, and has been in the coal business twen- 
ty-two years. 

JAMES PARDEE LOOMIS, President and General Manager 
of the Akron Coal Co. of Akron. Ohio, was born at Wads- 
worth, Ohio, September 5, 1865. Mr. Loomis has been in the 
coal business for thirty-one years. 

ANDREW M. LOVENZEN, Curtice, Ohio, was born In 
Germany March 8, 1854, and has been in the coal business 
seventeen years. 

SAM LOW', Willoughby, Ohio, was born in Erie, Pennsyl- 
vania, February 5, 1861, and has been in the retail coal 
business seven years. He was formerly with E. W. Reed, 
Erie. 

E. C. MacKENZIE, General Manager Fidelity Coal & Sup- 
ply Co., Lima, Ohio, was born in Kalida, Ohio, October 15, 
1856, and has been in the coal business seventeen years. 

MICHAEL A. MAHER, Greenville, Ohio, was born In 
Champaign County, Ohio, in 1858, and has been in the retail 
coal business thirty-six years. 

FRANK MALSBAREA', retail coal merchant at Blue Ash, 
Ohio, was born in Blue Ash April 4, 1880, and has been in 
the coal business ten years. 

GEORGE A. MANLEY, proprietor of the State Coal Co., 
doing a retail business at Barberton, Ohio, was born in 
Ashland, Ohio, December 1, 1871, and was ■with the Young 
Co. of Barberton for eighteen years until he formed his 
present company a year ago. 

.1. CLYDE MARKLEY, Kenmore, Summit County, Ohio, 
was born in Sharon Township, Medina County, Ohio, Octo- 
ber 1.3, 1877, and has been in the coal business seventeen 
years, although not continuously. He was formerly inter- 
ested in The Loomis Coal Co. of Akron, Ohio, and The 
Card & Barrett Coal Co. of Pittsburgh. He has now val- 
uable coal lands in Preston County, West Virginia. Mr. 
Markley served with the 8th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, "Mc- 
Kinley's Own," in the Spanish-American War. He home- 
steaded in Oklahoma and was connected with the National 
Tube Co. of Lorain, Ohio, for some years. 

GEORGE H. MARSH, Conneaut, Ohio, was born in Con- 
neaut May 12, 1866, and has been in the retail coal business 
thirty-six years. He was formerly with H. J. Marsh. 

.1. H. MARTIN, Dayton, Ohio, Dayton Manager Indian 
Run Coal Co., was born in Fairmont. West Virginia, in 1878, 
and has been in the coal business sixteen years. He was 
formerly with the Parker Run Coal & Coke Co. and the 
Point Mountain Coal & Lumber Co. 



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CHARLES H. 3IASOiV, General Manager Niles Fuel & 
Supply Co.. Nlles, Ohio, has been in the coal business four 
years. 

GEORGE C. MATTHES of the Geo. C. Matthes Coal Co., 
Sandusky, Ohio, was born in Sandusky May 16, 1885, and has 
been in the retail coal business nineteen years. He is 
serving as an official of the Michigan-Ohio-Indiana Coal 
Association. 

JOSEPH T. MATTHEWS, Secretary Marlon Lumber Co., 
Marion. Ohio, was born in Marion September 14, 1863, and 
has been in the coal business twenty-four years. He was 
formerly with Lindsay &. Lawrence and the Marion Lumber 
& Coal Co. 

WILLIAM MATHEWS, Manager Penn Oil Co., Delaware, 
Ohio, 'was born in Centerburg, Ohio. July 7, 1858. and has 
been in the coal business twenty-six years. He was for- 
merly with the Callamal Coal & Coke Co., Peacock Coal 
Co., Thomas Coal Co., and Luella Coal Co. 

ROBERT W. McCASLAND, Superintendent of Mines La 
Belle Iron Works, Steubenville, Ohio, was born in Scenery 
Hill, Pennsylvania, December 8, 1878, and has been at the 
mines seventeen years. He is also interested in the La 
Belle Coke Co. He was formerly with the Vesta Coal Co. 
and Pittsburgh Coal Co. 

NEAL McGREEVY, Vice President and Secretary Mc- 
Greevy & Ortman Co., Dayton, Ohio, was born in Versailles, 
Ohio, August 24, 1873, and has been in the coal business 
fifteen years. 

JOHN MeKEEPREY of McKeefrey & Co., Leetonia, Ohio. 
has been in coal mining operations a quarter of a century. 
He is also interested in the Atlas Coke Co. and the Mc- 
Keefrey Coal Co. 

N. J. 3IcKEEFREY of McKeefrey & Co.. Leetonia, Ohio. 
has been interested in coal mining operations twenty-five 
years. He is also connected with the Atlas Coke Co. and 
the McKeefrey Coal Co. 

W. D. McKEBFREY of McKeefrey & Co., Leetonia, Ohio, 
has been in the operating end of the coal business twenty- 
five years. He is also interested in the Atlas Coke Co. and 
McKeefrey Coal Co. 

JAMES McKITTERIEL, Superintendent Pomeroy Colliery 
Co., Pomeroy, Ohio, was born in Jackson, Ohio, in 1892, and 
has been in the coal business six years. He is also Presi- 
dent of the Carbon Hill Coal Co. He was formerly with 
the Robert Gage Coal Co., Bay City, Michigan. 

HANIEL F. McLaren, Mechanicsburg, Ohio, was born in 
MovTCW County, Ohio, April 17, 1864, and has been in the 
retail coal business eleven years. 

CHARLES S. MeMULLEN of Murphy & McMullen. Dayton, 
Ohio, was born in Dayton, and has been in the coal business 
twenty-eight years. He was formerly w^ith the W. M. 
Whitmore Coal Co. 

JAMES McNALLY of James McNally & Son. St. Marys, 
Ohio, w^as born in Sabina, Ohio, November 5, 1858, and has 
been in the retail coal business fifteen years. 

W^ILLIAM E. McNALLY of James McNally & Son, St. 
Marys, Ohio, was born October 30, 1887, and has been in the 
retail coal business fifteen years. 

JEROME L. MEAD, managing partner Mead & Woodward, 
Norwalk, Ohio, w^as born in Norwalk November 7, 1850. 
and has been in the coal business twenty-five years. 
This company operates yards at Norwalk, Collins and Hart- 
land Station. Ohio. Tlie business was started in 1893 by Mr. 
Mead and D. O. "V\''oodward, When the latter died four years 
ago Mr. Mead became the manager. 

HANNIBAL H. MEEK, proprietor of the Central Coal Co., 
Cambridge. Ohio, was born in Byesville. Ohio, July 21, 
1864, and has been in the coal business twenty-one years. 
He was formerly connected with the Cambridge Fuel Co. 
and the Ohio Coal Co. and was closely associated with Gen- 
eral Warner, a well-known promoter of Ohio, now deceased. 

L. J. MESHINGER, McCutchenville, Ohio, was born in 
Tiffin, Ohio, May 26, 1862, and has been in the retail coal 
business twenty-four years. 

CLYDE F. MILLER, retail coal merchant at Bedford. Ohio, 
was born in West Farmington. Trumbull County, Ohio, April 
28. 1877, and has been in business for himself there eight 
years, having begun in April, 1910. 

JOHN F. T. MILLER of L C. Miller & Co., New Richland, 
Ohio, was born in Logan County, Ohio, December 17, 1860, 
and has been in the retail coal business tw^enty-six years. 
He was formerly with W. H. Johnston as Manager. 

SHERMAN GRANT MILLER. President and Treasurer 
Lion Coal Mining Co., Dayton, Ohio, was born in Baltimore, 
Maryland. July 2, 1867, and has been in the coal business 
six years. 



WILLIAM W^ISE MILLER, Pomeroy, Ohio. General Mana- 
ger Pittsburgh Mining Co., was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, 
July 4, 1878. and has been in the coal business fifteen years. 
He is also General Manager of the West Virginia Washed 
Coal Co. He was formerly with the Plymouth Coal & 
Mining Co., Plymouth, West Virginia. 

ROBERT H. MILLS, Coshocton, Ohio, President Puritan 
Coal Co., Cambridge, Ohio, was born in Harrison County, 
Ohio, June 29, 1865, and has been in the coal business six- 
teen years. 

JESSE C. MINNICH, Trotwood, Ohio, was born in Pots- 
dam, Ohio, October 15, 1882, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness nine years. 

L. P. MOONEY, Secretary Globe Coal Co., Murray City, 
Ohio, was born in Zanesville, Ohio, in 1889, and has been in 
the coal business thirteen years. 

GEORGE T. MOORE of Moore & Black, Good Hope. Ohio, 
has been in the coal business for several years. 

JAMES W^. MORGAN, Jackson, Ohio, was born in Jackson 
January 17, 1880, and has been in the retail coal business 
seventeen years. He was formerly with the Frisbie-Mor- 
gan Coal Co., Toledo, Ohio. 

A. M. MORROAV of A. M. Morrow & Son, Garrettsville, 
Ohio, was born in Piqua, Ohio, November 17, 1833, and 
although advanced in years still goes to his office daily. 
He is associated with his son, C. P. Morrow. 

C. P. MORROW, Manager A. M. Morrow & Son, Garretts- 
ville, Ohio, was born in Piqua, Ohio, October 28, 1877, and 
has been in the coal business for fourteen years. 

H. D. MORROW of Morrow & Licklider, Piqua, Ohio, was 
born in Piqua September 5, 1866, and has been in the retail 
coal business eleven years. 

E. E. MOYER, retail coal merchant at Chardon, Ohio, was 
born at New Hamburg, Pennsylvania, October 9, 1864, and 
has been in business for himself for seven years. 

HERBERT H. MUELLER, Secretary and General Mana- 
ger The John Mueller Co., Lockland, Ohio, was born in 
Lockland in 1890, and has been in the retail coal business 
eleven years. 

JOHN 3II;eller, President The John Mueller Co., Lock- 
land. Ohio, was born in Reading, Ohio, in 1854, and has 
been in the coal business since 1875. 

JOHN MURBACH of the Murbach Coal Co., Elyria, Ohio, 
was born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland. January 31, 1852, 
and has been in the coal business twenty-seven years. He 
was formerly with the City Fuel & Ice Co. and the City 
Fuel & Supply Co. 

RALPH MURBACH of Murbach Coal Co., Elyria, Ohio, 
was born in Elyria December 18, 1887, and has been in the 
retail coal business ten years. 

JOHN M. MURDAY, Secretary and General Manager of the 
Murday Coal Co. of Carbon Hill, Ohio, was born in England, 
February 28, 1873, and has been in the coal business for 
thirty years. Mr. Murday was formerly connected with the 
Columbus & Hocking Coal & Iron Co. and the York Clay & 
Mining Co. as General Superintendent, and as Superintendent 
of the Central West Coal Co. of West Virginia. 

JOHN A. MURPHY, President and General Manager John 
A. Murphy Co., Dayton. Ohio, was born in Ireland April 10, 
1849, and has been in the coal business thirty-one years. 
Mr. Murphy has held positions of honor in the coal associa- 
tions of his state and is a well known coal man. 

J. L. MURPHY, Chief Engineer New York Coal Co., Nel- 
sonville, Ohio, was born in Vinton County, Ohio, January 
29, 1877, and has been in the coal business sixteen years. 

R. EMMET MURPHY of Murphy & McMullen, Dayton, 
Ohio, was born in Dayton, and has been in the coal business 
thirty-one years. He was formerly with the W. M. Whit- 
more Coal Co. 

EDWARD CLARE MURRAY, General Superintendent of 
the National Coal Co., engaged in business at Cambridge, 
Ohio, was born at Philipsburg, Pennsylvania, February 5, 
1886, and has been in the coal business for thirteen years. 
He was formerly connected with the H. T. T\''ilson Coal Co. 
and Draper Coal Co. and has other coal interests in Belmont 
County, Ohio. 

WILLIAM 31. MYERS, Secretary and Treasurer Myers 
Grain Co., Lockbourne, Ohio, was born in Pleasant Hill, 
Ohio, April 23, 1882, and has been in the coal business 
twelve years. 

G. E. NAGEL, Manager Miller & Nagel, Greenville, Ohio, 
was born in Darke County, Ohio, July 13, 1874, and has 
been in the retail coal business nine years. 

F. G. NEEDHAM. retail coal merchant of Atwater, Ohio, 
was born at Randolph, Ohio, February 2, 1865, and has been 
in business for himself for eighteen years. 



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AI.EXAXDKR MiFK, Xeffs. Ohio, President I'ittsburgh- 
Belmont Coal Co., was born in Neffs February 11, 1848, and 
has been in the coal business twenty-two years. He was 
formerly with the XefC Coal Mining- Co., and has served as 
a Director in the No. 8 Coal Co. and Baltimore & Ohio 
Coal Co. 

C. H. XEFK, retail coal merchant at Canfield, Ohio, was 
born in Canfield February 28, ISSl. 

FRAAKLIX XEFF, Neffs, Ohio, General Manager Pitts- 
burgh-Belmont Coal Co., was born in Neffs in 1858, and 
has t>een in the coal business thirty-eight years. 

GVY W. XEYMAX, Purchasing Agent of the Morris Coal 
Co., in business at Cambridge. Ohio, was born at Senecaville, 
Ohio, July 13, 1876, and has been in the coal business twen- 
ty years. Mr. Neyman was formerly connected with the 
"Will Creek Coal Co., Belle Valley Coal Mining Co., Cam- 
bridge Collieries Co., and Ford Collieries Co. 

W. H. XISEXGER, Secretary and Treasurer Quincy Grain 
Co.. Quincy, Oiiio. was born in Pemberton, Ohio, May 21, 
1871, and has been in the retail coal business thirteen years. 
He was formerly with J. E. Wells & Co. 

SIMOV G. XISSLEY, Springfield, Ohio, was born in Spring- 
field March 2!). 1856, and has been in the wholesale and re- 
tail coal busine.ss thirty-eight years. He was formerly 
with Ulrich & Nissley, Ulrich, Nissley & Williams, and 
Adams & Nissley. 

CHARI-ES AI>BERT NORTON, Mentor, Ohio, was born in 
Mt. Plea.'^ant, Wisconsin, Aug-ust 31, 1851, and has been in 
the coal business twenty-three years. 

I.OUIS O'CONNELL,, President The Louis O'Connell Co., 
TifSn, Ohio, was born in Tiffin September 1, 1869, and has 
been in the retail coal business thirty-four years. He was 
formerly with C. Hatcher Co. and is one of the charter 
members of the Michigan-Ohio-Indiana Coal Association. 

AVILLIAM H. ORTMAN, President and Treasurer Mc- 
Greevy & Ortman Co., Dayton, Ohio, was born in Bloomer, 
Ohio, October 21, 1873, and has been in the coal business 
fifteen years. 

X. D. PARKER of N. D. Parker & Sons, Mantua, Ohio, was 
born in Streetsboro, Ohio, December 8, 1859, and has been in 
the retail coal business seven years. 

XORMAX C. PARR, Secretary The Horger-Heldt Coal Co., 
New Philadelphia, Ohio, was born in New Philadelphia June 
20, 1893, and has been in the coal business seven years. He 
is also Secretary and Treasurer of the Andreas Coal Co. 
He was formerly -with the Goshen Coal Co. 

RALPH B. PATER, Manager Henry Pater & Son, Hamil- 
ton. Ohio, was born in Hamilton April 2, 1889, and has 
been in the retail coal business five years, associated vsrith 
his father, Henry Pater, and brother, Mark J. Pater. 

AVILLIAM FORD PATTERSON Of the Dayton Coal Co., 
Dayton, Ohio, was born in Dayton October 26, 1858, and 
has been in the coal business twenty years. He is a Direc- 
tor of the Michigan-Ohio-Indiana Coal Association. 

FRAXK PEI.TON of the Pelton Coal & Supply Co., Piqua. 
Ohio, was born in Morristown, Ohio, forty-four years ago, 
and has been in the retail coal business three years. 

R. J. PELTON of the Pelton Coal & Supply Co., Piqua, 
Ohio, was born in Hamilton, Ohio, and is twenty-two years 
of ago. He has been in the retail coal business three years. 

C. A. PENCE, Hebron, Ohio, Avas born in Hebron March 
10, 1871, and has been in the retail coal business twenty- 
four years. 

O. PETERS, New Weston, Ohio, was born in Franklin 
County, Ohio, October 5, 1850, and has been in the retail 
coal business nineteen years. 

FRAXK D. PHIPPS, Manager of the Carroll Elevator Co., 
selling coal at retail in Carroll, Ohio, was born at Chester- 
hill, Ohio, December 26, 1875, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for two years. 

JOHX H. PLATO, proprietor of the Plato Coal & Supply 
Co., Amherst, Ohio, was born in Germany in 1863. He is a 
pioneer retail coalman of Northern Ohio and has been in 
business forty years. He is now managing the business 
during the absence of H. Casper Plato, his son. who is at 
present in the United States service, as drum major at Camp 
Taylor, Kentucky. 

ISAAC POX'^TITTS, Orrville, Ohio, was born near Union- 
town, Ohio, February 1. 1844, and has been in the retail 
coal business forty-three years. Mr. Pontius has taken 
an active interest in agricultural pursuits and local civic 
affairs and is a Civil War veteran. His son is associated 
with him. 

JOSEPH POOS, Eaton, Ohio, was born in Eaton January 
12, 1860, and has been in the retail coal business five years. 

GEORGE W. PORTER, Roxabell, Ohio, was born in Pick- 
away County, Ohio, January 26, 1847, and has been in the 
retail coal business eleven years. 



C, D. l»OTTS, Mareiifio, Ohio, was born in Knox County, 
Ohio, February 8. 1862, and has been in the retail coal busi- 
ness seventeen years. 

C. A. POWERS, President and General Manager Powers 
Elevator Co., Genoa, Ohio, was born in Genoa March 25, 
1885, and has been in the coal business six years. E. A. 
Powers, founder of the company, died in 1913. 

MALCOLM R. PRIXE, Manager of the Ashtabula Coal Co., 
doing a coal business at Ashtabula, Ohio, was born in Ash- 
tabula August 29, 1893, and has been in the coal business 
for four years. 

A. H. RAABE of Raabe Bros., Ft. Jennings, Ohio, was 
born in Ft. Jennings December 16, 1861, and has been In 
the retail coal business thirty-one years. 

OTTO J. RAILE, owner Orris Coal Co., Zanesville, Ohio, 
was born in Zanesville February 21, 1885, and has been in 
the retail coal business four years. 

GEORGE W. RAPP, President Vinton Mining Co., Mc- 
Arthur, Ohio, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and has been in 
the coal business eleven years. He is also President of the 
Jackson Red Star Mining Co. and the Carbon Block Mining 
Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. He was formerly with the Bixler 
Coal Co., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the Rapp Coal Min- 
ing Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. 

WILLIAM H. RAYMOND, Manager Raymond Coal Co., 
Gallon, Ohio, was born in Shelby, Ohio, October 18, 1844, 
and has been in the retail coal business nineteen years. 

J. W. RICE, Treasurer and General Manager W. P. Rice 
Mining Co., Dayton, Ohio, was born in Whitfield, Ohio, 
August 17, 1884, and has been in the coal business five years, 
associated with his father. 

AV. P. RICE, President W. P. Rice Mining Co., Dayton, 
Ohio, was born in Whitfield, Ohio, August 17, 1863, and has 
been in the coal business thirty-three years. He was for- 
merly with the Alma Coal Co., the S. J. Patterson Co., and 
the Elk Fork Coal Co. 

A. N. RICHARDS, proprietor of A. N. Richards & Son, re- 
tailers at Chicago Junction, Ohio, was born in Chicago Junc- 
tion August 25, 1860, and has been in the coal business thir- 
teen years. 

G. D. RIDENOUR, Secretary and Treasurer B. & R. Coal 
& Mining Co., Nelsonville, Ohio, was born in Junction City, 
Ohio, September 8. 1860, and has been in the coal business 
twenty-six years. He is also interested in the Ridenour & 
Shafer Coal Co. He was formerly with the Columbus & 
Hocking Coal & Iron Co. and the Hocking Domestic Coal 
Co. 

W. E. RILEY, Montpelier, Ohio, was born in Montpelier 
September 3, 1867. and has been in the coal business twenty- 
four years. 

E. O. ROBERTS, Secretary and Treasurer Glen Royai 
Coal Co. and President Roberts Coal Co., Jackson, Ohio, was 
born in Wales, and has been in the coal business forty 
years. He is also interested in the Rowland Block Coal & 
Clay Co. and the Crescent Coal Co. He was formerly with 
the Diamond Coal Co., Klondyke Coal Co., Commercial Coal 
Co. and Roberts & Hopkins. 

OWEN STANLEY ROBERTS, General Manager Glen Roy 
Coal Co. and Vice President Roberts Coal Co., Jackson. 
Ohio, was born October 10, 1889, and has been in the coal 
business seven years. He is also interested in the Row- 
land Block Coal & Clay Co. and the Ohio & Indiana Col- 
lieries Co. 

MILTON C. ROBINSON, proprietor of M. C. Robinson & 
Co.. retailers at Ashtabula, Ohio, was born at Chagrin Falls. 
Ohio, July 31, 1867, and has been in the coal business for 
sixteen years. 

W. G. ROGERS, Rogers, Ohio, Vice President and Gen- 
eral Manager Fairview Mining Co., Pittsburgh, Pennsyl- 
vania, was born in Rogers, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness thirteen years. He was formerly with the Pittsburgh 
Coal Co., Rogers Coal Co., Penobscot Coal Co., Pryor Coal 
Co., and the Moreland Coke Co. 

GEORGE H. RUSK of Rusk Bros.. Mansfield, Ohio, was 
born in Ohio, and has been in the coal business twenty-four 
years. 

JESSE RUPP of Tager & Rupp, West Unity, Ohio, has 
been in the retail coal business five years. 

EDWARD .1. RYAN, retailer, engaged in coal business at 
Bellevue, Ohio, was born at Clyde, Ohio, September 9, 1877, 
and has been in the coal business for almost fifteen years. 
He was formerly connected vi'ith McCIain & Ryan. 

ELMORE D. RYAN, La Grange, Ohio, was born in La 
Grange in 1856, and has been in the coal business eleven 
years. He was formerly with C. C. Manville. 

WILLIAM J. SAMPSON, President Witch-Hazel Coal Co., 
Youngstown, Ohio, was born near Youngstown in 1871, and 
has been in the coal business all his life. He is also Vice 
President of the Jefferson Mining Co. He Is President of 
The Tri-State Coal Stripping Association. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



CARL, A. SANDBERG, Manager of J. H. Sandberg & Son, 
a retailer of Ashtabula, Ohio, was born in Ashtabula May 

18, 1896, and has been in the coal business for three years. 
He was formerly connected with Johnson Bros. 

A\'IL.LIAM F. SCHENCK, Franklin, Ohio, was born In 
Franklin in 1857, and has been in the coal business twenty 
years. He has served as President of the Franklin Coal 
Dealers Credit Association. 

AVILLIAM C. SCHRODER, Manager Cygnet Grain & Hay 
Co., Cygnet, Ohio, was born in Rockyridge, Ohio, January 
27, 1885, and has been in the retail coal business eleven 
years. He was formerly with the Ottawa County Co-opera- 
tive Co. 

WALTER O. SCOTT, Dennison. Ohio, was born in Sum- 
merdale, Ohio, June 19, 1867, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness thirty-six years. 

AV. J. SEBALD of the Sebald Grain Co., Middletown, Ohio. 
was born in Middletown April 15, 1868, and has been in 
the retail coal business eleven years. 

H. E. SEESE, Navarre, Ohio, Manager The Garver Bros. 
Co. of Navarre and of Strasburg, Ohio, was born in Stras- 
burg August 25, 1870, and has been in the coal business 
five years. 

CHARLES SEIDENFIEIiD, President and Treasurer Sei- 
denfield-Hammond Coal Co., Murray City, Ohio, was born 
in Zanesville, Ohio, February 25, 1886, and has been in the 
coal business five years. 

CARL S. SHAFFER, Spencerville, Ohio, was born in 
Spencerville May 1, 1887, and has been in the retail coal 
business six years. He was formerly with James Cochrun. 

CHARLES CUTLER SHARP, Secretary, Treasurer and 
General Manager Northern Mining & Fuel Co., Nelsonville, 
Ohio, was born in Sugar Grove, Ohio, February 10, 1861, 
and has been in the coal business twenty-nine years. He is 
also interested in the Southern Fuel Co. and the "Western 
Fuel Co. He was formerly with the Hocking Coal & Iron 
Co., Sunday Creek Coal Co., Boomer Coal & Coke Co., 
Raven Coal & Coke Co., Gauley Co., Black Betsy Coal & 
Mining Co., Cardiff Coal Co., IvI. & B. Coal & Coke Co., and 
East Hill Coal Co. 

BERT D. SMITH, Sandusky, Ohio, was born in Sandusky 
March 21, 1877, and has been in the coal business twenty- 
one years. He is also interested in the Beech Creek Coal 
Co, He was formerly with the John T. Solon Co., Toledo, 
Ohio. 

GEORGE T. SMITH, well known wholesaler at Akron, 
Ohio, was born at Youngdale, Pennsylvania, August 9, 1877, 
and has been in the coal business for twelve years. He was 
formerly connected with the Monongahela River Consoli- 
dated Coal & Coke Co., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 

GEORGE W. SMITH Of the Smith Coal & Ice Co., Tiflin, 
Ohio, was born in Sandusky, Ohio, March 31, 1860, and has 
been in the retail coal business twenty-four years. 

JAMES H. SMITH, Mentor, Ohio, was born in Louisville, 
Kentucky, December 14, 1878, and has been in the retail 
coal business twelve years. 

ISAAC P. SMITHERS, Manager Smithers Bros., "Washing- 
ton Court House, Ohio, was born in Frankfort, Ohio, No- 
vember 4. 1840, and has been in the coal business thirty- 
one years. 

LOUIS T. SNAVELY, Secretary and Treasurer The Min- 
glewood Coal Co., "Wooster, Ohio, was born in "Wooster July 

19, 1SS9, and has been in the coal business twelve years. 

JOSEPH W. SNOOK of J. W. Snook & Co., South Lebanon, 
Ohio, was born in Deerfield, Ohio, in 1852, and has been in 
the retail coal business for about two years. 

WILLIAM H. STEPHAN is Managing Partner Schwenn 
Coal Co., Hamilton, Ohio. 

LAMAR C. STERNBERGER, General Manager L. C. 
Sternberger Coal Co., Jackson, Ohio, was born in Jackson 
March 2, 1874, and has been in the coal business twelve 
years. He was formerly with the Superior Coal Co. and 
the Jackson Coal & Coke Co. 

JOHN" W. STEWART, Chief Engineer of the Forsythe 
Coal Co. and the Akron Coal Co., Cambridge, Ohio, vsras born 
in Dayton, Pennsylvania, in 1862, and has been in the coal 
business for a quarter of a century. He was formerly 
Division Engineer for the Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal & 
Iron Co., the Jefferson & Clearfield Coal Co., and the Morris 
Coal Co. of Cambridge. 

G. M. .STILES of the Stiles Co., Xenia, Ohio, was born in 
1861, and has been in the retail coal business three years, 
succeeding "W. O. Maddux Co. 

WILLIAM H. STOCKTON, retail c^a.1 merchant of Ashta- 
bula, Ohio, was born in Mosiertown, Pennsylvania, August 
1, 1858, and has been in the coal business ten years. 

E. S. STODDARD of the F. F. Smith Co., Conneaut, Ohio. 
was born in "Wisconsin in 1868, and has been in the retail 
coal business four years. 



WILFRED FERDINAND STRAUSE, Lakeside. Ohio, was 
born in Belding, Michigan, May 8, 1881, and has been in 
the retail coal business two years. 

JAMES T. S"WEAZ"V", Secretary and General Manager Rus- 
sell Run Coal Co., Pomeroy, Ohio, was born in Ohio Septem- 
ber 16, 1872, and has been in the coal business seven years. 

FRED C. S"WISHER, Manager "Wm. Swisher & Son, Find- 
lay, Ohio, was born in Findlay February 13, 1884, and has 
been in the retail coal business fifteen years. 

J. W. SW^ISHER of "Wm. Swisher & Son, Findlay, Ohio, 
was born in Hancock County, Ohio, in 1848. 

JOHN EARLE TA"lfLOR, "Winchester, Ohio, was born in 
"Winchester October 9, 1890, and has been in the retail coal 
business three years. 

C. RIDGLEY THRAPP, President Hall Coal Co., Coshocton, 
Ohio, was born in Tiffin, Ohio, March 15, 1885, and has been 
tn the coal business eleven years. He is also President of 
the "Valley Coal Co. and Superintendent of the "Warwick Coal 
Co. He was previously with the Goshen Coal Co. and the 
Horger-Heldt Coal Co. 

S. E. TILTON of Tilton & Son, Prairie Depot, Ohio, was 
born in Kings Ferry. New York, in 1832, and has been in 
the coal business thirty-one years. 

W. R. TILTON of Tilton & Son, Prairie Depot, Ohio, was 
born in Norwalk, Ohio, in 1873, and has been in the coal 
business sixteen years. 

"WILLIAM L. TIM3IONS, President and General Manager 
Zanesville Coal Co.. Zanesville, Ohio, was born in Dennison, 
Ohio, in 1873, and has been engaged in the mining of coal 
eighteen years. 

JAMES ENGLAND TRAINER, Assistant to General Mana- 
ger Zanesville Coal Co., Zanesville, Ohio, was born in 
Zanesville June 3, 1888, and has been in the coal business 
five years. 

CHARLES W. UPSON of Upson Bros., Mansfield, Ohio, was 
born in Tallmadge, Ohio, March 14, 1855, and has been in 
the coal business thirty-nine years. 

GEORGE D. UPSON, owner Dixie Coal Co.. Newark, Ohio, 
was born in Cleveland. Ohio, March 12, 1887, and has been 
in the retail coal business five years. He represents the 
coal trade in the Ne"wark Rotary Club. 

J. EDWARD UPSON of Upson Bros., Mansfield, Ohio, was 
born in Tallm,adge, Ohio, September 30, 1853, and has been 
in the coal business thirty-three years. 

D. O. VAN KIRK, President, Treasurer and General Man- 
ager Van Kirk Coal & Mining Co., Mineral City, Ohio, was 
born in Mineral City September 21, 1876, and has been in 
the coal business all his life, associated with his father, 
E. Van Kirk, who has been mining coal in Ohio and "West 
Virginia t^ince 1870. Mr. Van Kirk is also General Manager 
of the Ohio Mining & Railway Co., Treasurer of the Kun- 
loolton Coal Mining Co., and Manager of the Magnolia 
Coal Co. 

FRANK A. VOEGELE, General Manager Voegele Bros., 
Mansfield. Ohio, was born in Mansfield February 12, 1878, and 
has been in the coal business nineteen years, succeeding his 
father, "William F. Voegele, who established the business in 
1873. Mr. -Voegele, Sr.. died in 1916 after a successful and 
useful life. For a number of years he" w^as President of the 
Coal Dealers Association of Ohio and later prominent in the 
Michigan-Ohio-Indiana Association. 

LOUIS "WADE, Dockland, Ohio, was born in Hamilton 
County, Ohio, in 1858, and has been in the retail coal busi- 
ness twenty-two years. 

H. .1. AVEBB of the Niles Fuel & Supply Co., Niles, Ohio, 
has been in the coal business four years. 

CHARLES N. "WEIS of Hunt & "Weis, Sandusky, Ohio, was 
born in Sandusky November 7, 1868, and has been in the 
coal business tvi^enty-one years. 

F. A. "WILLIAMSON, retail coal merchant at Blanchester, 
Ohio, was born at Hodgensville, Kentucky, January 29, 1878, 
and has been in the coal business for two years. 

RAYMOND J. WIRTZ of the "Wirtz Coal Co., Hamilton, 
in the retail coal business eleven years. He "was previously 
with the Harlan Coal Co. 

JOSHUA E. "WISE, proprietor of the Sherman Coal Co. of 
Barberton, Ohio, was born at "Wadsworth, Ohio, November 
was formerly with the Buckeye Ice & Coal Co. 

"W. P. "WISELEY, Manager Standard Coal Co., Findlay, 
Ohio, was born in Findlay September 5, 1873. and has 
been in the retail coal business twenty-two years. He 
17, 1853, and has been in business for himself for four years. 

GEORGE FRANKLIN WISTNER of Farnam & "Wistner, 
Van "Wert, Ohio, was born in Van "Wert in 1867, and has 
been in the coal business eight years. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



MICHAEL J. AVOLFE. Manager Peoples Elevator & Sup- 
ply Co., Fremont, Ohio, was born in Lindsey, Ohio, March 
13, 1S75, and has been in the coal business twenty years. 
He was formerly in business at Lindsey, then at Elmore. 
Ohio, until a year ago he was elected Manager at Fremont. 

\v:>I. AMBRO.'«iI<: \VOI-FE of The Wolfe Cycle Co., Ne- 
vada, Ohio, was born in Nevada July 18, 1860, and has been 
in the retail coal business twelve years. He has taken an 
active interest in local civic affairs. 

AVII.FRED B. AVOLFF, Manager J. G. Wolff Coal Co., 
Painesville, Ohio, was born in Myersdale, Pennsylvania, June 
26. 1S86, and has been in the coal business nine years. 

CI.IFF M. AVOOD, President. Treasurer and Manager 
The Cliff Wood Coal it Supply Co., Lima, Ohio, was born in 
Lima July 27, 1877, and has been in the coal business eight 
years. He was formerly with .\. Harsh Coal & Supply Co., 
Richmond, Indiana. 



A. L). AVOOUEUSOIV, Van Wert. Ohio, was born in St. 
Johns, Ohio, in 1861, and has been in the coal business 
twenty-two, years. 

GEORGE H. AA'ORCH, Versailles, Ohio, was born in New 
Madison. Ohio, March 16, 1863, and has been in the retail 
coal business thirty-one years. 

EDWARD B. AVRI(;HT, President and Treasurer Sheri- 
dan Coal Co., Dayton, Ohio, was born in Dayton December 
31, 1866, and has been in the coal business thirty-five years. 
He is also interested in the Steele Coal Co., Ohio Coal & 
Iron Co., and the Fidelity Coal Co. 

3IARCUS VAGER of Yager & Rupp, West Unity. Ohio, 
has been in the retail coal business five years. 

C. E. YARIAN, Manager C. E. Yarian & Co., Gallon, Ohio, 
was born in Bourbon, Indiana, September 10, 1876. :ind has 
been in V.ie retail coil bus'ness seven years. 



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OKLAHOMA 



MUCH of the worth-while histoiy of the Oklahoma 
coal industry remains to be written. Although 
as the Indiana territor)^ it entered the ranks of 
coal producers nearly forty years ago it would seem that 
only the surface possibilities of its development have 
been scratched. Progress was hampered in the early 
days by sparse settlement and inadequate railroad facili- 
ties, by the competition of coals from other districts, by 
labor disturbances and in recent years by the rapid 
expansion of the petroleum industry in the state, which 
increased its output from 271,824 gallons in 1900 to 
3,912,440,206 gallons in 1915, and by the temporary 
inroads made upon fuel coal demands by the substitu- 
tion of natural gas. 

The Oklahoma coal measures form the southwestern 
portion of the western interior coal field, which also 
underlies parts of Iowa, Kansas and Missouri. The 
Oklahoma section of this field, running from the Kansas 
state line on the north into Arkansas on the east, in- 
cludes the western half of the area formerly known as 
the Cherokee Nation, all of the Creek Nation territory, 
the northern third of the Choctaw Nation area and a 
small portion of the Chickasaw Nation lands. The coal- 
bearing area is estimated to cover approximately 20,000 
miles, but with the exception of a spur striking off in a 
southwesterly direction from near the junction of the 
North Fork and Canadian rivers, the workable area, 
estimated to cover 10,000 square miles, lies in the east- 
ern half of the field. 

In quality the Oklahoma coals, of which there are 
ten or more beds, range "from a medium low on the one 
hand to high-grade bituminous, approaching semi- 
anthracite on the other. Some of the high grade bitum- 
inous varieties possess coking qualities." A few years 
ago there were several hundred ovens in operation in 
the Choctow field. Some of the coal from the Hart- 
shorne bed is commercially classed as semi-bituminous 
and enters into the southwestern smokeless trade. 
During 1918 shipments from this field were made as 
far north as Chicago. The Choctow field district is at 
present the greatest producer, while the Chickasaw 
Nation district has not been developed. 

While the fact that Arkansas coal was mined as early 
as 1840 leads to the belief that pioneer developments 



in Oklahoma began a number of years ago, the first 
record reported by the Census covers 1880 and showed 
a production of 120,947 tons. In 1886 this had in- 
creased to 543,580 and in 1891 the million mark was 
passed with an output of 1,091,032. Production since 
that date is shown in the following tabluation: 



Year. Ton. 

1892 1,192,721 

1893 1,252,110 

1894 969,606 

1895 1,211,185 

1896 1,366,646 

1897 1,336,380 

1898 1,381,466 

1899 1,537,427 

1900 1,922,298 

1901 2,421,781 

1902 2,820,666 

1903 3,517,388 

1904 3,046,539 



Year. Ton. 

1905 2,924,427 

1906 2,860,200 

1907 3,642,658 

1908 2,948,116 

1909 3,119,377 

1910 2,646,226 

1911 3,074,242 

1912 3,675,418 

1913 4,165,770 

1914 3,988,613 

1915 3,693,580 

1916 3,608,011 



Distribution figures for 1915 show that the railroads 
are the heaviest consumers of Oklahoma coal. Out of 
a total production of 3,693,580 tons for the year the 
transportation lines absorbed 2,573,750, or approxi- 
mately 70 per cent. Shipments to interstate points 
totaled 397,275 tons, or less than 11 per cent. Texas 
was the principal customer, taking 381,131 tons; 12,038 
tons were shipped to Kansas ; Arkansas received 453, and 
Missouri 3,653 tons. The consumption of Oklahoma 
coal within the state was 722,555 tons and was divided 
as follows : Used at mines, 247,565 tons ; sold locally, 
39,482 tons; shipped to intrastate points, 435,508 tons. 

The per capita consumption within the state during 
the year under review was only .36 ton, as compared 
with an average of 2.82 tons for the country as a whole. 
The consumption per square mile was 14 tons, as com- 
pared with the country average of 123 tons. Including 
approximately 500 tons of Pennsylvania anthracite the 
Oklahoma consumption for domestic and general indus- 
trial purposes was 1,009,011 tons. Approximately 72 
per cent., or 722,555 tons, came from the mines within 
the state. Colorado receipts of 120,298 tons ranked 
second and Kansas with shipments of 75,162 tons came 
third. Eeceipts from other states were as follows : Ala- 
bama, 713 tons; Arkansas, 60,791; Missouri, 4,800; 
New Mexico, 24,096 ; Pennsylvania, 96 tons. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





PATRICK WILLIAM 3IALLOY, Alderson, Oklahoma, 

Superintendent Rock Island Coal Mining- Co., Alderson, was 
born in Franklin, Maryland, July 31, 1865, and has been in 
the coal business forty-one years. He was formerly with 
Osage Coal & Mining Co., Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf Rail- 
way Mining- Department, Coahuila Coal Co., Milby-Do-w Coal 
& Mining Co., and Rock Island Coal Mining Co. Mr. Malloy 
has taken an active interest in civic matters. He has acted 
as Chief Mine Inspector. 



ELIHU P. A\'ILLIAMSON. Coalgate, Oklahoma, 

President-General Manager Keystone Coal & Mining Co., 
Coalgate, Oklahoma, was born in Beardstown, Illinois, Jan- 
uary 13, 18fi7, and has been in the coal business thirty-six 
years. He is also interested in the Lane & Williai-nson Coal 
Co. Mr. "Williamson was formerly connected with the Chero- 
kee Coal Co., Cherokee Coal & Mining Co., Woods & North 
Coal Co. and Williamson Bros. Coal Co. 



PRESLEY B. ALLEN, McAlester, Okla., 

President Pleasant Valley Coal & Coke 
Co., McAlester, Oklahoma, -«'as born In 
New Orleans. Louisiana, July 21, 1878, 
and has been in the coal business for 
seventeen years. He has held posi- 
tions of honor in the coal associations 
of the state. 



"WaLLIAM E. BEATY, McAlester, 

President Dow Coal & Coke Co.. Mc- 
Alester, Oklahoma, was born at Cher- 
okee, Texas, November 6, 1871, and has 
been in the coal business for fifteen 
years. Mr. Beaty is also President of 
the Milton Coal Mining Co. and was 
formerly with the Union Coal Co., 
Pittsburgh Coal & Mining Co., and the 
Pocahontas Coal Co. 



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M. B. SCHOFIELD. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 

Vice President and Oklahoma Sales Manager Dow Coal & 
Coke Co., -whose general offices are located in McAlester, 
Oklahoma, and President-General Manager M. B. Schofleld 
Co., was born in Lewis County, Missouri, August 16, 1871, and 
has been in the coal business for sixteen years. He was for- 
merly with the Bolen-Darnall Coal Co. of Kansas City as 
Oklahoma Sales Agent and is a member of the Oklahoma 
Coal Dealers Association. Mr. Schofield is a well-known coal 
man and conducts a prosperous business in Oklahoma City. 



OKLAHOMA 

SAMUEL G. AMBRISTER, Norman, Oklahoma, proprietor 
and Manager of the company bearing his name, -was born 
in Dunbar, Nebraska, in 1884, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for about fifteen years. He is also interested in a re- 
tail coal business at Blanchard, Oklahoma. 

J. M. BAIRD, Owner and Manager of the J. M. Baird Fuel 
Yard, Ardmore, Oklahoma, was born in Lonaconing, Mary- 
land. October 30, 1855. and has been in the coal business 
for eleven years. Mr. Baird was formerly with Baird & Co. 

ROBERT BLACKBIRD, Superintendent M. K. T. Railway 
Coal Department. Coalgate, Oklahoma, was born at Mill 
Creek, Pennsylvania, December 7, 1869, and has been in the 
coal business for nearly . all his life. Mr. Blackbird has 
held positions of honor in the various coal associations of 
the state and is well and favoraoly known. 

L. A. BRAiVDER, Manager Paul's Valley Ice & Fuel Co., 
Paul's Valley, Oklahoma, has been in the coal business for 
six years. 

VICTOR T. BROM^N. Damson, Oklahoma, General Manager 
of the company bearing his nam.e, was born- in Benton 
County, Missouri, December 12, 1871, and has been in the 
coal business for twenty-one years. He was formerly with 
M^illiams Coal Co., Richmond. Missouri. 

CLARENCE C. BUXTON, Vice President-Manager The 
Garrison Coal Co., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was born at 
Londonderry, Vermont, October 3, 1883. and has been in the 
coal business for thirteen years. 

ROY CALDWELL, Secretary-Treasurer Ross-Caldwell Coal 
Mining Co., Lehigh, Oklahoma, was born at Waynesville, 
North Carolina, August 31. 1892, and has been in the coal 
business for four years. 

TOM F. CAREY, Manager Norman Milling & Grain Co., 
Norman, Oklahoma, was born in Spadra, Arkansas, January, 
1884, and has been in the coal business for eleven years. 

JOHN B. CHALLES, Oklahoma City. Oklahoma, Division 
Manager Southwestern Coal Co., was born in Missouri Feb- 
ruary 20, 1881, and has been in the coal business for eight 
years. Mr. Challes was formerly connected with McAlester- 
Edwards Coal Co., McAlester, Oklahoma. 

C. C. COLE, Secretary-Treasurer The Canadian Coal Co., 
Tulsa, Oklahoma, was born in Sherman, Texas, October 21, 
1877, and has been in the coal business seventeen years. 



,1. R. COLE JR., President The Canadian Coal Co., Tulsa, 
Oklahoma, was born in Grayson County, Texas, in Novem- 
ber, 1872, and has been in the coal business for eighteen 
years. 

C. A. COPELAND, Olustee, Oklahoma, was born in Green- 
wood, Indiana, February 1, 1869, and has been in the coal 
business for seven years. He was formerly with Loud & 
Copeland. 

BENJAMIN P. DAVISON, Vice President Davison Bros. 
Coal Co,, Coalgate, Oklahoma, was born in DuQuoin, Illinois, 
January 7, 1868, and has been in the coal business for 
eleven years. He was formerly with the Home Smokeless 
Coal Co., Bokoshe, Oklahoma. J. P. Davison is President 
of the company's branch at Coalton, Oklahoma. 

PRANK B. DREW, Treasurer and Manager McAlester & 
Edwards Coal Co., McAlester, Oklahoma, was born at We- 
nona, Illinois, November 29, 1863, and has been in the coal 
business for twelve years, 

■^VILLIAM THOMAS EDAVARDS, Owner and Manager of 
the Edwards Coal Co., McAlester, Oklahoma, was born in 
the state of Arkansas December 15, 1875, and has been in 
the coal business for seventeen years. He is also connected 
with the Duncan Coal Co , Hartman, Arkansas, and was for- 
merly with the Bolen-Darnell Coal Co. and the Dow Coal Co. 

W-ILLIAM ALVIN EVANS, General Superintendent Rock 
Island Coal Mining Co., Hartshorne, Oklahoma, vs^as born in 
Summit Hill, Pennsylvania, in 1873. and has been in the coal 
business for twentj'-six years. He is also interested , in the 
K.ili Nila Coa,l Co.^and was formerly with the Lehigh Coal 
& Navigation Co., The Fairmont Coal Co., Kentucky Coal 
Mining Co., and Alta Marmet Coal & Mining Co. Mr. Evans 
has also served as a member of the Southwestern Coal Op- 
erators Association and American Institute of Mining Engi- 
neers and is well and favorably known throughout the coal 
industry. 

HERBERT A. EVEREST, General Manager Hazelton Coal 
Co., Coalgate, Oklahoma, was born at Lyons, Kansas, Sep- 
tember 13, 1885, and has been in the coal business for eleven 
years. He is also interested in the Thomas Coal Co. at 
Blanco and was formerly with the Great "Western Coal & 
Mining- Co. at McAlester. James McGinnis is President of 
the company. 

ROBERT M. EYSTER, Consulting Mining Engineer Mc- 
Alester-Edwards Coal Co., Pittsburg, Oklahoma, -was born 
in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and has been for the past 
seven years employed by mining companies in the South-west. 
He -was previously Superintendent and Assistant General 
Manager of the Fernwood Mining Co,, ClarksviUe, Arkansas. 

J. B. FAIRFIEI^D of Guthrie, Oklahoma, was born in 
Indiana in 1857, and has been in the retail coal business 
for thirty years. 

JOHN E. FINNEY, Poteau, Oklahoma, was born in 
Antiquity, Ohio, January 20, 1873, and has been in 
the coal business for twenty-two years. He is Presi- 
dent and General Manager of the Finney Coal Co., 
President and General Manager Midland-Six Coal Co., 
President The Dallas Coal Co., Cont. Eng. Midland Coal 
& Mer. Co. and General Manager Kacanaugh Coal Co., 
as well as interested in the Katy Coal Co., Midland, Arkan- 
sas, and the Poteau Coal Co., Poteau, Oklahoma. He -was 
formerly^ connected with the Kansas & Texas Coal Co,, St. 
Louis, Missouri, The Arkansas Pass -Lignite Co., Rockdale, 
Texas. Poteau Coal & Mercantile Co., Lone Star Coal Co., as 
well .IS serving as President of the Arkansas Coal Opera- 
tors Association and as Commissioner Southwest Coal Op- 
erators' Association. 

EDGAR A. FRANKLIN, Cashier of The Blue Ridge Coal 
Co., McCurtain, Oklahoma, was born in Smith Center, Kan- 
sas. March 30, 1879, and has been in the coal business for 
eighteen years. He was formerly with the Sans Bois Coal 
Co. 

F. .T. GENTRY of Pond Creek, Oklahoma, was born in 
Hannibal, Missouri, September 13, 1867, and has been in the 
coal business for thirty-one years. He was formerly with 
the Badger Lumber Co. 

ALBERT E. GRAHAM, Manager Buffalo Grain & Coal Co., 
Buffalo, Oklahoma, was born in Lexington, Ohio, March 21. 
1880, and has been in the coal business five years. 

FRED GRAVES, Manager of his own company at Foss, 
Oklahoma, was born in New York August 17, 1877, and has 
been in the coal business for eight years. 

1>AVID HALL, Dewar, Oklahoma, Manager of Mines of 
The Dewar Coal Mines Co., was born in England in 1873, 
and hat- been in the coal business for thirty-four years. He 
was formerly with the Galloway Coal Co., Black Diamond 
Coal Co. and the Corona Coal & Iron Co., all of Oklahoma. 
Mr. Hall has worked in the mines in England, starting 
as a trapper boy, and thoroughly understands the mining 
business. 



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T. J. HARRIS, General Manag^er Harris Coal Mining Co., 
Henryetta, Olclalioina. was born at Bevier, Missouri, in ISTU, 
and has been in the coal business for eleven years. He was 
formerly \\ith the Monarch Coal Co. 

AV. K. HERROX. General Manager Herron Coal Mining 
Co., Coalton, Olclahonia, was born at Concord, Tennessee, in 
18.'", and hat^ been in the coal business for twenty-four 
years. He was formerly with the Coalton Mining Co. 

.I.VV^s avii.I,I.a:»I HI\T0.\. President Hinton Co., Henry- 
etta, Oklahoma, was born in Neosho, Missouri, June 21. 1880, 
and iTas been in the coal business fifteen years. He was 
formerly witli the Sans Bois Coal Co., Dow Coal Co., Green 
Ridge Cc and Consolidated Fuel Co. In October. 1917, lie 
became Assistant to P. A. Norris, Fuel Administrator for 
Oklahoma, and took an imi)ortant part in the successful 
fuel administration given that state during tlie war. 

BOOXE C. HO-\VARD of Clinton, Oklahoma, was born in 
Howardslovi-n, Kentucky, July 9. 1865, and has been in the 
coal liusine.*s foi- five years at Clinton. He was formerly 
located at Stithton, Kentucky. 

PARI.EV O. HVDDLE, Manager of Hanna-Mansfield Grain 
Co.. Cherokee. Oklahoma, was born in Attica, Kansas, in 
1888, and has been in the coal business for four years. He 
w^as formerly connected ^vith the Farmers Federation. 

■W^ S. JACKSON of the Jackson Transportation & Storage 
Co., Atoka, Oklahoma, was born in Missouri April 7. 1858, 
and has. been in the coal business six years. 

E. P. JOVXER. Treasurer Carbon Coal Co. and Pierce Coal 
Co. of Carbon, 01<lahoma, was born in Richmond, Arkansas, 
June 24. 1884, and has been in the coal business for thirteen 
years. He was formerly with the Bache-Denman Coal Co., 
Ft. Smith, Arkansas. 

JAKE I.AMBERT of the Southwestern Coal Co., Okla- 
homa City, Oklahoma, was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, May 
11, 1874, and has been in the coal business for eight years. 
He was formerly with the Creek Coal & Mining Co., Hen- 
ryetta. Oklahoina. 

HARRY LAXTZ, President-Manager Monarch Coal & Min- 
ing Co., Henryetta, Oklahoma, is a native of lo'wa, having 
been born at Stewart, Iowa, January 18, 1877, and has been 
in the coal business for six years. 

L,. K. H. LAWS, Camargo, Oklahoma, was born in Boon- 
ville. Missouri, January 10, 1876, and has been in the coal 
business for seven years. 

A. AV. F. I.EE of Lee Bros. Lumber & Coal Co., Cordell, 
Oklahoma, was born in Arkansas in 1889, and has been in 
the coal business for nineteen years. Mr. Lee has served on 
the Executive Committee of the State Retail Coal Dealers 
Association. 

J. C. I.X'ITAVEIIjER of the McAlester Fuel Co.. McAlester. 
Oklahoma, was born in Jackson, Tennessee, in 1878, and 
has been in the coal business for eleven years. He was for- 
merly with the Bache-Denman Coal Co., Ft. Smith, Arkansas. 

.JAUES :»<'COXXEI,I> of "V^^ilburton, Oklahoma, is the Pres- 
ident and General Manager of the Degnou & McConnell 
Coal it Coke Co. llo is likewise interested in the M. K. & 
T. Coal it Mining Co. and the Eastern Coal & Mining 
Co. He has been in the coal industry for fifty years, or 
ever since his boyhood in Scotland. He was born in Scot- 
land May 15, 1856. He is a member and has been active 
in the Oklahoma Coal Operators' Association. 

miNCAX 3R-KAY, President The Gem Coal Co., Dewar, 
Oklahoma, was born in Scotland January 8, 1881, and has 
beer in the coal business for eleven years. He was for- 
merlv connected with the McKay Coal & Mining Co. and 
the McKay-Hall Coal & Mining Co. 

HEXRY MEIXHOLTZ, Secretary-Treasurer The Gem Coal 
Co., Okmulgee, Oklahoma, was born In St. Louis, Missouri, 
July 9, 1875, and has been in the coal business for eleven 
years. 

ARTHIR L. MI'RFHEY, President Seneca Coal Co., Tulsa. 
Oklahoma, was born in Topeka, Kansas, August 27, 1869, and 
has been in the coal business twenty-one years. He was 
formerly with the "Wear Coal Co. 

H. E. OAKES of Mangum, Oklahoma. President Mangum 
Milling Co.. Elk City, Oklahoma, was born in "U'isconsin 
Octoljer 17. 1866. and has been in the retail coal business 
sixteen years. 

AVILLIA^l OGII.VIE, Superintendent Pleasant Valley Coal 
& Coke Co., Henryetta. Oklahoma, was born in Scotland 
March 26, 1872, and has been in the coal business for twenty- 
six years. 

PATRICK HEXRY O'KEEEB of the McAlester-Edwards 
Coal Sales Agency. Pittsburg, Oklahoma, was born in La- 
Salle, Illinois, March 23, 1868, and has been in the coal 
business for eleven years. He formerly acted as Sales 
Agent for the Pittsburg branch of the above concern as 
well as the "Wichita, Kansas, branch of the Dawson Fuel 
Sales Co. 



CHARLES WARREN PAVXE of the Charles Payne Coal 
Co., l.awton, Olihi liiima . was l)orn in Oswego, New York, 
May 22, 1S66, and lias been in tlie coal business tliirteen 
years. 

I*. G. I'lERCE, Carbon, Oklahoma. President Carbon Coal 
Co. and Pierce Coal Co.. was born in Nortli A\'alc'S Septem- 
lier i:i, 1868, and has been in the coal business for eighteen 
years. He was formerly with Hopkins & Pierce. 

R. T. PRICE, who was formerly with the Pennsylvania 
& Ohio Coal Co., Cleveland, Ohio, is now President' and Gen- 
eral Manager of the Consolidated Fuel Co. and the Ameri- 
can Smokeless Coal Co., at Muskogee, Oklaiioma. He is 
President of the Oklaiioma Coal Operators Association and 
is well-known throughout the trade and communit.v. 

R. M. PUIiLEX, Manager and President "Warden-Pullen 
Coal Co., Henryetta, Oklahoma, was born in Atchison Coun- 
ty, Kansas, in 1879, and has been in the coal business for 
eighteen years, succeeding his brother, Fred C. Pullen, who 
joined the colors May 25, 1918. 

J. G. PLTERBAFGH, President McAlester Fuel Co., Mc- 
Alester, Oklahoma, was born in Newton, Kansas, January 
31, 1876, and has been in the coal business for twenty-six 
years. He is also President of the Southern Anthracite Coal 
Mining Co., Russelville, Arkansas, and was formerly con- 
nected with the Western Coal & Mining Co., Missouri Pacific 
Railway Coal Department, Consolidated McAlester Coal Co., 
Carey-Puterbaugh Coal Co., and is a member of the Ameri- 
can Institute of Mining Engineers, and Vice President 
American National Bank of McAlester. 

H. C. RICE, General Manager Milby & Dow Coal & Mining 
Co. of Dow, Oklahoma, was born in Holden, Missouri, Au- 
gust 24. 1878. and has been in the coal business for twenty- 
two years. He was formerly with the McAlester Fuel Co. 

AUGUST W. SCHXEIDER, Superintendent The Hazelton 
Coal Co., Coalgate, Oklahoma, was born at Arvada, Colo- 
rado, December 7, 1890, and has been in the coal business 
for seveji years. 

W. P. SELSOR, Manager W. F. Selsor Coal Co., Henry- 
etta, Oklahoma, was born in Kansas City, Missouri, April 23, 
1879, and has been in the coal business for seven years and 
thoroughly understands the coal business. 

JOHX ROY SHARP, General Manager and Purchasing 
Agent Hailey Ola Coal Co.. McAlester, Oklahoma, was born 
in Kingston. New York. October 24. 1876, and has been in 
the coal business for eighteen years. He was formerly 
with the Consolidated Indiana Coal Co., Chicago. Illinois, 
and the Dominion Coal Co., Springhill, Nova Scotia. Canada. 
Mr. Sharp is a member of the American Institute of Mining 
Engineers. 

WILLSOX E. SHEPHERD, Partner and Manager of Shep- 
herd & Son. Hobart, Oklahoma, was born at Clinton, Illinois, 
June 27, 1885, and has been in the coal business sixteen 
years. He was with F. C. Shepherd, his father, until the 
iatter's death, December 24, 1914. 

ROY W. SHORT, doing a wholesale business under his 
own name at Henryetta, Oklahoma, was born in Rock 
Island. Illinois, July 1, 1876, and has been twelve years in 
the coal business. He was previously connected with the 
Rock Island Coal Mining Co.. McAlester Fuel Co., Okla- 
homa Coal Co., and the Creek Coal & Mining Co. 

CHARLES G. SIMS, President and Manager Home Lumber 
Co., Roosevelt, Oklahoma, was born in Beckvill, Texas, 
March 20, 1876, and has been in the coal business for eleven 
years. He was previously with the Citizens Lumber Co. 

O. J. SMITH, Owner and Manager Santa Fe Coal & Fuel 
Co., Cherokee. Oklahoma, was born in Ovid, New York, 
August 11, 1868, and has been in the coal business for thir- 
teen years at Cherokee. He was formerly with the J. I. 
Case Co. before going into the coal business. 

GEORGE FRAXKLIX SOUTHARD, President and Mana- 
ger The Dewar Coal Mines Co., Enid. Oklahoma, was born 
in New York City January 25, 1852. and has been in the coal 
business for five years. 

H.4RRY ELLIS SOUTHARD, Secretary The Dewar Coal 
Mines Co., Enid, Oklahoma, was born in Buffalo, New York, 
in 1890, and has been in the coal business for two years. 

W" ALTER H. SPARGER, Lehigh, Oklahoma, Treasurer Fol- 
som-Morris Coal Mining Co. and Treasurer and Auditor of 
the St. Louis-Galveston Coal & Mining Co., was born at Mt. 
Airy, North Carolina, August 24, 1884, and has been in the 
coal business for four years. 

KUGEXE S. TATOX, Shawnee, Oklahoma, was born in the 
state of Tennessee, February 8, 1865, and has been in the 
coal business for sixteen years. He was formerly with 
Taton & Roberts and the Shawnee Supply Co. 

AV. H. WIGTOX, Vice President-General Manager Black- 
stone Consolidated Coal Co., Okmulgee, Oklahoma, was born 
in Pennsylvania and has been in the coal business thirty- 
seven years. He was formerly with the New Soddy Coal Co., 
Tennessee, and Morrisdale Coal Co. of Pennsylvania. 



341 



OREGON 



FUEL oil and wood have so thorouglilj' dominated 
the market in Oregon in recent years that the coal 
-trade record of that state is lacking in the big- 
figures that tell the stovj of the greatness of King Coal 
in so many other parts of the United States. Per cap- 
ita consumption, .41 ton, as compared with the country 
average of 2.82 tons, is low and the square mile figure 
of three tons, against 123 for the United States as a 
whole, is remarkably so. 

The only known productive coal area in the state is 
the Coos Bay field, situated in the southwestern part of 
the state in Coos count)', and surrounding the body of 
water from which it takes its name. The total area of 
this field is approximately 230 square miles. The best 
Coos- Bay coal is classed by the United States Geologi- 
cal Survey with the sub-bituminous. The field is di- 
vided into six districts, viz. : ( 1 ) the Beaver slough, 
which contains the largest and most valuable mines of 
the field and which is worked at Beaver Hill, Kiverton 
and near Coquille; (2), the South slough, which takes 
care of a small local demand; (3), the Newport basin, 
which has been worked for a number of years and which 
"is most favorably located for economic mining;" (1), 
the Flanagan; (5), the North Bend basins, which are 
small and supply part of the local trade; (6), the Em- 
pire. A number of other fields — including the Upper 
Nehalem in Columbia county, the Lower Nehalem in 
Clatsop and Tillamook counties, the Yaquima in Lin- 
coln county, the Eckley and Shasta fields in Curry 
county, and the Eden field in Coos county and the Eogue 
Eiver Valley field in Jackson counts — have been pros- 
pected. 

Oregon's coal fields began to attract attention some 



years before the Civil War. The initial developments 
were in the Empire basin, but interest was soon trans- 
ferred to the Newport, which remained the principal 
mine until the close of the last century, when the Beav- 
er Hill came into greater prominence. The Census for 
1880 credited the state with an output of 43,20-5 tons. 
Ten years later this had increased to 61,514 tons and in 
1896 it was 101,721 tons. In only four years has the 
tonnage passed the 100,000 mark: In 1896, as just 
mentioned ; the following year with 107,289 tons ; 1904, 
with 111,540 tons, and 1905 with 109,641 tons. Pro- 
duction since that date has been as follows: 1906, 79,- 
731 tons; 1907, 70,981; 1908, 86,259; 1909, 87,276; 
1910, 67,533 ; 1911, 46,661 ; 1912, 41,637 ; 1913, 46,083 ; 
1914, 51,558; 1915, 39,231; 1916, 42,592. 

Coastwise shipments to San Francisco in 1915 were 
only 358 tons, against probably 15,000 tons in 1910. 
Over 82 per cent, of the production of the year was 
consumed within the state, 6.817 tons being used at the 
mines, 2,272 tons being sold locally and 23,226 tons 
being shipped to various Oregon points. The railroads 
consumed approximately 5,000 tons- and 1,916 tons were 
shipped to Pacific tidewater. 

In the year in question Oregon consumption was more 
than ten times gTeater than its total production. In 
addition to the 32,315 tons of Oregon coal accounted 
for in the paragraph preceding, "Washington shipped her 
sister state 172,090 tons, Wyoming 106,787 tons, and 
Utah 30,755 tons. Alabama furnished 190 tons ; Penn- 
sylvania, 126 tons of bituminous coal and 200 tons of 
anthracite ; and approximately 500 tons of lake cargo 
coal finally reached the state. The total consumption 
as shown by the above figaires was 342,963 tons. 



OREGON 



H. D. ANDREWS of the Andrews-Conover Fuel Co., retail- 
ers at Portland, Oregon, -was born in Indiana in 1875, and 
has been in the coal business almost fifteen years. 

EDWIN J. CLOUGH, Secretary and Manager of the Arling- 
ton Lumber Co., handling- coal at retail at Arlington, Ore- 
gon, was born in Junction City, Kansas, in March, 1S68, and 
has been in the coal business for seventeen years. 

ANTON H. EDLEFSEN, Vice President and Manager of 
the Edlefsen Fuel Co.. engaged in the wholesale and retail 
coal business at Portland, Oregon, was born in Pellworm 
January 29, 1878, and has been in the coal business ten 
years. 



ARTHUR MAHLON CONOVER, Manager of the Andrews- 
Conover Fuel Co., engaged in retail coal business at Port- 
land, Oregon, was born in Illinois, July 24, 1880, and has 
been in the coal business thirteen years. Mr. Conover was 
previously connected with the Central Lumber & Coal Co., 
Caldwell, Idaho, and was also Secretary of the Lumber & 
Fuel Association of Boise Valley, Idaho. 

M. L. McGRA"U% President and Manager of the Centralia 
Coal Mining Co. and East Side Fuel Co., doing a retail coal 
business at Portland, Oregon, was born in Illinois, December 
7, 1880, and has been in the coal business for eight years. 

EDW. B. SWEET, Manager of the Vulcan Coal Co., retail- 
ers in business at Portland, Oregon, was born at Woodbine, 
Iowa, January 8, 1880, and has been in the coal business for 
five years. 



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PENNSYLVANIA 



PI{!NXSYLYAXIA is not oulv in the vang'uard in 
the coal industry of the country, bnt it tops the 
list of states both from the point of view of pro- 
duction and from that of consumption. It not only 
dominates the anthracite field to such an overwhelming 
extent that the scattered deposits in other parts of the 
country are, generally speaking, unknown except to the 
coal interests and consumers adjacent to such isolated 
operations, but it also far outranks the other states of 
the I'nion in the output of bituminous coal. To put it 
grai^hically, one ton out of every three tons of bitum- 
inous coal produced in the United States during the 
course of the year comes from the coal fields of Penn- 
sylvania, which, while not as large in area as those of 
certain other important coal producing states, contain 
some of the best known beds of the country. 

The bituminous coal fields of Penn- 
Bituminous. sylvania are estimated to include an 
area of approximately 14,200 square 
miles in the western part of the state. Stratigraphically 
the coal-bearing rocks, all of which belong to the Penn- 
sylvania series arid reach a maximum thickness of ap- 
proximately 2,600 feet in the southwest corner of the 
state, "lie in the form of canoe-shaped troughs extend- 
ing northeast and southwest. There are six or more of 
these troughs and they lie at successively lower levels in 
going toward the Ohio river from either the east or the 
west, the whole tending to foiin a major shallow trough, 
whose axis runs roughly from Pittsburgh, Penn., to 
Huntington, W. Va. Around the rim of the major 
trough occur the outcrops of the lower measures, in the 
center the lower measures are deeply buried, and the 
exposed, rocks belong to the upper measures." 

The lowest of the coal-bearing formations of impor- 
tance is the Pottsville, which contains, in the western 
part of the state, the Sharon and Mercer coals, "which 
have been worked only in restricted areas."' Above the 
Pottsville lie the Allegheny ("LoAver Productive Coal 
Measures") and Monongahela ("Upper Productive Coal 
Measures") formations. These are among the major 
fields of the state. Above the Upper Freeport bed of 
the Allgeheny formation lies the Conemaugh or "Lower 
Barren Measures." This contains six or more beds, 
"which, however, are workable only in ver}' restricted 
areas, their best development being found in the Berlin 
basin in Somerset countv." The famous Pittslniro'h 



seam lies just above the Conemaugh and above the 
Pittsburgh occur the Bedstone, Sewickley, Uniontown 
and "Waynesburg coals. 

The Allegheny formation varies in thickness from 
250 to .350 feet and contains at least seven horizons of 
workable coal. From bottom to top these are known 
as the Brookville, Clarion, Lower Kittanning, Middle 
Kittanning, Upper Kittanning and Lower Freeport 
coals. While these beds do not have the continuity that 
marks certain formations in other states, the LTuited 
States Geological Survey declares that "it is clear that 
the corresponding geologic horizons mark times of con- 
ditions generally favoral^le for coal formation and that 
no coal of wide extent is found at other levels. As a 
rule the coal beds are not characterized by details of 
section, roof or floor, by which they can be clearly 
recognized, except over limited parts of the field." 

The Brookville coal is workable in spots over a large 
part of the marginal l^elt of the coal measures. It finds 
its greatest commercial development in Jefferson, Clear- 
field, Center, Cambria and Somerset counties. While 
the Clarion coal reaches workable thicknesses in about 
the same belt, "the two are seldom of workable thickness 
ill the same section." As a general thing both the 
Brookville and Clarion coals occur in their purest state 
in the thinner veins. Although the Lower Kittanning 
seldom exceeds a thickness of four feet, it is considered 
the "most persistent, uniform and reliable" of the 
Allegheny formation. It has been found in workalile 
thickness and purity in eleven counties. Except for 
cannel pockets at various points in the Upper Kittan- 
}iing. neither that nor the Middle Kittanning are of 
great commercial importance. The Lower Freeport coal 
finds its greatest development in the well-known ^los- 
hannon (Clearfield), Beynoldsville-Punxsutawney and 
Barnesboro-Patton basins in Clearfield, .Jefferson, Indi- 
ana and Cambria counties. The Upper Freeport is de- 
scribed by the United States Geological Survey as "a 
variable and complex bed, extending in gross workable 
thickness over most of its area, although over a consid- 
erable part of this territory it is too much l^roken up 
and too impure for profitable mining. It appears to be 
entirelv absent in some localities." As a whole about 
40 per cent, of the bituminous output of Pennsylvania 
conies from the Allegheny formation. 

"^he Pittsl^ursh bed is confined to the southwestern 



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part of the state. Over large areas it has a thickness 
of nine feet and seldom runs under four. It is consid- 
ered by the United States Geological Survey as the 
most uniform in quality and thickness and, for a given 
area, the most valuable of the Pennsylvania bituminous 
coal fields. Although its quality does not measure up 
to some of the other coals of the Allegheny formation 
to the east and althorxgh the Pittsburgh varies in qual- 
ity from east to west, "on the whole/' says the Surve}', 
"the Pittsburgh coal, on account of its thiclmess, its 
regularit}', its high grade and its adaptability for the 
production of coke and illuminating gas has long been 
the most famous bituminous coal bed in iimerica." 

The first official record of Pennsylvania bituminous 
production appears in the United States Census for 
1840, when the state was credited with an output of 
464,826 tons. While that seems ridiculously small in 
the light of present Pennsylvania tonnages it neverthe- 
less represented 42.1 per cent, of the total bituminous 
output reported for that year. The 1840 production, 
however, both as an actuality and upon a percentage 
basis gives strong evidence that mining operations were 
well under way some years before that date. Perhaps 
no more striking illustration of the magnificent growth 
of the industry could be found than the statement that 
the 1916 production of bituminous coal in Pennsylvania 
alone, representing 33.8 per cent, of the total bituminous 
output for the year, was more than 150 times the total 
production of the country in 1840. Except for the Cen- 
sus figaires of 1860 (2,690,786 tons) and 1870 (7,798,- 
518 tons) official figures are lacking until 1871. De- 
spite the irregTilarities in activities in the iron and steel 
industries, which, both directly and as coke consumers, 
are among the largest purchasers of Penns3dvauia bitum- 
inous coal, the growth of the output of the state, as 
shown in the folloTidng tabulation, has been remarkably 
persistent, steady and sound : 



Year. Ton. 

1871 9,040,.565 

1872 11,695,040 

1873 13,098,829 

1874 12,320,000 

1875 11,760,000 

1876 12,880,000 

1877 14,000,000 

1878 15,120,000 

1879 16,240,000 

1880 18,425,163 

1881 22,400,000 

1882 24,640,000 

1883 26,880,000 

1884 28,000,000 

1885 26,000,000 

1886 27,094,501 

1887 31,516,856 

1888 33,796,727 

1889 36,174,089 

1890 42,302,173 

1891 42,788,490 

1892 46,694,576 

1893 44,070,724 



Year. Ton. 

1894 39,912,463 

1895 50,217,228 

1896 49,557,453 

1897 54,417,974 

1898 65,165,133 

1899 74,150,175 

1900 79,842,326 

1901 82,305,946 

1902 98,574,367 

1903 103,117,178 

1904 97,938,287 

1905 118,413,637 

1906 129,293,206 

1907 150,143,177 

1908 117,179,527 

1909 137,966,791 

1910 150,521,526 

1911 144,561,257 

1912 161,865,488 

1913 173,781,217 

1914 147,983,294 

1915 157,955,137 

1916 170,295,424 



Under normal conditions the product of the Penn- 
sylvania bituminous mines is shipped from coast to 
coast. Distribution is made to nearly 40 states via all- 
rail routes. Pennsylvania contributes between 33 and 
40 per cent, of the total bituminous tonnage moved to 
the Northwest over the Great Lakes routes. Canada 
draws upon the Keystone mines for nearly 4,000,000 
tons, while tidewater shipments in 1915 totaled close to 
14,000,000 tons. Approximately 38 per cent, of the 
total output of the year just mentioned was used for 
industrial and domestic purposes within the state itself. 
This tonnage, 59,993,642 tons, represented 91.53 per 
cent, of the total bituminous consumption of the state. 
Of the tonnage named the major part, 32,498,370 tons, 
was used in making coke at the mines. Shipments of 
coal to points within the state totaled 21,214,848 tons, 
while the local trade absorbed 3,231,909 tons. Opera- 
tions at the mines accounted for the remaining 3,048,- 
515 tons. Eailroad consmnption totaled 34,175,299 
tons, or 21.6 per cent, of the output. Of this tonnage 
30,294,892 tons were shipped all-rail, while 3,435,693 
tons, used by railroads operating in the Northwest, were 
included in the lake cargo shipments of 9,619,701 tons. 
Shipments all-rail to Canada were 3,866,406 tons, while 
tidewater took 13,960,000 tons. 

All-rail shipments to interstate points during 1915 
amounted to 40,220,496 tons, or approximately 26 per 
cent, of the total output. In detail this tonnage was 
divided as follows : 

Used in Pennsylvania: Tons. 

Used at mines for steam and heat 3,048,515 

Used at mines for making colie 32,498,370 

Sold to local trade, not shipped 3,231,909 

Shipped to Pennsylvania points 21,214,848 



Total used in Pennsylvania 59,993,642 

Shipped to other States: 

Arkansas 86 

California 5,324 

Colorado 96 

Delaware 951,419 

District of Columbia and Maryland 1,514,354 

Idaho 33 

Illinois 1,677,186 

Indiana 855,259 

Iowa 66,973 

Kansas 1,333 

Kentucky 131,101 

Louisiana 478,011 

Michigan 1,948,235 

Minnesota 120,244 

Mississippi 45,075 

Missouri 294,820 

Nebraska 24,963 

New England 6,587,890 

New Jersey 3,489,656 

New Mexico 29 

New York 14,430,879 

North and South Carolina 305 

North Dakota 380 

Ohio 7,197,013 

Oklahoma 96 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



Oregon 126 

Tennessee 30,613 

Texas 239 

Virginia 51,064 

West Virginia 175,000 

Wisconsin 142,694 

Total shipped to other States, all rail 40,220,496 

Shipped to Great Lakes for cargo '-9,619,701 

Shipped to tidewater 13,960,000 

Exported by rail 3,866,406 

Used by railroads (shipped rail) 30,294,892 

Total production 157,955,137 



'■'Includes 3,435,693 tons used for railroad fuel in the 
Northwest. 

The total quantity used for railroad fuel was 34,175,299 
tons, or 21.6 per cent of the total production. 

The great steel industry of the state and the many 
other industrial enterprises which have located within 
its borders primarily because of the accessibility of the 
bituminous coal deposits operate to give Pennsylvania 
the largest square mile consumption of any state in the 
Union. In 1915 this was 1,968 tons, or 16 times the 
average for the country as a whole. Upon a per capita 
basis the influence of anthracite naturally plays a large 
part. The per capita consumption of anthracite, 2.78 
tons, is two tons greater than the average for the coun- 
try as a whole and is exceeded only by that of the state 
of Xew Jersey. Its per capita bituminous consumption 
figure, 1.67 tons, is, however, below the country aver- 
age, 2.04 tons, notwithstanding the fact that Pennsyl- 
vania as a whole consumes morp liituminous coal than 
anv other state in the Union. Its combined per capita 
consumption of bituminous and anthracite, 4.45 tons, 
shows up well in com]3arison with the countr}^ average 
of 2.82 tons. 

As indicated in a preceding paragraph Pennsylvania 
looks to its 0"ttTi mines for the major share of the bitu- 
minous coal consumed within the state. In 1915 out of a 
total bituminous consumption of 65,540,997 tons, state 
mines furnished 59,993,642 tons. West Virginia came 
next with shipments of 4,945,295 tons. Third honors 
went to Maryland, which shipped 505,860 tons. In- 
cluding Kentucky coal exported through Pennsylvania 
to Canada the Blue Grass shipments to the Keystone 
state totaled 79,125 tons. Ohio, the only other 
state to ship to Pennsylvania, contributed 17,075 tons. 
Anthracite consumption reached 23,292,584 tons, or 
26.17 per cent, of the total anthracite production of the 
state. 

Anthracite and Pennsylvania are 

Anthracite, synonymous in coal trade history; so 

much so in fact that, in speaking of 

the anthracite industry, unless special qualification is 

made, reference is solely to the Pennsylvania fields, the 

far western deposits being so limited in joroduction that 



tliey ai'c uoV gcnci'ally taken into accoiiiU in antliraclte 
])roduction statistics. 'I'lic Pennsylvania antbracite 
fields imderlie about 48U square miles in Susquehanna, 
Lackawanna, Luzerne, Carbon, Schuylkill, Colinniiia, 
Xorthumberland, Dauphin and Sullivan counties. With 
the exception of the Sullivan county (Bernico field) 
deposits the exact classifications of which has been a 
bone of contention, the anthracite fields have been 
divided into three trade regions and classified into four 
basins. 

The Wyoming trade region covers the jSTorthern basin 
in Lackawanna, Susquehanna, Wayne and Luzerne 
counties and inckides the C'arbondale, Scranton, Pitts- 
ton, Wilkes-Barre, Pl5'mouth and Kingston districts. 
The Lehigh region, or Eastern Middle basin, lies in 
Luzerne, Carbon and Schuylkill counties, and includes 
the Green Mountain, Black Creek, Hazelton, Beaver 
Meadow and Panther Creek districts. The Southern 
and Western Middle basins are in the Schuylkill region 
of Schuylkill, Columljia, Dauphin and Northumberland 
counties and include the East Schuylkill, Western 
Schuylkill, Lorberry and Lykens Valley districts in the 
Southern basin and tbe East Mahoney, West Mahoney 
and Shamokin districts in the Western Middle basin. 

Early experiments in the use of anthracite began 
prior to the Eevolutionary war. Obadiah Gore, a black- 
smith, by the use of his bellows succeeded where others 
had failed in the Inirning of the "black stones" of the 
Wyoming Valley. In 1807 a shipment of 55 tons was 
made to Columljia and a few years later 22 tons were 
sent from Carbondale to Philadelphia. The first re- 
corded use in ordinary open grates was in 1808. Sta- 
tistics, as compiled by the Bureau of Anthracite Coal 
Statistics, date back to 1820, when 365 gross tons were 
mined from the Lehigh region. Two years later pro- 
duction was reported from the Schuylkill region, while 
the Wyoming region, which has furnished over 50 per 
cent, of the total shipments, did not enter the ranks 
until 1829. The Bureau figures, which are exclusive 
of coal sold locally or used at the mines and do not 
include movement from the Bernice field, show the 
followino: : 



Year. 

1807.. 
1820.. 
1821.. 
1822.. 
1823.. 
1824.. 
1825.. 
1826.. 
1827.. 
1828.. 
1829.. 
1830. . 
1831.. 
1832.. 
1833.. 



Schuylkill. Lehigh. 



-Gross Tons- 



1,480 

1,128 

1,567 

6,500 

16,767 

31,360 

47,284 

79,973 

89,984 

81,854 

209,271 

252,971 



365 
1,073 

2,240 

5,823 

9,541 

28,393 

31,280 

32,074 

30,232 

25,110 

41,750 

40,966 

70,000 

123,001 



Wyoming. 
55 



7,000 

43,000 

54,000 

84,000 

111,777 



Total. 

55 

365 

1,073 

3,720 

6,951 

11,108 

34,893 

48,047 

63,434 

77,516 

112,083 

174,734 

176,820 

363,271 

487,749 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 

1834 226,692 106,244 43,700 376,636 1902 8,471,391 3,470,736 19,258,763 31,200,890 

1835 339,508 131,250 90,000 560,758 1903 16,474,790 7,164,783 35,723,258 59,36?,831 

1836 432,045 148,211 103,861 684,117 1904 16,379,293 7,107,220 34,006,009 57,492,522 

1837 530,152 223,902 115,387 869,441 1905 17,703,099 7,849,205 35,857,897 61,410,201 

1838 446,875 213,615 78,207 738,697 1906 16,011,285 7,046,617 32,640,693 55,698,595 

1839 475,077 221,025 122,300 818,402 1907 20,141,288 8,320,653 38,638,452 67,109,393 

1840 490,596 225,313 148,470 864,379 1908 18,006,464 7,786,255 38,872,295 64,665,014 

1841 624,466 143,037 192,270 959,773 1909 16,864,147 7,532,271 37,573,467 61,969,885 

1842 583,273 272,540 252,599 1,108,412 1910 17,845,020 8,627,539 38,433,227 64,905,786 

1843 710,200 267,793 285,605 1,263,598 1911 19,375,369 9,775,018 40,803,912 69,954,299 

1844 887,937 377,002 365,911 1,630,850 1912 18,013,406 8,571,861 37,025,311 63,610,578 

1845 1,131,724 429,453 451,836 2,013,013 1913 19,338,870 9,347,583 40,388,175 69,069,628 

1846 1,308,500 517,116 518,389 2,344,005 1914 18,416.586 10,272.308 41,258,463 69,947,357 

1847 1,665,735 633,507 583,067 2,882,309 1915 18,043,709 10,190.421 39,945,344 68,179,474 

1848 1,733,721 670,321 685,196 3,089,238 1916 19,677,476 9,437.545 37,945,334 67,060,355 

1849 1,728,500 781,556 732,910 3.242,966 

1850 1.840.620 690,456 827,823 3,358,899 g ^^j^^ ^f anthracite preparation and distribution 

1851 2,328,525 964,224 1,156,167 4,448,916 ^, V -x nC ^ ^^ i • n c 

1852 2,636,835 1,072,136 1,284,500 4,993,471 the I nited States Geological Survey says : 

1853 2,665,110 1,054,309 1,475,732 5,195,151 "Anthracite is shipped to nearly every state in the 

1854 3,191,670 1,207,186 1,603,478 6,002,334 Union and to many foreign countries. The major por- 

1855 3,552,943 1,284,113 1,771,511 6,608,567 tioii is consumed in the territory near Pennsylvania. 

1856 3,603,029 1,351,970 1,972,581 6,927,580 ;,,^i„/i;„„. n., .i„ t +i i " + •+• •+ 

1857 3,373,797 1,318;541 1,952,603 6,644,941 "^^'l^^f^n^g Canada- In the larger ea^^^^^ 

1858 3,273,245 1,380,030 2,186,094 6,839,369 ^^^^ become a necessity, but farther west and south 

1859 3,448,708 1,628,311 2,731,236 7,808,255 anthracite is more of a luxury than a necessity and in 

1860 3,749,632 1,821,674 2,941,817 8,513,123 the states most remote from the East the quantity con- 

1861 3,160,747 1,738,377 3,055,140 7,954,264 ^^^^^^^1 is small. The output of the anthracite mines is 

1862 3,372,583 1,351,054 3,145,770 7,869,407 . n i i i n n t • i j • 4. ■ i, 

1863 3,911,683 1,894,713 3,759,610 9,566,006 ^■^^refuUy. crushed, cleaned and divided into Sizes by a 

2364 4 161 970 2 054 669 3 960 836 10 177 475 pi'ocess and at a cost that render it little less than a man- 

1865 4,356,959 2,040,913 3,254,519 9,652,391 11 factured product. There are ten of these sizes, each 

1866 5,787,902 2,179,364 4,736,616 12,703,882 with its price and special use. Two major divisions are 

^^^'^■■■- 5,161,671 2,502,054 5,325,000 12,988,725 recognized, however, the prepared or domestic sizes, in- 

1868 5,330,737 2,502,582 5,968,146 13,801,465 , . , , x n i, , , i,- i. 

1869 5,775,138 1,949,673 6,141,369 13,866,180 ^^Mmg broken, egg, sto.ve and chestnut, which range 

1870 4,968,157 3,239,374 7,974,660 16,182,191 ^'^'oi^ ^our inches down to three-fourths of an inch and 

1871 6,552,772 2,235,707 6,911,242 15,699,721 the steam coal, including pea, buckwheat, buckwheat No. 

1872 6,694,890 3,873,339 9,101,549 19,699,778 2 (rice) and buckwheat No. 3 (barley), which range 

1873 7,212,601 3,705,596 10,309,755 21,227,952 from three-fourths of an inch to one-sixteenth of an 

1874 6,866,877 3,773,836 9,504,408 20,145,121 • i mi i x- ■ ■ x x t hi 

1875 6,281,712 2,834,605 10,596,155 19,712,472 "^^'l^' The domestic Sizes are m gTeatest demand and 

1876 6,221,934 3,854,919 8,424,158 18,501,011 consequently bring the highest price. Attention m 

1877 8,195,042 4,332,760 8,300,377 20,828,179 preparation is therefore directed to obtaining the largest 

1878 6,282,226 3,237,449 8,085,587 17,605,262 possible proportion of those sizes and the finer coal re- 

18^9 8,960,829 4,595,567 12,586,293 26,142,689 ,,,lting from the crushing is a bv-product. It is not 

1880 7,554,742 4,463,221 11,419,279 23,437,242 .,f- , x • x, 

1881 9,253,958 5,294,676 13,951,383 28,500,017 P^^^i'jl'^' however, to increase the proportion of domes- 

1882 9,459,288 5,689,437 13,971,371 29,120 096 tic sizes beyond 60 to 65 per cent, of the coal shipped, 

1883 10,074,726 6,113,809 15,604,492 31,793,027 or 50 to 55 per cent, of the total product." 

1884 9,478,314 5,562,226 15,677,753 30,718,293 Although the foregoing quotation is an accurate re- 

]lll If'/'' 5-898.634 16,236,470 31,623,530 flection of anthracite conditions as they have existed for 

1886 9,381,407 5,723,129 17,031,826 32,136,362 , . 'x xi c -x ij? • xi x 

1887 10,609,028 4,347,061 19,684,929 34,641,018 '^ ""mber of years past the Survey itself recognizes that 

1888 10,654,116 5,639,236 21,852,366 38!l45!718 certain changes have been taking place with respect to 

1889 10,486,185 6,294,073 19,036,835 35,817,093 the relative importance and uses of the larger junior 

1890 10,867,822 6,329,658 19,417,979 36,615,459 sizes. For example pea has come into much wider favor 

1891 12,741,258 6,381,838 21,325,240 40 448 336 i ^.■ f ^ ii ■ j xt, i • x- i 

T„„„ '^^'^, '„' ,o o, -tv ■±v,-f±o,ooo as a domestic fuel and has gamed the sobriquet m large 

1892 12,626,784 6,451,076 22,815,480 41,893,340 ^ .^. „„_,, ^ , _,, .^ „ ,^ ^^ 

1893 12,357,444 6,892,352 23,839,741 43,089,537 ^a^tem cities of the poor mans anthracite. No. 1 

1894 12,035,005 6,705,434 22,650,761 41,391,200 buckwheat has also been making headway in certain 

1895 14,269,932 7,298,124 24,943,421 46,511,477 classes of strictly domestic trade, while the smaller sizes 

1896 13,097,571 6,490,441 23,589,473 43,177,485 enter into active competition with bituminous coals in 

1897 12,181,061 6,249,540 23,207,263 41,637,864 xi i x i n x x i ea ^ -u- x i • 

1898 12,078,875 6.253,109 23 567,767 41 899 751 ^^'' ^'°^'-' ^^'^' apartment and office building trade m 

1899 14,199.009 6,887,909 26,578,286 47!665!204 ^'^^ "''^'^*^- ^^'^* ^^^^ exception of No. 1 buckwheat, 

1900 13.502,732 6,918,627 24,686,125 45.107,484 v.iiich is frequently prepared at the yards or doclcs, 

1901 16.019,591 7,211,974 30,337,036 53,5^8,601 sizes smaller than pea are not shipped as a rule to the 

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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



West, as there is no market for them, Imt the yard 
screenings and dust are in high favor witli zinc jihints 
and malt houses. 

liudiiiplete data gathered by the United States Geo- 
kigiral Survey indicate that in 1915 not less than 50.- 
OOO.OOd net tons of anthracite was iised in heating 
households, apartments, hotels, offices, schools and other 
huildiugs, while the bituminous coal consumption for 
domestic and small steam trade totaled only 71,000,000 
tons. Although 71.4: per cent, of the antliracite ship- 
ments for the year went to the New England and Mid- 
dle Atlantic states, tonnage distributed to other states 
covered a wide area, the figaires showing that only four 
states — Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah — failed 
to call upon the Pennsylvania anthracite mines for a 
portion of their fuel su.pply. 

In detail the distribution figures for the 3'ear named 
showed the following: 

,■ 'Net Tons — ^ 

Shipped 

by way of Shipped by 
Great Lakes, rail only. Total. 
Middle Atlantic States: 
Pennsylvania — 

Used at mines for 

steam and heat 9,996,544 

Sold to local trade, not 

shipped 2,092,086 

Shipped to Pennsylvania 
points 11,203,954 11,203,954 



New York 20,789,494 

New Jersey 8,375,000 



23,292,584 

20,789,494 

8,375,000 



*New England States 

South Atlantic and South- 
ern States: 

Alabama 

Arkansas 

Delaware 

District of Columbia and 
Maryland 

Florida 

Georgia 

Kentucky 

Louisiana 

Mississippi 

North and So. Carolina. 

Oklahoma 

Tennessee 

Texas 

Virginia 

West Virginia 



40,368,448 52,457,078 



8,267,000 13,767,000 



North Central States: 

Illinois 807,000 

Indiana 

Iowa 

Kansas 

Michigan 45,000 



8,100 


8,100 


800 


800 


210,000 


210,000 


1,470,000 


1,470,000 


25,000 


25,000 


50,000 


50,000 


20,000 


20,000 


15,000 


15,000 


2,000 


2,000 


124,000 


124,000 


500 


500 


9,000 


9,000 


22,000 


22,000 


170,000 


170,000 


35,000 


35,000 


2,161,400 


2,161,400 


2,485,000 


3,292,000 


600,000 


600,000 


310,000 


310,000 


25,000 


25,000 


793,800 


838,800 



Minnesota 1,600,000 

Missouri 

Nebraska 30,000 

North Dakota 310,000 

Ohio 

South Dakota 150,000 

Wisconsin 1,680,000 



4,622,000 



Western States: 
California . . . 
Colorado .... 

Idaho 

Montana .... 
Oregon 



Washington 
Wyoming . . 



70,000 


1,670,000 


371,300 


371,300 


497,300 


527,300 


50,000 


360,000 


600,000 


600,000 


30,000 


180,000 


50,000 


1,730,000 


5,882,400 


10,504,400 


500 


500 


600 


600 


200 


200 


5,000 


5,000 


200 


200 


1,900 


1,900 


200 


200 



8,600 8,600 
Total distributed in United States for pur- 
poses other than railroad fuel 78,898,478 

Used for railroad fuel 6,200,000 



Total distributed in U. S 85,098,894 

Exported to Canada 3,852,894 

Exported to other countries 112,361 



Total exported 3,965,255 

Total distribution, 1915 89,063,733 

Total production, 1915 88,995,061 



'■'Included in New England's final total is 5,500,000 net 
tons shipped by way of tidewater, the only group of states 
receiving coal in that way. 

Although the figures given have been used in the 
summarization of the fuel consumption in various states 
appearing elsewhere in this volume the statistics actual- 
ly represent distribution. This distinction, especially 
in regard to anthracite, is important because of the 
large storage piles accumulated in times past. Tlius 
during the year under review the anthracite interests 
reported that storage stocks had been increased from 
5,000,000 to 10,000,000 gross tons. The result is that the 
figures for certain states, particularly New York, New 
Jersey, Pennsylvania, and the New England group, rep- 
resent receipts rather than consumption. Likewise it is 
possible, even probable, that coal consigned to storage 
plants in certain states may have been subsequently re- 
shipped to other states. Considered iii relation to the 
total tonnages, however, the variations produced l)y the 
two factors mentioned are too small to seriously affect 
tlie substantial accuracy and comparative value of the 
statistics given. 

Eeview of the coal industry of Pennsylvania would 
be lacking if no mention were made of trade features 
at Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. While accurate figures 
upon the bituminous consumption at the first-named 
city are not available the anthracite consumption for 
1915 was 4,476,002 net tons, or 1,184,002 tons more 
than was burned within the entire state of Illinois. 
Figured in another way Philadelphia consumed more 
than double the amount of anthracite used in the city 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 

of Chicaoo. Philadelphia also takes high rank as a the largest coal consuming market in the country. In 
clearing port for water shipments of bituminous coal. 1915 its consumption was placed at 17,14-1,015 tons. 
During the 5'ear nearly 8,100,000 tons were loaded in The district received 7,190,952 tons b}- rail and 9,953,- 
the vessels at the port. More than 75 per cent, of this 063 tons via the Monongahela river locks. In addition 
tonnage was carried to coastwise or Delaware Bay points, to the consumption within the Pittsburgh district itself 
Anthracite shipments from the port aggregated 2,502,- 22,658,596 tons moved by rail and 2,351,255 tons by 
602 net tons; of this, 2,406,756 tons went to coastwise, water through Pittsburgh to points west and 13,376,616 
principally Xew England, points and 95,846 tons were tons by rail to points east. In other words the move- 
exported, ment to and through Pittsburgh, rail and water, for 
Pittsburoli shares with Chicago the honor of lieing the vear totaled 55,530,482 tons. 



348 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 




HOWARD W. PERRIN, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 

Manager Anthracite Sales M. A. Hanna & Co., was born in Wyoming 
County. Pennsylvania, September 4, 1867, and has been in the coal 
business twenty-six years. He was formerly with Williams & Peters, 
.Tames Boyd & Co. and Susquehanna Coal Co. He has served as 
President of the Coal Club of Philadelphia, President of the United 
States Golf Association, and has been identified prominently with 
many business interests. 



349 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 




SAMUEL DEXTER WARRINER, Philadelphia. 

Samuel Dexter Warriner, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Presi- 
dent of the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Compan)^, the oldest of 
the anthracite mining companies, is one of the }'ounger generation 
v»'ho is taking a prominent leadership in the anthracite branch of 
the coal industry. Coming np through the operating department 
he has acquired a thorough knowledge of the practical problems in 
connection with the production of coal as well as showing a happy 
faculty for the wise handling of labor and general executive ability. 

Mr. Warriner was born February 24, 1867, in Lancaster, Penn- 
sylvania. He was graduated from Amherst College in 1888 with 
the degree of A. B. and from Lehigh University in 1890 as Mining 
Engineer with degrees of B. S. and E. M. 

He took service with the Liberty Iron Company as Engineer 
in 1890, then with the Lehigh Valley Coal Company as Assistant 
Superintendent and Mechanical Engineer 1890-1897. General 
Superintendent of the Cahimet and Hecla Mining Company from 
1897 to 1901. General Superintendent, General Manager and Vice 
President of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company from 1901 to 1912. 

On July 1. 1912, he was made President of the Lehigh Coal 
& jSTavigation Company and has been a leading member of the 
Committee of Anthracite Operators in the wage conference with 
representatives of the United ]\Iine Workers of America. 

Mr. Warriner was appointed in 1903 as a member of the 
Anthracite Conciliation Board and has served continuoiisly since 
then. In 1909 he was elected Trustee of Lehigh University, which 
position he still holds. 



350 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 

THE LEHIGH COAL & NAVIGATION COMPANY 

437 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
A CENTURY OF "OLD COMPANY'S LEHIGH" 



Considering- the t-xtent of its property, the quality of its 
product, the thoroughness of its mining- methods and the 
policies adopted to conserve the supply still underground. 
The Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co. today occupies a unique 
and interesting- place in the history of anthracite produc- 
tion in Northeastern Pennsylvania. The early history of 
the company, the efforts of its pioneers to make and reach 
a market for the wealth of fuel which they knew to be of 
so high a value to civilization, reads like a romance. And 
it is paralleled in interest by the record of the broad eco- 
nomic policy of the company's management in recent years. 

The mines of The Lehigh Coal & N-^vigation Co. extend 
on either side of the Panther Creek in Carbon and North- 
eastern Schuylkill counties, Pennsylvania. At its upper end 
this anthracite territory approaches the Lehigh River; to 
which fact is attributable, doubtless, its opening during the 
earliest period of anthracite development. 

Discovery of coal in this region is generally accredited to 
Philip Ginter, a backwoodsman, who late in the 18th cen- 
tury, settled near Mauch Chunk. Ginter's story is that one 
day in the year 1791, as he was returning after a day spent 
in the quest of game, he stumbled over what seemed to him 
to be a stone. 

He had heard of "stone coal over in Wyoming." and was 
impressed with the idea that this "black stone" might have 
fuel value. He took it with him to his cabin, and the next 
day carried it to Col. Jacob "Weiss, who lived at what was 
then known as Fort Allen. Keenly alive to the value of 
Ginter's find, should it prove to be coal. Colonel Weiss took 
the specimen to Philadelphia and submitted it to John 
Nicholson and Michael Hillegas. 

Ascertaining by examination that this was the purest of 
anthracite, Hillegas. Weiss and Cist formed the Lehigh 
Coal Mine Co. in 1792, and took up 8,000 to 10,000 acres of 
unlocated land, including the Mauch Chunk Mountain, 

This was the beginning of the "Old Company," and from 
that day to the present the coal which has come from these 
mines — Old Company's Lehigh — has been justly famed be- 
cause of its purity and its high fuel and energy value. 

Owing to the difficulties of transporting the coal to any 
considerable settlement, the mines remained neglected until 
the year 1806. In that year, William TurnbuU constructed 
an "ark" — a rough timber boat — to convey two or three 
hundred bushels of anthracite to Philadelphia. Some of 
this was sold to the manager of the Philadelphia Water 
Works for use in the power plant, -which then stood on 
the site of the present City Hall. But because of inex- 
perience in handling anthracite, this fuel "seemed to ex- 
tinguish the fire," and it was rejected as worthless. 

The mines still languished until after the War of 1812, 
and it -was not until Joslah White, Erskine Hazard and G. 
F. A. Hauto interested themselves in Lehigh lands, that 
the true development of the region began. 

It was mainly the rare business sagacity and engineering 
skill of Mr. White that overcame the tremendous difficulties 
of the Lehigh Navigation, and that found the path by 
which the product of the mines could be brought to market. 

In 1818, these three anthracite pioneers obtained control 
of the lands of the Lehigh Coal Mine Co. In the same 
year, they were granted, by act of legislature, the right to 
improve the navigation of the Lehigh River. 

It is a rather interesting fact that the famous "bear 
trap" dam, now adopted by LTnited States Government engi- 
neers for improvement of the Ohio River, was invented by 
Josiah "White in the early work of Lehigh improvement. 
As is well known, the "bear trap" is hinged at the bottom 
and is lowered to permit the passage of navigation, being 
raised, when desired, by the force of the water itself. Mr. 
White had dams of this type built in secret and met the 
questions of the curious with the answer that he was build- 
ing a "bear trap." French engineers afterwards con- 
demned the dam as valueless; yet today enormous "bear 
traps" are being built by the government on the Ohio to 
pass the tremendous fleets that carry the tonnage of the 
Pittsburgh district. 

When, by the raising of these "bear traps" on the Lehigh, 
the dam became full, and the water had run over it long 
enough for the river below the dam to acquire the depth of 
the ordinary flow of the river, the sluice-gates were let 
down, and the boats, which were lying in the pools above, 
passed down with the artificial flood. About twelve of these 
dams and sluices were made in 1819. 

In these early days the coal was brought to market in 
what were termed "arks" — square timber boxes from six- 
teen to eighteen feet wide and from twenty to twenty-five 
feet long. These boats made but one trip. When they 



reached Philadelphia, and had been unloaded, they were 
broken up and the timber sold, the spikes, hinges and other 
hardware being returned to Mauch Chunk, a distance of 
eighty miles, by wagon. For two or three years the hands 
employed on these rude boats made the return trip to the 
mines afoot. Later, rough wagons were placed on the road 
by tavern-keepers, to carry them at low prices. Boats of 
this sort were used until the end of the year 1831, when the 
Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Canal was partly 
finished. In the last year of this period 40,966 tons were 
thus floaced down, requiring so many boats that, if placed 
in one line, they would have extended more than thirteen 
iniles. 

The interests of the two Lehigh companies were amalga- 
mated April 21, 1820, under the name Lehigh Navigation & 
Coal Co. and with this date began the actual development 
of this rich property along broad lines. By an act of As- 
sembly passed Feb. 13, 1822, The Lehigh Coal & Navigation 
Co. was incorporated, and the property of the prior asso- 
ciations, and the privileges created by the act of 1818, were 
vested in the new company. 

The canal between Mauch Chunk and the Delaware as it 
now exists was begun in 1827. A large part of the com- 
pany's product is still carried to market on this water 
route. The canal has seventy-five lock.s — fifty on the Le- 
high division and twenty-five on the Delaware division. 
The entire route is 106 miles. The traflSc is lowered from 
a maximui-n elevation of 531 feet above tide level. 

Today, when anthracite is regarded as a necessity 
throughout the most populous section of the United States, 
it is interesting to recall this early period when the an- 
thracite pioneers -were coinpelled to fight their -way to 
market and then to educate that market in the use of their 
product. As late as 1825 The Lehigh Coal & Navigation 
Co. found it advisable to print in pamphlet form a series of 
testimonials to the effect that anthracite could be burned, 
and that it was really a valuable fuel. 

Today its market is bounded only within the territory 
-which it can reach and supplv. And among all of the an- 
thracite mined. "Old Company's Lehigh" is recognized as 
pre-eminent for purity and high fuel value. 



THE LEHIGH 



:OAL & NAVIGATION CO. PROPERTY 
OF TODAY. 



The superiority and economy of "Old Company's Lehigh" 
is owing to its high percentage of fixed carbon. As is well 
known, the heat efficiency of coal depends upon the fixed 
carbon it contains. "Old Company's Lehigh" contains from 
4 to 6 per cent more than is found in other anthracite. It 
contains 14.000 B.T.U. and when burned leaves a residue of 
but 12 per cent of ash. It is because of the density and hard- 
ness of "Old Company's Lehigh" that the percentage of 
refuse is so low. Unlike a free-burning coal, it does not 
split up under the action of heat; and as it contains less 
suli^hur and iron, it does not clinker as do other anthracites. 

Of this purest of all anthracite, The Lehigh Coal & Navi- 
gation Co. has more than 500,000,000 tons still under the 
ground. The company owns in fee anthracite coal lands in 
Carbon and Schuylkill counties, Pennsylvania, comprising 
8,631 acres. Upon this property are located well-equipped 
and modern collieries, with a productive capacity in excess 
of 4,000,000 tons per an-num. The property includes the 
Nesquehoning. Lansford. Coaldale, Greenwood, Rahn and 
Tam.aqua Collieries; Coaldale, Greenwood and Hauto Wash- 
erie.-j. The company employs in these approximately 10,000 
men. 

The company owns the Lehigh and New England Rail- 
road, the main line of which extends from Hauto, Pennsyl- 
vania, to Campbell Hall, New York, a distance of 126 miles, 
with principal branches to Palmerton. Slatington. Catasau- 
qua, Bethlehem, Martins Creek, Bangor, Pennsylvania, and 
Sussex, New Jersey. The total main track mileage operated is 
297.11, sidings and yards 84.10; total mileage owned, includ- 
ing sidings and yards, 283.87. This railroad connects with 
all the important trunk lines in the East, and is able to 
reach and distribute anthracite, cement, slate and other 
commoditie.-: originating on its line over a wide area. 

The company also has a large holding in the stock of the 
Lehigh & Hudson River Railway Co., whose line extends 
from Easton, Pennsylvania, to Maybi-ook, New York. 

The company owns and operates the Lehigh Canal, ex- 
tending from Coalport. above Mauch Chunk, to Easton, a 
distar.ce of 46 miles, and leases and operates the Delaware 
Division Canal, extending from Easton to Bristol, a distance 
of 60 miles. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 




JOHN J. TIERNEY, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 

Vice President and General Sales Manager Crozier-Pocahontas Co., 
Philadelphia, was bom in Newcastle, Pennsylvania, and has been in 
the coal business forty-six years, his first work being with the Phila- 
delphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co. For several years he was Presi- 
dent of the Smokeless Coal Operators' Association of West Virginia, 
and is now Treasurer of the National Coal Association. Mr. Tierney 
is President of the Powhatan Coal & Coke Co., Sharon Coal & Coke 
Co. and Tierney Coal Co., Vice President of the Page Coal & Coke 
Co. and Tierney Mining Co., and sole owner of the J. J. Tierney Coke 
Agency of Bluefleld, West Virginia. Since 18S1 he has been a mem- 
ber of the American Institute of Mining Engineers and is a member 
of the Engineers' Club ai:d the Manufacturers' Club of Philadelphia. 



352 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 




DANIEL B. WENTZ, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 

President Royal Colliery Co., Midvalley Coal Co., Stonega Coke & Coal 
Co., Virginia Coal & Iron Co. and Wentz Corp., was born in .Teddo, 
Pennsylvania, September 4, 1872, and has been in the coal business 
iwenty-two years. He is also interested in the Maryd Coal Co., Upper 
Lehigh Coal Co. and J. S. Wentz Co. He is a member of the various 
coal associations of Pennsylvania, is well known throughout the trade, 
and has taken a prominent part in war work. 



353 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





AVILI^ARD HALL. BRADFORD, Philadelithia, Pennsylvania, 

President W. H. Braclforcl & Co.. Inc., Commercial Trust 
Building-, Pliiladelphia, Pennsylvania, was born in Dover, 
Delavi^are, May 11, 1868, and has been in the coal business 
for twenty-six years. He is also interested in the Victor 
Coal Mining- Co. and Clarion Coal Mining Co., and was 
formerly with the Altoona Coal & Coke Co., Columbia Coal 
Mining- Co., and Spring Coal Mining- Co. He is well known 
in eastern coal circles. 



R. R. REITLINGER, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 

Vice President W. H. Bradford it Co.. was born in Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio, September 15, 1888, and lias been in the coal 
business nine years. He is President of the Clarion Coal 
Mining Co. and Secretary and Treasurer Victor Coal Mining 
Co. He was formerly with the Davis Colliery Co., Elkins, 
West Virginia. 





RAYMOND HAVEMEYER, New York City, 

Treasurer W. H. Bradford & Co., was born at East Orange. 
New Jersey, June 23, 1884, and has been interested in the 
coal business four years. He is also a Director of tlie Vic- 
tor Coal Mining- Co. and the Clarion Coal Mining Co. Mr. 
Havemeyer was formerly connected with the Phoenix Fu&l 
Co. 



LLOYD G. McCRUM, Somerset, Pennsylvania, 

General Manager W. H. Bradford & Co., Philadelphia, Presi- 
dent Victor Coal Mining Co. and Vice President and Gen- 
eral Manager Clarion Coal Mining Co., was born in Union- 
town, Pennsylvania, August 7, 1877. and has been in the 
coal business for six years. He is a Lieutenant Colonel in 
the service. 



354 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



Weston Dodson & Co., 

INCORPOR.\TED, 

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. 

One of the old established and highly regarded anthrtuite pro- 
ducing companies is that of Weston Dodson & Co., Inc., of Betli- 
lehem. Pennsylvania. . 

This business was born in the days of the Civil War and eai'ly 
in its history was in the hands of three brothers, of whom Weston 
Dodson was the senior and salesman. For the si.xty years since 
it so established the spirit, which this generation inlierited from 
the previons generation that it has been one of their most valned 
assets. 

There are today among the firm's customers, concerns whose 
presidents were office boys half a century ago and some of these 
concerns for fifty years have bought from Weston Dodson & Co. 
because in the truest Avord the previons generation were gentle- 
men and salesmen and who made it their business "'to live by the 
side of the road and be a friend to man." 

The past year was one of sadness for those connected with the 
company becanse it marked the passing of the last of the three 
brothers who founded the business, and yet the unfailing kind- 
ness and courtesy of the late Charles M. Dodson sets a standard 
for his successors to emulate. 

The business has grown as the firm has been true to principle 
and during the recent war nineteen of their young men, one of 
them a gTandson of the founder, were wearing the khaki in nine 
different branches of the military service. The sales organization 
has been built up from young college men whose loyalty and devo- 
tion have been a very help in troublesome times. Loyalty to the 
house, of wdiich they are all a part, is what they strive for. 

The history of the house is the history of an idea rather than 
of any individual. With every employe interested in every trans- 
action and every customer admitted to a front plane of equality 
in service the organization has gained not like a mushroom but 
like the proverbial sturdy oak. Troublous times have not brought 
the big opportunities which have made many people wealthy over 
night and yet the gi'owth of the idea has brought with it a satis- 
faction in no sense fleeting. 

The annual meeting of the sales emiiloyes Ijrings upwards of 
eighty persons to the main office in Bethlehem from offices in six 
cities all over the land and each one comes imbued with the idea 
that if in these txoublous times one must be engaged in coal it 
is well to be part of the company to which they all owe allegiance. 

With the backing of employes, customers and miners they are 
looking confidently to the future and voice this confidence in two 
mottoes emblazoned on their coat of arms: "Our customers are 
ahvays right," and "We do co-operate." 



.155 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





BMMETT R. TATNALL, Haverford, Peiijisylvania, 

President Franklin Coal & Coke Co., Treasurer Franklin 
Fuel Co. and Vice President Preston County Power Co., 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was born in Philadelphia Sep- 
tember 6. 1884. and has been in the coal business six years. 
He was previously with the Keystone Coal & Coke Co. 



HOI.LIE W. BISHOP, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 

Vice President and Testing- Engineer Franklin Coal & Coke 
Co., Commercial Trust Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 
was born in Roxano, Delaware, February 20, 1872, and has 
been in the coal business for nine years. He was formerly 
with the Keystone Coal & Coke Co. , 





CHESTER B. DUNGAIV, jVew York City, 

Vice President Franklin Coal & Coke Co., was born in 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in April, 1882, and has been 
interested in the coal business eighteen years. Mr. Dungan 
was formerly \vith the Clearfield Bituminous Coal Corp., 
Empire Coal Mining Co. and Keystone Coal & Coke Corp. 
as New York Manager. 



GEORGE H. HECK, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 

Secretary-Treasurer of the Franklin Coal & Coke Co., Com- 
mercial Trust Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was 
born in Philadelphia July 4, 1889, and has been in the coal 
business twelve years. He is also President of the Franklin 
Fuel Co., Secretary Preston County Power Co., and Treas- 
urer Schuylkill Coal Co. and was formerly with the Key- 
stone Coal & Coke Co. 



356 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





HKXUY H. LIXEAAVEAVEK, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

President of H. H. Lineaweaver & Co., was born in Millers - 
town, Pennsylvania, December 22, 1872, and has been in the 
noal business twenty-three years. He is also President of 
H. H. Smith & Co. and the Shipman Koal Co. He was for- 
merly ^vith Nutting & L.inea'weaver, Henry H. Lineaweaver 
and Smith, Lineaweaver & Co. He has many friends in the 
coal trade and is highly respected. 



HARRY C. BEURY, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 

Treasurer H. H. Lineaweaver & Co., Inc., Philadelphia, Penn- 
slvania, was born in Llewellyn, Pennsylvania, September 8, 
1868, and has been in the coal business for twenty-six years. 
He is also interested in the Big Branch Coal Co., Girard 
Mammoth Coal Co., Algoma Coal & Coke Co.. and Quinni- 
mont Coal Co. 





JOHX E. SHEETS, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 

Secretary H. H. Lineaweaver & Co., was born in Washing- 
ton, District of Columbia, December 24, 1869, and has been 
in the coal business twenty-nine years. He is also Secre- 
tary of H. H. Smith & Co. and of the Lebanon Stone Co. 
He was formerly with the Coal Traffic Department of the 
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co., Geo. B. Newton & Co., 
and Madeira, Hill & Co. 



CHARLES ERNEST WILCOX, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 

A Director and Assistant to the President H. H. Lineaweaver 
& Co., was born in Baltimore, Maryland, October 26, 1878, 
and has been in the coal business fourteen years, and is a 
man well known throughout the coal industry of the 
country. 



357 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



Madeira, Hill & Company 

North American Building 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 

The headquarters of the Company is iu Philadelphia, with 
other offices in New York (143 Liberty Street), Hartford, Con- 
necticut, Frackville, Penns3dvania, Philipsburg, Pennsylvania, 
and Fairmont, West Virginia. 

The Company controls mines producing the best grades of an- 
thracite coal with operations located in the Wyoming, Lehigh 
and Schuylkill regions, also in the L3-kens A^alley field. Its 
activities also extend into the bituminous field with a large num- 
loer of mines in the Clearfield region, Fairmont region of West 
Virginia, and on the Conemangh Division of the Pennsylvania 
Eailroad. 

The product of these mines is distributed largely in the Xew 
England, Middle, and Central States. 

The officers of Madeira, Hill & Co. are : 
Percy C. Madeira, President. 
Eobert C. Hill, Vice President. 
Louis C. j\Iadeira, Vice President. 
■Jesse W. Powell, Treasurer. 
John Gilbert, Secretary. 

John Edmonds, Sales Manager, Anthracite Dept. 
JTarlow C. Voorhees, Sales Manager. Bituminous Dept. 



358 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



Maryland Coal & Coke Company 

Stephen Girard Building 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 

The Maryland Coal & Coke Co. of Philadelphia is one of the 
substantial and favorably known producing companies in Penn- 
sylvania. This company owns and operates four mines in the 
Clearfield District of Pennsylvania, having a capacity of some 
nine hundred tons a day. They also have two subsidiary com- 
panies, the Maryland New Eiver Coal Co., and the Maryland Coal 
Mining Co., which operate the Boone, Smokeless and Baclunan 
mines in the New Eiver District, Fayette County, West Virginia, 
which has a capacity of 15,000 tons a month. 

The ^laryland Coal & Coke Co. also acts as exclusive selling 
agent for the Smith and Hamill mines of the Hamill Coal & Coke 
Co., located at Blaine, West Virginia, on the Western Maryland 
Bailroad, and for the Guion mine of the Guion Coal Co. in the 
Clearfield District of Pennsylvania. They also do a general whole- 
sale jobbing business, especially in smokeless fuel of West Virginia. 
New Eiver and Pocahontas coals, together with coal from the 
Central Pennsylvania District. The annual tonnage of the com- 
pany is approximately 750,000 tons. 

This company has its headquarters in the Stephen Girard Build- 
ing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and have branch offices at 17 
Battery Place, New York City; 441 Calvert Building, Baltimore, 
Maryland; Warwick Hotel Annex, Newport News, Virginia; and 
Altoona Trust Building, Altoona, Pennsylvania. 

The officers of the company are : George P. Spates President. 
Medford J. Brown Vice President and Treasurer, and Frank A. 
Tavlor Secretarv. 



359 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





M'ALTER P. BROWIV, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 

President Charles D. Norton Coal Co.. Philadelphia, was 
born in Philadelphia and has been in the coal business 
more than thirty years. This business was established 
in 1838. Mr. Brown is a brother-in-law of the late Charles 
D. Norton, who was the head of the Charles D. Norton Co. 
for many years. 



JOSEPH BARTON GIVIN, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 

Secretary-Treasurer Chas. D. Norton Coal Co., Philadelphia, 
was born in Philadelphia November 29, 1888, and has been 
in the coal business fifteen years. He is also Secretary- 
Treasurer of the Schuylkill Coal Exchange and was for- 
merly Secretary of the Chas. D. Norton Co. His entire busi- 
ness experience has been with this organization. 



Chas. D. Norton Coal Company 

217-221 Stephen Girard Building 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 



This well-known company is one of the pioneer 
coal firms of Pennsylvania, having been estal3- 
lislied originally in 1838, under the firm name of 
Roberts, Walton & Co., the firm being composed 
of Asa Packer, Joseph B. Van Dusen, Joseph 
Walton and William H. Eoberts. Mr. Walton and 
Mr. Roberts retired from the firm about 1843, and 
Asa Packer retired in the year 1846, at, the time 
the Lehigh Valley Railroad Avas incorporated, and 
he became its first President. 

Joseph B. Van Dnsen associated with him 
Charles F. Norton in 1848 under the firm name 
of Van Dnsen, Nortofi & Co., and continued until 
1860, when Mr. Van Dusen retired and Mr. 
Audenried, the father of the present Judge of 
the Common Pleas Court of Philadelphia County, 
joined with Mr. Norton under the title of Auden- ' 
ried, Norton & Co. Some years later, after the 
death of both Mr. Audenried and Mr. Norton, 
the business was continued bv Charles D. Norton, 



son of Charles P. Norton, under the firm name 
of G-orrell, Norton & Co., and later was changed 
to Charles D. Norton & Co. 

In 1903 the company was incorporated as the 
Charles D. Norton Compan)^, and continued until 
the "death of Mr. Norton in July, 1916. The 
present corporation, Charles D. Norton Coal Com- 
pany, has for its officers Walter P. Brown as 
President, a brother-in-law of the late Charles D. 
Norton, and Joseph B. Givin as Secretary and 
Treasurer, both of whom were associated with 
the Charles D. Norton Co. for many years. 

The company is sole mine agents and shippers 
of Bituminous and Anthracite into all regions of 
the United States and Canada, specializing on 
Bituminous coal from Georges Creek, Western 
Maryland, West Virginia and Pennsylvania Bitu- 
minous fields, and Anthracite from mines located 
on Philadelphia & Reading, Pennsylvania and 
Lehigh & New England Railroads. 



360 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 




JAMES PIERPOIjVT, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 

President James Pierpoint & Sons Co., was born in England 
June 12, 1852, and has been in the coal business eleven years. 
He is President of the Locust Colliery Co. and interested 
in the Chesterton Coal Co. 





THOMAS R. PIERPOIAT, Philadelphia;, Pennsylvania, 

Treasurer of James Pierpoint & Sons Co., was born in Belle- 
fonte, Pennsylvania, November 4, 1885, and has been in the 
coal business seven years. He is also Secretary and Treas- 
urer of the Locust Colliery Co. 



ROBERT WILLIAM PIERPOINT, Philadelphia, Penn., 

Secretary and Sales Manager James Pierpoint & Sons Co.. 
was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 17, 1890, and 
has been in the coal business seven years. He is a member 
of the Executive Board of the Philadelphia Wholesale Coal 
Trade Association. 



361 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



THORNE, NEALE & GO., INC., 

Franklin Bank Building, 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

Thornp, Neale & Co.. inc., are a well-known vrholesale coal 
compam- with general offices in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that 
operate a nnmber of large producing mines and have a consider- 
able tonnage of both anthracite and Ijituminous coal. 

Their principal anthracite mines are : Buck Run, near Miners- 
ville; New Castle, at New Castle; Fort}- Fort and Harry E, at 
Forty Fort ; Mount Lookout, at Wyoming ; North West, at Car- 
bondale ; Sterrick Creek, near Dunmore ; Lackawanna, near Oly- 
phant ; Washeries : at Locust Dale ; and Edgerton, near Carbondale, 
all in Pennsylvania. 

Among their bituminous mines are : Sonman Shaft, B Vein : 
Sonman Slope, E A^ein, near Portage ; Pine Hill, near Meyers dale, 
all in Pennsylvania. 

The officers of the company are all well and favorably known 
in the coal trade, and are as follows: President, S. B. Thome; 
Vice Presidents, James B. Neale, Charles E. Fernberg; Secretary, 
James H. Collier; Treasurer, Laurence T. Bliss. 

The company's general offices are located in the Franklin Bank 
Building, Philadelphia. Charles E. Fernberg is the General Sales 
Agent; G-. R. Cabell, in charge of Bituminous Sales; David C. 
Davis, in charge of Anthracite Sales, and have offices in the follow- 
ing cities: New York, Charles F. Randolph, Manager; Baltimore, 
J. Frank Foster, Manager ; Chicago, George E. Medin, Manager : 
Boston, Earl F. Larrabee, Manager ; Buffalo, Clarence F. Westfall. 
Manager ; Mauch Chunk. Walter T. Stedman, Manager : Scranton. 
L. B. Cornell, ALinaser. 



362 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 




STA]\I.EY M. MARTIIV, Pliiladelpliia, Pesinsylvania, 

President Beccaria Coal & Coke Co., was born in Philadel- 
phia August 22, 1878, and has been in the coal business 
fifteen years. He was formerly with the Merchants' Coal 
Co. and the Quemahoning- Coal Co. 



BECCARTA ( OVI. it COKE COiMl'.ViW, 

1:200 I'eniisylviiiiia lliiiltliii):;, 

I'liiladclpliia. 

This company operates mines at Bec- 
caria, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, 
mining a very high grade bituminous 
coal from the Moshannan vein. The 
shipping point is Smol<e Run, Clearfield 
County, Pennsylvania. The mines are 
located on the lines of the Pennsylvania 
Railroad, and the output is sold into 
Eastern and Atlantic Seaboard territory. 

Stanley M. Martin is President of the 
company, Howard R. Knecht of Beth- 
lehem, Pennsylvania, is Treasurer, and 
Horace Boyd of Bethlehem is General 
Superintendent. 



Blair-Parke Coal & Coke Co. 

Real Estate Trust Building 
Philadelphia 

The Blair-Parke Coal & Coke Co. received its charter in Penn- 
.sylvania rebruar}^ 18, ]909, and produces a high grade of Bitum- 
inons and Gas coal, principally the latter. The output of their 
mines is sold largely in the East to steel mills, railroads, public 
service plants, cement plants, brick works and for by-product 
purposes. 

The officers of the company are : C. H. Diffenderfer President 
and Treasurer, Harry B. Clark Vice President, and Edgar G. 
Carlisle Secretarv. 



363 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 




HARRY KENNEDY CORTRXGHT, Philadelphia, Penii., 

President Cortright Coal Co., was born in Maucl\ Chunk, 
Pennsylvania, July 14, 1882, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for thirteen years. He is also Vice President of the 
Beaver Run Coal Co. and the Boucher-Cortright Coal Co., 
a Director of the Winifrede Coal Co. of West Virginia, Vice 
President of the Philadelphia Wholesale Coal Trade Asso- 
ciation, and a Director of the American Coal Trade Associa- 
tion. He was formerly with N. D. Cortright & Son and W. A. 
Marshall & Co. Mr. Cortright is a well known man in the 
community as well as in the trade, has a wide circle of 
friends, and comes from a family that has long been promi- 
nent in the coal business. 



CORTRIGHT COAL COMPANY, 

Pemisylvaiiia Building, 

Philadelphia. 

The name "Cortright" is one of the 
oldest and most favorably known in 
the Pennsylvania coal trade. Harry K. 
Cortright is President of the Cortright 
Coal Co. and is the third generation of 
this family in the coal business. His 
grandfather, Nathan Dodson Cortright, 
was the Superintendent of the second 
coal company founded in the East, and 
when he died in 1902, at the age of 87, 
he was the oldest coal man in the 
United States. 

The Cortright Coal Co. started as a 
partnership about ten years ago. con- 
sisting of F. B. and H. K. Cortright. 
Mr. F. B. Cortright died several years 
ago at the age of 37, and after his 
death the company was incorporated 
with H. K. Cortright as President and 
H. B. Cornog as Vice President. Mr. 
Cortright has a vs^ide personal acquain- 
tance in coal trade circles and is one 
of the best known and most popular 
of the younger members in the trade. 



Pardee Brothers & Co., Inc. 

447 Drexel Building 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 

One of the largest and best known among the independent An- 
thracite producing companies is that of Pardee Brothers & Co., 
Inc., with general offices at Philadelphia. They operate Anthracite 
mines in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, located on the Lehigh 
Valley Eailroad, with an approximate output of 600,000 tons an- 
nualty. These mines have been in operation since 1895 and produce 
a ]iigh grade of Anthracite for domestic use. 

The officers of the company are: Ario Pardee President and 
Treasurer, C. Pardee Vice President, Theodore B. Fryer Secre- 
tary and Sales Manager and Jno. W. Crooks General Manager. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





JOSEPH BALL YATfl DUSEIV, JR., Pliilnilelpliiii, Penii.. 

Of Van Piisen, Bro. & Co., was born in Philadelphia July 11. 
18C1, and has been in the coal business thirty-eight years, 
succeeding- his father, Joseph B. Van Dusen. 



SA>IUEI- BALL, VAN DUSEIV, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 

Of Van Dusen. Bro. & Co., was born in Philadelphia Janu- 
ary 10, 1860, and has been in the coal business forty years. 
He is associated with his brother, Joseph B. Van Dusen. 



The Westmoreland Coal Company 



224 South Third Street 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 



This vveli-kiiowii coal producing company was 
chai'tererl in I80-L and since beginning operation 
its coal has been largely used by the railroads, gas 
companies and the largest iron and steel mills of 
Xow England and the Middle States, and its char- 
acter is established as having no superior in gas- 
prodiTcing qualities and in freedom from sulphur 
and other impurities. 

The capital stock of the Westmoreland Coal 
Company is $6,000,000 and the annual output at 
present is 3,000.000 tons. The company's mines 
are located at Irwin, Biddle Station, Export, Eill- 
ton and Yukon, Pennsylvania, all located in the 
famous Trvvin Gas Coal Basin on the Pennsylvania 
Eailroad in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, 
about twenty miles east of Pittsburgh. 

The points of shipment are Philadelphia, Balti- 
more, Maryland, and South Am])oy, ^STew Jersey. 

The financial stattis of the company is com- 



mendable for the reason that in every year the 
stockholders have received a dividend since the 
company Avas incorporated. 

The Westmoreland Coal Co., through private 
owner.ship, controls the Penn Gas Coal Co. and 
the Manor Gas Coal Co., which mine and ship coal 
similar to the Westmoreland in character, as their 
mines are located in the same basin. 

The officers of the Westmoreland Coal Co. are : 
S. Pemberton Hutchinson, President ; H. C. 
Adams. Vice President; George McCall, Treas- 
urer; Carroll B. Mchols, General Sales Agent; 
Herman Eoll, Secretary and Assistant Treasurer ; 
and Howard R. Yearsley, Assistant Secretary. 
The Board of Directors are: William D. Winsor, 
William Carpender, Lcmus A. Eilev, Edw. Lowber 
Wel.^h, S. Pemberton Hutchinson, C. S. W. Pack- 
ard, Louis E. Page, John Hampton Barnes, 
Wilson Catherwood. 



365 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





M\ D. ALTHOtJSE, Philadeliihia, Pennsylvania, 

Of W. D. Althouse & Co., Wirtener Building, Philadelpliia, 
Pennsylvania, was born in Berks County, Pennsylvania, 
March 4, 1865, and has been in the coal business for twenty- 
eight years. Mr. Althouse started with the Philadelphia 
& Reading Coal & Iron Co. in 1890, afterwards going- 
into business for himself, and is one of the substantial and 
well known coalmen in Philadelphia. 



THOMAS W. AYERS, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 

Of Ayers & Bro., was born in Philadelphia, April 1, 1848, and 
has been in the coal business for fifty-three years. He was 
formerly with Day, Huddell & Co. Mr. Ayers is one of the 
most highly respected members of the Philadelphia coal 
trade and has received many honors at their hands. He 
served as Imperial Modoc of the Order KoKoal. 





H. C. BARR, Philsidelphia, Pennsylvania, 

Sales Manager J. S Wentz Co., Upper Lehigh Coal Co., 
Midvalley Coal Co., and Maryd Coal Co., with offices in the 
Land Title Building. Philadelphia, was born in Bristol, Vir- 
ginia, October 12, 1876, and has been in the coal business 
eighteen years. He was formerly with the Virginia Coal & 
Iron Co., Stonega Coke & Coal Co., and Royal Colliery Co., 
and has a wide acquaintance in the trade. 



SAMUEL, B. CROWELL,. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 

Vice President Geo. B. Newton Coal Co. and subsidiary 
companies, Philadelphia, was born March 3, 1868, in Phila- 
delphin,, and most of his business career has been passed 
in the coal business in his native city, until 1904 as Mana- 
ger of Sales for Geo. B. Newton & Co., then as President 
of Robert Henderson & Co. until 1912, and from 1912 to 
1916 as President of the Geo. B. Newton Coal Co. Mr. 
Crowell has been President of the Pennsylvania Retail Coal 
Merchants Association, Vice President International Retail 
Coal Merchants Association, Vice President of the Phila- 
delphia Coal Exchange, and Resident Vice President of the 
National Retail Coal Merchants Association. He has been 
prominent in the retail coal trade. 



366 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



EMPIRK COAI- Mr\i\«; (OMrVW. 

418 Stoplicii <<irar(l ItiiililiiiK, 

Pliila(iel|ihia, I'<'iiii>s> Iviiiaiji. 

A large and important coal i)io(lucinK- 
company in the ]':;ast is that of tlie Em- 
pire Coal Mining- Co., which sells both 
anthracite and bituminous coal, under 
the trade name of "Empire." They op- 
erate one mine at Barnesboro. Cambria 
County. Pennsylvania, and three mines 
at Clymer, Indiana County, I'ennsyl- 
vania, with a total capacity of 3,000 
tons daily. This tonnagre is sold ex- 
clusively at tidewater. Ne^v York, and 
Xew England points. 

The company was organized in 1895 
and maintains selling offices at 1 
Broadway, New York City, Worcester. 
Massachusetts. Syracuse, New York, 
Clearfield and Reading. Pennsylvania, 
in addition to their Philadelphia head- 
quarters. 

The officers of the company are: Wm. 
A. Webb President. G. W. Shillingford 
Secretary and Treasurer, and A. Ran- 
kin Manager of the New York office. 




FREDERICK W. FOEDI.SCH. Philadelpliia. Pennsylvania. 

Proprietor of F. W. Foedisch & Co. of Philadelphia, Penn- 
sylvania, was born in Philadelphia, May 13, 1881, and has 
been in the coal business for twenty-three years. He is also 
Treasurer of the Indian Ridge Coal Co. and was formerly 
with the Davis Coal & Coke Co.. Penn Collieries Co., and 
Hite & Rafetto. 





M. REA GANO, Philadelpliia, Penn.sylvania, 

President and Chairman Board of Directors Gano. Moore & 
Co., Inc., Philadelphia, and South American Shipping Co., 
American Steamship Corp. of Brazil, and American Steam- 
ship Corp. of North America, was born in Newport, Ohio, 
April 15, 18S3, and has been in the coal business sixteen 
years, exporting coal to Brazil, Chile, Argentine, Uruguay, 
Sweden, Spain and Portug-al, and importing- ores, coffee and 
nitrate from South America. 



L. MIXFORD IIIMRICHOUSE, Philadelphia. Pennsylvania, 

Manager coal department of Ernest Law & Co., Harrison 
Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, -was born at Baltimore, 
Maryland, November 25, 1885, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for fifteen years. He started with the Davis Coal & 
Coke Co., afterwards going with C. W. Hendley & Co., :^nd 
assumed his present position in 1907. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





HENRY C. PEARSON, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 

Sales Agent Estate of A. S. Van Wlckle, Philadelphia, Penn- 
sylvania, was born in Philadelphia November 16, 1865, and 
has been in the coal business for thirty-one years, having 
formerly been with Geo. W. Bush & Sons Co., Smith & 
McKee and A. S. Van Wickle. 



HOAVARD D. PFEIFFER, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

President Howard D. Pfeiffer & Co., was born in Camdew, 
New Jersey, September 27, 1881, and has been in the coal 
business eleven years. He is Secretary and General Man- 
ager of the Chaffee Coal Co. and President of the Dollie 
Coal Co. He was formerly with the George W. Bailey Co. 



LOGAN COAL COMPANY, 

.502 Hai'rison Building, 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

One of the important producers of 
Steam and forge coal is the Logan 
Coal Co. of Philadelphia, who operate 
eight mines in Cambria County, Penn- 
sylvania, located on the Pennsylvania 
Railroad. These min^s were in opera- 
tion from 1900 to 1905, and have a rail- 
road rating as to capacity of approxi- 
mately a million tons annually. 

The Logan Coal Co. maintains branch 
sales offices in New York, Boston and 
Chicago, in addition to their general 
office at Philadelphia, and have a wide' 
market for their output in New Eng- 
land and the Northern United States. 

The officers of the company are Wm. 
J. Faux President and General Mana- 
ger and Guy L. Wheaton Secretary 
and Treasurer, both of whom are well 
known in the coal trade. 



MILLER COAL COMPANY, 

503 Stock Exchange Building, 

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

This company operates a mine at 
Portage, Cambria County, Pennsyl- 
vania, producing 1,200 tons daily of bi- 
tuminous coal from the original Wil- 
more Basin, Miller Seam. The output 
is a high-grade power plant coal. The 
mine is located on the Pennsylvania 
Railroad. 

The Treasurer and General Manager 
of the company is H. R, Burt, who is 
well known in trade circles, and has 
been in the coal business for the past 
twelve years. 



368 



COAL AIEN OF AME:RICA 





CHARLES K. SCULL, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 

Formerly one of the most widely known retail coal mer- 
chants in the United States, now retired, was born in Phila- 
delphia November 27, 1853, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness forty-four years. He was formerly with the Philadel- 
phia & Reading- Coal & Iron Co. and later President of the 
Piedmont Cumberland Coal Co. Mr. Scull has held numer- 
ous positions of honor in the coal associations of Pennsyl- 
vania and has been an active retail coalman in Philadelphia 
for more than thirty years. He was active and prominent 
in the Order of KoKoal for ten years, and has been Secre- 
tary of the Philadelphia Coal Exchange since its incorpora- 
tion in 1895. 



THOMAS F. SLATTERY, Philadelphia, Penn.sylvania, 

Owner of Slattery Bros., has been in the coal business six- 
teen years. He operates an anthracite mine in the Schuyl- 
kill district. 





AV ALTER S. SMALLEY, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 

Individual Operator and Jobber, was born in Clayton. New 
Jersey, December 13, 1871, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness since 1888. He has interests in mining operations at 
St. Clair, Shamokin and Minooka, Pennsylvania. He was 
formerly with the Charles Warner Co. of Wilmington, Dela- 
ware, and the Mount Hope Coal Co. Mr. Smalley is a well- 
known coalman. 



J. C. STALFPFER, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 

■Manager Philadelphia branch B. Nicoll & Co., was born in 
Altoona, Pennsylvania, in 1876, and has been in the coal 
business twenty-one years. He was formerly connected with 
the Lloydell Coal Co., Majestic Coal Co., Allport Coal Co.. 
Flenner, Henderson & Stauffer, and Frugalite Coal & 
Coke Co. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





FRANK BAYARD STEWART. Phlladelvhia. Pennsylvania, 

President Winifrede Coal Co., Winifrede Railroad Co., and 
Belmont Coal Co.. in West Virginia, with sales office in 
Cincinnati. Ohio, was born in Philadelphia in 1875, and has 
been in the coal business twentv-one years. 



JOSEPH WARNER SWAIX, Pliiladeliiliia, Pennsylvania, 

Of ,Swain Bros., was born in Bristol, Pennsylvania. June 25, 
1S49. and has been in the coal business forty-eight years. 
Thi.s business was established by Edward and Joseph W. 
Swain in 1S71. 





ALFRED TURMSH, Pliiladeliiliia, Pennsylvania, 

Only member of the iirm of Colin & Turner, was born at 
"West Hartle]iooI, Bngland, JiUy 25. 1863, and has been in 
the coal business ten years. He supplies only bunker coal 
to steamers, representing- some of the largest shipping com- 
panies in the United Kingdom, and the British Admiralty 
since 1915. 



SAMUEL, O, WALKER, Pliiladeliiliia. Pennsylvania, 

President and General Manager Coalmont Moshannon Coal 
Co., was born in Philadelphia July 8, 1864, and has been in 
the coal business eleven years. 



370 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 




FRAXK HIXKS W IGTOX, Philadelphia, Pcnnsylvaiiia, 

President The Morrisdale Coal Co., The Morrisdale Coal Min- 
ing Co. and the Cunard Coal Co.. was born in Huntingdon 
County, Pennsylvania, March 17, 1857, and has been in the 
coal business over forty years. He is a Director in the 
Miller Coal Co. and was formerly with R. B. Wigton and 
R. B. Wigton & Sons. Mr. Wigton is ,a pioneer coal oper- 
ato'', coming from a family of coal and iron operators whose 
activities demand more than usual mention. 



.IOH-\ WILLS, 
1214 Peiin.sylvania Building', 
l*liiladel|iliia, Pennsylvania, 

Started in the coal busines.s in 18;i5, 
and has never been associated with any 
one else. He specializes on the distri- 
bution of gas and bituminous coals in 
the East. 





A. A. ZAAE, Philadelphia, Penn.sylvania, 

Of A. A. Zane & Co., was born in Philadelphia February 5, 
1874, andl has been in the coal business twenty-one years. 
He was form.erly with J. H. Weaver & Co. and F. W. Foe- 
disch & Co. 



W ALTER G. ROGERS, Pitt.sbiirsh, Pennsylvania, 

Vice President and General Manager Fairview Mining Co.. 
was born in Rogers. Ohio. May 3. ISSl, and has been in the 
coal business fifteen years. He is the owner of several 
tracts of coal land. He was formerly with the Pittsburgh 
Coal Co.. Monongahela River Consolidated Coal & Coke Co., 
Moreland Coke Co., Penobscot Coal Co. and Pryor Coal Co. 



371 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 




JOHN HENRY JONES, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 

President Bertha Coal Co., Pittsburgh, was born in Greenock, Pennsyl- 
vania, October 7, 1866, and has been in the coal business forty-one 
years. He is well known throughout the trade, having recently organ- 
ized thirteen different companies having a capital in excess of $4,700,- 
000 and a capacity of four million tons per annum. 



Ml 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





JAMES EDWARD STEWART, Pittsburgli, Pennsylvania, 

Vice President Bertha Coal Co., was born in Shelburn, In- 
diana, December 25, 1876, and iias been in the coal business 
over a quarter of a centurj'. He is President of the Johnetta 
Brick & Coal Co. 



D. C. EATOjV, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 

Treasurer Bertha Coal Co., was born in Graysville, Ohio, 
November 7, 1865, and has been in the coal business twenty- 
seven years. 





VICTOR T. REED, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 

Secretary Bertha Coal Co., was born at Guelph, Canada, No- 
vember 7, 1878, and has been in the coal business several 
years. 



ISAAC T. JENKINS, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 

With the Bertha Coal Co., Pittsburgh. 



373 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





THURSTON AVRIGHT, Pittsburgli, Pennsylvania. JOHX GIBSON, JR., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 

President Penn Smokeless Coal Co. and the Wright-Gibson General Manager and Treasurer Penn Smokeless Coal Co.. 

Co., was born in St. Louis. Missouri, January 29, 1879, and was born In Calvert County, Marj'land, December 6, 1879, 

has been in the coal business seventeen years. He v*ras for- and has been in the coal business fourteen years. He was 

merly with the United Coal Co. and Merchants Coal Co. and formerly with the United Coal Co., Canadian Collieries, and 

later Receiver for both companies. Arctic Coal Co. of Norwaj-. 



TFIE WRIGHT-GIBSON CO 

COAL AND COKE 

PENN SMOKELESS COAL CO 

Miners and Shippers 

QUEMAHONING SMOKELESS COAL 

General Offices; UNION BANK BUILDING. PITTSBURGH, PA. 




HIGH GRADE LOW VOLIATILE LOW SULPHUR 

No Clinkers— Fusing Point 2700° 

For By-Product — Smithing — Steam 

MINES- JEROME AND BOSWELL, SOMMESET COUNTY, PA., Myersdale Freight Rate, B.&O. R.R. 



374 



COAL MEN OF AAIERICA 








EUGEIVE S. REILLY, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 

President Reilly-Peabody Fuel Co., American Connellsville 
Coal & Coke Co., Georges Creek Coal iMining- Co., and the 
American Gas Coal Co., was born in Pittsburgh December 
14, 1S73, and has been in the coal bu.siness eleven years. 



FRANK E. PEABODT, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 

Treasurer and General Manager Reilly-Peabody Fuel Co., 
American Connellsville Coal & Coke Co., Quality Coal & 
Coke Co., Georges Creek Coal Mining Co. and American 
Gas Coal Co.. was born in Columbus, Ohio, May 8, 1887, 
and has been in the coal and Connellsville coke busi- 
ness twelve years. He was formerly connected with the 
Producers Coke Co., American Steel Co, and the Peabody Coal 
& Coke Co. Mr. Peabody is developing a large tract of 
Fairmont gas coal. 



THE REII^LY-PEABODY COHIPANY. 

The Reilly-Peabody Fuel Co., a Penn- 
sylvania corporation, started business 
the latter part of the year 1917, having 
control of the operations and output of 
the American Connellsville Coal <^ Coke 
Company's American Works Nos. 1, 2 
and 3, located in the famous Connells- 
ville coke region. 

The operations of the Reilly-Peabody 
Fuel Co. have developed a coal and 
coke sales agency, controlling and dis- 
tributing the output of other large pro- 
ducers in addition to their own opera- 
tions. The Reilly-Peabody Fuel Co. 
has since acquired control of and is 
now operating the Quality Coal & Coke 
Co., with mines in Huntingdon County, 
Pennsylvania. The Georges Creek Coal 
Mining Co., operating at Lonaconing, 
Maryland, and the American Gas Coal 
Co., a West Virginia corporation. 

The operations of The Georges Creek 
Coal Mining Co. at Lonaconing are be- 
ing developed under the ordinary min- 
ing methods and also under the new 
"day-light mining" or stripping proc- 
ess. 

The "West Virginia acreage has just 
been acquired and comprises some 300 
acres of splendid by-product coking 
and gas coals. 

The officers of the Reilly-Peabody 
Fuel Co. since its incorporation have 
been: Eugene S. Reilly. president; L. 
P. Monahan, Vice President; F. E. Pea- 
body, Treasurer; L. A. Quinlivan. Sec- 
retary. 




LAURENCE A. QUINLIVAN, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 

Secretary Reilly-Peabody Fuel Co., was born in Latrobe, 
Pennsylvania, in 1888, and has been in the coal business six 
years. He is also interested in tlie American Connellsville 
Coal & Coke Co., American Gas Coal Co.. and Georges Creek 
Coal Mining Co. He is a Director of the National Coal Job- 
bers' Association. 



375 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





GEORGE S. BATOIV, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 

President Greensburg-Connellsville Coal & Coke Co., was 
born in Philadelphia, and has been in the coal business 
twenty-four years. He is also Consulting Mining- Engineer 
of Baton & Elliott. He is President of the Board of Exam- 
iners, Pennsylvania State Mine Inspectors. 



WILLIAM ALBERT PERRY, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 

General Manager Greensburg-Connellsville Coal & Coke 
Co., was born in New England, Ohio. September 14, 1881, and 
has been in the coal business nineteen years. He was for- 
merly with the Forsythe Coal Co., Mexican Coal & Coke 
Co., Lies Esperansa, Mexico, the Republic Iron & Steel Co., 
United Coal Co., and W. J. Rainey Coke Co. He is a member 
of the American Society of Mining Engineers, and is a well 
known mine expert. 





EDWARD JOHN FRAUENHEIM, JR., Pittsburgh, Penn., 

President and Treasurer Logansport Coal Co., was born in 
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 1, 1890, and has been in 
the coal business four years. The company turns out about 
600 tons per day and is well and favorably known. 



W. G. FRAUENHEIM, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 

Vice President and Secretary Logansport Coal Co., was born 
at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, January 13, 1894, and has been 
in the coal business three years. 



376 



COAL IMEN OF AMERICA 





WILLIAM KELSEY FIELD, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 

President Pittsburgh Coal Co., Avas born in Columbus, Ohio, 
in 1865, and has been in the coal business twenty-five years. 
He was formerly with the Sunday Creek Coal Co. and the 
St. Paul & Western Coal Co. 



JOHN A. DONALDSOX, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 

Vice President Pittsburgh Coal Co., was born in Candor, 
Pennsylvania, in 1865, and has been in the operating- end of 
the coal business thirty-five years. He was formerly with 
the Midland Coal Co. and the Monongahela River Consoli- 
dated Coal & Coke Co. 





TH03IAS F. ASHFORD, JR., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 

President and General Manager Second Pool Coal Co., ■was 
born in Pittsburgh August 14, 1868, and has been in the 
coal business thirty years. He -was formerly with T. M. 
Jenkins & Co. and the Flinn Coal Co. as Manager. 



THOMAS F. ASHFORD, III., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 

Secretary Second Pool Coal Co., Pittsburgh, was born August 
10, 1892. in Pittsburgh and has been in the coal business 
nine years. 



377 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



THOaiAS BEADLIXG. Carnegie, Pa., 

Vice President and General Manager 
Verner Coal & Coke Co.. was born in 
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 31, 
1851, and has been in the coal business 
fifty-four years. Mr. Beadling is also 
interested in the Ferguson Coal & Coke 
Co. and Tasa Coal Co. He was for- 
merly with Hartley & Marshall, Long 
Coal Co. and Beadling Bros. 




HOAVARD B. SALKE1.D, Pittsbui-gli, Pennsylvania, 

Assistant Secretary, Treasurer and Manager of Sales Verner 
Coal & Coke Co. and Assistant Secretary and Treasurer 
Wabash Coal Co., was born in Lloydsville near Altoona. 
Pennsylvania, September 1, 1880, and has been fifteen years 
in the coal business. He was previously connected with the 
Kirkbride Coal Co. He is also Secretary and Treasurer of 
the Ferguson Coal & Coke Co., Pittsburgh Block Coal Co. 
and the Tasa Coal Co. 




IRA E. BIXLER, Pitt.sbursii. Pennsylvania, 

President Bixler Coal & Coke Co., was born in Bolivar, Ohio, 
May 23, 1881, and has been in the coal business fifteen years. 
He is also Vice President of the Bixler Coal Co., Columbus. 
Ohio, Vice President Dunn-Connellsville Coal & Coke Co., 
President of the Continental Steel & Supply Co. and Presi- 
dent of the Enterprise Sand Co., all of Pittsburgh. 



POLAND COAL CO., 

lOlS House Building. 

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 

This company was organized in 1912. 
being incorporated under the Pennsyl- 
vania laws. It specializes upon the 
distribution of bituminous coals only — 
gas, steam and by-product — to manu- 
facturing plants. 

The officers of the company are: 
Julian Kennedy, President; R. C. Craw- 
ford, Vice President and General Man- 
ager; J. O. Miller, Secretary and Treas- 
urer; and George AV. Forney. Sales 
Manager. 



378 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





ALFRED R. HAMII,TOX, Pittsburftli. Pennsylvania, 

President A. R. Hamilton & Co., was born in Pittsburgh 
July 19, 1872, and has been in the coal business twenty 
years. He is also President of the North Pennsylvania Coal 
Co. and the B. S. Hammill Coal Co. and Vice President of 
the Barnes Coal Co. He was formerly with the Pittsburgh 
Coal Co. Mr. Hamilton holds several positions of honor in 
the various coal associations, is Chairman of the Committee 
on Production and an Kxecutive Board Member of the 
National Coal Association, and is well known throughout 
the trade. He has many other business interests in the 
community. 



HK.VJAMIX SASIVEL, HAM.MILL. Pitt.sbursli, Penn.sylvania, 

Owner of the company bearing his name, President B. S. 
Hammill Co., Vice President B. S. Hammill Coal Co. and 
President B. S. Hammill, Inc., ■was born of American 
parents at Preston, Ontario, Canada, October 4, 1865, and 
has been in the coal business nineteen years. He was for- 
merly with the Henderson Coal Co.. Marine Coal Co., Monon- 
gahela River Consolidated Coal & Coke Co.. Pittsburgh Ter- 
minal Raih-oad & Coal Co. and C. .Jutte & Co. 





GEORGE T. KIRKBRIDE, Pittslnirsli, Pennsylvania, 

Manager Langeloth Coal Co., was born in Carnegie, Pennsyl- 
vania, in 1861, and has been in the coal business thirteen 
years. He was previously connected with the Kirkbride 
Coal Co. 



R. C. MASTEN, PitfsburRh, Pennsylvania, 

President Masten Coal Co., was born in Rochester, Penn- 
sylvania, August 31, 1880, and has been in the coal business 
seven years. He operates in the Pittsburgh seam, with a 
yearly output of 100,000 tons. 



379 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





WILLIAM HAHaiAN, Altoona, Pennsylvania, 

General Manager Lilly Coal Co., Altoona, Pennsj'lvania, was 
born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 1, 1867, and 
has been in the coal business twenty-eight years. He is 
also interested in the Munster Coal Co., Clear Creek Coal 
Co. and Hahman & Richards. 



LAAVRENCE MARVIN RYAN, Altoona, Pennsylvania, 

Secretary and Treasurer Cambria & Moshannon Coal Co., 
Altoona. Pennsylvania, was born in Syracuse, Nctv York, 
January 5, 1886, and has been in the coal business ten years. 
He is also General Manager of the Heverly Coal Co. Mr. 
Ryan -was formerly connected as Manager of Sales with the 
Lilly Coal Co. and W. H. Hughes & Co. 





EDWARD E. McGILt,, Erie, Pennsylvania, 

Proprietor of the Burnwell Coal Co., Erie, Pennsylvania, was 
born in Bayonne, New Jersey, November 6, 1884, and has 
been in the coal business for thirteen years, previously 
bookkeeper for the G. J. Gebhords Co., Erie. Mr. McGill pur- 
chased his company from A. K. & R. W. Britton October 2.5, 
1915, who were also doing business as the Burnwell Coal Co. 



EDWARD P. WITTMANN, Erie, Pennsylvania, 

President of "Wittmann-Pfeffer Co. and General Manager of 
the Momeyer Coal Co., Erie, Pennsylvania, Avas born in Erie 
on March 3, 1874, and has been in the coal business for 
twenty-nine years, previously with the following firms; R. 
W. Russell, retail; Youghiogheny River Coal Co., The W. L. 
Scott Co., and the Pittsburgh & Erie Coal Co., wholesale. 
He has added, in recent years, building materials to the 
coal business. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





JACOB TJ. KUHNS, Greejisburjr, Pennsylvania. 

President of the Mt. Pleasant Coke Co. and a Director of 
the Donohoe Coke Co. and the Mt. Hope Coke Co., Greens- 
burs;, Pennsylvania, was born in Greensburg in 1871, and 
has been in the coal business for seventeen years. He is a 
member of the Coke Producers' Association of the Connells- 
ville District. 



C. .1. KLINE, Greenslmrg, Penn.sylvania, 

Secretary and Treasurer of the Mt. Pleasant Coke Co., was 
born in Greensburg- January 5, 1880, and has been in the 
coal business, twenty years. He has held various positions 
with the present company since 1897. 





WILLIAM RADFORD COYLE, Bethlehem, Penn.sylvania, 

Vice President and General Sales Manager W^eston Dodson 
& Co., was born in Washington, D. C, in 1878, and has been 
identified with the coal industry ten years. Before engag- 
ing in the coal business Mr. Coyle had experience as sol- 
dier, civil engineer, and lawyer. He has served as Vice 
President of the National Coal Jobbers' Association and as a 
Director of the New York Wholesale Coal Trade Association. 
He is now in the service with the United States; Marines. 



H. C. BURKET, Greenshurg, Pennsylvania, 

I'resident of the Atlantic Crushed Coke Co., and a Director 
of the Marion Gas Coal Co. and the Acme Gas Coal Co., was 
born in Arch Springs, Pennsylvania, and has been in the 
coal business for thirty years. He was previously asso- 
ciated with the following firms: Manor Gas Coal Co., Alex- 
andria Coke Co., Morgan, Moore & Bain Co., and United 
Coal & Coke Co. He is now a Director of the First National 
Bank of Greensburg and President of the Greensburg Stor- 
age & Transfer Co. 



381 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 




WALTER LESLIE MONTGOMERY, 

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, known all 
over the states of Pennsylvania, New 
Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland for his 
extensive experience in the coal busi- 
ness, Mr. Montgomery is a charter 
member of the Harrisburg' Reserves, 
Bank Director, President of the Har- 
risburg Coal Exchange. Vice President 
of the Pennsylvania Retail Coal Mer- 
chants Association, and a member of 
many organizations pertaining to the 
coal trade. 

In fact there are few men in Penn- 
sylvania so well versed in the coal 
trade as Mr. Montgomery, and his opin- 
ions on important questions carry with 
them the weight of study and experi- 
ence. He has done much personally 
for the advancement of good in the 
coal merchandising not only in the 
state of Pennsylvania but throughout 
the eastern states. 

Mr. Montgomery was born ir. Har- 
risburg, Pennsylvania, January 22, 1872, 
and comes from a family that has been 
prominent in the business and social 
life of the state for over a century. His 
administration of affairs has been the 
highest degree successful, and he is 
regarded as one of the most efficient 
men in business in the East, not only 
as the head of the coal firm, but with 
nuinerous other enterprises. 




S. E. DICKEY, .Johnstown, Pa., 

President of the firm of S. E. Dickey 
& Co., Civil, Mining and Consulting 
Engineers, and President of the S. E. 
Dickey Coal Co., was born in Kittan- 
ning Township, Pennsylvania, March 
30, 1880, and has been in the engineer- 
ing business for the past sixteen years. 
His firm has been actively engaged in 
the mining and consulting' engineering 
business for the last eight years, hav- 
ing offices at 809-811 Johnstown Trust 
.Building, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 
employing a large force of engineers 
and assistants, having charge of the 
engineering for a large number of coal 
companies, representing in all seventy- 
five operating mines. The S. E. Dickey 
Coal Co. is a subsidiary company of the 
engineering comi^any and is to be the 
holding- company for the purpose of 
operating, superintending and manag- 
ing mines, properties and estates. Mr. 
Dickey has a very broad experience in 
the engineering and mining business, 
being reared in the heart of the bitu- 
minous coal district of Pennsylvania. 
He has been employed in a.ll capacities 
in and about the mines. Starting at 
the age of twelve years he has been 
continuously engaged at this work ex- 
cept during the school periods. Each 
summer vacation was spent v/orking at 
the mines or with an engineering corps. 



382 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





H. F. GRAZIER, .IoIiiisto« Ji, Pennsylvania, 

Treasurer of the Grazier Coal & Coke Co., Johnstown, Penn- 
sylvania, and Treasurer of the Grazier Coal Mining Co., was 
born In New Paris, Pennsylvania, December 27, 1877, and has 
been in the coal business for fourteen years. 



TELFORD LEWIS, .lolinstown, Pennsylvania, 

Vice President and General Manager of the Somerset Mining 
Co., Knickerbocker Smokeless Coal Co., Wilbur Coal Mining 
Co., Telford Coal Co. and Jasahill Coal Mining Co., and Sec- 
retary Knickerbocker Fuel Co., was born in Johnstown Octo- 
ber 20, 1873, and has been active in the coal business for 
twenty years. He made his start in the coal industry as a 
mining engineer for the Cambria Steel Co. He is a Director 
of the Johnstown Coal Club and of the Somerset County Coal 
Operators Association. 



WILLIAM .1. KtlXTZ, Johnstown, Pa., 

President of the Dixonville Coal Co., 
the Citizens Coal Co., the Operators 
Coal Mining Co. and a Director In the 
Conemaugh Smokeless Coal Co., Johns- 
town, Pennsylvania, was born in Johns- 
town May 3, 1864, and has been en- 
gaged actively in the operating end of 
the coal business for fifteen years. 




WILLIAM T. PAYXE, Kingston, Pennsylvania, 

Vice President, Treasurer and General Manager of the East 
Boston Coal Co., Kingston, Pennsylvania, also President of 
the Raub Coal Co.. and Vice President of the Evans Colliery 
Co., was born in Kingston April 20, 1871, and has been in 
the coal business for twenty-six years. His father, William 
G. Payne, has been connected with the anthracite trade 
since 1866 as wholesaler and operator. His grandfather, 
Edward Payne, of Minersville, Pennsylvania, began operat- 
ing in the anthracite fields in 1841. The Payne family has 
been continuously in the mining business since that year. 



383 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





.lOHN C. COSGROVE, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 

President Cosgrove & Co., Johnstown, was born April 28, 
1886, in Houtzdale, Pennsylvania, and has been in the coal 
business twelve years, since his g-raduation from the Penn- 
sylvania State College. He is also President of the Marion 
& Pittsburgh Coal Co. of Johnston City, Illinois, Marion & 
Eastern Railroad of Marion, Illinois, Homer City Coal Co., 
Lenox Coal Co., Thermal Smokeless Coal Co., and Mox- 
ham Coal Co. of Johnstown, General Manager Ernest Coal 
Co., of Johnston City, and President Farmers Trust & 
Mortgage Co. of Johnstown. Mr. Cosgrove is a Director in 
several banking institutions and interested in other coal mining 
companies. 



A. K. COSGROVE, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 

Treasurer Cosgrove & Co., Stephen Girard Building, Philadel- 
phia, was born in Hastings, Pennsylvania, in 1889, and has been 
in the coal business eight years. He is also interested in the 
Ernest Coal Co., Homer City Coal Co., Lenox Coal Co., Thermal 
Smokeless Coal Co., and Grazier Coal Mining Co., and was 
formerly with A. W. Hillebrand and R. C. Lea & Co. 



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PAXJIi B. COSGROVE, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 

Deceased, was a member of Cosgrove & Co., Johnstown, 
up to the time of his death December 22, 1917. He was 
born January 29, 1888, in Houtzdale, Pennsylvania, and 
service in the United States army and six years in the coal 
business constituted the active part of his life. At the time 
of his death Mr. Cosgrove was Secretary of the Marion & 
Pittsburgh Coal Co. of Marion, Illinois, Vice President of 
the Lenox Coal Co. of Hastings, Pennsylvania, Vice Presi- 
dent of the Thermal Smokeless Coal Co. of Johnstown, 
Pennsylvania, and Treasurer of the Marion & Eastern Rail- 
road Co. of Marion. Illinois. 



H. J. MEEHAN, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 

Member of the firm of Cosgrove & Co., Johnstown, was born 
July 21, 1878, in Mclntyre, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, 
and has been in the coal business twenty years. He is also 
President of the Ernest Coal Co. and General Manager of 
the Marion & Pittsburgh Coal Co. of Johnston City, Illinois, 
and General Manager of the Homer City Coal Co., Grazier 
Coal Mining Co., Millerton Coal Co., Thermal Smokeless 
Coal Co., Lenox Coal Co., Homer City Coal Co., Moxham 
Coal Co., all of Johnstown. Mr. Meehan has had a wide 
experience as superintendent of mines for leading coal, coke 
and steel interests. 



384 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





MIIiTOX \\ . LOWRY, Scranton, Pennsylvania, 

President Carbon Creek Coal Co. (mines at Sliamokin), 
Scranton, was born in Elkdale, Susquehanna County, Penn- 
sylvania, March 10, 1859, and has been in the coal business 
sixteen years. Mr. Lowry, a lawyer by profession, has always 
taken an active part in civic and educational matters and 
has held numerous positions of honor. He has served as 
President of the Select Council of the city cf Scranton, as 
President of the Republican State League of Clubs of Penn- 
sylvania, and is a member of the Executive Committee of 
the Board of Trustees of the Pennsylvania State College, 
from which he was graduated in 1884. 



AVII.I^TAM ARTHUR THOMAS, Scranton, Pennsylvania, 

Vice President and General Manager Carbon Creek Coal Co., 
Scranton, was born in Lynn, Pennsylvania, September 10, 
1872, and has been in the coal business eleven years. He 
■was formerly President of the Rocky Ridge Coal Co. of 
Robertsdale, Pennsylvania. 





WOjUAM GARDIVKR PE.4lRSOX, Scranton, Pennsylvania, 

Director and Secretary Carbon Creek Coal Co., Scranton, 
was born in Scranton August 18, 1880, from old New England 
stock and has been in the coal business five years. He was 
formerly with the Pennsylvania Coal Co. Mr. Pearson is 
a member of the Masonic bodies and many social and civic 
organizations. 



HARRY A. SMITH, Scranton, Pennsylvania, 

Sales Agent Cor the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western 
Coal Co., was born in Scranton January 16, 1878, and has 
been in the coal business twenty years. He was formerly 
with the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Co. 



385 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



MARCUS AV. SAXMAN, Latiobe. Pa., 

President Saxman Coal & Coke Co.. 
Latrobe, Treasurer of the Superior Fuel 
Co. and Operating Manager of the 
Bradenville Coal & Coke Co.. was born 
in Latrobe December 24, 1867, and has 
been in the coal business thirty years. 
He is President of the Latrobe Electric 
Steel Co., Blairsville Iron Works, and 
Citizens National Bank of Latrobe, 
Treasurer of the Russellton Stone Co., 
Victor Stone Co., and Derry Glass Sand 
Co., and a Director of the Latrobe Tool 
Co., Latrobe Trust Co., and First Na- 
tional Bank of Russellton. He has 
been connected with the Latrobe-Con- 
nellsville Coal & Coke Co., the Green- 
■vvich Coal & Coke Co., the Cardiff Coal 
Co., Kelso Smokeless Coal Co., Unity 
Coal Co., and Kent Coal Co. 




CHARLES CALVIN BOWMAN, Pittston, Pennsylvania, 

President Avoca Coal Co., Avoca, Pennsylvania, Vice Pres- 
dent Roden Coal Co., Marvel, Alabama, Secretary-Treas- 
urer and a Director Franklin Coal Co., Simpson, Pennsyl- 
vania, and a Director Raub Coal Co., Luzerne, Pennsylvania, 
was born in Troy, New York. March 14, 1852, and has been 
engaged in the mining and shipi^ing of coal since 1876. He 
was Mayor of Pittston, and a member of Congress. 



OLIPIIANT COAL & COKE CO., 

Third National Baiilv Building, 

Uniontonn, Pennsylvania. 

This company has two operations lo- 
cated near Fairchance, Fayette County, 
Pennsylvania, mining daily 500 tons of 
steam coal, and shipping to both East- 
ern and Western markets. 

Frank R. Crow is President of the 
company. 



STANDARD FIEL CO.. 

First National Banlv Building', 

Uniontown, Pennsylvania. 

This company, consisting of M. D. 
Brooke and D. H. McGee, are miners 
and shippers of high grade coking, gas 
and steain coals, having the exclusive 
agency for the coal of the Buckhannon 
River Coal Co. of Adrian, West Vir- 
ginia, on the Coal & Coke Railway. 
They also ship from Pennsylvania bi- 
tuminous fields, from mines located on 
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, West- 
ern Maryland Railway. Pittsburgh & 
Lake Erie Railway and Pennsylvania 
Railway. 



386 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 




ROBERT VV. GILMORJE, Uiiiontown. 

Born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 
October 6, 1868, and lived there until 
August 1, 1900. For a number of years 
before leaving Philadelphia he held the 
position of Confidential Clerk and Cash- 
ier at the Edge Tool Works of Fayette 
R. Plumb, Inc., located at Frankford, 
Philadelphia. In August, 1900, he went 
to Fayette County, Pennsylvania, hav- 
ing taken over a large inerchandise 
store, but sold out of that to engage 
in the coking business, following the 
latter business until July 1, 1917, when 
he sold all of his interests to engage 
actively in the mining of coal and the 
selling of coal and coke. During this 
time he incorporated, constructed and 
managed the following concerns: The 
Newcomer Coke Co., Banning-Connells- 
ville Coke Co., and the Wineland-Gil- 
more Coal & Coke Co., also was one 
of the incorporators of the Pro- 
ducers Coke Co., a brokerage con- 
cern handling millions of tons of coal 
and coke each year. Since October 1, 
1916, with his brother as partner, he 
has been engaged in the brokerage 
business under the name of General 
Fuel Co.. Uniontown, Pennsylvania, 
buying and selling coal and coke, also 
operating his two inining propositions. 
Eleanor Coal Co. and Commercial Coal 
Co., located at Wyano. Westmoreland 
County, Pennsylvania. 




WALTER J. GILMORE, liiiioiitowii. 

Born and raised at Philadelphia, and 
up to September, 1900, was actively 
ongaged with Fayette R. Plumb, man.tl- 
facturer of edge tools, and for about 
another year engaged in selling coal 
with the local office of a coal mining 
and shipping company. In 1901 he went 
to Fayette County as an employe of the 
H. C. Frick Coke Co. In the early part 
of 1908 he took charge of the Midland 
Coal & Coke Co., Philinpi, West Vir- 
ginia, as General Superintendent. In 
1909 he returned to Fayette County 
and accepted a position with the Sun- 
shine Coal & Coke Co. In 1911 Mr. Gil- 
more became associated with the Pro- 
ducers Coke Co., a coal and coke 
agency, as General Manager and later 
on became Secretary. In October. 1916, 
he left the above company to take an 
interest with his brother in the Gen- 
eral Fuel Co., Uniontown, Pennsyl- 
vania, coal and coke -wholesale job- 
bers, assuming active part of Sales 
Manager, in which duties he is now 
engaged. 



387 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





SIDNEY A. CARSON, GreensburK, Pennsylvania, 

President Pennsylvania Fuel Co., Uniontown, Pennsylvania, 
■was born in Pittsburg'h, Pennsylvania, September 2, 1S79, 
and has been in the coal business since 1895. He is also 
General Manager of the Southern Connellsville Coke Co. 
and the Northern Connellsville Coke Co., and Secretary and 
Treasurer of the "Westmoreland Fuel Co. He was formerly 
with the H. C. Frick Coke Co. and J. K. Dimmick & Co. 



GEORGE M. HOCHHEIMER, Uniontown, Pennsylvania, 

Treasurer and Sales Manager of the Pennsylvania Fuel Co., 
also Treasurer of the Faith Coal Co., Uniontown, Pennsyl- 
vania, was born in Uniontown October 1, 1879, and has been 
in the coal business for fifteen years. He was previously 
with the National Fuel Co. 



Pennsylvania Fuel Co., 

First National Bank Building, 
Uniontown, Pennsylvania 

As wliolesalers this company handles 60,000 tons monthly of 
steam, gas. by-prodnct coal and coke from Pennsylvania and 
West Virginia. They are the exclusive selling agents for: 

The iSTorthern Connellsville Coke Co., located at County Home 
Junction, Westmoreland Count}^, Pennsylvania, on the Pennsyl- 
vania Bailway. 

The Southern Connellsville Coke Co., located at Cheat Haven, 
FaA'ette County, Pennsylvania, on the Baltimore & Ohio Eailroad. 

The Faith Coal Co., located at Davent, Payette County, Penn- 
sylvania, on the Pennsylvania Bailway. 

S. A. Carson is President and George M. Hochheimer Treas- 
urer. 



388 



COAL AIEN OF AMERICA 





HARRY WHYEL. Vniontown, Pennsylvania, 

President "Whyel Coal Co.. a Director of the Consolidated 
Coke Co., I"nionto\vn. and a Director of the Pioneer Coal & 
Coke Co., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was born in Pittsburgh 
February 21. lS6o. and has been engaged in the operating 
end of the coal business for thirty-three years, the first 
fifteen with the Frick Coke Co., and since that time for 
himself. He is President of the Coke Producers' Associa- 
tion of the Connellsville region. His father, Matthias 
AVhyel, was one of the pioneers in coal mining in the Pitts- 
burgh district. 



GKORGE WHYEli, Uniontown, Penn.sylvania, 

President of the Consolidated Coke Co. and Secretary and 
Treasurer of the Whyel Coke Co., Uniontown, Pennsylvania, 
and President of the Pioneer Coal & Coke Co., Pittsburgh, 
Pennsylvania, was born in Pittsburgh February 24, 1863, 
and has been engaged in coal operations for thirty-thi-ee 
years. At the age of twenty-one he became Superintendent 
for J. D. Boyd & Co., then devoted his whole time after 
1890 to mining engineering until he became the owner of 
the Lynn Coal Co., -which he sold in 1899, to become Super- 
intendent for the Frick Coal Co. for six months. He built 
the Revere plant for W. J. Eainey, after which, in 1900, he 
went into the operating field for himself. 



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MORRIS CRAVl'PORD BOYD, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 

Of Haddock, Payne & Boyd, Wilkes-Barre, Managers Alden 
Coal Mining Co., was born in Yonkers, New York, and has 
been in the coal business twenty-seven years. He -was 
previously with Dickson & Eddy. A. S. Swords & Co., and 
the Riverside Coal Mining Co. 




JAMES H. HUGHES, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 

President of the Archbald Coal Co., Wilkes-Barre, Pennsyl- 
vania, was born in Carbondale, Pennsylvania, January 22, 
1860, and has been engaged in the coal mining business for 
thirty-four years. He followed up his education in Penn- 
sylvania at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and was 
Assistant Assayer with the Golden Smelting & Reduction 
Co. in 1881-1S82. Then he returned to Pennsylvania, and 
has been with the Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Co., Key- 
stone Coal Co., Dodge & Hughes, and Hughes, Moore & Ster- 
ling, mining engineers and agents for coal estates, consult- 
ing engineer for Anthracite Coal Co. of Pittsburgh, and 
General Manager of Arclibald Coal Co. from 1910 to 1916. 



389 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



PENNSYLVANIA — Allentown 

CHARLES ABIBROSE BAKEK, senior member of Baker 
Bros., Allentown, Pennsylvania, was born in Harrisburg, 
Pennsylvania, October 19, 1861, and has been in the coal 
business fifteen years. 

HARRY M. BAKER, Manag-er Baker Bros., Allentown, 
Pennsylvania, was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Novem- 
ber 5, 1863, and has been in the coal business fifteen years. 
Mr. Baker was formerly with C. R. Bachman Coal Co. 

DE FORE.ST BAST of Allentown, Pennsylvania, was born 
in Freemansburg-, Pennsylvania, October 27, 1861, and has 
been in the coal business thirty-two years. Mr. Bast served 
as President of the Allentown Retail Coal Association two 
years. 

JOHN H. GliASSER, Allentown, Pennsylvania, salesman 
with Whitney & Kemmerer's Philadelphia office, was born 
in Allentown June 21, 1875, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness fifteen years. iWr. Glasser was formerly associated 
with the C. R. Bachman Coal Co. and the Pittsburg-h-BufCalo 
Co. 

FORRECT C. HAUSMAN, proprietor of the Auto Coal & 
Supply Co., Allentown. Pennsylvania, was born in Bethle- 
hem, Pennsylvania, March 27, 1870. and has been in the coal 
business since April, 1915. 

LLEAVELLYN G. HEILMAN, retail coal merchant of Al- 
lentown, Pennsylvania, was born in Lowhill, Pennsylvania, 
May 13, 1873, and has been in the coal business five years. 

J. H. KOEHLER of Koehler Bros., Allentown, Pennsyl- 
vania, was born in Allentown in 1863, and has been engaged 
in the coal business a quarter of a century. 

AV. A. KOEHLER of Koehler Bros., Allentown, Pennsyl- 
vania, was born in Allentown in 1868 and has been in the 
coal business a quarter of a century. 

MILLARD A. KLFDER, retail coal merchant of Allentown, 
Pennsylvania, was born at Trexlertown, Pennsylvania, No- 
vember 12, 1862, and has been in the coal business fourteen 
years. He was formerly with the Jaines F. Butz Co. He is 
President of the Retail Coal Merchants' Association of 
Allentown. 

EDGAR J. LllMLEY, retail coal merchant of Allentown, 
Pennsylvania, was born in Allentown September 12, 1858, 
and has been in the coal business twenty-eight years. 

WALLACE H. MARSTELLER, retail -coal merchant of Al- 
lentown, Pennsylvania, was born in Alburtis, Pennsylvania, 
January 4, 1861, and has been engaged in the coal business 
six j'ears. 

LEO A. STEM, Line Sales Agent of the Lehigh Valley Coal 
Sales Co., in Allentown, Pennsylvania, was born in Cherry- 
ville, Pennsylvania, October 25, 1861, and has been in the 
coal business since 1881, the entire time with his present 
company. 



PENNSYLVANIA 



.rie 



JOSEPH AV. GLOAVACKL President of the Erie Coal Co., 
Erie, Pennsylvania, was born in Erie, October 16, 1880, and 
has been in the coal business for twelve years. 

Juntas F. GLOAVACKL Treasurer of the Erie Coal Co., 
Erie, Pennsylvania, was born in Erie, August 13, 1876, and 
has been in the coal business for twelve years. 

CHARLES J. GLFELCHER of Guelcher Bros., Erie, Penn- 
<jylvania, was born in Erie in 1869, and has been in the coal 
business for t^venty-five years. He was previously w^ith R. 
J. Saltsman for ten years and William F. Momeyer Jor eight 
years. 

HENRY AVILLIAM GLFELCHER of Guelcher Bros., Erie, 
.Pennsylvania, was born in Erie, April 22, 1872, and has 
been in the coal business for seven years. 

MASON P. MIZENER, Manager Mizener Coal Co.. Erie, 
Pennsylvania, was born in Erie, and has been in the coal 
business for twentj' years. 

MORTIMER H. MIZENER, Treasurer Mizener Coal Co., 
Erie, Pennsylvania, was born at Flushing, Long Island, New 
York, August 29, 1866, and has been in the coal business 
for twenty-five years. 

CHARLES L. SIEGEL, Manager of the J. F. Siegel Coal 
Co., Erie, Pennsylvania, \vas born in Erie, August 24, 1875, 
and has been in the coal business for twenty years. 



PENNSYLVANIA — Philadelphia 



ALA^A B. BATES of Fleming & Bates," Philadelphia, was 
born in Philadelphia August 30, 1877, and has been in the 
coal business for twenty-three years. He was formerly 
with the William M. Lloyd Co. 



AVALTER STILSON BLAISDELL, Secretary-Treasurer- 
Manager Punxsutawney Coal Mining Co., Anita Coal Mining- 
Co., and Williams Run Coal Co. of Philadelphia, Pennsyl- 
vania, was born in Macomb, Illinois, May 21, 1866, and has 
been in the coal business for eleven years. 

P. B. BURGER of the firm of Weston Dodson & Co., Phila- 
delphia, Pennsylvania, has been connected with this firm' 
since 1914 as salesman, now holding the position of Phila- 
delphia Sales Manager. Mr. Burger is an expert mechanical 
engineer. 

JOSEPH B. Cx\MPBELL, Treasurer Duncan-Spangler Coal 
Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Vice President Jos. H. 
Reilly Coal Co., was born in Philadelphia January 9, 1873, 
and has been in the coal business twenty-six years. He 
was formerly with Peale, Peacock & Kerr and the Blubaker 
Coal Co. 

EDGAR CARLISLE, Secretary Blair-Parke Coal & Coke 
Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has been in the coal busi- 
ness for some years and is well known in the trade. 

FLOYD F. CHADAA'ICK of F. E, Chadwick & Co., 1111 
Land Title Building, Pliiladelpliia, Pennsylvania, was born- 
in Maryland and lias been in the coal business twenty-three 
years. He was formerly with the Davis Coal & Coke Co.. 
B. NicoU & Co., and before launching in business for him- 
self Eastern Manager of the Davis Colliery Co. 

H. BARTRAM CORNOG, Vice President Cortright Coal Co., 
Pennsylvania Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was. 
born in Westown. Pennsylvania, in 1879, and has been in 
the coal business for nineteen years. He was formerly with 
the Hutchinson Coal Co. 

JAMES BINGHAM CORYELL, President James B. Coryell 
& Co., 1524 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was 
born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, September 4, 1856, and 
has been in the coal business for twenty-six years. He is 
also interested, i-n the Mason Coal & Chemical Co. of West 
A^irginia, and was formerly vs^ith the Cambria Coal Mining 
Co., Short Line Coal Co., and Cook Coal & Coke Co., all of 
West Virginia. 

JOHN J. COYLE, President Bell Union Coal & Mining Co., 
16th and Parkway, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was born in 
Pottsville, Pennsylvania, November 10, 1863, and has been 
in the coal business for six years. He is also a Director in 
the Pennsylvania Colliery Co., President of the Pennsylvania 
Mutual Life Insurance Co., and w^as a member of the House- 
of Representatives of Pennsylvania, 1896-1894, and a Mem- 
ber of the Pennsylvania Senate 1895-1898. 

JOHN M. CREAN of Crean Bros., well-known retail coal 
merchants of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was born in Phila- 
delphia in 1857 and has been in tlie coal business sixteen, 
years. 

MAL'RICB J. CREAN of Crean Bros., Philadelphia, Penn- 
sylvania, was born in Philadelphia in 1867 and has been in 
the coal business sixteen years. Mr. Crean has served as a 
Director of the Philadelphia Coal Exchange. 

CHARLES EDAA'IN FERNBERG, General Sales Agent and 
Assistant Treasurer Thorne, Neale & Co., Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania, was born in Philadelphia September 28, 1862,. 
and has been in the coal business thirty-one years. He 
was formerly with Geo. W. Bush & Sons Co., Weston Dodson 
& Co., and Estate A. S. Van Wickle. 

THOMAS FISHER, General Manager of the Berwind-White 
Coal Mining Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was born at 
Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, August 6, 1867, and has been in 
the coal business thirty-six years. He is also Vice Presi- 
lent of the Berwind Fuel Co. 

THEODORE B. FRYER, Secretary, Director and General 
Manager of Sales Pardee Bros. & Co., Drexel Building, Phil- 
adelphia,. Pennsylvania, was born in Philadelphia, April 11, 
1884, and has been in the coal business sixteen years. 

G. RICHARDSON GABELL, Sales Manager and Director 
Thorne, Neale & Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was born 
in Burlington County, New Jersey, January 19, 1882, and 
has been in the coal business twenty-one years. He was 
formerly with the Davis Coal & Coke Co., and Hite cfe 
Rafetto. 

ARNOLD GERSTEIiL, General Manager of Sales Percy 
Heilner & Son. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was born in 
Keyser, AVest Virginia. March 24, 1878, and has been in the 
coal business for twenty-one years. He is also interested 
in the Lynn Coal & Coke Co. and Davis Coal Mining Co., 
and was formerly with the Century Coal Co. and Davis Col- 
liery Co. 

AA^\LTER C. HANCOCK of John C. Hancock & Co., Phila- 
delphia, Pennsylvania, was born in Philadelphia, and has 
been in the coal business twenty-six years. He is a Director 
of the Coal Club of Philadelphia. John C. Hancock, senior 
member of the firm, organized the business in 1866 and is 
still active in the business of the company. 



390 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



.IOII\ J. IIASI.ETT, Manager Xational Fuel Co., AVidener 
Building'. PhiladeU liia. Pennsylvania, was born in I'liiladcl- 
pliia June 15. 1S7N. and has beon in the coal business for 
fourteen years. He was formerl.\- witli the Henderson Coal 
Co., Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania. 

S. PEMHKHTOX HITCHIXSOX. President Westmoreland 
Coal Co.. 224 South Third Street. Philadelphia. Pennsyl- 
vania, was born in Philadelphia April 27, 1861. He attended 
St. Paul's School, Concord. New Hampshire, and was at the 
University of Pennsylvania two years. He entered the 
service of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. as rodman Nov. 
1. 1881: went through various grades in the Pennsyl\ania 
Railroad and was appointed Suiierintendent of the Lewis- 
town Division Jan. 1. 1890. and Assistant General Ag'ent at 
New York April 1. 1900. He resigned May 15. 1901. to 
become associated with Phelps-Dodge & Co. of New York 
in their railroad enterprise; resigned March 1. 1902. and 
was appointed Superintendent of the Pittsburgh Division 
of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad March 9; resigned Nov. 
30 lo become Assistant General Superintendent of Michigan 
Central Railroad: appointed General Superintendent July 
1. 1903: resigned Nov. 15. 1905, and became associated with 
the banking- firm of Cramp, Mitchell & Shober of Philadel- 
phia Sept. 1, 1906. He was elected President of the West- 
moreland Coal Co. June 14, 1910, which position he now 
holds. Mr. Hutchinson is a Director in the Pennsylvania 
Company for Insurances on Lives and Granting Annuities, 
Farmers and Mechanics National Bank, Philadelphia Na- 
tional Bank, Stonega Coke & Coal Co.. and Philadelphia Con- 
tributionship for the Insurance of Houses Against Loss by 
Fire. Manager of the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society. 
Trustee Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co.. and a member of 
the Executive Council Philadelphia Board of Trade. 

DAA'ID ISAACMAJV, Keystone Coal & Wood Co., Philadel- 
phia. Pennsylvania, was born in Philadelphia March 25, 1886, 
and has been in the coal business ten years. 

AV. ARTHfR JARDEK of W. A. Jarden & Co., Philadel- 
phia. Pennsylvania, was born in Philadelphia in 1877, and 
has been in the coal business seventeen years. 

JA3IES M. KEI.LEY of M. Kelley's Sons. Poplar Street, 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was born in Delaware County, 
Pennsylvania, July 25, 1856. and has been in the coal busi- 
ness forty-six years. Michael Kelley established the busi- 
ness in 1869. Mr. Kelley is Treasurer of the Philadelphia 
Coal Exchange. 

VV. KISHBAIIGH, General Sales Agent Mill Creek Coal Co., 
Widener Building-. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was born in 
Mauch Chunk, and has been in the coal business for thirty- 
seven years. He is also President of the Delano Coal Co. 

ARTHl^R KUPPINGER, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Gen- 
eral Manager of Sales of the Valley Smokeless Coal Co., 
Ninevah Coal & Coke Co., and Beccaria Coke Corp., was 
born in Philadelphia September 22, 1874, and has been en- 
gaged in the coal business fifteen years. 

AMBROSE LI'ITTER of Owen Letter's Sons. Philadelphia. 
Pennsylva?iia, -\\as born in Philadelphia September 13, 1869, 
and has been in the coal business thirty-six years. He is 
a Director of the Philadelphia Coal Exchange. 

HARRY A. lAlSG is Secretary of the Imperial Coal Co., 
1330 Widener Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

SAMUEI> J. MVINGSTON, Vice President and Treasurer 
The Rockhill Iron & Coal Co.. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 
was born in Philadelphia December 22, 1879, and has been 
in the coal business seventeen years. He is also Secretary 
of the I'nion Improvement Co., Highland Coal Co. and Big 
Black Creek Improvement Co. 

JOHN E. M,OYD, President William M. Lloyd Co.. Phila- 
delphia, Pennsylvania, was born in Philadelphia in 1878. 
and has been in the coal business eighteen years. He 
is President of the Philadelphia Coal Exchange and Resi- 
dent Vice President of the National Retail Coal Merchants' 
Association. He is very popular and highly respected in the 
trade. 

PERCY C. MAIJEIR.-V, President Madeira, Hill & Co., 
Philadelphia. Pennsylvania,, was born in Philadelphia No- 
vember 14, 186-?. and has been in the coal business thirty- 
nine years. Mr. Madeira is also interested in about twenty 
other companies and was formerly with Percy C. Madeira 
& Co., afterwards Madeira, Hill & Co. He was President of 
Geo. B. Newton & Co. from 1899 to 1912. Mr. Madeira is a 
man of great executive ability and is well known through- 
out the trade. 

FRAXK B. UtARRIOTT of Marriott Bros.. Philadelphia. 
Pennsylvania, was born in Philadelphia January 22, 1873, 
and ha,s been in the coal business twenty-nine years. 

JAMES W. MASOIV, President Mason-Heplin Coal Co. and 
Mason-Scholes Coal Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was 
born in Virginia December 17, 1869, and has been in the 
coal business twenty-six years. He was formerly "with the 
Mason Coal Co. and the Geo. B. Newton Coal Co. 



GEOItGIO GII.nEitr MATCIIETT. Sales Agent Ayers & 
Bro , Philadelphia. I't'imsy Ivania, was born January 27, 1864, 
,and has been in the ooal business seven years. 

FRANK F. iM.VTHEK.s. owner of J. W. Mathers & Sons 
and the Atlantic Fuel Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was 
born in Philadelr-hia September 25, 1867, and has been in the 
coal business thirty-four years. 

HOWARD 1,. MERRICK, President Geo. W. Bailey Co., 
Philadelphia. Pennsylvania, was born in Philadelphia .Tune 
16, 1865, and has been in the coal busine^-s thiity-lwo years. 
He is also President of the Priscilla Coal .Miiiin«- Co.. South 
Fork, Pennsylvania. 

GEORGE D. MIM.ER. Philadelphia. I'eniisy Ivania, was 
born in Pennsylvania FelM'uary 3, 1839, and has been in the 
retail coal business thirty-one years. 

ROBERT J. MONTGOMERY. Vice President Philadelphia 
& Reading- Coal & Iron Co., Pliiladelphia, Pennsylvania, was 
born in Philadelphia February 22, 1862, and has been in the 
coal business thirty-seven years. His business history has 
been one of a steady series of promotions in the company 
of which he is now Vice President. He was .graduated from 
the Philadelphia High School in the spring of 1879 and the 
fall of that year found liim at work for the Philadelphia & 
Reading- Railroad at the shipping office at Port Richmond. 
In 1880 he took a position in the office of Thomas W. Rich- 
ards, General Coal Agent of the Philadelphia & Reading 
Coal & Iron Co., became Chief Clerk in 1890. New York 
Sales Agent in 1904, General Coal Agent in 1907, and Vice 
President in 1916. 

ROBERT V. PIERCE. Assistant Secretary The Lehigh 
Coal &• Navigation Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was born 
in Philadelphia January 9, 1882, and has been in the coal 
business seventeen years. 

AVILLiaSI CHARLES ROSS, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 
was born in Ireland in 1860, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness thirty-one years. 

ED-\VIX F. SAXMAN, President Saxman Coal & Coke Co., 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was born in Latrobe, Pennsyl- 
vania, and has boen in the coal business thirty-one years. 
He V\'as formerly with the Derry Coal & Coke Co., Sonman 
Shaft Coal Co., Pike Consolidated Coal Co., Connellsville 
Basin Coke Co., Conemaugh Smokeless Coal Co. and Edens- 
burg Coal Co. 

HER.MAN JOHN APPLE SMITH of Smith & Hoethaus. 
Philadelphia. Pennsylvania, was born in Philadelphia March 
3. 1869, and has been in the coal business twenty-eight 
years, Mr. Si-nith started as bookkeeper with Markmann & 
Haeuser and no-w^ owns the company. 

WILLIAM J. STEEN of Wm. J. Steen & Co.. Philadelphia. 
Pennsylvania, has been in the coal busine.= s eighteen years. 
He is a Dir---!Ctor in the Philadelphia Coal Exchange, the 
Coal Club of Philadelphia and the Rotary Club of Phila- 
delphia. He is Vice President and Secretary of Caskey & 
Keen, manufacturers of heaters. 

JOSEPH B. VAN DUSEN, deceased, was born in Philadel- 
phia in 1815 snd died in 1897. He was engaged in the coal 
business from 1832 to the time of his death. He -was con- 
nected with The Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co.. Robarts. 
Walton & Co., and organized the Van Dusen-Norton Co., 
Hammet. Van Dusen & Lochman. Van Dusen Bros.. Van 
Dusen, Swain & Co., and in 1878 Van Dusen, Bro. & Co., in 
which firn-i he remained until his death, his sons succeeding 
him in the business. 

LEO!V -W'ALKER, Secretary, Treasurer and General Man- 
ager Stineman Coal Mining Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 
was born in Wilmington, Delaware. May 4, 1878. and has 
been in the coal business twenty-four years. He is also 
Secretary, Treasurer and General Manager of the Hamilton 
Goal Co. of Wilmington, Dela-w^are. He was formerly with 
the Puritan Coal Mining- Co. and John C. Martin. 

RAYMOND Y. WARNER, Treasurer Geo. B. Newton Coal 
Co., was born in Penns Manor, Pennsylvania, September 23, 
1873, and has been in the coal business twenty-six years. 
He is Treasurer of B. Rowland & Bro., Frankford, Penn- 
sylvania, and of the Newton Supply Co., Philadelphia, and 
also acts as Purchasing Agent for both B. Rowland & Bro. 
and the Geo. B. Newton Coal Co. 

HOWARD R. YE.\RSLEY, Secretary Westmoreland Coal 
Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was born in Coatesville, 
Pennsylvania, ,Tune 27, 1869, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness thirty-one years. 

JOHN M. YOUNG, Assistant Sales Manager Madeira, Hill 
& Co.. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was born in Philadelphia 
January 28, 1879, and has been in the coal business eleven 
years. He was formerly connected with The Lehigh Coal & 
Navigation Co., Ayers & Bro. and H. H. Lineaweaver & Co. 



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PENNSYLVANIA — Pittsburgh 

J. HARPER ADAMS, Secretary and Treasurer Tri-State 
Coal & Coke Co., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was born in 
Clinton, Pennsylvania, December 21, 1860, and has been in 
the coal business twenty-six years. He was formerly Auditor 
of the Imperial Coal Co., Empire Coal Mining- Co. and More- 
land Coke Co. 

S, Hi. BIRNEY, President Bixler Coal & Coke Co., Pitts- 
burgh, Pennsylvania, was born in Hopedale, Ohio, December 
13, 1880, and has been in the coal business fourteen years. 

ALBERT R. BtJDD, Vice President and General Manager 
Diamond Coal & Coke Co., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and 
President A. R. Budd Coal Co., was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, 
in January, 1878, and has been in the coal business twenty- 
three years. He was formerly General Manager of Blaine 
Coal Co. 

ROBERT BITKA, District Manager The Valley Camp Coal 
Co., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was born in Pittsburgh No- 
vember 2, 1887, and has been in the coal business twelve 
years. He was formerly with the Pittsburgh-Buffalo Co. 

Tl^ALTER RENTON CALVERL.EY, General Manager Union 
Collieries Co., Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania, vs^as born in Leeds, 
England. October 1, 1862, and has been in the coal business 
forty-eiglit years. He is also President and General Man- 
ager of the Central Youghiogheny Coal Co. He was for- 
merly with the Ellsworth Colliery Co.,. Pittsburgh Coal Co. 
and the Berwind-White Mining Co. 

H. CHICHESTER, Secretary and Treasurer Pittsburgh & 
Bessemer Coal Co., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was born in 
Romney, West Virginia, May 6, 1880, and has been in the 
coal business eleven years. He is also Secretary and Treas- 
urer of the South Pittsburgh Coal & Supply Co. 

HOLMES A. DAVIS. President and Treasurer Canonsburg 
Gas Coal Co., Pittsburgli, Pennsylvania, "was born in Dubois, 
Pennsylvania, January 2, 1885, and has been in the coal 
business t"welve years. He is also President of the West 
Pennsylvania Coke Co., the Luzerne Coal & Coke Co., the 
Canonsburg Gas Coal Co. and the Country Club Coal Co. 
and General Manager of the Warner-Youghiogheny Coal 
Co. and of the Charleroi Gas Coal Co. He -was formerly 
with the Pittsburgh Gas Coal Co., Hester Coke Co., Browns- 
ville Coke Co. and Belle Vernon Coke Co. 

JOHN C. DAVIS, Secretary, Treasurer and Manager Paul 
Coal & Supply Co., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, vi^as born in 
Hubbard, Ohio, February 12, 1871, and has been in the coal 
business seventeen years. He was formerly with the 
Youghiogheny &.Ohio Coal Co. 

THOMAS S. DITNC.\]V, Purchasing -Agent H. C. Frick Coke 
Co., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was born in Pittsburgh Feb- 
ruary 20, 1868, and has been in the coal business sixteen 
years. He is also interested in the United States Coal & Coke 
Co. and the National Mining Co. 

R. O. DTJNIVE, President Dunne Coal & Coke Co., Pitts- 
burgh, Pennsylvania, has been in the coal business all his 
life and is a very well known and highly respected coalman. 

JOHN WILFRED ELY, Treasurer Dunne Coal & Coke Co. 
and Sales Manager Union Fuel Co., Pittsburgh, Pennsyl- 
vania, was born in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, February 27, 
1889, and has been in the coal business five years. 

JOHN KENNEDY EWING, JR., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 
was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, November 24, 1855, 
and has been in the coal business thirty-one years. He was 
previously with the Pittsburgh Block Coal Co. 

WALTER .1. FLANAGAN of the W. J. Flanagan Co., Pitts- 
burgli, Pennsylvania, was born in West Jefferson, Oliio, 
April 10, 1871, and has been in tlie coal business nineteen 
years. 

JOHN F. FLOOD, Manager Pittsburgh Coal Co., Youghi- 
ogheny Coal Department, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was 
born in Pittsburgh August 20, 1878, and has been in the 
coal business twenty-three years. 

GEORGE W. FORNEY, Sales Manager Poland Coal Co., 
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was born June 16, 1885, in Enon 
Valley, Pennsylvania, and has been in the coal business 
thirteen years. He was formerly with the Pickands-Magee 
Co. 

JAMES G. GEEGAN, General Manager and Secretary Clyde 
Coal Co., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was born in Pittsburgh 
December 27, 1872, and has been in the coal business twenty- 
eight years. He is a Director of tlie Pittsburgh Coal Ex- 
change. 

MILTON M. GRIEST, President Bess Etta Coal Co. and 
Pittsburgh-Cambridge Coal Co.. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 
was born in Zanesville, Ohio, December 2, 1884, and has been 
in the coal business ten years. He 'wa.s formerly -with the 
Carnegie Coal Co. 

E. M. GROSS, Western Manager Keystone Coal & Coke 
Co., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been in the coal business 
thirty-one years. He is also President of the Delmont Gas 
Coal Co. and Secretary of the Latrobe-Connellsville Coal & 
Coke Co. 



HIRAM H.4.RRIS, Secretary and Treasurer Springer Coal 
Co., Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania, was born in Pittsburgh July 
27, 1879, and has been in the coal business four years. He 
was formerly with tlie Bessemer Coke Co. and Secretary of 
the Pitt Gas Coal Co. 

EUGENE FRANK HARTLAND, General Sales Agent Com- 
monwealth Fuel Co., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was born 
in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, August 16, 1876, and has 
been in the coal business nineteen years. He was formerly 
with the Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Co., Susquehanna Coal 
Co., Pittsburgh-Westmoreland Coal Co. and Kilbuck Coal Co. 

THOMAS R. HEYWARD, JR., of Thomas R. Heyward Co., 
Pittsburg]!, Pennsylvania, was born on a rice plantation in 
Soutli Carolina February 15, 1881, and lias been interested 
in the coal business for about five years. 

N. P. HYNDMAN, Sales Agent Washington Coal & Coke 
Co., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, -was born in Mauch Chunk, 
Pennsylvania, May 10, 1849, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for over fifty years. He vs'as formerly -with the Lehigh 
Coal & Navigation Co. and the Connellsville Coke & Iron Co. 

ELLIOTT KELLER of Keller Bros., Pittsburgh, Pennsyl- 
vania, was born in Pennsylvania and has been in the coal 
business f-wenty-four years. 

F. C. KELLER of Keller Bros., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 
was born in Pennsylvania and has been in the coal business 
Twenty-four years. 

DELMONT JONES KENNEDY, President Bulger Block 
Coal Co., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was born in Pittsburgh 
and has been in the coal business thirty-eight years. 

GEORGE B. LITTLE, Secretary and Treasurer Superba 
Coal & Coke Co., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, "was born October 
2. 1892, in Pittsburgh. He was formerly connected with the 
J. H. Hillman & Son Co. and the American Steel Co. 

WALTER A. MARSH. General Sales Manager Pittsburgh 
Coal Co., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was born In Pittsburgh 
May 7, 1874, and has been in the coal business twenty-nine 
years. He was formerly with the F. L. Robbins' interests. 

E. L. MORRIS, General Superintendent United Coal Co., 
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, "was born in, Clarksburg, West 
Virginia, and has been in the coal business twenty-six 
years. He is interested in the Hysilvania Coal Co. of Ohio. 
He was formerly with the Monongahela River Consolidated 
Coal & Coke Co. and the Pittsburgh Coal Co. 

FRED .1. MULHOLLAND, Sales Manager Clyde Coal Co., 
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was born in Carey, Ohio, April 30, 
1877, and has been in the coal business seventeen years. He 
is interested In a retail coal yard at Pittsburgh. He was 
formerly connected "with the W. J. Hamilton Coal Co., W. A. 
Gosline & Co., New Pittsburgh Coal Co. and Pittsburgh 
Coal Co. 

FRED E. NOW, Purchasing Agent Pittsburgh Coal Co., 
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was born in Marietta, Ohio, July 4, 
1859, and has been in the coal business twenty-six years. 

WILLIAM K. RICHARDS, President Richards Coal Co.. 
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was born in Columbus, Ohio, and 
has been in tlie coal business sixteen years. He "\vas for- 
merly with the Monongahela River Consolidated Coal & 
Coke Co. 

AVILLIAM H. SHINN, Treasurer and General Manager W. 
H. Shinn Coal Co., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was born in 
AUeglieny. Pennsylvania, in Aug-ust, 18.63, and lias been in 
the coal business thirty years. He was formerly with the 
Mansfield Coal & Coke Co. and the Pittsburgh Coal Co. 

AVILLIAM HENRY SIMMONS of W. H. Simmons & Co., 
Pittsburgli. Pennsylvania, was born in Corn"wallis, West Vir- 
ginia, March 30, 1866. and has been in tlie coal business 
twenty-eight years. He was formerly with M. A. Hanna & 
Co., Cleveland. 

ALEXANDER C. SPEYER, Treasurer and General Man- 
ager Moreland Coke Co., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, -was 
born in Wheeling, West Virg'inia, and has been in the coal 
business sixteen years. Mr. Speyer has numerous other coal 
interests. 

JOEL T. M. STONEROAD. Secretary and Treasurer Car- 
negie Coal Co., Pittsburgli, Pennsylvania, -was born in Dun- 
bar, Pennsylvania, in May, 1865, and has been in tlie coal 
business seventeen years. He is also interested in the 
Carnegie Dock & Fuel Co. and is well known tliroug'hout 
the trade. 

E. SUNSTEIN, President Moreland Coke Co.. Pittsburgh, 
Pennsylvania, -was born in Pittsburgh and in his sixteen 
years in the coal and coke business has always been con- 
nected -with his present company. 

ARTHUR F. SYROTH. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Assist- 
ant Sales Agent Keystone Coal & Coke Co., was born 
in Pittsburgh in 1888, and has been in the coal business 
eleven years. He is also Sales Agent of the Delmont Gas 
Coal Co. and the Latrobe-Connellsville Coal & Coke Co. 
He was formerly witli the Globe Coal & Coke Co. and the 
Western Coal Co. 



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SAMUEI- ALFRED T VYI.OR, President Crescent Coal Co., 
Domestic Coal Co., and Taylor Collieries Co., Pittsburgh, 
Pennsylvania, was born in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, 
October 24, 1863, and has been in the coal business forty- 
four years. Mr. Taylor is an expert mining- eng-ineer and 
has numerous mining' interests. 

JAMES P. VVATiSH. Vice President Pittsburgh Coal Co., 
Pittsburg'h, Pennsylvania, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and 
has been in the coal business for thirty-six years. He was 
formerly with the Walsh-Upstill Coal Co, 



PENNSYLVANIA- Reading 

MILLER CtlSTER AMMOiV of Ammon & Bro., Reading, 
Pennsylvania, was born in Reading- September 3, 1867, and 
has been in the retail coal business for twenty-two years. 
He was with the Farmers National Bank of Reading for 
fourteen years. 

FRANK J. BOYER, President Warala Coal Co., Reading, 
Pennsylvania, was born in Shartlesville, Pennsylvania, April 
19, 1S62, and has been in the operating end of the coal busi- 
ness sixteen years. 

CARL BITRKHOLDER, Reading, Pennsylvania, a salesman 
for Percy Heilner & Son, Philadelphia, was born in Reading 
in 1892, and has been in the coal business for seven years. 

LOYAL BURKHOLDER, Reading, Pennsylvania, Reading 
Manager for Percy Heilner & Son, Philadelphia, -was born 
in Reading in 1876 and has been in the coal business for 
twenty-one years. 

JOSEPH W. HOLMES of J. "W. Holmes & Co., Reading, 
Pennsylvania, was born in Reading November 27, 1859, and 
has been in the retail coal business for ten years, 

MILTON A. KOLLER, Reading, Pennsylvania, -was born In 
Shoemakersville, Pennsylvania, March 10, 1850, and has been 
in the retail coal business for twenty years. He was for- 
merly -with Farming & Nulling. 

ARTHUR RICK, Reading, Pennsylvania, was born in 
Reading- December 22, 1878, and has been in the coal business 
for eleven years. Previously he was -with Hutchison & Mc- 
Candlish and the Hutchison-McCandlish Coal Co. 

SAMUEL F. SMEDLEY. a salesman for the Philadelphia & 
Reading Coal & Iron Co., Reading, Pennsylvania, -was born 
in Philadelphia and has been in the coal business for eleven 
years. He -was previously with the Vinton Colliery Co. 

WILLIAM T. SNYDER, Reading, Pennsylvania, was born 
in Reading December 3. 1858, and has been in the retail coal 
business for twenty-nine years. He was Manager for H. E. 
Ahrens. whom he succeeded. He -was the first President of 
the Pennsylvania Retail Coal Merchants Association and is 
now Secretary of the Retail Coal Dealers Association of 
Reading. 

JOHN ARTHUR STRtTNK, Reading, Pennsylvania, was 
born in Reading April 13, 1873, and has been in the retail 
coal business for twenty-three years. The flriu of J. M. 
Strunk's Son -was established by his father, John M. Strunk, 
in 1869. He is Treasurer of the Pennsylvania Retail Coal 
Merchants' Association. 



PENNSYLVANIA — Scranton 

FRANK P. BENJAMIN, Scranton Life Insurance Building, 
Scranton, Pennsylvania, President Mendon Hill Coal Co. and 
Trustee South Side Coal Co., -was born in Peckville, Penn- 
sylvania, June 17, 1876, and has been in the coal business 
for five years. 

DAVID BOIES, 600 Clay Ave., Scranton, Pennsylvania, 
President Racket Brook Coal Co. and President Nay Aug 
Coal Co., was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in 1881, and 
has been in the coal business for some years. He is also 
interested in mine operations in "West Virginia. 

WILLIAM DE WALD BOYER, Scranton, Pennsylvania, 
President The Fentress Coal Co. and President Piney Min- 
ing Co., -was born in Port Clinton, Pennsylvania, May 28, 
1867, and has been in the coal business for eighteen years. 
He is also connected with the Blue Creek Coal & Land Co. 
and the Meadow River Coal & Land Co. and was formerly 
connected with the Piney Coal & Coke Co. 

CHARLES E. BRADBURY. Secretary and Treasurer Elk 
Brook Coal Co., Connell Building, Scranton, Pennsylvania, 
was born in Mount Morris, New York, July 16, 1849, and has 
been in the coal business sixteen years. He was formerly 
with the Nay Aug Coal Co. 

FRANK P. CHRISTIAN, Scranton, Pennsylvania, Presi- 
dent, Treasurer and General Manager Peoples Coal Co., Ox- 
ford Colliery, was born in Oswego, Ne-w York, June 14, 1865, 
and has been in the coal business for twenty-six years. He 
was formerly with the Clearview Coal Co. and Blue Ridge 
Coal Co. 



'W. L. CONNEIiL, Scranton, Pennsylvania, President-Gen- 
eral Manager Green Ridge Coal Co., The Enterprise Coal 
Co. and Connell Anthracite Coal Co., was born in Scranton, 
Pennsylvania, in 1862, and has been in the coal business for 
twenty-eight years. 

CHARLES DORRANCE, General Manager The Hudson 
Coal Co., Scranton, Pennsylvania, was born in Meadville, 
Pennsylvania, March 12, 1883, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for eleven years. He was formerly with the Lehigh 
Valley Coal Co., Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co. and Harwood 
Coal Co. 

GEORGE AV. ENGEL. Scranton, Pennsylvania, Chief Min- 
ing Engineer of tlie Temple Coal Co., Lackawanna Coal Co.. 
Ltd., Mt. Lookout Coal Co., and Winton Coal Co., was born 
in Ashland, Pennsylvania, February 22, 1865, and has been 
in the coal business twenty-six years. Pie was formerly 
connected with the Locust Mountain Coal Co., Lehigh Coal 
& Navigation Co., Hudson Coal Co. and Clark Tunnel Coal 
Co. 

OTTO C. EPP, Secretary-Treasurer Westlake Coal Co.. 
Scranton, Pennsylvania, was born in Scranton November 28, 
1887, and has been in the coal business for five years. 

JAMES K. GEARHART, President Arkansas Anthracite 
Coal & Land Co., Scranton, Pennsylvania, was born in 
Scranton May 20, 1876, and has been in the coal business 
eleven years. He is also President of the Fernwood 
Mining Co. 

W. H. GEARHART, Secretary-Treasurer Arkansas An- 
thracite Coal & Land Co., Scranton, Pennsylvania, was born 
in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, December 8, 1839, 
and has been in the coal business thirt'y-six years. He Is 
also interested in the Clear Spring Coal Co. and the Enter- 
prise Coal Co. in the Pennsylvania anthracite fields. Mr. 
Gearhart is a well known coal man. 

GEORGE HEIM, President Heim-James Coal Co., Scran- 
ton, Pennsylvania, -was born in Waterloo, Pennsylvania, 
June 11, 1863, and has been in the coal business for six 
years. He is also interested in the Smokeless Anthracite 
Coal Co. 

FRANK H. HEMELRIGHT, Vice President and General 
Manager Temple Coal Co., Scranton, Pennsylvania, -was born 
in Beaumont, Pennsylvania, September 4, 1870, and has been 
in the coal business for thirty-seven years. He is also inter- 
ested in the Lackawanna Coal Co., Ltd., The Lookout Coal 
Co., Forty Fort Coal Co. and the Edgerton Coal Co. 

H. "W. HOWARD, President The Howard Anthracite Coal 
Co., 704 Connell Building, Scranton, Pennsylvania, -was 
born in Sturgis, Michigan, December 11, 1871, and has been 
connected with the coal industry for the past twelve years. 

GEORGE F. HO-VVER of Hower & Stender, 1703 Madison 
Ave.. Scranton, Pennsylvania, -was born in Scranton Novem- 
ber 26, 1865, and has handled coal for some years. 

WILLIAM AV. INGLIS, Vice President and Manager Dela- 
-ware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Co., Coal Minin.g 
Departm.ent, Scranton, Pennsylvania, was born in Scran- 
ton January 19, 1871, and has been in the coal business 
thirty-four years. He was previously connected with the 
Hillside Coal & Iron Co., N. Y., S. & W. Coal Co. and Penn- 
sylvania Coal Co. 

WILLIAM PAUL JENNINGS, 421 Arthur Avenue, Scran- 
ton, Pennsylvania, General Superintendent Pennsylvania 
Coal Co., was born in Great Britain in 1874 and has been in 
the coal business for thirty-one years. 

JOSEPH J. JERMYN of Jermyn & Co., Scranton, Penn- 
sylvania, was born in Scranton In 1852, and has been in 
the coal business all his life, succeeding his father, John 
Jermyn, who died in 1902; 

EDWARD S. JONES, President Blue Creek Coal & Land 
Co. and Vice President Meadow Coal & Land Co., Scran- 
ton, Pennsylvania, -was born in Blakely, Pennsylvania. 
December 22, 1864, and has been in the coal business 
twenty-six years. He was formerly connected with Jones. 
Sin-ipson & Co., Pierce Coal Co., Clear Spring Coal Co. and 
Raymond Coal Co. Mr. Jones was President of the Kanawha 
& West Virginia Railroad until it was sold to the New 
York Central, and has been prominent in several banks. 

JAMES KEARNEY, President The James Kearney Co., 
Scranton, Pennsylvania, was born in Scranton May 15, 1871, 
and has been in the coal business for thirty-one years. 

JOHN W. KIRBY, 1702 Monroe Avenue, Scranton, Penn- 
sylvania, Vice President Quinn Coal Co., was born in Scran- 
ton January 12, 1873, and has been in the coal business for 
eleven years. He was formerly with Peale, Peacock & 
Kerr and the Clinton Palls Coal Co. 

FREDERICK L. MOORE, Mechanical Engineer of the 
Scranton Coal Co., Scranton, Pennsylvania, -was born in 
Scranton in 1883, and has been in the coal business for 
eighteen years. 



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MICHAEL J. RAFFERTY, Secretary and General Manager 
Scranton Anthracite Coal Co., Scranton, Pennsylvania, was 
bcrn in Scranton October 8, 1874, and has been in the coal 
business eleven years. He was formerly with the Minooka 
Coal Co. 

CHARLES ED'W^ARD ROBERTSOIV, 831 Connell Building, 
Scranton, Pennsylvania, was born in Scranton February 11, 
1S7(J, anci has been in the coal business for three years. 

WALTER LINCOLN SCHLAGER, Scranton, Pennsylvania, 
General Manager Traders Coal Co. and Plymouth Red Ash 
Coal Co., was born in Scranton October 1, 1864, and has been 
in the coal business for about nineteen years. 

.SAMUEL H. SEVINGLE, Treasurer Plymouth Red Ash 
Coal Co., Scranton, Pennsylvania, was born in South Canaan, 
Pennsylvania, February 17, 1872, and has been in the coal 
busii.ess for six years. 

HOWARD A. STELLE, Scranton, Pennsylvania, was born 
in Paterson, New Jersey, in 1870, and has been in the coal 
business eleven years.- He is also interested in the Traders 
Coal Co. 

FRANK. G. WOLFE, Chief Engineer Scranton Coal Co., 
Scranton, Pennsylvania, was born in Stroudsburg, Pennsyl- 
vania, April 21, 1860, and has been in the coal business since 
1877. He was formerly with the Delaware, Lackawanna & 
Western Railroad. 



PENNSYLVANIA — Uniontown 



J. W. ABRAHAM, General Manager Banning-Connellsville 
Coke Co., Wineland-Gilmore Coal & Coke Co., Newcomer 
Coke Co., and the South Fayette Coke Co., Uniontown, Penn- 
sylvania, was born in Smithfield. Pennsylvania, October 15, 
1866, and has been in the coal business for twenty-five years. 
He was previously with the H. C. Frick Coke Co. 

"WILLIAM ALLISON, Secretary-Treasurer and Manager 
Union Connellsville Coke Co., and a Director Waltersburg 
Coke Co., Uniontown, Pennsylvania, was born in Greens- 
burg, Pennsylvania, October 10, 1S5S, and has been in the 
coal business sixteen years. 

Jx\MES G. BINNS, Treasurer and General Manager of the 
Buckhannon River Coal Co., Uniontown, Pennsylvania, was 
born in Fayette City. Pennsylvania, August 8, 1881, and has 
been in the coal business two years. 

M.ARSHALL D. BROOKE of the Smock Coal Co., Union- 
town, Pennsylvania, also interested in the Buckhannon River 
Coal Co., was born in Uniontown November 21, 1890, and has 
been in the coal business for six years. He is Secretary of 
the Coke Producers Association, Connellsville region. 

JAMES R. CRAY, President Union Connellsville Coke Co. 
and Puritan Coke Co., Uniontown, Pennsylvania, was born 
in Darlington, Pennsylvania, March 8, 1860, and has been 
in the coal business twenty years. He is also President of 
the Indian Creek Valley Railway Co., a Director in the 
Wallace Coal & Coke Co., and Vice President of the Coke 
Producers Association of the Connellsville Coke Region. 

A. Q,. DAVIS, President Browning Coke Co., Uniontown. 
Pennsylvania, and President Davis Fuel Co. and General 
Manager Hess Coal Co., Morgantown, West Virginia, was 
born in Lafayette County, Pennsylvania, in 1875, and has 
been in the coal business eigliteen years. He -wsls previ- 
ously with the American Steel & Wire Co. and the H. C. 
Frick Coke Co. 

GUY B. GILMORE, General Manager of the Giljnore Coke 
Co., the Plumer Coke Co. and the Menallen Coke Co., Union- 
town, Pennsylvania, was born in Uniontown September 14, 
1876, and has been in the coal business eighteen years. He 
was previously with the Frick Coke Co., the Stonega Coke 
Co., and the Producers Coke Co., all of the Connellsville Dis- 
trict. 

JAMES EDGAR HUSTEAD, Secretary and Treasurer of 
the Hustead-Semans Coal & Coke Co., the Hope Coke Co., 
and South Fayette Coke Co., Uniontown, Pennsylvania, was 
born in Dunbar, Pennsylvania, November 6, 1880. and has 
been in the coal business for fifteen years. 

THOMAS W. KEIGHLEY, Superintendent of the coal 
mines and coke works of the Stewart Iron Co., Uniontown, 
Pennsylvania, was born in Youngstown, Pennsylvania, July 
15, 1882, and has been in the coal business for fourteen 
years. He was formerly Superintendent of mines and coke 
works for the Shenango Furnace Co., Ligonier, Pennsyl- 
vania. 

JOHN W. SIMPSON, Manager Evans Coal & Coke Co., 
Uniontown, Pennsylvania, was born in Lawrence County, 
Ohio, December 5, 1875, and has worked in and about mines 
since his early boyhood. He was formerly with the "Wheel- 
ing & Lake Erie Coal Co., Beech Bottom Coal Co. and 
Stauffer-Quemahoning Coal Co. 



LLOYD H. SMITH, Sales Manager for the Arden Fuel Co.. 
Uniontown, Pennsylvania, was born in Mt. Pleasant, Penn- 
sylvania, March 8, 1867, and has been in the coal business 
for seventeen years. He was previously with the Harris- 
Smith Coal & Coke Co. 

JOSIAH V. THOMPSON, President of the Tower Hill-Con- 
nellsville Coke Co., Uniontown, Pennsylvania, also inter- 
ested in the Thompson Connellsville Coke Co., and the Rich- 
hill Coal & Coke Co., was born In Uniontown February 15. 
1854, and has been in the coal business for forty years. 



PENNSYLVANIA — Wilkes-Barre 



DATID T. D.AVTS, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, State In- 
spector of Mines for Pennsylvania, was born in Pottsville, 
Pennsylvania, in 1867, and has held various positions with 
the anthracite collieries for forty years. He attended Wyo- 
ming Seminarj' and is considered an autliority on coal min- 
ing matters. 

JOHN C. H.VDDOCK, Treasurer and Purchasing Agent for 
the Haddock Mining Co., Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, also 
Manager of the Wilkes-Barre branch of the Alden Coal 
Mining Co., was born in New York City November 24, 1893, 
and has been in the coal business for about three years. 

JOHN COURTNEY HADDOCK, JR., of Haddock & Payne, 
and Treasurer of the Haddock Mining Co. and the Haddock 
Coal Sales Co., Wilkes-Barre. Pennsylvania, was born in 
New York City November 24, 1893, and has been in the coal 
business three years. 

JOHN MILTON HUMPHREY, Wllkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 
Chief Engineer of the Lehigh Valley Coal Co., also a Di- 
rector of the E. E. While Coal Co., Glen White, West Vir- 
ginia, was born in Philadelphia December 25, 1866, and has 
been in the coal business for twenty-seven years. 

GEORGE F. LEE, General Manager and Treasurer of the 
George F. Lee Coal Co., Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, was 
born in Plymouth, Pennsylvania, in 1870, and has been 
engaged in the mining and shipping of Red Ash anthracite 
sixteen years. Tliis company maintains an o'fflce in tlie Mc- 
Gill Building, Montreal, Quebec, to care for its Canadian 
sliipments. 

BRUCE PAYNE of Haddock & Payne, Wilkes-Barre, Penn- 
sylvania, also interested in the Blue Creek Coal & Land 
Co., Charleston, West Virginia, was born in Kingston, Penn- 
sylvania, April 27, 1889. 

PAUL STERLING, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Mechan- 
ical Engineer of the Lehigh Valley Coal Co., "was born in 
Wilkes-Barre, and has been in the coal business eighteen 
years. 

THOMAS J. AVILLIAMS. Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, In- 
spector of Mines for Pennsylvania, was born in ^Vales in 
1860, and has been in the coal business for forty-seven 
years. Previously he "was with the Dela"ware, Lackawanna 
& Western Coal Co., the Lehigh Valley Coal Co. and the 
T. M. Dodson Coal Co. 

FREDERIC EDGAR ZERBEY. Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylva- 
nia, is General Manager of the Kingston Coal Co. 



PENNSYLVANIA 



SHER-VVOOD L. ANDERSON, Manager S. L. Anderson & 
Co., Easton, Pennsylvania, was born in Blooi"nsbury, New 
Jersey, .January 31, 1882, and has been in the coal business 
ten years. 

JAMES H. ALLPORT, Barnesboro, Pennsylvania, President 
Rich Hill Coal Co., "was born in Philipsburg, Pennsylvania, 
April 13. 1874, and has been in the coal business a quarter 
of a century. 

ARTHUR C. A.MESBURY, retail coal merchant of Dan- 
ville, Pennsylvania, was born in Danville March 21, 1873. 
and lias been in the coal business for a quarter of a century. 

STEPHEN FRANKLIN ARNOLD., sole owner of the Royal 
Coal Yard, Lebanon, Pennsylvania, "was born in Annville. 
Pennsylvania. November 10, 1861, and has been in the coal 
business for thirteen years. 

E. Y. BARNES, Yardley, Pennsylvania, was born in Rich- 
niond, Indiana, Aug'ust 25, 1870, and has been in the retail 
coal business for four years. 

H. K. BAUMGARDNER, President and Treasurer of the B. 
B. Martin Co., Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was born in Lancas- 
ter January 29, 1841, and lias been in tlie retail coal busines.s 
for thirty years. 

L. L. BEACH Y, Treasurer and Manager of the Tub Mill 
Coal Co., West Salisbury, Pennsjdvania, was born In West 
Salisbury January 1, 1864, and has been in the coal business 
thiriy-one years. 



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COAL MI'.X OF AMERICA 



HOHERT BAKCLAY BKAHM, Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania. 
Pi-esident Bealini i*i Co., Inc.. Pliiladelpliia, was born in 
Maiuli Cliuiik, Peiinsyl\ania, in ISoo. and lias been eng-aged 
forty years in various linos in the coal business. He is also 
President of The Mt. Hope Coal Co.. a Director of the Manu- 
facturers Coal Co., Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, and of the Gar- 
rett County Coal & Mining- Co. He was formerly General 
Rales Manager for Weston Dodson & Co.. holding that posi- 
tion for twenty years. He is a member of the Union League 
of Philadelphia. 

.lA.MKS KIFK BKATTIE, President of the Beattie Mining 
Co.. Fairniouut City. Pennsylvania, was born in Scotland in 
October. 1852. and since ten years of age has been employed 
in some cajiacity in the coal industry. For eleven years he 
was Superintendent of Mines for the Cambria Steel Co., 
Johnstown, Pennsylvania; three years with the Shawmut 
Jlining- Co., St. Mary's, Pennsylvania, and fourteen years in 
Texas and Alabama. 

JOHN A. BELLi, President Carnegie Coal Co., Carnegie, 
Penns.vlvania, was born in Carnegie in 1855 and has been in 
the coal business seventeen years. Mr. Bell is also inter- 
ested in the Carnegie Dock & Fuel Co. He has been a Di- 
rector of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. 

EI/MER J. BEIVDER, Treasurer and Manager Lehigh Coal 
Co.. Bethlehem. Pennsylvania, -was born in Bethlehem Aug- 
ust 28, 1873, .and has been in the coal business nine years. 
Mr. Bender was previously with the Lehigh "Valley Coal Co. 
and "Weston Dodson & Co. 

CHARLES A. BESAVICK, Manager C. A. Beswick Coal 
Co., Altoona. Pennsylvania, was born in Paterson. New Jer- 
sey, November 21, 1S70. and has been in the coal business 
twelve years. He is also interested in the Juniata Coal 
Mining Co. Mr. Beswick was formerly connected with the 
Henrietta Coal Mining Co. 

FRED G. BETTS, President and General Manager Goshen 
Coal Co., Clearfield, Pennsylvania, was born in Clearfield 
April 11, 1869, and has been in the coal business tw^enty- 
two years. Mr. Betts is also President of the Janesville 
Coal Co. He was formerly with the Madeira-Hill Coal Min- 
ing Co. 

"WILLIAM I. BETTS. General Manager Conestoga Coal Co., 
Clearfield. Pennsylvania, was born in Clearfield June 3, 1870, 
and has been in the coal business a quarter of a century. 
He was formerly with the Summit Coal Mining Co. and the 
Madeira-Hill Mining Co. 

JOHjV nelson BEVERIDGE, Secretary and Manager 
United Coal Co.. Clarion, Pennsylvania, is a native of Scot- 
land, born in 1875, and has been actively engaged in the 
coal industry since he ^vas twelve years of age. Mr. Bever- 
idge is also interested in the Co-operative Coal Co.. Ells 
Coal Co. and Beveridge-Herman Coal Co. Pie was formerly 
with the Harvey Coal Co. and the Beveridge & Harvey Coal 
Co. 

IJAA"ID BLAIR. President of the Blair Coal Co., Indiana, 
Pennsylvania, was born in Indiana April 25, 1872, and has 
been in the coal business for ten years. 

JAMES S. BLAIR. Treasurer of the Blair Coal Co., Indiana, 
Pennsylvania, was born in Indiana in 1870, and has been 
in the coal business for two years. 

"WALTER STILSON BLAISDELL. Punxsutawney, Pennsyl- 
vania. Secretary. Treasurer and Manager of the Anita Coal 
Mining Co., "Williams Run Coal Co.. and Punxsutawney Coal 
Mining Co., was born in Newcomb. Illinois, May 21. 1866, 
and has been in the coal business fourteen years. 

"WILLIAM L. BOEXING, President and General Manager 
of the Tobyhanna Co., Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania, was born in 
Germany September 20, 1872, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for thirteen years. He was with the Delaware, Lacka- 
wanna & "Western Coal Co. for two years in New York City. 

EDGAR D. BORTNER.. Hanover, Pennsylvania, was born 
in Hanover April 10, 1865, and has been in the coal business 
for five years. 

FRANK G. BOYER, Millersburg, Pennsylvania, was born 
in "Washington August 7. 1872. and has been in the retail coal 
business for seven years. 

GEO. E. BOYD, General Manager of the Geo. E. Boyd 
Coal Co.. Tarentum, Pennsylvania, ^vas born in Tarentum 
in 1870, and has been in the coal business for twenty-seven 
years. He was previously with the McKean Coal Co. and 
Boyd Bros. Coal Co. 

ED"WARD F. BRACKEN, Paoli, Pennsylvania, was born in 
Colerain, Ohio, March 14, 1870, and has been in the retail coal 
business foi' twenty-three years. He "was previously with 
Henry Hall, Dewees & Bracken. 

JOHN J. BRADLEY of the J. J. Bradley Co.. Gallitzen. 
Pennsylvania, -was born in Gallitzen in September, 1895, and 
has been in the coal business about two years. 

CHARLES Y. BROXJGH of the Schmuck Co., Hanover, 
Pennsylvania, was born in Hanover in 1881, and has been 
in the coal business for five years. 



CHARLES I). BHOW.X, retail coal merchant of Emaus, 
Pennsylvania, was born in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, 
April 1(1, 1847. and has been in the coal business twenty- 
eight years. He has held various ofHces of honor and trust 
in his community. 

CHARLES E. BRO>VX, General Manager of the Cheston 
Coal Co.. Hastings. Pennsylvania, was born in Henehietown. 
Pennsylvania, on August 12, i877, and has been in the coal 
business for himself for four years. He was previously with 
the Coal Run Coal Co., Red Top Coal Co.. and Rich Hiil Coal 
Co. as Foreman. 

JAMES M. BROWN, with A. C. Thorpe Co., Chester, Penn- 
sylvania, was born in Chester September 15, 1889, and has 
been in the coal business eleven years. Mr. Brown was for- 
merly connected with Tyler & Co. 

Gl'Y AVATSON BROAVN, Treasurer of Gillespie Coal Co., 
Fayette City, Pennsylvania, was born near Fayette City, and 
has been in the coal business since 1914. 

MAX J. BUCHER. Manager Columbia Coal & Ice Co., Co- 
lumbia. Pennsylvania, was born in Columbia September 6, 
1875, and has been in the coal business thirteen years. 

R. S. BLRCHINAL, General Manager and Treasurer of the 
Smithfield Coal & Coke Co., Smithfield, Pennsylvania, was 
born in Pennsylvania in June, 1865. and has been in the 
coal business for fourteen years. 

THOMAS J. BtRKE. Secretary and Treasurer of the 
Sharon Coal & Ice Co , Sharon. Pennsylvania, was born in 
Staunton, Virginia, and has been in the retail coal business 
for two years. 

JOHN J. BLTTERMORE, President Pittsmont Coal Co., 
Connellsville, Pennsylvania, was born in Connellsville Au- 
gust 17, 1857. and has been identified with the coal business 
ten years. Mr. Buttermore is also President of the J. J. 
Buttermore Coal Co. and the Catawba Coal Co. 

DAVID G. BYERLY of D. G. Byerly & Son, Glenmoore, 
Pennsylvania, was born in Glenmoore December 27, 1860, and 
has been in the coal business for tw^enty-three years. 

HARVEY W. CALHOON of the H. "W. Calhoon Coal Co., 
New Brighton, Pennsylvania, was born in New Brighton 
May 17, 1869, and has been in the retail coal business for 
fifteen years. 

JOSEPH ALFRED CAMERON. SR., Manager Easton Coal 
& Supply Co., Easton, Pennsylvania, was born in Easton 
September 12, 1865, and has been in the coal business since 
1913. 

GEORGE "W. CAMPBELL, Manager Etna Connellsville 
Coke Co., Connellsville. Pennsylvania, was born in Normal- 
ville, Pennsylvania, in 1853, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness eleven years. Mr. Campbell is also a Director of the 
Northern Connellsville Coke Co. and owns coal lands in 
"West Virginia and Pennsylvania coal fields. 

A. K. CAROTHERS, "Williamsport. Pennsylvania, was born 
in Williamsport October 5. 1839, and has been in the retail 
coal business for twenty-one years. 

LEE S. CLYMER. Riegelsville, Pennsylvania, was born in 
Mt. Laurel, Pennsylvania, April 2, 1863, and has been in 
the retail coal business for fifteen years. 

TIMOTHY COCKILL, President, Treasurer and Manager of 
the Girard Mammoth Coal Co., Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania, 
also interested in the Bryson Mt. Coal & Coke Co., Bryson, 
Kentucky, w^as born in Llewellyn. Pennsylvania, October 21, 
1853. and has b§en for twenty-six years in bituminous coal 
mining and ten years in anthracite mining. 

GEORGE S. CONNELL. Secretary-Treasurer Pittsmont 
Coal Co., Connellsville. Pennsylvania, was born in Waterford, 
Virginia, December 28. 1885, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness five years. He is also Secretary-Treasurer of the J. J. 
Buttermore Coal Co. and Vice President of the Catawba 
Coal Co. 

CHESTER P. COOK. Narbeth, Pennsylvania, was born in 
Baltimore, Maryland, November 6, 1877, and has been in the 
retail coal business since February 18, 1905. 

NATHAN D. CORTRIGHT of N. D. Cortright & Son, Mauch 
Chunk. Pennsylvania, and President of the Beaver Run Coal 
Co., was born in Mauch Chunk November 24. 1847, and has 
been in the operating end of the coal industry for fifty 
years. 

D. W. COX of D. "W. Cox & Co., Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 
was l)orn in Maryland, and has been in the coal business 
thirty-two years. Mr. Cox is a Civil War veteran and has 
served two terms as City Controller of Harrisburg. He is 
the author of "Cox's Calculated Tonnage Rates." 

J. AVATSON CRAFT, retail coal merchant of Ambler, Penn- 
sylvania, was born in Gwynedd, Penns.vlvania, in 1847, and 
has been in business at Ambler thirty-three years. Mr. 
Craft has taken a prominent interest in association and 
civic matters. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



HUGH M. CRANKSHAW^ General Manager of the Har- 
wood Coal Co. and Cranberry Creek Coal Co., Hazleton, 
Pennsylvania, was born in Lancashire, England, In 1883. 
He was graduated from Victoria University, Manchester, 
B. Sc, and is also a first class certificated colliery manager. 
Previously he was with the Mexican Coal & Coke Co., New 
River Collieries Co. and Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co. He 
is a member of various mining societies. 

HARLEY ASHABEL CRANMER of H. A. Cranmer & Sons, 
Monroeton, Pennsylvania, was born in Monroeton December 
3, 1863, and has been in the coal business for thirty-seven 
years. A. L. Cranmer & Son was the original company, es- 
tablished in 1873. They were succeeded by Cranmer & Mus- 
selman. 

JOHN E. DARE, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was born in 
Perry, Pennsylvania, in 1877, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for fifteen years. He is a Director of the Harrisburg 
Coal Exchange. 

CHARLES G. DE HTJIi'F, Lebanon, Pennsylvania, was born 
in Lebanon July 28, 1871, and has been eight years in the 
retail coal business. Previously he was with Case & De- 
Huff, wholesale coal merchants. 

RAYMOND SAMUEL, DE LONG, Manager Empire Coal 
Mining Co.. Reading, Pennsylvania, was born in Slatington, 
Pennsylvania, January 21, 1880, and lias been in the coal 
business for eight years. 

MOTT M. DE "WOLFE, retail coal merchant of Albion, 
Pennsylvania, was born in Albion January 4, 1882, and has 
been engaged in tlie coal business five years. Mr. DeWolfe 
was formerly connected witli Bancroft & DeWolfe. 

AMOS DINKEY, Manager Hilliard, Dinkey & Co., Easton, 
Pennsylvania, was born in Easton May 8, 1847, and has been 
in the coal business twenty-eight years. Mr. Dinkey was 
formerly with the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co. 

ALAN C. DODSON, President Weston Dodson & Co., 
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was born in Betlilehem August 
27, 1880, and has been interested in the coal business six- 
teen years. Mr. Dodson is also interested in the Dodson 
Coal Co., Cliarles M. Dodson & Co., Locust Mountain Coal 
Co., Garrett County Coal & Mining Co., and Monroe Coal 
Mining Co. He is Secretary of the Anthracite Coal Opera- 
tors' Association. 

E. C. DODSON, with the sales department of the Grazier 
Coal & Coke Co., Johnstown, Pennsylvania, also interested 
in the Grazier Coal Mining Co., was born in Snicksburg, 
Pennsylvania. May 25, 1881, and has been in tlie coal busi- 
ness about two years. 

TRUMAN MONROE DODSON, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 
Vice President and General Manager of the Dodson coal 
interests, which embrace the Locust Mt. Coal Co., Charles 
M. Dodson & Co., Monroe Coal Mining Co., Garrett County 
Coal Mining Co. and Albright Smokeless Coal Co., was born 
in Bethlehem May 19, 1877, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness eighteen years. 

JOHN P. DONOHOE, Vice President and General Manager 
of the Donohoe Coke Co. and the Potter Coal & Coke Co., 
Greensburg, Pennsylvania, ■was born in Greensburg Pebru- 
arj' 12, 1873, and has been in the coal business for tvirenty- 
one years. He was previously with the Alexandria Coal Co. 

CLAYTON CRESS'WELL DOVEY, General Manager of the 
Valley Smokeless Coal Co., Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Presi- 
dent Wilmore Basin Smokeless Coal Co., and Consulting 
Engineer Ninevah Coal & Coke Co., was born in Shenan- 
doah, Pennsylvania, June 26, ISSO, and lias been twenty 
years in the coal business. He was four years with tlie 
Pittsburgh-Buffalo Co. and eight years witli the M. W. 
Saxman interests. 

W. H. DRUCKEMILLER, Sunbury, Pennsylvania, was 
born in Sunbury September 28, 1856, and has been in the 
nnining end of the coal business for twenty-five years. He 
was previously in the firm of Charles W. Nickerson & Co. 

CHARLES A. DUNLAP, President of the Hazlewood Coal 
Co., Philipsburg, Pennsylvania, also interested in the Meadow 
Brook Coal Co. and the Buries^ Coal Co., was born in Houtz- 
dale, Pennsylvania, November 18, 1872, and has been in the 
coal business for twenty-five years. He was previously with 
the United Collieries Co. He owned a two-thirds interest in 
the Raney Coal Co. for several years. 

IRWIN PHILLIP EASTMAN, sole owner of the Eastman 
Coal Co., Lebanon, Pennsylvania, was born in Lebanon No- 
vember 15, 1871, and has been in the coal business for fifteen 
years. He began with the Lackawanna Iron & Steel Co. He 
is a Director of the Pennsylvania Retail Coal Merchants 
Association, Secretary of the Lebanon Retailers Association, 
and the Lebanon County Coal Dealers Association. 

ALVIN B. EBERLY of Eberly Bros., Ephrata. Pennsyl- 
vania, was born in Clay Township, Pennsylvania, May 10, 
1872, and has been in the coal business since 1915. 

CLEMENT B. EBERLY of Eberly Bros., Ephrata, Penn- 
sylvania, was born in Clay, Pennsylvania, December 31, 
1876, and has been in the cog.l business four years. 



WILLIAM B. ECKENROTH, Lebanon, Pennsylvania, was 
born in Lebanon September 13, 1847, and has been in the 
retail coal business for forty-nine years. 

LEWIS W^ EDLER of L. W. Edler & Co., Williamsport, 
Pennsylvania, also interested in Bennetts Branch Coal Co., 
was born in Williamsport June 16, 1876, and has been in the 
retail coal business for eighteen years. 

J. S. EDAVARDS, retail coal merchant of Bloomsburg, 
Pennsylvania, was born in Berwick, Pennsylvania, June 30, 
1859, and lias been in tlie coal business ten years. 

J. A. EICHELBERGER, General Manager (sole surviving 
partner) of E. Eichelberger & Co., miners, Saxton, Penn- 
sylvania, was born in Saxton May 4, 1872, and has been in 
tlie coal business for twenty-five years. 

JOHN BRUCE ELLIOTT., General Manager Thermic Coal 
& Supply Co., also interested in the Thermic Coal & Coke 
Co., Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, was born in Hollidays- 
burg October 4, 1884. He started in tlie coal business in ■ 
1903, being associated with R. H. Spendley, Altoona, Penn- 
sylvania. 

HAROLD BERTELS FELL, Superintendent and Engineer 
of the Wyoming Valley Water Supply Co., Hazleton, Penn- 
sylvania, was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, August 
18, 1889. and has been with the Lehigh Valley Coal Co. ever 
since his graduation from Princeton University five years 
ago, first in the mining department until April 1, 1916, and 
then transferred to look after the vv^ater supply. 

FRANK FINSTHWAIT, Treasurer Thermal Smokeless 
Coal Co., Cherry Tree, Pennsylvania, was born in 1878. 

THOMAS \V, FISHER Of the Thomas-Haines Co., Mal- 
vern. Pennsylvania, was born in tlie county of Cork, Ire- 
land, in 1850, and has been in the retail coal business for 
thirty-four years. He is also interested in another retail 
coal business in another town. 

E. \V. FLUK, Williamsburg. Pennsylvania, Tvas born in 
Wilkes-Barre May 10, 1885, and has been in the retail coal 
business for six years. 

WILLIAM H. FOGELSONGER, Shippensburg, Pennsylva- 
nia, -'A'Sls born in Shippensburg May 2, 1869, and has been in 
tlie retail coal business for twelve years. 

J. FRED FORSEMAN, Williamsport, Pennsylvania, was 
born in Williamsport November 4, 1876, and has been in the 
retail coal business six years. 

LAWRENCE FOWLER, Manager Citizens Coal Co., Dun- 
more, Pennsylvania, was born in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, 
in 1869, and has been in the coal business twenty-one years. 
He was formerly with the Mount Pleasant Coal Co. and Nay 
Aug Coal Co. 

"WILLIAM H. FRITZ, retail coal merchant of Berwyn, 
Pennsylvania, was born in Berwyn December 21, 1864, and 
has "Deen in tlie retail coal business thirty-two years. 

HARRY B. GALL of Gall Bros., Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 
was born in Lancaster July 14, 1875, and has been in the 
retail coal business for fifteen years. 

JAMES H. GALLAGHER, New Alexandria, Pennsylvania, 
Secretary and Treasurer of the Delmont Gas Coal Co., has 
been in the coal business for the past ten years. 

CHARLES WILLIAM GALLO"WAY, Lewisburg, Pennsyl- 
vania, was born in Sandsburg, Ne"w York, September 3, 1864, 
and has been in the retail coal business about two years. 

S. CARL GARNER, Hatboro, Pennsylvania, "was born in 
Hatboro September 8, 1883, and has been in the coal business 
for six years. 

CHARLES G. GA"WTHROP, Manager of the C. G. Gaw- 
throp Co., Kennett Sqilare, Pennsylvania, was born in Penn- 
sylvania January 17, 1864, and has been in the coal business 
for twenty-nine years. His previous experience was vs^ith 
W. W. & H. H. Gawthrop. 

JAMES ALONZO GEALEY, General Manager and Treas- 
urer of the Leesburg Coal Co., New Castle, Pennsylvania, 
was born in Plain Grove. Pennsylvania. August 23. 1879, and 
has been in the coal business for nine j'ears. He was pre- 
viously with the Pennsylvania Fuel Co. 

G. J. GEBHARDT of the G. J. Gebhardt Coal & Coke Co., 
Erie, Pennsylvania, lias been in the retail coal business 
thirty-five years. 

L. C. GEERMAN, with the firm of D. M. Wertz & Co., 
Quincy, Pennsylvania, has been in the coal business for 
twenty years. 

JOSEPH C. GERBRON, retail coal merchant of Chelten- 
ham, Pennsylvania, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 
November 17, 1870, and has been in the coal business fifteen 
years. 

WM. H. GIVIN of H. Gawthrop & Co., Kennett Square. 
Pennsylvania, was born in New Jersey August 26, 1S58, and 
has been in the coal business for forty years, connected 
with the same firm and predecessors all this period. 

L'. a. GLESSMAN, retail coal merchant of Conneautvllle, 
Pennsylvania, was born in Strongsville, Ohio, May 28, 1874, 
and has been in the coal business four years. 



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CII.VRI.KS a. GOOD, Manager of the Chas. C. Good Co., 
North Girard, Pennsylvania, was born July 26. 1869, and has 
been in the retail coal business for five years. 

FISK (;OOnVKAR of Goodyear Bros., Carlisle, Pennsyl- 
vania, was born m Carlisle in 1868. 

S. M. GOODYK.VR of Goodyear Bros., Carlisle, Pennsyl- 
vania, was born in Carlisle in 1870 and has been in the coal 
business twenty-four years. 

THOMAS A\ GOUI-D. Secretary Craig--Gould Coal Co.. Bris- 
bin, Pennsylvania, was born in Dudley, Pennsylvania, De- 
cember 23. 1S70. and has been in the coal business twenty 
years. Mr. Gould is also interested in the Jaffa Coal Mining- 
Co. and W. A. Gould & Bro. He was previously with the 
Kettle Creek Coal Mining- Co. 

JOHX CHARLES GRAHAM of the John C. Graham Coal 
Co.. Butler, Pennsylvania, was born in Butler October 8, 
1868, and has been interested in the coal business three years. 
Mr. Graham is a practicing attorney and also has other in- 
terests. He has served as President of the Thin Seam Coal 
Operators' Association, and successfully waged the fight 
before the United States Fuel Administration and the Sena- 
torial Investigating- Committee that secured a 60-ceiit dif- 
ferential for Thin Seam operators of Pennsylvania. 

H. MAUN GREEN, retail coal merchant of Darby, Penn- 
sylvania, was born at Philadelphia August 27, 1873, and has 
been in the coal business thirteen years. 

JOSEPH J. GRIEBEL,, General Manager of Griebel Bros.. 
Lucinda. Pennsylvania, was born in Lucinda December 24, 
1863, and has been in the coal business for over a quarter 
of a century. 

JAMES H. S. GRIESS of James H. S. Griess & Co., Potts- 
town, Pennsylvania, was born in Pottstown March 28, 1860, 
and has been in the coal business for t\venty-four years. 
The firm was fori-nerly Miller, Griess & Co., and Miller & 
Griess. 

LOT.'ISE MARIE GROTHE, York. Pennsylvania, was born 
in Cleveland. Ohio, July 16, 1871, and has been in the retail 
coal business for five years. 

MLES H. GROA'E of J. C. Grove & Son, York, Pennsyl- 
vania, was born in Dillsburg, Pennsylvania, February 20, 
1889. and has been in the retail coal business for eight 
years. He has been Secretary of the York Coal Exchange. 

JOHN G. HAIIVES. the oldest member of the Thomas- 
Haines Co., Malvern, Pennsylvania, was born in Medford, 
New Jersey, October 20, 1848, and began the coal business 
in 1883 with Thomas & Haines. He is also interested in 
another retail coal business in another town. 

HARRY HAMILTON, Grove City, Pennsylvania, President 
and Treasurer of the Standard Coal Mining Co. and Mutual 
Coal Mining Co., was born in Brookfield, Ohio, in 1862, and 
has been interested in coal mining for t-wenty-eight years. 

C. C. HAMMOND, General Sales Agent McConnell Coal 
Co., Dubois, Pennsylvania, was born in Clearfield. Pennsyl- 
vania, March 4, 1887, and has been in the coal business six 
years. .t-^ 

CHRISTIAN K. HARNISH, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was 
born in West Lampeter, Pennsylvania, October 3, 1864, and 
has been in the retail coal business for seven years. 

WILLIAM HARRIS, General Manager of James Harris & 
Sons, miners at Lilly, Pennsylvania, was born in Lilly Sep- 
tember 9, 1891, and has been in the coal business for 
about eight years. 

PRANK F. HARRISON, retail coal merchant of Edinboro, 
Pennsylvania, was born in McGrann, Pennsylvania, January 
3, 1879, and has been in the coal business five years. 

JOSEPH WHITTIER HARRISON, Superintendent of Big 
Bend Coal Mining Co., Expedit, Pennsylvania, -was born In 
Mount Savage, Maryland, in 1866. 

B. FRANK HARTZEL of F. D. Hartzel's Sons, Chalfont, 
Pennsylvania, was born in Montgomery County, Pennsyl- 
vania, January 9, 1856, and has been in the coal business 
twenty-seven years. 

JAMES M. HARTZEL of F. D. Hartzel's Sons, Chalfont, 
Pennsylvania, was born in Montgomery County, Pennsyl- 
vania, August 23, 1851. 

J. M. HARVEY, Superintendent Harvey Coal Co., the Elm 
Coal Co., and the Bauldorf Coal & Coke Co., Strattonville, 
Pennsylvania, was born in Scotland September 20, 1873, and 
has been in the coal business for thirty years. 

A. M. HAUBER, Munhall. Pennsylvania, Credit and Office 
Manager of the Merchants Coal Co. of Pennsylvania. Secre- 
tary of the Pennsylvania Smokeless Coal Co. and Treasurer 
of the Orenda Coal Co., was born in Elizabeth, Pennsylvania, 
October 10, 1877, and has been in the coal business for six- 
teen years. He was previously with the United Coal Co. for 
fifteen years. 

ALDEN F. HAYS, Sewickley, Pennsylvania, was born in 
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 27, 1850, and has been in 
the coal business for thirty-six years. 



H. SAMIEL HAYS, Manager of the Geo. A. Barnitz Es- 
tate, York, Pennsylvania, was born in York August 3, 1868, 
and has been in the retail coal business for nineteen years. 
He has been President of the York Coal Exchange and a 
Director of the Pennsylvania Retail Coal Merchants' Asso- 
ciation. 

HARRY J. HECK, with the Estate of George J. Heck, 
Easton, Pennsylvania, was born in Easton March 11, 1879, 
and has been in the coal business thirty years. He was for- 
merly associated with Jacob Heck, Heck & Bro.. and George 
J. Heck. He is a Director of the Pennsylvania Retail Coal 
Merchants' Association. 

GEORGE D. HEHENBIRG of Hedenburg & Son, Milton, 
Pennsylvania, was born in Danville, Pennsylvania, in 1871, 
and has been in the coal business for fifteen years. He was 
formerly with the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co. 

WADE -U'. HEGARTY, General Manager S. Hegarty's Sons, 
Coalport, Pennsylvania, was born in Coalport December 14, 
1862. Mr. Hegarty is a graduate of Lafayette College and 
has been identified with the coal industry twenty-two years, 
ten years of which he followed mining engineering. He is 
also interested in West Virginia coal lands. 

LLEWELLY'N G. HEILMAN, retail coal merchant of Allen- 
town, Pennsylvania, was born May 13, 1873, and has been in 
the coal business for five years. 

SAMUEL STEWART HENDERSON, Vice President and 
Treasurer of the Dilltown Smokeless Coal Co., Brookville, 
Pennsylvania, was born in Brookville March 8, 1855, and has 
been in the coal business four years. Mr. Henderson is 
also interested in coal lands. 

C. R. HENRIE, Millville, Pennsylvania, was born in Mill- 
ville February 2, 1856, and has been in the coal business for 
about thirty-five years. 

GEORGE E. HENRY, Treasurer Marquette Coal Co., East 
Brady, Pennsylvania, was born in Mahoning, Pennsylvania, 
July 24, 1856, and has been in the coal business thirty-seven 
years. He is also interested in the Keystone Mining Co. 
and -was formerly -with the Bradys Bend Mining Co. Mr. 
Henry has served as President of the Allegheny Valley Coal 
Operators' Association. 

THOMAS L. HERB, President of Petty Bros. & Co., Leb- 
anon, Pennsylvania, was born in Pitman, Pennsylvania, July 
24. 1893, and has been in the retail coal business for three 
years. 

J. W. G. HERSHEY, Secretary of Hershey, Leaman & Co., 
Lititz, Pennsylvania, was born in Lititz February 6, 1867, 
and has been engaged in the coal business for twelve years. 

EARL E. HEWITT, Manager Dilltown Smokeless Coal Co., 
Dillto-wn, Pennsylvania, vyas born in Penfield, Pen'nsylvania, 
July 22, 1872, and has been in the coal business fourteen 
years. Mr. Hewitt was formerly with the Buffalo, Rochester 
& Pittsburgh Coal Co., Morris-Poston Coal Co. and United 
Coal Co. He served as Secretary of the Coal Mining Insti- 
tute of America for two years. 

WILLIAM D. HILL, Secretary and Treasurer of the Hill 
Bros. Coal Co., Morrisdale, Pennsylvania, was born in Hazle- 
ton, Pennsylvania, November 9, 1883, and has been in the 
coal business for seventeen years. 

CHRISTIAN A. HOFFMAN, Manager of the Hoffman Co., 
Le-wistown, Pennsylvania, was born in Lewistown in 1882. 
He comes of an old coal family. 

SEYMOUR HOOD, retail coal merchant of Cambridge 
Springs, Pennsylvania, was born near Cambridge Springs 
in 1868 and has been in the coal business three years. 

MILTON HOODMACHER, Throoii, Pennsylvania, was born 
in Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, in 1863, and has been en- 
gaged in mining coal for thirty-seven years. He has been 
connected with the Sandy Run Coal Co., Midvalley Coal Co.. 
Susquehanna Coal Co., the Parish Coal Co.. and the Moosic 
Mountain Coal Co. 

ROALSTON R. HOOPES, West Chester, Pennsylvania, was 
born in East Bradford, Pennsylvania, September 27, 1838, 
and has been in the retail coal business for forty-three 
years. The present business of Mr. Hoopes -was established 
in 1858 by John G. Robison. 

EVAN GARFIELD HOUCK, Manager of the Peoples Coal 
Co., Shippensburg. Pennsylvania, was born at Broad Top, 
Pennsylvania, April 20, 1882, and has been in the retail coal 
business for ten years. 

JOHN H. HOY' of J. H. Hoy & Son, York, Pennsylvania, 
was born in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. August 31, 
1854, and has been in the retail coal business nine years. 

IRWIN P. HULL, Manager of George Hull & Sons, Hano- 
ver, Pennsylvania, also interested in the Casselman River 
Smokeless Coal Co., was born in Hanover January 30, 1883, 
and has been in the coal business for twenty-two years. He 
A\'as previously with the Brodbeck Coal Co. 



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B. F. JAMES, Pottsville, Pennsylvania, was born in Ma- 
hanoy City, Pennsylvania, in 1873, and all his industrial life 
has been passed in the mining- of coal. He is interested in 
the Cambridge Coal Co. and the Shipman Koal Co., Shamo- 
kin, Pennsylvania. He was formerly with the Girard Mam- 
moth Coal Co. and the Bast Bear Ridge Colliery Co. 

"W. J. JAMES, Pottsville, Pennsylvania, was born is Ma- 
hanoy City, Pennsylvania, in 1871, and has devoted his time 
to the mining- of coal. He is interested in the Cambridge 
Coal Co. and the Shipman Koal Co., Shamokin, Pennsylvania. 

ELMER E. JOHNSON'^ TuUytown, Pennsylvania, was born 
in Burl County, New Jersey, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for twenty-six years. 

JOHN CRANSTON .JOHNSON, Colliery Superintendent 
Hillside Coal & Iron Co., Avoca, Pennsylvania, was born 
in Avoca November 26, 1881. and has been in the coal busi- 
ness twenty-seven years. Mr. Johnson was formerly con- 
nected -with the Pennsylvania Coal Co. 

ROBERT JOHNSON, Pittston, Pennsylvania. State Mine 
Inspector of Pennsylvania, was born in England March 9, 

1874, and has been in the coal business for twenty-seven 
years. PIo M'as previously in the employ of the Lehigh Val- 
ley Coal Co. and the Lehigh & "Wilkes-Barre Coal Co. 

GEORGE H. JONES., General Superintendent of the Tre- 
vorton Colliery Co.. Shamokin, Pennsylvania, was born in 
Hazleton, Pennsylvania, in 1889, and has been in the coal 
business for ten years. He was previously with the engi- 
neering corps of the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co. 

JOSEPH E. JONES, Superintendent Banning-Connellsville 
Coke Co., Banning-, Pennsylvania, -was born in Gloucester, 
Ohio, August 20, 1870, and has been engaged in the coal 
business twenty years. Mr. Jones was previously with W. 
P. Rend & Co., Continental Coal Co. and Sunday Creek Coal 
Co. 

HARRY MORTIMER KANARR, Punxsutawney, Pennsyl- 
vania, was born near Indiana, Pennsylvania, August 31, 1876. 
Mr. Kanarr -was formerly Chief Engineer for the Rochester 
& Pittsburgh Coal & Iron Co. and its allied interests. 

CHARLES BLAIR KANTNER, Sharpsville, Pennsylvania, 
was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania, September 19, 1861, and 
has been in the retail coal business for six years. 

ROBERT H. KAY. Mine Superintendent of the Colonial 
Iron Co.. also interested in the Octoraro Coal Co., Saxton, 
Pennsylvania, was born in Cecil County, Maryland, June 24, 

1875, and has been in the coal business for twenty-one 
years. He -was previously associated -with the Morrisdale 
Coal Co., Joseph E. Throop, and A. Pardee & Co. He was a 
member of the Board of Examiners for Mine Inspectors for 
the bituminous region of Pennsylvania. 

ALLEN F. KELLAR, General Outside Foreman for the 
Pine Hill Coal Co., Minersville, Pennsylvania, -was born Jan- 
uary 27, 1870, and has been in the coal business for t-wenty- 
eight years. 

LOUIS R. KENDERDINB of T. S, Kenderdine & Sons. 
Newtown. Pennsylvania, was born in Lumberton, Pennsyl- 
vania, October 14, 1S69, and has been in tlie retail coal 
business twenty-seven years. 

ROBERT KENDERDINE of T. S. Kenderdine & Sons, 
Newtown, Pennsylvania, was born in Lumberton, Pennsyl- 
vania, August 17, 1865, and has been in the retail coal busi- 
ness tliirty-one years. 

T. S. KENDERDINE of T. S, Kenderdine & Sons, New- 
town. Pennsylvania, was born in Lui-nberton, Pennsylvania, 
in 1836, and has been in the retail coal business fifty-three 
years. 

SYDNEY R. KEPNER of Sydney R. Kepner & Go., Potts- 
town, Pennsylvania, was born in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, 
December 28, 1871, and has been in the retail coal business 
for seven years. 

WILLIAM H. KNEAS, Norristown. Pennsylvania, was born 
in Norristown August 16, 1859, and has been in the coal 
business thirty-five years. He has been a Director of the 
Pennsylvania Retail Coal Merchants' Association since its 
organization. 

JOHN A. KNECHT, Secretary and Manager of the Tub 
Mill Coal Co., "West Salisbury, Pennsylvania, was born In 
Gairett County, Maryland, in 1871, and has been in the coal 
business for four years. 

WILLIAM RITER KOCHER, retail coalman of Blooms- 
burg, Pennsylvania, was born in Pennsylvania July 27, 1S5S, 
and has been in the coal business tliirty-five years. 

GEORGE J. KOEHLER, JR., retail coal merchant of 
Easton. Pennsylvania, was born in Ebervale, Pennsylvania, 
December 17, 1870, and has been associated with the coal 
business twenty-nine years. 

JOSHUA T. KREBS of Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, was born 
in Codorus, Pennsylvania, December 3, 1860, and has been 
in the coal business for twenty-five years. The firm was 
formerly Bortner & Krebs. 



CHARLES ROBERT KRISE, retail coal merchant of Can- 
ton, Pennsylvania, was born in Canton October 23, 1888, and 
has been in the coal business six years. 

F. A. LANE, coal operator. Lane Mills, Pennsylvania, was 
born in Lane Mills April 14, 1862, and has been in the coal 
business ten years. 

CHESTER JOHN LANGDON, General Manager and Mining 
Engineer for the mines of John Langdon, Hopewell, Pennsyl- 
vania, was born August 10, 1882. For eleven years, since 
graduation froi-n college, he has been associated with the 
present firm. He is a mei-nber of the Executive Committee 
of the Association of Bituminous Coal Operators of Central 
Pennsylvania. 

.JOHN LANGDON, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, operating- 
under lease the coal lands of the Chevington & Bunn Coal 
Co., was born in Minersville, Pennsylvania, May 18, 1856, 
and has been in the coal business all his life. He was pre- 
' viouslj' with the Crescent Coal Mining Co.. the Lambirth 
Coal Mining- Co., Puritan Coal Mining Co., Clearfield Con- 
solidated Coal Co., United Collieries Co., and Zeth, Lang- 
don & Co. 

ASA H. LANPHIER, Manager of the Meadville Coal & 
Feed Co., Meadville, Pennsylvania, was born in Y/ellington, 
Ohio, March 8, 1861, and has been in the retail coal business 
for two years. 

JOHN E. LATTA, Haverford, Pennsylvania, of Mehl & 
Latta, Rosemont, Pennsylvania, was born in Philadelphia, 
and has been in the retail coal business sixteen years. 

J. S. LAUGHREY, Manager McDonald & Laughrey, Daw- 
son, Pennsylvani-a, -was born in Dawson in 1872 and has 
been in the coal business twenty-nine years. He was for- 
merly with Brown & Cochran and the Victoria Coal Co. 

NATHANIEL B. LEAMAN^ President of Hershey, Leaman 
& Co., Lititz. Pennsylvania, was born in Neffsville, Pennsyl- 
vania, January 17, 1861, and laas been engaged in tlie retail 
coal business for about eight years. 

E. H. LEANING, General Manager Racket Brook Coal Co.. 
Red Oak Coal Co. and Nay Aug Coal Co., Carbondale, Penn- 
sylvania, was born at Cooperstown, New York, December 
28, 1882, and has been in the coal business ten years. He 
was formerly with the Lehigh Valley Coal Co. 

WILLIAM C. LEIB, Manager of the Mount Holly Peed & 
Grain Co., Mount Holly Springs, Pennsylvania, was born in 
East Berlin, Pennsylvania, Mai-ch 22, 1872, and has been in 
the coal business for seventeen years. He -was previously 
with J. N. Hershey & Co., W. C. Leib & Co. and W. C. Leib. 

FRANK H. LEISTER, North "Wales, Pennsylvania, was 
born in North Wales in 1872, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for twenty-seven years. 

AL"^''IN G. LEONARD, Avella, Pennsylvania, Manager and 
Secretary Duquesne Coal & Coke Co., Pittsburgh. Pennsyl- 
vania, was ),5orn in Millsboro, Pennsj^lvania, and has been in 
the coal business forty-one j^ears. Mr, Leonard was pre- 
viously connected with the Beaumont Coal Co., A. & J. 
Leonard. Fort Pitt Coal Co. and Carlton Coal Mining Co. 

EUGENE E. LEVIS, retail coal merchant of Coatesville, 
Pennsylvania, -was born in Doe Run, Pennsylvania, Feb- 
ruary 18, 1S6S, and has been in the coal business since 1892. 

ROBERT B. LE"WIS, West Chester, Pennsylvania, was 
born in Honeybrook, Pennsylvania. October 17, 1864, and 
has been in the retail coal business for fifteen years. He 
■\vas in the retail coal business in Ogden. Utah. 1898 to 1911. 
and at West Chester for two years. 

WILLIAM "WALLACE L'HOMMEDIEU of Zabriskie & 
L'Hommedieu, Stroudsburg. Pennsylvania, -was born in 
Stroudsburg' in 1882, and has been in the retail coal business 
for fifteen years. 

BOAZ G. LIGHT, Lebanon, Pennsylvania, Sales Agent for 
H. H. Lineaweaver & Co., Philadelphia, was born in Avon, 
Pennsylvania, in 1887, and has been in the coal business ten 
years. He -was formerly in the retail coal business, having 
served his apprenticeshiii with the Consumers Co. in Chicago. 

CHARLES S. LING, Secretary and Manager of the Ideal 
Coal Co . Johnstown, Pennsylvania, also interested in the 
Sunnyslde Coal Co., was born in Bedford, Pennsylvania, 
August 27, 1870, and has been in the coal business for fifteen 
years. Previously he was with the Valley Smokeless Coal Co. 

HENRY LUCKING, .JR., York. Pennsylvania, was born in 
Yoik August 18, 1860, and has been in the retail coal busi- 
ness for thirty-three years. He has been Treasurer of the 
York Coal Exchange, 

.lOHN H. LONG, retail coal i-nerchant of Cleona, Pennsyl- 
vania, -was born in Cornwall, Pennsylvania, March 22, 1862, 
and has been interested in the coal business twenty-eight 
years. 

H. H. LYKENS, JR.. Martinsburg', Pennsylvania, was born 
in Fredericksburg, Pennsylvania, May 8, 1886. and has been 
in the retail coal, feed and builders' siipply business eight 
years. He was previously witli Skyles, Miller & Co. 



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ROBERT M. MARTIX of C. Martin & Son. Meclianicsburg, 
Pennsylvania, was born in Mechanicsburg January 29, 1873, 
and has been in tlie coal business for twenty years. 

\V. H. 3IAAB10CK of W. H. Manbeck & Co., Mifflin, Penn- 
sylvania, was born in Thompsontown, Pennsylvania, Febru- 
ary 15, 1863, and has been in the retail coal business for 
thirty years. He has been with Manbeck & Nelson, Man- 
beck. Nelson & Co., and W. H. Manbeck & Son. 

J. C. MoCRKADV, New Castle, Pennsylvania, was born in 
New Castle October 16, 1862, and has been in the retail ccal 
business for twenty-seven years. 

•lO.SEPH J. aicCANN, Cresson, Pennsylvania, General Su- 
perintendent Dexter & Carpenter, is a native of Scotland, 
born June 10, 1862. and has been in the coal business forty- 
six years. 

W". D. iMoGIiXXIS, President Connellsville Coal Co. and 
Connellsville Coal & Coke Co., and Treasurer Connellsville 
Coke Co., Clark Coal Co.. Federal Fuel Co., Old Connells- 
ville Coke Co., and "VVick Haven Coal Co., Connellsville. 
Pennsylvania, was born in Payette County, Pennsylvania, 
and has been in the coal business twelve years. Mr. Mc- 
Ginnis is also identified with the Champion Gas Coal Co., 
Mill Run Coal Co. and Calvin-Essex Coal Co., and is a 
Director of the First National Bank and Vice President 
Youghiog-heny Trust Co., Connellsville, Pennsylvania. 

TH03IAS MoGLYlVlV, President of the Yorkshire Coal Co., 
Madera. Pennsylvania, was born in South Wales December 
22, 1853, and has been in the coal business for sixteen years. 

FRAXK J. McGRAAV of John McGraw & Sons, Downing- 
town, Pennsylvania, was born in St. Marys, Pennsylvania, 
September 15, 18R7, and has been in the retail coal business 
thirty-four yeai-s. 

JOHN P. MeGRAW of John McGraw & Sons, Downing-- 
town, Pennsylvania, was born in St. Marys, Pennsylvania, 
February 4, 1866, and has been in the coal business thirty- 
four years. 

LEE 3Ic<iT;iSTOX of Fredonia, Pennsylvania, was born in 
Hartstown, Pennsylvania, December 25, 1855, and has been in 
the coal business for fifteen years. 

J. FRANK MEAD, Sayre. Pennsylvania, was born in Ath- 
ens, Pennsylvania. August 9, 1875, and has been in the retail 
coal business for two years. 

J. HOWARD MEAGER, President Grassy Run Coal Co , 
Elk Lick. Pennsj'lvania. -was horn in Frostburg, Maryland. 
May 24, 1875, and has been in the coal business twenty-one 
years. Mr. Meager has other coal Interests in West Virginia. 
He has served as a Director of the Somerset County Coal As- 
sociation. 

THEODORE A. MEHI.,, Overbrook, Philadelphia, of Mehl & 
Latta, Rosemont, Pennsylvania, was born in Philadelphia, 
and has been in the retail coal business sixteen years. 

OLIVER H. MEIXEL, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, was 
born in Jersey Shore November 15, 1860, and has been in the 
retail coal business for thirteen years. 

LEVI M. MELLIXGER, retail coal merchant of Denver, 
Pennsylvania, was born in Denver in 1871 and has been in 
the coal business eleven years. 

WALTER H. MERRICK, General Manager Acme Milling- 
Co., Corry, Pennsylvania, was born in Shamokin, Pennsyl- 
vania, April 23, 1877, and has been in the coal business 
t'wenty-four years. 

CHARLES A. MERRILL, President of the Merrill & Brown 
Co. of Garrett, Pennsylvania, Vice President and General 
Manager of the Enterprise Coal Co., and Treasurer and Gen- 
eral Manager of the W. A. Merrill & Son Co., w^as born in 
Garrett February 27, 1894, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness four years. 

W. A. MERRILL, President of the Enterprise Coal Co., 
W. A. Merrill & Co., W. A. Merrill & Son, Edwena Coal Min- 
ing' Co., and Romesburg- Coal Co., Garrett, Pennsylvania, and 
holder of 2,000 acres of undeveloped coal land two miles 
south of Gassaway, West Virginia, was born in Oil City, 
Pennsylvania, in 1869, and has been in the coal business 
for twenty-two years. Previously he was connected with 
the Enterprise Coal Co., the Erie Coal & Coke Co., and the 
Penn Marva Coal Co. 

B. F. MEYER, Towanda, Pennsylvania, was born in Mon- 
roeton, Pennsylvania, March 9, 1843, and has been in the coal 
business for thirty years. 

G. FRANK MILLEISEN, Harrisburg:, Pennsylvania, was 
born in Harrisburg February 2, 1861, and has been in the 
coal business for twenty-one years. For thirteen years he 
was associated with J. S. Sible. He was President of the 
Harrisburg- Coal Exchange for about eight years. 

GLEN P. MILLER of Miller & Parsons, Corry, Pennsyl- 
vania, was born in Wayne, Pennsylvania. April 22, 1877, and 
has been in the coal business three years. 

JOHN H. MILLER, Lewistown, Pennsylvania, was born in 
Lewistown May 22. 1866, and has been in the retail coal 
business for three years. He was previously with Miller & 
Knapp as Superintendent. 



NEVIX N. MILLER, Secretary-Treasurer and General Man- 
ager of the Tyrone Fuel & Supply Co., Tyrone, Pennsylvania, 
also interested in mines at Mountaindale, Pennsylvania, was 
born in' Martinsburg, Pennsylvania, February 17, 1884, and 
has been in the coal nusiness for fourteen years. He was 
previously witli Slvyles, Miller & Co., Martinsburg, Penn- 
sylvania. 

SAMUEL F. MILLER, Mechanicsburg', Pennsylvania, was 
born in Mechanicsliurg September 20. 1856, and has been in 
the coal business foi- forty years. 

CHARLE.S H. MII,SOM. President and Manager Milsom 
Coal Co., CarroUtown, I'ennsylvania, was born in Brookfield. 
Ohio, February 21, 1868, and has been in the coal business 
eighteen years. He was formerly with the Tovvnsend .V: 
Milsom Coal Co., Chambers & Milsom Coal Co., Milsom it 
Hughes Coal Co., and Hancock Coal Co. 

JOHN H. MINNU;, Seliuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania, was 
born in Fiiendensburg in 1846, and has been in the retail 
coal business for twenty-six years. 

FR.A.NK ailSSINER, Pottstown, Pennsylvania, was born in 
Pottstown Septembei- 21, 1851, and has been in the retail 
coal business for thirty years. The firm was formerly F. S. 
Missiner & Son. 

. J. L. MONTGOMERY, Treasurer Bellefonte Fuel & Sup- 
ply Co., Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, was born in Bellofonto 
August 13. 1S66, and has been in the coal business twent.v- 
eight years. 

GRIFFITH D. MORGAN, General Manager Red Bank Coal 
Co., East Brady, Pennsylvania, was born in Quemahoning. 
Pennsylvania, August 20, 1874, and has been in the coal 
business six years. He was formerly employed at the Mon- 
arch mine. 

.1. A. MORIARTY, retail coal merchant of Columbia, Penn- 
sylvania, was born in Columbia February 5, 1891, and has 
been in the coal business five years. He was formerly asso- 
ciated with P. Moriarty. He has served as Secretary of the 
Pennsylvania Retail Coal Merchants' Association. 

HORATIO HO^VARD MORRIS, Superintendent Lawrence 
colliery of the Harleigh-Brookwood Coal Co., Frackville. 
P'ennsylvania, was born in Bala, Pennsylvania, September 
24, 1S89, and has been in the coal business for six years. 

JOHN R. MULKIE of the Union Coal & Supply Co., Union 
City, Pennsylvania, was born in Little Valley, New York, 
August 15, 1842, and has been engaged in the retail coal 
business for forty years. He served as agent of the Erie 
Railroad at Union City for thirty-four years and as a mem- 
ber of the Pennsylvania legislature for four years. 

ROY B. Ml'LKIE of the Union Coal & Supply Co., Union 
City. Pennsylvania, was born in Union City October 7, 1875. 
By profession he is a civil engineer. 

JOHN W. MITMMA, Assistant Manager of the Geo. A. 
Barnitz Estate, York, Pennsylvania, was born in Lancaster 
County. Pennsylvania, August 25, 1868, and has been in the 
retail coal business for fifteen years. 

FRANK MLSSELMAN, Starsburg, Pennsylvania, was born 
in New Danville, Pennsylvania, May 5, 1865, and has been 
in the coal business for twenty-five years. He was previ- 
ously with J. C. V/alker & Son, Gap, Pennsylvania. 

JAMES FRANCIS NEILAN, Saxton, Pennsylvania, General 
Superintendent of the coal and coke department of Joseph 
E. Throop and President of the Neilan Coal Co., was born 
in Hume, New York, August 28, 1885, and has been in the 
mining end of the coal business eleven years. He has been 
with the Sunshine Coal & Coke Co., Cambria Fuel Co., Pitts- 
burgh Coal Co., and the Rockhill Iron & Coal Co. 

E. H. NELMEYER of the Saucon Supply Co., South Beth- 
lehem, Pennsylvania, was born in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, 
February 2, 1876, and has been in the retail coal business 
four years. 

R. E. NEUMEYER of the Saucon Supply Co., South Beth- 
lehem, Pennsylvania, was born in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, 
February 12, 1867, and has been in the retail coal business 
four years. 

JOHN AV. NEAVBROUGH, President Rogers Coal Co.. Scott- 
dale, Pennsylvania, was born in Fairmont, West Virginia, 
Aug-ust 5, ISSl, and has been mining coal four years. 

GEORGE H. NICHOLS, retail coal merchant of Clarks 
Summit, Pennsylvania, was born in Clarks Summit July 23, 
1867, and has been in the coal business eleven years. He is 
President of the Abington National Bank and Vice Presi- 
dent of the Abington Electric Light Co. 

W. S. NORTH of North & Son, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, was 
born in Mifflin and has been in the coal business for thirty- 
seven years. 

MAX OPSATNIK, retail coal merchant of Aliquippa, 
Pennsylvania, was born in Hungary December 15, 1879, and 
has been in the coal business four years. He was formerly 
connected with Pittsburgh Coal Co. and Whitney & Kem- 
merer. 



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JOHN H. PANCO, General Foreman of the Harwood Coal 
Co., Harwood Mine, Pennsylvania, was born in Germany in 
1860 and has worked about the coal mines for forty-nine 
years, starting- before he was nine years old as a slate 
picker. He was previously with Linderman & Skeer. 

PRANK W. PARSONS of Miller & Parsons, Corry, Penn- 
sylvania, was born in Concord, Pennsylvania, May 27, 1875, 
and has been in the coal business three years. 

GEORGIA R. PASSBIORE of H. P. Passmore & Bro., Oxford, 
Pennsylvania, was born in Oxford, and has been a partner 
in the retail firm foi twenty years. 

H. P. PASSMORE of H. P. Passmore & Bro., Oxford, Penn- 
sylvania, was born in Oxford January 22, 1866, and has been 
engaged in the retail coal business for thirty-two years. 

ROBERT JAMES ELLIOTT PEGG, retail coal merchant of 
Danville, Pennsylvania, was born in Simcoe, Ontario, Can- 
ada, December 3, 1848, and had been in the retail coal busi- 
ness thirtj'-three years when he retired in 1918. 

3IORRIS P. PENROSE, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, was 
born in Nashaminy, Pennsylvania, November 8, 1875, and has 
been eng-aged in the retail coal business for ten years. 

HARRY PHYTHYON, Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania, Mine 
Inspector of Pennsylvania, is a native of Brookfield, born 
July 10, 1872, and has been identified with the coal business 
twenty-five years. Mr. Phythyon was formerly associated 
with the Pittsburgh-Buffalo Coal Co., Ellsworth Collieries, 
and Pittsburgh Coal Co. 

JAMES H. PIERCE, General Superintendent of the East 
Bear Ridge Colliery Co., Frackville, Pennsylvania, was born 
in Frackville September 26, 1887, and has been in the coal 
business for eight years. He was previously with the Le- 
high Valley Coal Co., Consolidation Coal Co., and the Paint 
Creek Collieries Co. 

ROBERT WILLIAM PIERPOINT, Narberth, Pennsylvania, 
Sales Manager and Secretary of the James Pierpoint & Sons 
Co. of Philadelphia, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 
July 17, 1890, and has been engaged in the coal business for 
five years. 

FRED S. PYFBR, Secretary and Manager of the B. B. 
Martin Co., Lancaster, Pennsylvania, vyas born in Lancaster 
November 6, 1867, and has been in the retail coal business 
thirty-five years. He was six years with G. Sener & Sons of 
Lancaster. He has been a Director of the Pennsylvania Re- 
tail Coal Merchants Association for six years and Chairman 
of the Lancaster County Coal Merchants Association. 

JOHN dUINN, Secretary-Treasurer and Manager of Quinn 
& Co., Houtzdale, Pennsylvania, was born in Scotland July 1, 
1858, and has been in the coal business for thirty-five years. 
He surveyed most of the coal lands in Cambria, Clearfield 
and Centre counties, Pennsylvania. He vyas previously with 
the Freeman-Wilson Coal Co., Moshannon Coal Co. and the 
Hoversville Coal Co. 

THOMAS Q,lJINiV, South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was 
born in Ireland, September 16, 1850, and has been in the 
coal business for twenty-four years, 

EARL G. RAKER with P. "W. G. Raker, Elizabethville, 
Pennsylvania, was born in Williamstown, Pennsylvania, 
June 27, 1894, and has been interested in the coal business 
five years. 

GEORGE A. REIFSNYDER, Norristown, Pennsylvania, 
a salesman for the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co., 
was born in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, November 14, 1879, 
and has been engaged in the coal business twenty-three 
years. 

T. MANNING RENTE, Manager of the Thermic Coal & 
Supply Co., HoUidaysburg, Pennsylvania, was born, in Holli- 
daysburg February 28, 1897. and has been in the retail coal 
business for two years. 

LAVERNA LEE RICE, retail coal merchant of Carlisle, 
Pennsylvania, was born in Landisburg, Pennsylvania, March 
22, 1884, and has been in the coal business seven years. Mr. 
Rice is the successor of F. E. Thompson. 

P. N. RICH, Manager Standard Coal Co., Altoona, Pennsyl- 
vania, was born in Altoona June 10, 1878, and has been in 
the coal business fifteen years. Mr. Rich was formerly as- 
sociated with the Cambria Coal Mining Co., Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania. 

SOL. C. RITCHEY, retail coal merchant of Bedford, Penn- 
sylvania, was born in Bedford January S, 1854, and has been 
in the coal business tliirty years. Mr. Ritchie was formerly 
with Harderoad & Co. 

G. B. ROBERTS, Vanderbilt, Pennsylvania. Treasurer of 
the Franklin Coal Co., also interested in West Virginia 
mines, was born in Kirby, Pennsylvania, in 1857, and has 
been in the coal business for nine years. 

CAREL ROBINSON, Manager of the Superior Fuel Co., 
Russelton, Pennsylvania, was born in Coalburg, West Vir- 
ginia, in 1881, and has been in the coal mining business for 
sixteen years. He was previously connected with the New 
River Co. and the Clinchfield Coal Corp. 



GEORGE THOMAS ROBINSON, Secretary and Treasurer of 
the Operators Coal Mining Co., Vice President and General 
Manager of the Citizens Coal Co., Secretary of the Dixon- 
ville Coal Co. and a Director of the Conemaugh Smokeless 
Coal Co., Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was born in England 
February 23, 1868, and has been in the coal business for 
thirtj'-seven years. He was formerly with the Cambria 
Steel Co. as Superintendent of Mines. 

C. W. RODGERS of Rodgers & Raub, retailers of Edin- 
burg, Pennsylvania, has been in the coal business thirteen 
years. He was formerly associated with Ashton & Rodgers. 

V. L. ROUSE, Manager of W. P. Rouse & Son, North East, 
Pennsylvania, vyas born in Wattsburg, Pennsylvania, Decem- 
ber 30, 1884, and has been in the retail coal business for six- 
teen years. 

CHARLES FOSTER ROY, President of the MacGregor 
Coal Co. and Vice President E. J. Prauenheim Coal Co., Som- 
erset, Pennsylvania, and President Scull Coal Co., was born 
in Glenroy, Ohio, November 3, 1879, and has been engaged 
in the coal business fifteen years. 

H. R. SACKETT, Manager of the H. R. Sackett Coal & 
Coke Co., Smithfield, Pennsylvania, vyas born in New Geneva, 
Pennsylvania, March 12, 1860, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness eighteen years. He was previously with the Sackett 
Coke Co., the United Connellsville Coke Co. and the West- 
moreland Coke Co., and also promoter. Manager and Presi- 
dent of two coal and coke connpanies. 

FRANK G. ST. CLAIR, President and General Manager of 
the McConnell Coal Co., Dubois, Pennsylvania, was born in 
Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, December 3, 1866, and has 
been in the coal business thirty years. Mr. St. Clair vyas 
formerly connected with the Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal 
& Iron Co., Jeiterson & Clearfield Coal & Iron Co., Cowan- 
shannock Coal & Coke Co., Pittsburgh Gas Coal Co. and 
St. Clair, Rinn & Co 

JESSE H. SANFORD, Vice President and General Manager 
Carnegie Coal Co., Carnegie, Pennsylvania, was born in 
Vienna, Ohio, December 16, 1861, and has been in the coal 
business since 1886. Mr, Sanford is also President of the 
Carnegie Dock & Fuel Co. and the Pittsburgh & Lehigh 
Dock Co. 

CLINTON R. SAVIDGE, President and General Manager of 
the Mt, Equity Coal & Coke Co.. Sunbury, Pennsylvania, was 
born in Weaverland, Pennsylvania, January 19, 1851, and 
has been in the coal business for twenty years. 

RALPH W. SAVIDGE, Superintendent of the Mt. Equity 
Coal & Coke Co., Sunbury, Pennsylvania, was born December 
16, 1884, and has been connected with the mining end of the 
coal business for sixteen years. 

'^V. H. SAYLOR of W. H. Saylor & Son, Pottstown, Penn- 
sylvania, was born in Upper Potts Grove, Pennsylvania, Oc- 
tober 10, 1856, and has been in the coal business for thirty 
years. 

CLARENCE M. SCHAEFFER of the Schmuck Co., Hanover, 
Pennsylvania, was born in Westminster, Maryland, in 1885, 
and has oeen in the coal business for ten years. 

HARRY S. SCHEIBLER, Secretary-Treasurer and Gen- 
eral Manager of the Superior-Connellsville Coke Co. and of 
the Westmoreland Fayette Coal & Coke Co., Greensburg, 
Pennsylvania, was born in Greensburg July 27, 1877, and has 
been in the coal business four 3-ears. 

S. P. SCHIEK, Owner and Manager of the City Coal Co., 
Meadville, Pennsylvania, was born in New York City July 30, 
1872, and has been in the retail coal business twelve 
years. He bought his present plant of S. Merrell & Co. 

SAMUEL L. SCHIVELY, a retail coal merchant of Jen- 
kintown, Pennsylvania, was born in Jenkintown in 1860. 

M. SCHLOSSER, Pittston, Pennsylvania, was born in New 
York City April 26, 1864, and has been in the coal business 
for twenty years. He -was formerly with the Black Diainond 
Coal Co. as Secretary. 

FRANCIS AIKEN SCHMIDT, Secretary of the Allegheny 
River Mining Co., Kittanning. Pennsylvania, was born in 
Washington, D. C, May 30, 1892, and has been in the coal 
business for seven years. 

C. F. SCHROYER, Manager of the Franciscus Co., Lewis- 
town, Pennsylvania, yyas born in Milesburg, Pennsylvania. 
April 16, 1881, and has been in the coal business for twelve 
years. 

CHARLES SCHULTZ, Blossburg, Pennsylvania, President 
and General Manager Logan Hill Coal Co., was born in 
Germany April 28. 1S65, and has been in the coal business 
eighteen years. Mr. Schultz was previously connected with 
the Barney Hill Coal Co. and the Corning-Blossburg Coal 
Corp. 

SOLOMON IRWIN SCHWOYER, junior partner of 
Schwoyer, Savage & Co., Robesonia, Pennsylvania, was born 
in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, January 17, 1891, and has been 
in the retail coal business about four years. 



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\\'. RALPH SEXSEMCH, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was 
born in Cedar Lane, Pennsylvania. December 21, 1884, and 
has been in the retail coal business thirteen years, six 
years in business for himself. The first seven years he was 
with Esbenshade & Co. and G. H. Shreiner & Son. 

I. A. SH.VFFKR, .IK., Secretary, Treasurer and General 
Manager of Falls Creek Coal Co., Lock Haven, Pennsyl- 
vania, was born in Locl\ Haven March 10, 18G8, and has been 
in tlie coal business fifteen years. 

W, H. SHAXIv, retail coal merchant of Chambersburg, 
Pennsylvania, was born in Mont Alto, Pennsylvania. Decem- 
ber 20. 1S5-1. and has been in the coal business four years. 

OSCAll H. SHAAV. Suiierintendent of the Coalmont Moshan- 
non Coal Co., Houtzdale, Pennsylvania, was born in Sha'w- 
ville May 22, 1864, and has been in the coal business for 
five years. He was previously with the Red Jacket Coal 
Mining- Co. and the Ajax Consolidated Coal Co. 

.FAMES G. SHEARN, Superintendent J. G. Shearn & Son, 
Canonsburg'. Pennsylvania, was born in England in 1855 and 
has been in tlie coal business forty years. 

SYLVESTER S. SHELLER. retail coal merchant of Dun- 
cannon, Pennsylvania, was born in Duncannon in 1854 and 
has been in the coal business thirty-seven years. 

JOSEPH H. SHEPP. Chief Clerk and Assistant Manager of 
the East Lehigh Colliery Co.. Tamaqua, Pennsylvania, was 
born in Tamaqua in 1881, and has been in tlie coal business 
for fifteen years. He comes of a mining family, being tlie 
youngest son of D. Shepp. deceased, wlio was in the coal 
business for forty years and operated at Summit Hill, Penn- 
sylvania. 

GEORGE WEBB SHILLI.VGFORD, Secretary and Treas- 
urer Empire Coal Mining Co., Clearfield, Pennsylvania, -was 
born in Peale. Pennsylvania, September 13, 1888, and has 
been in the coal business eight years. 

.JOSEPH K. SHl'LTZ, Washington Borough, Pennsylvania, 
was born in Washington Borougli June 19, 1848, and has 
teen in the coal business for forty years. In addition to 
a. retail lumber liusiness he lias a 100-acre tobacco plan- 
tation, one of tlie largest in Pennsylvania. 

SaiEDIiEY & MEHli, retail coal and lumber merchants at 
Ardmore, Pennsylvania, have been in the coal business 
twenty-six years. 

ALEXANDER G. S3IITH. President of the Harrison Coal 
Co., Rosemont, West Virginia, General Manager of the Mey- 
ersdale Fuel Co. and the Randolph Coal Co., Meyersdale, 
Pennsylvania, was born in Scotland March 4, lS71, and has 
been in the coal business thirty-five years. He vs^as previ- 
ously with the Consolidation Coal Co., Pennsylvania division, 
and the Davis Coal & Coke Co., Thomas, West Virginia. He 
is a Director of the Somerset County Coal Operators Associa- 
tion. 

A. M. SMITH, Halifax, Pennsylvania, was born in Fal- 
mouth, Pennsylvania, July 16. 1872, and has been associated 
with otliers in the coal business at Halifax twenty-three 
years, and in business for himself ten years. 

AXTHONY SMITH of the Boggs Coal Mining Co., Kittan- 
ning, Pennsylvania, was born in Strasburg, W. P., in 1865, 
and has been in the coal business for thirty-five years. 

HARRY K. SMITH, Administrator of the Cal. G. Smith 
Estate, Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, -was born in Wrights- 
\'ille April 7, 1371, and has been in the coal business for 
five years. 

WILLIAM C. SMITH. General Superintendent of the Com- 
mercial Coal Mining Co., Expedit, Pennsylvania, was born 
in Plains, Pennsylvania, January 14, 1879, and has been in 
the coal business all his life. He was previously with the 
Pennsylvania Coal & Coke Co., Mitchell Coal & Coke Co., 
Peerless Coal & Coke Co., and the Columbia Coal Mining Co. 

WILLIAM HENRY SMITH, Newport, Pennsylvania, was 
born in Newport April 11, 1849, and has been in the retail 
coal business for ten years. 

WILLIAM W. SMITH, President Echard Coal & Coke Co., 
Connellsville, Pennsylvania, was born in Dunbar in 1868 and 
has been in the coal business twenty-one years. He is also 
interested in tiie Etna Connellsville Coke Co. 

B. PRANK SNAVELY, Secretary and Manager of the Con- 
sumers Ice & Coal Co., Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was born in 
Lime Valley, Pennsylvania. September 15, 1878, and has been 
in the coal business for nine years. He started in with his 
father, F. H. Snavely, first President of the Consumers Ice 
& Coal Co., who died November 17, 1917. 

.lOHN W. SNYDER, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, was born 
in Huntingdon, September 30, 1850, and has been in the coal 
business for thirty-four years. 

GEORGE M. SPALDING, Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, was 
born in Troy, Pennsylvania, in 1860, and has been in the 
retail coal business for twenty-two years. 

EDWIN STANTON STACKHOITSE of Bloomsburg, Penn- 
sylvania, General Manager E. S. Stackhouse Coal Co., Shick- 
shinny, Pennsylvania, was born in Shickshinny in 1866 and 
has been in the coal business ten years. 



ELMER B. STAUDT of Staudt & Schwoyer, Pennsburg, 
Pennsylvania, was born in KirbyviUe, Pennsylvania, Octo- 
ber 1. 1SS2, and has been in the coal business for five years. 

HENRY K. STAIJPEER, Special Agent for B, NicoU & Co. 
at Jolmstown, Pennsylvania, was born in Hollidaysburg, 
Pennsylvania, in 1873, and lias been in the coal business for 
twenty-five years. His previous experience has been with 
the Allport Coal Mining Co. and the Watkins Coal Co. 

.1. S. STEVENSON, senior member of the retail firm of 
Stevenson 'Bros.. Midvale, Pennsylvania, was born in 1876 
in Smithsburg, Maryland, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness since June, 1917, when Stevenson Bros, succeeded J. 
F. Good, who had been in business in Midvale thirty-seven 
years. 

W. H. STEVENSON of the firm of Stevenson Bros., Mid- 
vale, Pennsylvania, was born in 1891 in Smithsburg, Mary- 
land. He has been in the coal business since 1917. 

HENRY M. STAUPFER., Leola, Pennsylvania, was born in 
New Holland, Pennsylvania, April 24, 1863, and has ^een en- 
gaged in the retail coal business for twenty-six years. He 
has one of the most complete retail plants in Eastern Penn- 
sylvania. 

GEORGE H. STORY" of Geo. H. Story & Co., Chester, Penn- 
sylvania, was born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1850, and 
has been in the coal business twenty-one years. 

FRED STOVER, General Manager and Treasurer Zenith 
Coal Co., Butler, Pennsylvania, was born in Emlenton, Penn- 
sylvania, December 2, 1874, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness twenty-six years. Mr. Stover was formerly with the 
Pickands-Magee Coke Co. 

ABRAHAM L. STROUSE, Secretary and Treasurer of the 
Kerr Coal Co., Freeport, Pennsylvania, was born in Kittan- 
ning, Pennsylvania, December 19, 1861, and has been in the 
coal business for twenty-two years. 

CHARLES J. SWARR of Charles J. Swarr & Co., Lan- 
caster, Pennsylvania, was born in Lancaster September 21, 
1862, and has been in the retail coal business for thirty-five 
years. 

AUtert J. THOMPSON, Wycombe, Pennsylvania, was born 
in Penns Park, Pennsylvania, September 27, 1873, and has 
been in the retail coal business for twenty-one years. 

C. A. THOMPSON, Mountain Top, Pennsylvania, was born 
in Foster, Pennsylvania, June 6, 1860, and has been in the 
retail coal business for tw^enty-one years. 

AV. B. THOMPSON, "W^aynesboro, Pennsylvania, was born 
in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, September 17, 1862, and 
has been in the retail coal business for eleven years. He 
was previously •with Thompson & Myers. 

ALFRED CHARLES THORPE, retail coal merchant of 
Chester, Pennsylvania, has been in the coal business eleven 
years. 

DOUGLAS SCOTT THROPP, Earlston, Pennsylvania, Gen- 
eral Manager of the coal, coke and iron interests of Joseph 
Earlston Thropp, was born in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, in 
.July, 1891, and has been in the coal business since leaving 
college. 

JOSEPH EARLSTON THROPP of Earlston, Pennsylvania, 
was born in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, and has been twen- 
ty-eight years in the coal business. His great grandfather 
was the largest coal and iron factor in England in his day. 

RAYMOND 3IEYERS TINGLEY, Herrick Centre, Pennsyl- 
vania, was born in Herrick Centre July 21, 1870, and has 
been interested for twelve years in the coal business. He 
was formerly with G. S. Tingley and Tingley & Lumley. 

H. "W. TODD, General Manager and Treasurer of the Lane 
Coal Co., Philipsburg, Pennsylvania, was born in Philips- 
burg January 23, 1874, and has been in the coal business for 
twenty years, 

GREYSON PREVOST TROUTMAN, Assistant General Man- 
ager of the G. B. Markle Co., Jeddo, Pennsylvania, was born 
in Centralia, Pennsylvania, in 1880, and has been in the coal 
business twenty-one years. He was formerly with the Le- 
high Valley Coal Co. 

THOMAS H. TtJDOR, Superintendent Hecla Coal & Coke 
Co., Brownsville. Pennsylvania, was born in England Octo- 
ber 25, 1872, and has been in the coal business thirty-two 
years. Mr. Tudor was formerly connected with the Key- 
stone Coal & Coke Co. and the Pittsburgh-Westmoreland 
Coal Co. 

HOMER J. TURNER of Turner Bros., Cambridge Springs, 
Pennsylvania, was born in Cambridge Springs and has been 
in the coal business six years. 

RAY B. TURNER of Turner Bros., Cambridge Springs, 
Pennsylvania, was born in Cambridge Springs and has been 
in the coal business six years. 



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WILLIAM RICHARDSON TLRNEY, Secretary, Treasurer 
and General Manager of the Avella Coal Co., also interested 
in the Pryor Coal Co. and the Station Coal Co., Greensburg, 
Pennsylvania, was born in Greensburg, September 7, 1859, 
and has been in the coal business for thirty years. He is by 
training a mining engineer. 

ADDISOIV H. IILSH, Millerstown, Pennsylvania, was born 
in Millerstown November 6, 1852, and has been engaged in 
the retail coal business thirty-seven years. 

LYMAN J. XJMS.TEAD, retail coal merchant of Birdsboro, 
Pennsylvania, was born in Birdsboro December 17, 1889, 
and has beeri in the coal business nine years. 

H. J. VAN DUSEN, President of the Oak Ridge Coal & 
Coke Co., Hastings, Pennsylvania, has been in the coal busi- 
ness for about twenty-two years. 

EDAVARD VERO, Millvale, Pennsylvania, was born in 
Irondale, Ohio, October 21, 1869, and has been in the retail 
coal business for twenty-five years. He is a member of the 
Executive Committee of the Pittsburgh Retail Coal Dealers 
Association. 

THEODORE VOGELEY, Owner of the Vogeley Coal Co., 
Butler, Pennsylvania, was born in Butler June 27, 1867, and 
has been in the coal business six years. 

CHARLES W. WALKER of ^R^ells & Walker, Downing- 
town, Pennsylvania, was born in Devon December 27, 1867, 
and has been in the coal business for a quarter of a century. 

GEORGE W^ALKER, retail coal merchant of Chambers- 
burg, Pennsylvania, was born in St. Thomas, Pennsylvania, 
July 9, 1861, and has been in the coal business fifteen years. 

WILLIA3I H. WALKER of W. H. Walker & Co., Kennett 
Square, Pennsylvania, was born in Delaware September 28, 
1870, and has been in the coal business for nineteen years. 
He was formerly with S. C. Walker & Co., Chaddsford Junc- 
tion, Pennsylvania. 

FRANK J. WALLIS, Manager of the Wallis Coal Co., Har- 
risburg, Pennsylvania, was born in Pennsylvania November 
23, 1868, and has been in the coal business since February 
10, 1890. He was previously with J. B. Montgomery, Harris- 
burg. He has been a Director, Vice President and President 
of the Pennsylvania Retail Coal Merchants' Association. 

SAMUEL W^ALLW^ORK, General Manager of the Wallwork 
Coal Co., Summerville, Pennsylvania, was born in England 
in 1862, and has been in the coal business ten years. He 
was previously with the Northwestern Mining Exchange Co. 

B. PRANK W^ ALTER, retail coal merchant of Christiana, 
Pennsylvania, was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, in 
1856, and has been in the coal business thirty years. 

HARRY H. WEAVER of Fred Weaver & Son, Elizabeth- 
ville, Pennsylvania, was born in Berrysburg, Pennsylvania, 
September 13, 1861, and has been in the coal business over 
thirty years. This firm was established in 1870 by the late 
Fred Weaver. 

GEORGE W^. WERTZ, Wernersville, Pennsylvania, was 
born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, February 26, 1836, and 
has been in the retail coal business for twenty-five years. 

JEROME C. WHITE. Assistant Superintendent Penker 
Coal Co., Portage, Pennsylvania, was born in Sonman, Penn- 
sylvania, July 16, 1896. and has been in the coal business 
five years. He was previously vifith the Buffalo, Rochester 
& Pittsburgh Railway and the Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal 
& Iron Co. 

JOHN L. AVHITE, General Superintendent Penker Coal 
Co., Portage, Pennsylvania, was born in Heckley, Penn- 
sylvania, June 24, 1854, and has been engaged in the coal 
business forty years. He was previously with the Roch- 
ester & Pittsburgh Coal & Iron Co. and the Pittsburgh Ter- 
minal Railway & Coal Co. 



C. PRANK WILLIAMSON, Media, Pennsylvania, was born 
in Media, Pennsylvania, February 28, 1861. He started as 
clerk in 1879 and now has two yards at Media and one at 
Morton, Pennsylvania. He is a Director and the first Treas- 
urer of the Pennsylvania Retail Coal Merchants' Associa- 
tion. 

CHARLES E. WILSON, President Smithfleld Coal & Coke 
Co., Dunbar, Pennsylvania, was born in Pennsylvania and 
has been in the coal business fourteen years. 

E. H. WINSLOW, President of the Ritter & Winslow Co., 
Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, also interested in the Summit 
Coal Mining' Co. and the Little Coal Co., was born in Punxsu- 
tawney October 10, 1881, and has been in the coal business 
for tvi^elve years. 

HARRY C. WINSLOW^, Superintendent of the Williams 
Coal Co., Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, was born in Wins- 
low, Pennsylvania, May 24, 1871, and has been in the coal 
business for seven years. He was formerly President of the 
Hudson Coal Co. 

R. W^INTER JR., Royersford, Pennsylvania, •wa.s born in 
Royersford in 1861, and has been the owner of his present 
business, established in 1865, for twenty years. 

C. H. W^ISSER, McKeesport, Pennsylvania, Treasurer and a 
Director of the Lake Shore Gas Coal Co. and the Haywood 
Coal Mining Co., was born in Dravosburg, Pennsylvania, in 
1849, and has been active in coal mining thirty-six years. 
He is also financially interested in the Haywood Coal Mining 
Co., Shinnston, V/est Virginia. 

P. R. W^ISSER, Buena Vista, Pennsylvania, Secretary and 
a Director of the Lake Shore Gas Coal Co. and the Haywood 
Coal Mining Co., was born in Dravosburg', Pennsylvania, in 
1884, and has been engaged in coal i-nining ten years. He 
is also financially interested in the Haywood Coal Mining 
Co., Shinnston, West Virginia. 

RALPH A. W^OODS, Sharon, Pennsylvania, -was born in 
Clark, Pennsylvania, and has been in the retail coal business 
for five years. 

A. E. W^OOLRIDGE, Secretary, Treasurer and General 
Manager of the Woodland (;:annel Coal Co., also interested 
in the Sterling Coal Mining Co., Woodland, Pennsylvania, 
was born in Woodland May 17, 1857, and has been in the 
coal business for twenty-five years. 

DANIEL P. W^ORMAN of the Estate of Thomas Worman, 
Bath, Pennsylvania, ■was born in Stewartsville, New Jersey, 
July 14, 1861, and has been in the coal business twenty 
years. 

A. K. WRIGHT is General Manager of the Peerless Coal 
Mining Co., Clearfield, Pennsylvania. 

JOHN P. AVRIGHT, retail coal merchant of Benton, Penn- 
ss'lvania, is a native of Ireland, born in 1866, and has been 
in the coal business nine years. 

CHARLES P. YEAMANS, retail coal merchant of Bristol, 
Pennsylvania, was born in Bristol December 15, 1840, and 
has been in the coal business thirty years. 

WaLMER W^. YOUNG, President and General Manager of 
the Octoraro Coal Co., Riddlesburg, Pennsylvania, 'was born 
in Riddlesburg June 4, 1873, and has been in the operating 
end of the coal business for twenty-seven years. He was 
previously 'with the Keystone Coal Co. 

ABRAHAM J. ZABRISKIE, Manager of Zabriskie & 
L'Hommedieu, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, was born in Hack- 
ensack. New Jersey, May 7, 1875, and has been in the retail 
coal business for fifteen years. 

W. E. ZIMMERMAN, Superintendent for the Huff Coal 
Co , Humbert, Pennsylvania, was born in Humbert July 26, 
1860, and has been in the coal business thirty years. 

ELI Z. ZINN of Zinn Bros., York, Pennsylvania, was born 
in York March 24, 1871, and has been in the retail coal busi- 
ness eighteen years. The firm was fori"nerly Zinn & Senft. 
Mr. Zinn is a Director of the Pennsylvania Retail Coal Mer- 
cliants' Association. 



402 



SOUTH DAKOTA 



SUr'J'll l);ik()t;i has heeu recognized l)y the United 
States Geohigical Survey as a coal producing state 
toi- the ])ast live years, hut the tonnages hoisted 
from thi' lignite tields in the iiortliwestern part of the 
territory do not hegin to meet the consuming require- 
ments ol the inhabitants, who still depend upon Illinois 
and lake cargo eastern coal for the bulk of their fuel. 
Therefore it is as a coal consumer that this agricultural 
commonwealth makes its first appeal to the fuel interests. 

The character of the principal enterprises of the state 
and the scattered population naturally bring dow'n both 
the per capita and square mile consumption. The per 
capita consumption of bituminous coal in 191.5 was 1.49 
tons, against a country average of 2.04 tons, while its 
anthracite per capita, .26 ton, was just one-third of the 
average for the United States as a whole. Upon the 
square mile basis the consumption of both anthracite 
and bituminous was 15 tons, against a general average 
of 123 tons. 

Passing to actual figures the total tonnage reported 
consumed in the state for the year was 1,194,683 tons. 
This, while exclusive of railroad fuel consumption, in- 



cluded 180,000 tons oL' i'ennsyhania anthracite, leaving 
the net domestic and general industrial consumption of 
bituminous and lower grades at 1,014,683 tons. Over 
a third of this, 357.000 tons, was lake cargo coal. Illi- 
nois furnished 319,370 tons: Wyoming, 152,350 tons. 
-Ul-rail shipments from other producing states were as 
follows: Colorado. 12.598 tons; Indiana, 3,897 tons; 
Iowa, 2-l-,120; Kentucky, 89,220; J\Iontana, 25,702; 
Xorth Dakota, 5,000 ; Virginia, 4.000 ; West Virginia, 
10,833 tons. The entire production within the state, 
10,593 tons, was consumed there. 

While the lignite deposits have probably been worked 
in a small way locally for a number of years, the first 
government report of production was for 1913, when 
10,540 tons of lignite were mined in Uewey, Harding. 
]Meade and Perkins countits. The principal production 
that year was in Perkins county, 8,925 tons. Pro- 
duction in 1914 totaled 11,850 tons. Perkins county 
output fell to 6,083 tons, while Dewey jumped from 858 
tons to 4,855 tons. Production in 1915 fell to 10,593 
tons, with losses in all counties but Dewey and Harding. 
In 191G the output further declined to 8,886 tons. 



403 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



SOUTH DAKOTA 

ROBERT ARXDT, proprietor Aberdeen Coal Co.. Aberdeen, 
South Dakota, was born in Germany January 23, 1869, and 
has been in the coal business six years. Mr. Arndt was for- 
merly connected with Geo. B. Nicol. 

JAMES MOREY BENNETT, President Bennett Grain Co., 
Flandreau, South Dakota, -was born February 17, 1866, at 
Ripon. Wisconsin, and has been in the coal business thirty- 
three years. Mr. Bennett Avas previously connected with 
Hodges & Hyde for eight years and the S. T. Hyde Elevator 
Co. for thirteen years. 

\V. C. BOORMAN, retail coal merchant of Howard,. South 
Dakota, \vas born in "Waterloo, "Wisconsin, January 18, 1856, 
and has been in the coal business for twenty years. 

C. E. BJORNSON, retail coal merchant of Lebanon, South 
Dakota, was born in 1853 at Madison, "Wisconsin, and has 
been in the coal business four years. 

FRANK R. BRTjMWELL,, who handles coal at retail at 
Huron, South Dakota, was born July 3, 1859, in "\^inton, Iowa, 
and has been in the coal business for about thirty-five years. 
Mr. Brumwell also handles lumber and farm implements, 
with branches at Cavour, Vayland, St. Lawrence, Sioux Falls, 
and Parker, South Dakota. 

WALTER C. BUCHANAN, Secretary and General Manager 
"W. C. Buchanan Lumber Co., retailers of coal at Sioux Falls, 
South Dakota, was born August 3, 1876, in Howard County, 
lo-wa, and. has been in the coal business seventeen years. 
Mr. Buchanan was previously connected with the John "W. 
Tuthill Lumber Co. and St. Anthony & Dakota Elevator Co. 

"W3I. J. BITTTSCHATJ, President and Manager German 
Grain Co., with headquarters at Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 
has been in the coal business for twenty years. This com- 
pany operates a large number of retail yards through the 
Northwest. 

ERNEST CAVE, Secretary and Treasurer Consumers Fuel 
& Ice Co. of Watertown, South Dakota, was born in Ontario, 
Canada, November 29, 1885, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for eight years. Mr. Cave was formerly connected with 
the Cave Coal Co., Burlington, Iowa, and the Old Ben Coal 
Corp., Chicago. 

LOUIS DORNBUSH, retail coal merchant of Pollock, South 
Dakota, was born April 13, 1867, at Muskegon, Michigan, and 
has been handling coal for about fourteen years. Previous 
to going into business for himself Mr. Dornhush was con- 
nected with DeBoer & Dornbush. 

H. B. ENGEL, Redfleld, South Dakota, was born December 
29, 1871, at Jordan. Minnesota, and has been in the retail coal 
business for ten years. 

JOHN FITZGIBBON. Manager The Sioux Falls Fuel Co., 
Sioux Falls. South Dakota, was born at Troy, New York, in 
1857. and has been in the coal lousiness twenty-seven years. 
Mr. FitzGibbon was previously connected with J. "W. Sheri- 
dan & Co. 

J. A. GRISDALE, Secretary and Treasurer German Grain 
Co., Sioux Falls, South Dakota, has been in the coal busi- 
ness fifteen years, handling both the retail and jobbing 
trade. 

SVEN JOHN HAGG, President and General Manager Sioux 
Lumber Co.. retailers of coal at McLaughlin, South Dakota, 
was born April 10, 1870, in Sweden, and has been in the coal 
business for fifteen years. This firm has a branch at Shields, 
North Dakota. 



FRANK E. HULBERT, Manager Hulbert-Benjamin Lum- 
ber Co., retailers of coal at Frederick, South Dakota, was 
born in 1870 at Melrose, "Wisconsin, and has been in the coal 
business for eleven years. 

O. T. LITCHFIELD, Treasurer and Buyer J. F. Anderson 
Lumber Co., Mitchell, South Dakota, was born May 13, 1870, 
in Yankton, South Dakota, and has been in the coal business 
twenty-five years. Mr. Litchfield was previously connected 
with the Davis & Daniels Co. 

JOHN PHILLIP Mcelroy. Sales Agent for the Sheridan 
Coal Co., Rapid City, South Dakota, was born November 4, 
1864, at Beverly, New^ Jersey, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for fifteen years. Mr. McElroy is also interested in the 
Rapid City Fuel Co.. retailers of coal at Rapid City. He 
was formerly connected with the Big Horn Collieries Co. 
and the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. of Denver, Colorado. 

"WM. G. MILNE, who handles coal at retail, together with 
grain and milling, at Dell Rapids, South Dakota, was born 
in Canada, September 8, I860, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for fifteen years. 

HARRY T. PAR3ILEY, owner of the retail coal firm of H. 
T. Parmley, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, was born August 7, 
1860, at Janesville, "Wisconsin, and has been in the coal 
business thirty-nine years. Mr. Parmley is coal representa- 
tive of Sioux Falls in the Rotary Club and has served as 
Warden of the State Penitentiary. 

FRANK E. PORTEOUS, retail coal merchant at Mitchell, 
South Dakota, was born May 30, 1882, at Ethan, South 
Dakota, and has been in the coal business twelve years. 

CLARENCE F. ROURKE, member of the retail coal firm 
of Mullen & Rourke, Deadwood, South Dakota, was born 
April 9, 1879. at Henderson, Michigan, and has been in the 
coal business for ten years. He was formerly connected 
with Mullen & Munn of Deadwood. Mr. Rourke was for 
three years a Director in the Northwestern Retail Coal 
Dealers Association, and has been a Director from South 
Dakota for the past two years in the Northwestern Traffic 
and Service Bureau. 

A. C. SCHOENEMAN, Secretary Schoeneman Bros. Co., re- 
tailers of coal at Sioux Falls. South Dakota, was born March 

18. 1876, in Walnut. Iowa, and has been connected with this 
company twenty-two years. Schoeneman Bros. Co. oper- 
ate fourteen other branches. 

JOHN H. SCHROEDER. retail coal merchant of Geddes, 
South Dakota, was born February 22, 1868, in Illinois, and 
has been in the coal business ten years. Previous to going 
into business for himself Mr. Schroeder was connected with 
the FuUerton Lumber Co. of Minneapolis. 

JOHN H. SELMSER. Secretary and Manager Selmser Fuel 
& Grain Co., "Watertown, South Dakota, was born March 18. 
1871. at Johnstown, New York, and has been in the coal 
business eighteen years. Mr. Selmser was formerly con- 
nected with G. W. Van Dusen & Co. for thirteen years and 
later with McBath & Selmser. 

JOHN SNESS, Manager Menno Lumber Co., retailers of 
coal at Menno, South Dakota, was born in Menno, and has 
been in the coal business eleven years. 

J. J. STEHLY, retail coal merchant of Hecla, South Da- 
kota, was born September 3, 1860, at Lakeville, Minnesota, 
and has been in the coal business for fifteen years. 

EDAVARD A. "WE..\RNE, retail coal merchant of Webster, 
South Dakota, was born at Hazel Green. Wisconsin, August 

19, 1864, and has been in the coal business sixteen years. 



404 



TENNESSEE 



TENNESSEE rank^; thirteenth among the coal 
producing states of the Union. That it does not 
come higher in the list is due to its location with 
respect to other southern producing states, notahly Ken- 
tucky, Alahama and Virginia ; that it does not fall lower 
is due to the high quality of certain of its well-known 
preparations which have enabled the operators in the 
favored fields to maintain markets in the face of lower 
production costs in competing districts. The foregoing 
generalization, of course, has particular reference to con- 
ditions that existed prior to the fall and winter of 1916. 
Prior to that period competition had been bringing 
down production from the banner year of 1910 so that 
in 1915 the total output of the state was the lowest 
since 1901:. Since the period first referred to produc- 
tion has again been on the upward trend, the gain for 
1916 over 191.5 being ±07,088 tons, or approximately 7 
per cent. 

The United States Geological Survey estimates that 
al)out 1,100 square miles of Tennessee territory are un- 
derlaid with coal and that by far the greater portion of 
the area contains one or more beds of Avorkable fuel. 
The known measures cross the entire state in a north- 
east-southwest direction, with a width of about 70 miles 
at the Kentucky state line and about 20 miles less at 
the Tennessee-Alal^ama-Georgia Ijoundary. Only the 
highest land at the southern end of that part of the field 
lying M'ithin Tennessee contains coal. 

The Tennessee coal measures are part of the great 
Appalachian coal region which has contributed so much 
to the development and prosperity of the eastern and 
southeastern part of the United States. The greater 
part of the workable Tennessee portions of this region 
lie in the Wartburg, Walden and Sewanee basins. The 
Cumberland basin of Kentucky extends from the Mid- 
dlesboro field to Elk Valley and contains over 3,900 
feet of beds. Bryson Mountain, in Claiborne county, 
is said to contain 95 feet of coal, including 13 beds of 
workable thickness. Seven of these beds range in thick- 
ness from 4 to 61/2 feet. 

The Wartburg basin, lying north of Emory river, in- 
cludes parts of Scott, Anderson and Morgan counties, 
and is continuous northward with the commercially well- 
known Jellico basin of Tennessee and Kentucky. De- 
velopment has been practically confined to coals about 



tlie mai'gins of this basin, the more important being in 
the Briceville shale, where the bed attains a thickness 
of from three to four feet. . 

The Walden basin is a narrow trough extending south- 
westwardly from tlie Emory river to the Georgia state 
line. It contains at least seven workable beds, of which 
the most important one lies at or near the horizon of the 
Sewanee. The latter basin is also a long and narrow 
trough, paralleling the Walden and separated from it 
by the Sequatchie Valley. The most important of the 
several beds here found is the Sewanee, which has an 
average thickness of four feet over a wide area. The 
principal commercial development has been along the 
western margin of the Sequatchie Valley and in the 
"outliers" of the coal bed occupying the summit of the 
Cumberland plateau. 

Commercial development of the coal resources of the 
state was begun in 1840 or very shortly before that 
date. The United States Census for that year 
credits Tennessee with an output of 558 tons. Pro- 
duction showed a gradual growth during the next 20 

CO o 

years, the output reported for 1860 being 165,300 tons. 
Development was retarded during the Civil war, but a 
modest recovery was eff'ected within a few years after 
the close of hostilities and the 1,000,000-ton mark was 
reached in 1883. Increase as a whole proceeded at a 
steady rate until 1910 when the output reached 7,121,- 
380 tons. The high water mark set in that year was not 
passed in the six years following. Detailed statistics 
of production since 1883 follow: 



Year. Ton. 

1883 1,000,000 

1884 1,200,000 

1885 1,440,957 

1886 1,714,290 

1887 1,900,000 

1888 1,967,297 

1889 1,925,689 

1890 2,169,585 

1891 ■ 2,413,678 

1892 2,092,064 

1893 1,902,258 

1894 2,180,879 

1895 2,535,644 

1896 2,663,106 

1897 2,888,849 

1898 3,022,896 

1899 3,330,659 



Year. Ton^ 

1900 3,509,562 

1901 3,633,290 

1902 4,382,968 

1903 4,798,004 

1904 4,782,211 

1905 5,766,690 

1906 6,259,275 

1907 6,810,243 

1908 6,199,171 

1909 6,358,645 

1910 7,121,380 

1911 6,433,156 

1912 6,473,228 

1913 6,903,784 

1914 5,943,258 

1915 5,730,361 

1916 6,137,449 



405 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



Eailroacl fuel demands, coal for coking for use in the 
southern furnaces, and the industrial demands of the 
cotton interests, take the bulk of the steam sizes pro- 
duced in Tennessee. The coal from the northeastern 
part of the state (Jellico seam) has a high standing in 
the South as a domestic fuel and some of the Tennessee 
product also finds its way north of the Ohio river. Vn- 
cler normal conditions (using 1915 as a basis) approxi- 
mately 23 per cent, of the total output of the mines, or 
1,340,737 tons, is consumed within the state. This 
state consiamption is made up as follows: Used at 
mines, 167,560; sold locally, 71,071; shipped to intra- 
state points, 785,968 ; made into coke at the mines, 316.- 
138 tons. Over half the production of the year, 3,375,- 
461 tons, was iised by the railroads. Less than 20 per 
cent, was shipped to interstate destinations for general 
industrial and steam consumption. Interstate shipments 
for that year totaled 1,014,163 tons and were distributed 
as follows : Alabama. 48,942 ; Florida. 26.886 ; Georgia. 
481,271; Indiana, 22,590; Kentucky. 185,580; Michi- 
gan, 240; the Carolinas, 168,512; Ohio, 23,974 and 
Texas, 56,168 tons. 

As a coal consumer Tennessee, in common with many 
other southern states where climatic conditions are gen- 
erally mild, does not measure up to the country per cap- 



ita and per square mile averages. Bituminous consump- 
tion per capita for 1915 was 1.26 tons, as compared with 
a country average of 2.04 tons, and the anthracite con- 
sumption was so small that it does not figure into the 
grand average, which is 2.82 tons (anthracite and bitu- 
minous combined) for the United States as a whole. 
The square mile consumption was 85 tons, against an 
average for the country of 123 tons. Upon the basis of 
actual figures, however — 3,599,638 tons of bituminous 
coal and approximately 9,000 tons of anthracite — Ten- 
nessee consumption compared very favorably with that 
of other states in the same general territory. 

^STearlj^ 80 per cent, of the fuel requirements, of the 
state came from Kentucky and Tennessee mines. The 
product shipped in from Kentucky, 1,560,776 tons, rep- 
resented approximately 43 per cent, of the total coal 
consumed, while that furnished by the Tennessee mines, 
1,340,776 tons, represented slightly less than 36 per 
cent. Virginia ranked third as a source of supply with 
a contriluition of 373,244 tons; Alabama came fourth 
with 161,754 tons. Six other states also shared in the 
Tennessee husiiress of the year with the following ton- 
nages: Arkansas, 15,258; Georgia, 7,359; Illinois, 68.- 
559 ; Indiana, 33 ; Pennsylvania, 30,613, and West Vir- 
ginia, 1,305 tons. 



406 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





JOHX EVAXDER PATTOX, Chattanooga. Tennessee, 

President and Treasurer of the Sewanee Fuel & Iron Co. of 
Chattanoog-a, Tennessee, was born in Marion County, Ten- 
nessee, November 4, 1870, and has been in the coal business 
fifteen years. Mr. Patton is also Vice President of the Con- 
ger Coal Co. He has also been Vice President of the South- 
ern Appalachian Coal Operators Association and has exten- 
sive business interests in this section. 



ILIFF CO\GER, Chattanoojuca. Tennessee, 

President and Treasurer of the Conger Coal Co. of Chatta- 
nooga, Tennessee, was born at Fayetteville, Tennessee, De- 
cember 22, 1861, and has been in the coal business two years. 
He is also Vice President of the Sewanee Fuel & Iron Co. 





JAMES aiEHAFFEY ADA3IS, Chattanoogra, Tennessee, 

Secretary Sewanee Fuel & Iron Co., Chattanooga, Tennessee, 
was born January 3, 1892, at Savannah, Georgia, and has 
been in the coal business eight years. He is also Secretary 
of the Conger Coal Co. and has many friends in the trade. 



GEORGE \V. STEPHENSON, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 

Sales Manager Sewanee Fuel & Iron Co. of Chattanoga, Ten- 
nessee, wa.T born December 18, 1880, at Knoxville, Tennessee, 
and has been in the coal business fifteen years. He ■was 
previously connected with the Jellico Coal & Coke Co. Mr. 
Stephenson has a wide acquaintance in the trade and has 
many warm friends. 



407 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 




HARRY L,. CORY, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 

Owner of the H. L. Cory Coal Co. of Chattanooga, Tennessee, 
was 'born March 26, 1875, in Washburn, Wisconsin, and has 
been in the coal business twenty-two years. He is also 
President of the Pineville Coal Co. and General Manager of 
the Indian Head Coal Co. Mr. Cory was formerly Vice 
President and Sales Manager of the Continental Coal Co. 
and Federal Coal Co. He has served as a member of the 
Executive Committee of the Southern Appalachian Coal Op- 
erators Association. 



HARRY" B. BONNEY, 
Chattanooga, Tennessee, 

President of the H. B. Bonney Coal Co. 
of Chattanooga, Tennessee, was born 
September 28, 1884, in Shelby County, 
Kentucky, and has been in the coal 
business for sixteen years. He was 
previously connected with the New 
Etna Coal Co. and was Secretary of 
the Kentucky-Tennessee Coal Co. 





REED CLEVELAND FITZGERALD, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 

Sales Manager of the Federal Coal Co., Chattanooga, Ten- 
nessee, was born December 3, 1882, at Danville. Kentucky, 
and has been in the coal business fifteen years. He w^as 
formerly connected with the Procter Coal Co. of Knoxville 
for five years. Mr. Fitzgerald is very popular in the trade 
and enjoys an unusually wide acquaintance among the re- 
tailers in the South. 



PHILIP FRANCIS, Jellico, Tennessee, 

Superintendent of the Proctor Coal Co. of Jellico, Tennessee, 
was born June 7, 1853, at Danville, Pennsylvania, and has 
been in the coal business about fifty-five years. Mr. Francis 
is also interested in the Power Coal Co. and is a Director in 
the East Tennessee Coal Co. and the Bennett Jellico Coal 
Co. He worked through every department of mining to the 
top. and has organized several successful companies. 



408 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



J. L. StrSHER, 
Jellico, Tennessee, 

President of the Evans-Jellico Coal Co., 
Jellico. Tennessee, was born July 28, 
1878, at Pineville. Kentucky, and has 
been in the coal business seventeen 
years. He is also interested in the 
Evans Blue Gem Co. Mr. Slusher ■n-as 
previously connected ■u'ith the Ten- 
nessee Jellico Coal Co. Mr. Slusher's 
companies produce the Tennessee Jelli- 
co Cook Coal and the Famous Blue Gem 
Coal. 



LKOXARO E. WOODY, 
Jellico, Tennessee, 

General Manager of the Blue Gem Coal 
Co., Jellico, Tennessee, was born Jan- 
uary 3, 1884, at Marion, Kentucky, and 
has been in the coal business four 
years. Mr. Woody was previously con- 
nected with the Nebo Consolidated Coal 
& Coke Co. 




MAJOR E. C. CAMP, Knoxville, Tennessee, 

President of the Coal Creek Coal Co. of Knoxville, Tennessee, 
was born August 1, 1839, in Knox County, Ohio, and has 
been in the coal business about fifty years. Major Camp 
was appointed United States District Attorney by President 
Grant in 1869, which office he held for one term. He is a 
lawyer by profession but has personally looked after the 
management of his coal interests all these years and now 
has extensive realty holdings in Knoxville. 



409 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 




GUY DARST, Knoxville, Tennessee, 
Sales Manager of the Bewley-Darst Coal Co., Knoxville, Tennessee, was 
born October 23, 1878, in Lynchburg, Virginia, and has been in the 
coal business twenty years. Mr. Darst was formerly connected with the 
Virginia Iron, Coal & Coke Co. as Sales Manager and ranks as one of 
the able and enterprising operators of the South. 



410 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 




EDGAR CLYDE MAHAN, Knoxville, Tennessee, 

General Manager Sales Department Southern Coal & Coke Co., Knox- 
ville, was born In Williamsburg, Kentucky, September 25, 1879, and 
has been in the coal business twenty years. Mr. Mahan is also Presi- 
dent of the New Caryville Coal Co., Secretary-Treasurer of the South- 
ern Mining Co., and President of the Southern Appalachian Coal 
Operators' Association. Mr. Mahan is highly respected in the coal 
trade and is considered one of the leaders among the Southern oper- 
ators. 



411 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 




HOWELL, J. DAA^IS, KnoxviHe, Tennessee, 

President East Tennessee Coal Co., Knoxville, is a native 
of Knoxville, and was born September 26, 1875. Mr. Davis 
has been in the coal busine.ss twenty-two years and was 
formerly Secretary-Treasurer of the Jellico Coal Mining Co. 
He is also Secretary-Treasurer of the First Creek Coal Co. 
He has served as President of the Southern Appalachian 
Coal Operators Association and Director of the National 
Coal Association, and is now on the Executive Committee 
of the former. Mr. Davis is popular in the trade and has a 
wide acquaintance throughout the South. 






WILLIAM E. DAVIS, Lexington, Kentucky, 

Vice President and General Manager Midland Mining 
Co., Lexington, Kentucky, was born in Knoxville, Ten- 
nessee. December 7, 1877, and has been in the coal 
business nineteen years. He is Vice President of the 
East Tennessee Coal Co. and a Director of the Kenmont 
Coal Co., Kentucky Block Coal Co., Kentucky Jewel Coal 
Co.. and Elk Fork Coal Co. He sold recently his interest 
in the First Creek Coal Co. of which he was President and 
General Manager. He is the pioneer of the Hazard coal 
fields in Kentucky and has equipped and operated some of 
the best properties in that field. 



FRANK C. RICHMOND, SR., Knoxville, Tennessee, 

Secretary East Tennessee Coal Co., Knoxville, Tennessee, was 
born near Sterchi. New York, October 19, 1848, and has been 
with the East Tennessee Coal Co. for forty-two years. Mr. 
Richmond is one of the deans of the Tennessee coal trade 
and is highly regarded in that section. 



412 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 




GEORGE R. BILLIXGSLEY, Slemphis, 

President Bannon Coal & Ice Co., Mem- 
phis, was born in Elizabeth, Pennsyl- 
vania. March 27, 1860, and has been in 
the coal business forty-five years, 
starting- work in the mines at eight 
years of age. He remained in his na- 
tive town until thirty-four years of 
age and then went to Memphis in 1884. 
In 1892 he organized the Bannon Coal 
Co. and in 1902 started business under 
the present firm name. In 1912 Mr. 
Billingsley's twin brother died, and 
that leaving no one In the company 
but himself and his brother's estate, 
Mr. Billingsley then incorporated the 
Bannon Coal & Ice Co. for $120,000 
paid-up stock, all held by himself and 
brother's estate. The corporation has 
an Ice plant, making 120 tons of ice 
per day, and an increasing coal busi- 
ness. Mr. Billingsley and his broth- 
er's three sons, wlio are very bright 
young' business men like their father, 
put their life and soul in the business. 
Frank W. Billingsley, the eldest of the 
three sons, is General Manager of the 
ice plant and is a great factor in 
making the business a success. George 
R. Billingsley is a great fraternal man, 
being a Mason. Shriner, Elk, Eagle, 
Moose, Knight of Pythias, and Odd 
Fellow. He was one of the founders 
of the Gibraltar Coal & Mining Co., 
Mercer, Kentucky, and shortly after 
its formation bought the Dove Coal & 
Mining Co., also of Mercer. He is also 
interested in the gold mines of Cripple 
Creek, Colorado, and is a stockholder 
and a Director of the Sonora Gold & 
Silver Mining Co. of Sonora, Mexico. 




ROBERT L,EE BROWN, Memphis, Tennessee, 

President Brown Coal Co., Memphis, Tennessee, was born at 
Obion, Tennessee, December 30, 1869, and has been in the 
coal business a quarter of a century. Mr. Brown is also 
President of the Gibraltar Coal Mining Co. and Mercer Coal 
Co., Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Ohio Val- 
ley Coal Operators' Association and a member of the Execu- 
tive Committee V/est Kentucky Conservation Association. 




SHIRLEY H. ERASER, Memphis, Tennessee, 

Secretary Southern Coal Co., Memphis, Tennessee, was born 
in Trenton, Tennessee, November 3, 1873, and has been in 
the coal business twenty-five years. 



413 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





WILLIAM T. C. BERLIN, Memphis, Tennessee, 

President Hunt-Berlin Coal Co., Memphis, is a native of 
Memphis, born in 1872, and has been in the coal business 
twenty-six years. Mr. Berlin was formerly connected with 
the Broadway Coal Co. and Berlin Coal Co. He is Chairman 
of the Memphis Retail Coal Dealers Association and a 
member of the Executive Committee of the National Retail 
Coal Merchants Association. He is very popular and has 
many friends in the coal trade. 



WILLIAM JUNIUS PRESCOTT, Memphis, Tennessee, 

Vice President Hunt-Berlin Coal Co., Memphis, Tennessee, 
was born in Memphis September 25, 1875, and has been in 
the coal business twenty-seven years. Mr. Prescott was 
formerly connected with the Pittsburgh Coal Co. and Hunt 
Bros. Mr. Prescott is a Director of the National Coal Jobbers 
Association and is one of the most popular coalmen in the 
trade. 




BAYLISS G. LEE, Memphis, Tennessee, 

President Bohlen-Huse Coal & Ice Co., Memphis, Tennessee, 
has been in the coal business four years. 



FREDERICK MORGAN McDONALD, 
Memphis, Tennessee, 

President and General Manager Mc- 
Donald Coal Co., Memphis, Tennessee, 
was born at Plum Point, Mississippi, 
January 20, 1874, and has been in the 
coa.l business for twenty-one years. 
Mr. McDonald is also interested in the 
Liberty Coal Mining Co. He vs^as for- 
merly connected with the Broadway 
Coal Co. and is Secretary of the Retail 
Coal Dealers Association. His experi- 
ence in the coal business includes the 
retailing, jobbing and inining ends. 



414 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





JUNE H. RTJDISILiLi, Memphis, Tennessee, 

President Memphis Coal Co., Inc., Merapliis, was born in 
Brownsville, Tennessee, February 10, 1876, and has been 
in the coal' business twenty-three years. Mr. Rudisill is 
President Latura-Whitten Coal Co., Secretary Hunt-Berlin 
Coal Co. and Galloway-Eberhart Coal Co. and was formerly 
connected with the Rudisill Coal Co. He is well known in 
coal trade circles. 



WILLIAM W. SIMMONS, Memphis, Tennessee, 

General Manag'er Broadway Coal & Ice Co., Memphis, was 
born in Courtland, Alabama, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness twenty years. Mr. Simmons is President of the Broad- 
way Coal Mining- Co. and a member of Western Kentucky 
Coal Operators Association, Ohio Valley Coal Operators 
Association and West Kentucky Conservation Association. 




JOHN J. IJARRAGH, JR., Jleiiiplii.s, Tennessee, 

General Manag-er Consumers Coal & Ice Co., Memphis, was 
born February 7, 1876, in St. Louis, Missouri, was reared in 
the city of Memphis, later attending- the University of 
Tennessee in Knoxville. In 1898 he entered the service 
of the Consumers Ice Co.. and when the name was changed 
in 1912 to the Consumers Coal & lee Co. assumed charge 
of the coal department. Mr. Darragh is a member of the 
Executive Board of the Memphis Retail Coal Dealers' 
Association. 



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WILLIABI HEJVRY LINDSEY, Nashville, Tennessee, 

President Crescent Coal Co., Nashville, Tennessee, is a native 
of Nashville, born July 6, 1879, and has been in the coal 
business seventeen years. IMr. Lindsey is Vice President 
of the Napier Iron Works, whose furnaces and iron ore in- 
terests are located in Tennessee, and is closely identified 
with many other large and important corporate interests. 



FRED PARKER WRIGHT, Be\aer, Kentucky, 

General Manager Crescent Coal Co., Bevier. Kentucl<;y, was 
born in Winchester, Massachusetts, December 5, 1850, and 
has been in the coal business seventeen years. Mr. Wright 
has been Vice President and President of the West Ken- 
tucky Coal Operators Association for t'welve years. Presi- 
dent Kentucky Mining- Institute, and a member of the 
American Mining Congress. He is one of the best known 
and highly regarded operators in the West Kentucky field. 



HIGHLAND COAL & LU3IBER CO., 
Nashville, Tennessee, 

Originally started out to mine coal for 
its own use, but gradually developed 
its property — 11,000 acres of its own 
land and 2,000 acres of leased land — so 
as to distribute coal, estimated annual 
tonnage of 300,000 tons, in the states 
of Tennessee, Georgia and Florida.. 

The company was organized in 1912,' 
and its officers are: W. B. Davidson, 
President; C. B. Benedict, Vice Presi- 
dent; L. Clark, Secretary and Treas- 
urer; J. A. Sutton, Sales Manager. 



C. KEITH VAUGHN, 
Nashville, Tennessee, 

Proprietor Keith Vaughn Coal Co., 
Nashville, Tennessee, was born August 
18. 1886, in Nashville, and has been in 
the coal business for four years. He 
is one of tlie enterprising retailers in 
his city. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



TEiNNESSEE Chattanooga 

JOH.N U. HAHMOS, Owner of tht- J. R. Kanies Coal Co. of 
Chattanooga. Tennessee, was born October 30, 1868, at 
Gainesville, Alabama, and has been in the coal business 
twenty-nine years. He is also President of the Big Moun- 
tain Coal Mining' Co. and Vice Presidt-nt of the Hibbler- 
Barnes Co. and of the Kentucky-Tennessee Coal Co. He was 
formerly associated with Barney Bros. 

T. ODKLL BUSBEE, Vice President of the United States 
Fuel Corp., Chattanooga, Tennessee, was born July 11, 1888, 
in Aug'usta, Georgia, and has been in the coal business 
eight years. Mr. Busbee has been connected with the Roth 
Coal Co., H. T. Hackney Coal Co., and Southern Coal & Coke 
Co., all of Knoxville, and has been Chairman of the Execu- 
tive Committee of the Knoxville Retail Coal Dealers Asso- 
ciation. 

3IAX MILLIGAX, Assistant Treasurer and Manager of the 
Retail Department of the Durham Coal & Iron Co., Chatta- 
nooga, Tennessee, was born November 1, 1SS6, in Chatta- 
nooga, and has been in the coal business thirteen years. Mr. 
Milli.^an was formerly connected with the New Soddy Coal 
Co., Fox Coal Co.. and the Sale Creek Coal & Coke Co. 

\VILL,IA3I J. NIXON, General Manager Fentress Coal Co., 
Cliattanooga, Tennessee, was born May 7, 1878, in Chatta- 
nooga, and has been in the coal business fifteen years. He 
is also Vice President of the Catoosa Coal Mining Co. and 
General Manager of The Wallins Creek Collieries Co. Mr. 
Nixon was previously Sales Agent for the Cumberland Coal 
& Coke Co. and General Manager of the Nixon Coal Mining 
Co. 

JOHN F. WALTER, President United States Coal Co., Chat- 
tanooga, Tennessee, was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, 
July 4, 1878, and has been in the coal business twelve years. 
Mr. Walter is also President of the Dixie Coal & Iron Co. 
and Vice President of the Tracy City Coal Co. 

F. REES WOOLFORD, proprietor Woolford Coal Co. of 
Chattanooga, Tennessee, was born in Woolford, Maryland, 
July 27, 1866, and has been in the coal business twenty-six 
years. 



.1. FRI'I'/, FO\. proprietor of Martin & Fox, doing a whole- 
.sale and irlail coal business at Knoxville, Tennessee, is a 
native of Knoxville. born July 13, 1865, and has been in the 
coal business eighteen years. Mr. Fox has been Treasurer 
of the Kentucky and Tennessee Retail Coal Merchants Asso- 
ciation and is well known in the trade. 

JOSEPH I'ERRY (i.\rT. Secretary-Treasurer Pruden Coal 
& Coke Co., Knoxville. Tennessee, was born April 15, 1867, 
at Cleveland, Tennessee, and has been in the coal business 
for eleven years. Mr. Gaut is also interested in the Black 
Creek Coal Co. and First Creek Coal Co. 

VICTOR NEWTON HACKER, President Pruden Coal & 
Coke Co., Knoxville, Tennessee, was born at Greenville, Ten- 
nessee, July 22, 1884, and has been in the coal business for 
eleven years. Mr. Hacker is also interested in the Back 
Creek Coal Co. and First Creek Coal Co. 

JAMES McaiTEEN, Sales Manager Cherokee Coal & Coke 
Co., Knoxville, Tennessee, was born in Tennessee in 1889, 
and has been in the coal business for six years. Mr. Mc- 
Queen is also President of the Buckeye Coal Mining Co. 

CHARLES F. ROTH, proprietor of thfi Roth Coal Co., 
Knoxville, Tennessee, was born March 18, 1855, in Knoxville, 
and has been in the coal business for fifteen years. Mr. 
Roth is also President of the local coal dealers association 
and was President of the Southern Retail Coal Dealers Asso- 
ciation and has always taken an active part in lietlering 
trade conditions. 

ED. H. STEGALL, General Manager Cherokee Coal & Coke 
Co., Knoxville, Tennessee, was born in Tennessee June 28, 
1884, and has been in the coal business twelve years. Mr. 
Stegall is Vice President of the Piedmont Coal & Coke Co. 
and Secretary-Treasurer of the Buckeye Coal Mining Co. 

THOMAS P. WITHER.SPOON, proprietor Witherspoon Coal 
Co., Knoxville. Tennesse, was born at Oak Forest, Missis- 
sippi. May 9, 1882, and has been in business for himself for 
ten years. 



TENNESSEE — Memphis 



TENNESSEE — Knoxville 

ED\VARD DE MOTT ATTIX, Assistant General Manager 
Cross Mountain Coal Co., Knoxville, Tennessee, was born 
in Knoxville September 25, 1881, and has been in the coal 
business about eighteen years. He is Assistant General 
Manager of the Volunteer Coal Co., the Shamrock Coal Co., 
and the Knoxville Iron Co. 

ALEXANDER BONNYMAN, President Blue Diamond Coal 
Co., with headquarters at Knoxville, Tennessee, and prin- 
cipal sales office at Cincinnati, Ohio, was born in Scotland 
forty-eight years ago, but was educated as an Engineer in 
the Kentucky State University. Up to six years ago he was 
a well-known railroad man in the South, having built the 
Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic Railroad. He was Chief 
Engineer of the Atlantic & Birmingham Construction Co., 
which spent several million dollars in coal and iron devel- 
opment in the Birmingham (Alabama) district, and in 
building extensive ship terminals on the South Atlantic 
coast. He is President of the Campbell Coal Mining Co.. 
Westbourne Coal Co.. Starbourne Coal Co., Highcliff Coal 
Co., and the Calvin Holmes Coal Co. 

ABEL N. BROWN, proprietor of the Blue Gem Coal Co. of 
Knoxville, Tennessee, was born in June, 1856, in Knox Coun- 
ty, Tennessee, and has been in the coal business twenty 
years. 

WILLIS P. DAVIS, General Manager Cross Mountain Coal 
Co. and Knoxville Iron Co., Knoxville, Tennessee, was born 
October 2. 1859 in Louisville, Kentucky, and has been in the 
coal business over twenty years. He is President of the Coal 
Creek Operators Association and Vice President of the 
Southern Appalachian Coal Operators Association. 

L. R. EAGER, President and General Manager Standard 
Jellico Mining Co., Knoxville, Tennessee, was born March 
16, 1881, at Volga, South Dakota, and has been in the coal 
business twelve years. 

WILLIAM J. EVERETT, Secretary-Treasurer Jellico Coal 
Mining Co., Knoxville, Tennessee, was born June 18, 1867, 
at Campbell, Tennessee, and has been in the coal business 
for sixteen years. Mr. Everett is also Secretary-Treasurer 
of the Bon Jellico Coal Co. 

FRANK FILLER FLOYD, Vice President and Sales Man- 
ager of the Jellico Coal Mining Co. and Sales Manager of 
Bon Jellico Coal Co.. Knoxville, Tennessee, was born in 
North Carolina, August 15, 1874, and has been in the coal 
business for thirteen years. Mr. Floyd was active in the 
organization of the Appalachian Coal Operators Association 
at the time of its formation. 



ROBERT ARKENBURG BRIDGES, President and General 
Manager Coradine-Bridges Coal Co., Memphis, Tennessee, 
was born in Livermore, Kentucky, December 16, 1880, and 
has been in the coal business twenty-one years. Mr. 
Bridges was formerly connected with the Black Diamond 
Coal & Mining Co. 

LOUIS A. CARLISLE, Vice President and Manager Lawo 
Coal & Coke Co., Memphis, Tennessee, was born in LaFay- 
ette, Alabama, February 18, 1881, and has been in the coal 
and iron business for fifteen years. Mr. Carlisle was for- 
merly connected with the DeBardeleben Coal Co. and the 
Alabama Fuel & Iron Co., Birmingham, Alabama. 

MATTHEW J. CONNELLY, Manager Conley Coal Co., Mem- 
phis, Tennessee, was born in Memphis October 25, 1865, and 
has been in the coal business twenty-two years. Mr. Con- 
nelly was formerly connected with the Bannon Coal Co. 
and the McDonald Coal Co., Memphis. 

HENRY F. DIX, Secretary Memphis Coal Co., Inc., Mem- 
phis, Tennessee, was born in Memphis November 10, 1880, 
and has been in the coal business eleven years. Mr. Dix was 
formerly with the Pittsburgh Coal Co. 

WILLIAM SHEP J. LAWO, Manager Pittsburgh Coal Co., 
Memphis, Tennessee, was born in Memphis February 5, 1888, 
and has been in the coal business ten years. Mr. Lawo 
was formerly connected with the Lawo Coal Co. He is 
very highly regarded in Southern coal trade circles and 
takes an active interest in everything for the betterment of 
the coal business. 

WALKER 3IINTER, proprietor of W. Minter & Co., Mem- 
phis, Tennessee, was born in Georgia March 11, 1884, and 
has been in the coal business for four years. He was for- 
merly connected with the Coil Coal Co. 

EDWIN STREULI, proprietor Edwin Streuli Coal Co.. Mem- 
phis, Tennessee, was born in Switzerland, January 26, 1865, 
and has been in the coal business twenty-eight years 
Mr. Streuli was formerly connected with the McHenry Coal 
Co., Southern Coal Co., and Memphis Coal & Coke Co. 

ROBERT G. W^ATKINS. Manager Valley Ice & Coal Co., 
Memphis, Tennessee, was born at Eureka. Mississippi, March 
5, 1884, and has been in the coal business for fourteen years. 
He was formerly connected with the Davis Coal Co. and 
.Johnson Eaton Coal Co. 

EGBERT BARTON WHITE, Office Manager Pittsburgh 
Coal Co., Memphis, Tennessee, was born at Bradford, Ten- 
nessee, and has been in the coal business for six years. Mr. 
White was formerly Local Manager of the West Kentucky 
Coal Co. of Memphis. 

CLYDE JOHN ZINK, Secretary-Treasurer North Memphis 
Coal Co., Memphis, Tennessee, was born at Springfield. Mis- 
souri, April 17, 1888, and has been in the coal business for 
eight years. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



EDWARD KESLEY ZIXK, Manag-er North Memphis Coal 
Co., Memphis. Tennessee, was born at Clarion, Pennsylvania, 
February 15, 1857, and has been in the coal business for 
eight years. 

TENNESSEE — Nashville 

C. HOYT BRADFORD, Assistant General Manager Fentress 
Coal Co., Nashville. Tennessee, was born in Daj'ton, Ohio, 
April 22, 1S67, and has been in the coal business twenty-eiglit 
years. Mr. Bradford was formerly connected "witli the Citj' 
Coal & Transfer Co., Cha ttanoog-a, Tennessee. 

TYLER CALHOUN, Vice President Baileys Creek Coal Co., 
Nashville, Tennessee, also Vice President of the King- Har- 
lan Mining Co. and President of the Bellfort Land & Coal 
Co. of Nashville, Tennessee, was born in Nashville in 1866. 
and has been in the coal business six years. Mr. Calhoun 
was formerly connected with the Tennessee Coal, Iron & 
Railroad Co. as Superintendent and Mining Engineer. 

A. A. DICKERSON, Manager Overton & Bush, Nashville, 
Tennessee, was born at Lynnville, Tennessee, December 10, 
1875, and has been in the coal business for twenty-five years. 
Mr. Dickerson was formerly connected with the Bon Air Coal 
& Iron Co. 

CHARLES C. MEADOR, proprietor Meador Coal Co., Nash- 
ville, Tennessee, was born at Murray, Kentucky, April 2, 
1878, and has been in the coal business for fifteen years. Mr. 
Meador was formerly connected with Pinner, Meador & 
James for ten years and Manager for Overton & Busli for 
four years. 

JOHN W. MEADOR, Secretary Meador Coal Co., Nashville, 
Tennessee, was born in 1898, and is a brother of Charles C. 
Meador. 

JOHN DALLAS SHARPB, President and General Manager 
John D. Sharpe & Co., Nashville, Tennessee, was born in 
Nashville December 4, 1867, and has been in the coal business 
for thirty-one years. He was formerly connected witli Sharpe 
& Phillips, John D. & Ed. F. Sharpe and D. F. Sharpe & Son. 

GEORGE N. WELCH of Nashville, Tennessee, Vice Presi- 
dent Bills Branch Coal Co., Monterey, Tennessee, was born 
in Monterey January 26, 1879, and lias been in the coal busi- 
ness one year. J. W. Welch is President of the company. 

DR. JOHN P. WILLLAMS, JR., Vice President and Treas- 
urer Overton-Williams Coal Co., retailers, and Manager 
Tennessee-Kentucky Fuel Co., wholesalers, both of Nash- 
ville, Tennessee, was born in Nashville February 20, 1879, 
and has been in the coal business ten years. He was Treas- 
urer of Overton & Bush until their charter was amended 
and name changed to present style. Previous to his entry 
in the coal business Dr. Williams practiced medicine seven 
years. 

WILLIAM BYRD YOUNG, General Manager Cliffy Consoli- 
dated Coal Co., Nashville. Tennessee, was born in Cottage 
Grove, Tennessee, November 13, 1865, and has been in the 
coal business fourteen years. Mr. Young was formerly 
connected with the Clifty Coal & Coke Co. 



TENNESSEE 



J. HUBERT BAIRD, Manager Bondurant Coal Yards at 
Bristol, Tennessee, has been in the coal business ten years 
and is also interested in the United Collieries, Inc., of St. 
Charles, Virginia. 

WILLIAM ERNEST BEACH, sole owner and Manager of 
W. E. Beach & Co. of Clarksville, Tennessee, was born in 
Virginia, October 8, 1861, and has been in the coal business 
about eight years. 

W. O. BRANDON, Manager Dyersburg Ice & Coal Co., Inc., 
Dyersburg, Tennessee, was born in Columbia, Ten-nessee, and 
has been in the ice and coal business twenty-four years. 

C. B. BROSPIELD, retail coal merchant of Dresden, Ten- 
nessee, was born in Dresden, December 18, 1877, and has 
been in the coal business eight years. 

LOUIS E. BRYANT, President Virginia Mining Co., Ro- 
berta, Tennessee, was born in Louisville, Kentucky, April 
16, 1868, and has been in the coal business thirty years. Mr. 
Bryant is interested in the Bry Mac Coal Co., Helenwood 
Coal Co., and Alpine Collieries Co. He was formerly 
connected with the Proctor Coal Co., East Tennessee Coal & 
Iron Co., Birmingham Coal & Iron Co., and Mining Engineer 
for the State of Tennessee, having been in business for him- 
self since 1902. 

L. S. BUMGARDNER, Mine Foreman and Superintendent 
of the Clifty Consolidated Coal Co., Clifty, Tennessee, was 
born in March, 1866, in South Bend, Indiana, and has been in 
the coal business twenty-eight years. He was previously 
connected with the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Co. of 
Whitwell, Tennessee, and the Pratt Consolidated Coal Co. of 
Birmingham. 

R. A. BURGESS, who handles coal at retail at Dellrose. 
Tennessee, was born July 19, 1867, at Diana, Tennessee, and 
has been in the coal business two years. 



ANDREW MADISAN BURNS, retail coal merchant of Jack 
son, Tennessee, was born July 29, 1874, at Parksville, Ten- 
nessee, and has been in the coal business about three years. 

GEORGE CAIN, Engineer and Superintendent Battle Creek 
Coal & Coke Co., Orme, Tennessee, was born at Whitwell, 
Tennessee, March 17, 1889, and has been in the coal business 
for eleven years. Mr. Cain is a stockholder in the Sewanee 
Fuel c& Iron Co. and was formerly connected with the Ala- 
bama Consolidated Coal & Iron Co., Tennessee Coal, Iron & 
Railroad Co., Fentress Coal & Coke Co., Harriman Coal Co., 
Conger Coal Co., and Sewanee Fuel & Iron Co. 

LAWRENCE OTIS CALDWELL, Manager Caldwell Coal 
Co., Bristol, Tennessee-Virginia, was born October 16, 1887, 
in Bristol and has been in the coal business eight years. 

SIMEON BUSH CHRISTY, Manager Coal Department 
Christy & Higgins Co., Murfreesboro, Tennessee, was born 
in Murfreesboro, December 4, 1869, and has been in the coal 
business fifteen years. This firm also manufactures ice and 

JACK CROUCH, JR., Secretary and Manager Tullahoma 
Ice & Coal Co., Tullahoma, Tennessee, was born at Clarks- 
ville, Tennessee, March 11, 1883, and has been in the coal 
business for five years. 

CHARLES CURRIER, retail coal merchant of Paris, Ten- 
nessee, is a native of Paris, born November 6, 1888, and 
has been in business for himself for six years. 

FRED DAHNKE, Manager Union City Ice & Coal Co., 
Union City, Tennessee, was born at Nashville, April 21, 1874, 
and has been in the coal business for twelve years. 

GEORGE DAHNKE, President and General Manager Union 
City Ice & Coal Co., Union City, Tennessee, is also President 
and Manager of the Dahnke Walker Milling Co., one of the 
largest milling concerns in the South, located at Union City. 

■WILLIAM J. DALE, JR., Manager of Dale Bros., retailers 
of coal at Columbia, Tennessee, was born August 16, 1881, in 
Columbia, and has been in tlie coal business ten years. 

HYWEL BROOKS DAA^IES. Vice President and General 
Manager Brier Hill Collieries, Monterey,. Tennessee, was born 
in Jellico, Kentucky, June 29, 1890, and has been in the coal 
business for seven years. Mr. Davies was formerly con- 
nected with the Main Jellico Mountain Co. and Bengal Coal 
Co. and is Secretary of the Cumberland Plateau Coal Asso- 
ciation. 

P. E. DERMID, General Manager of the Dermid Coal Co. 
of Bristol, Tennessee, was born September 4, 1864, at Hen- 
dersonville. North Carolina, and has been in the coal business 
eight years. He has been President of the Retail Coal Deal- 
ers' Association. 

ARTHUR WILEY" EVANS, General Superintendent and 
Mining Engineer Big Brushy Fuel Co. and Fodder Stack Coal 
Co., Petros, Tennessee, Avas born at Rockwood, Tennessee, 
July 2, 1871, and has been in the coal business for twenty- 
four years. Mr. Evans was appointed Mir.ing Engineer of 
the State of Tennessee Coal Mine in 1895, and designed and 
developed the mine. He followed a general engineering 
practice in the Tennessee coal fields for two years and then 
left there for Alabama, where he followed up a new develop- 
ment for seven years and was appointed District Mine In- 
spector for two years. He then went to Hazard, Kentucky, 
designing a mining plant for the East Tennessee Coal Co., 
where he was appointed Chief Engineer of the Oneida & 
Western Railroad and was again appointed Superintendent of 
the State Mine, from which he resigned six months ago to 
accept his present position. 

THOS. H. FAUCHER, retail coal merchant of Sparta, Ten- 
nessee, was born in Sparta November 26, 1865, and has 
been in business for himself for ten years. 

A. A. FISHER, Secretary Sun Coal Co., Caryville, Ten- 
nessee, was born November 25, 1881, in St. Paul, Minne- 
sota, and has been in the coal business nine years. He was 
previously connected with the Caryville Coal Co. 

C. M. GOOCH, President and General Manager C. M. Gooch 
Mining Co., Nashville, Tennessee, was born in Smyrna, Ten- 
nessee, January 27, 1881, and has been in tlie coal business 
ten years. He is also operating the Overton Coal & Coke 
Co.'s properties in Overton and Fentress counties, Tennessee. 
These properties are in the center of tlie coal field, and .ioin 
eacli other at the county line. 

JOSEPH FLACK HAMMERLY, proprietor of the Ham- 
merly Coal Co., Jackson, Tennessee, was born in Jackson 
and has been in the coal business ten years. 

EDWARD LEE HAMPTON, President Tennessee Consoli- 
dated Coal Co., Tracy City, Tennessee, was born at Cowan, 
Tennessee, in 1863, and has been in the coal business for 
seventeen years. Mr. Hampton was formerly Superintendent 
Tracy City Branch of the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis 
Railway and is Vice President of tlie Middle Tennessee Coal 
Operators Association. 

W. O. HARRELL, owner of the Harrell Feed & Coal Co., 
Dyersburg, Tennessee, was born in 1874 in Fayette County, 
Tennessee, and has been in the coal business eight years. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



J. C. HIGDOX, General Manager New Etna Coal Co., White- 
side, Tennessee, was born at Cole City, Georgia, February 8, 
1874, and has been in the coal business for twenty years. 

CHAS. CHADWELL, HOAVARD, Assistant Manager of the 

Howard Coal Co. of Jackson, Tennessee, was born in Jack- 
son September 23. ISSS, and has been in tlie coal business 
six years. 

CHAS. HVGHES, Secretary and Treasurer of the Eureka 
Coal Co. of Jellico, Tennessee, was born July 23, 1877, in 
Estill County, Kentucky, and has been in the coal business 
seventeen years. Mr. Hughes is also interested in the Burk 
Hollow Coal Co. He was previously connected with the 
Jellico Coal Co., the Blue Gem Coal Co., and Red Moon Coal 
Co. 

THOMAS SOLOX HUGHES, retail coal merchant of Clifton, 
Tennessee, was born August 30, 1862, in Clifton, and has 
lieen in the coal business twenty years. 

AVILLIAM C. HUTCHESON, General Manager Bessemer 
Coal, Iron & Land Co., and Wind Rock Coal & Coke Co., Wind 
Rock, Tennessee, 'was born at Dayton, Tennessee, November 
2, 1SS2, and has been in the coal business for sixteen years. 
Mr. Hutcheson was formerly connected with the Dayton Coal 
& Iron Co., Ltd., and Virginia Iron, Coal & Coke Co. 

STEPHEIV RICHARD JENNINGS, President of the Blue 
Grass Coal Corp.. Johnson City, Tennessee, was born in Hllls- 
ville, Virginia, October IS, 1S75, and has been in the coal 
business sixteen years. Mr. Jenning's was formerly Presi- 
dent of the Interstate Coal Co. and Vice President of the 
Carter Coal Co. 

H. \V. JOHNSON, Manager of the Johnson City Coal, Ice 
& Cream Co. of Johnson City, Tennessee, was born in 1872 
at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness four years. 

ASHTON CASH LACKEY, General Manager Dixie Fuel Co., 
Nashville, Tennessee, was born in Canton, Triggs County, 
Kentucky. May 7, 1878, and has been in the coal business 
eight years. Mr. Lackey was formerly connected with the 
Empire Coal & Coke Co. and Green River Coal & Coke Co. 

ROBERT HAYDEN LEE, retail coal merchant of Nashville, 
Tennessee, was born in Tennessee in 1855, and has been in 
the coal business for forty years. Mr. Lee is Vice President 
of the Nashville Retail Coal Dealers Association. 

WILLIAM GARFIELD LUSK, President and General Man- 
ager Lusk Coal Mining Co.. Atpontley, Tennessee, was born 
in Victoria. Tennessee, and has been in the coal business 
twenty years. 

C. E. McPADDEN of the retail coal firm of McFadden & 
Shelton of Covington, Tennessee, was born in Tipton County, 
Tennessee, April 18, 1866, and has been In the coal business 
t'wenty-five years. 

"W'ALTER JOHNSON McKINLEY, President and General 
Manager Southern Jellico Coal Co., Jellico, Tennessee, was 
born in Kentontown, Kentucky, April 7, 1881. and has been 
in the coal business fourteen years. Mr. McKinley was pre- 
viously connected with the Cooke Jellico Coal Co.. Yellow 
Creek Coal Co., and the Seabrook Coal Co. 

HUGH B. MILLER, Manager of the Knoxville Coal Co., 
Knoxville, Tennessee, -wa.s born in Knoxville December 23, 
1885, and has been in the coal business four years. 

C. F. MILLICAN, President and Manager Knox Mining Co., 
Rockwood, Tennessee, "was born in Rockwood in 1873 and has 
been in the coal business three years. 



(iEO. R. ]>lliLl.iNS, sole proprietor of a retail coal business 
at Cireenfield, Tennessee, was born at Rutherford. Tennessee, 
October 14, 1870, and has been in the coal business live years. 

J.V.MES M. PHIl'I'S. General Manager of the Goodlettsville 
Coal Co., Goodlettsville, Tennessee, was born in Goodletts- 
ville November 24, ISCM, and has been in the coal business 
about twenty years. 

HENRY LEROY POPE, retail coal merchant of Jackson, 
Tennessee, was born July 28, 1885. in Jackson and has been 
In the coal business eight years. 

HOHERT F. POPE, Owner of the Davidson Coal Co., 
l^avidson, Tennessee, was born in Rockwood, Tennessee, 
August 8, 1884, and has been eighteen years in the coal 
business. He was formerly with the Brier Hill Collieries. 

JAMES THORNTON PORTER, General Manager Peoples 
Coal & Ice Co., Paris, Tennessee, was born in Paris, De- 
cember 6, 1878, and has been in the coal business for eigh- 
teen years. Mr. Porter was formerly connected with Lamp- 
ley & Porter and Porter & Travis. 

C. W. PURCELL, Manager Martin Iron & Coal Co., Martin, 
Tennessee, was born in Kentucky, November 11, 1866, and 
has been in the coal business for ten years. 

WILLIAM THOMAS RICHARDS, Mine Superintendent Chi- 
cago-Tennessee Coal & Coke Co., Waldensia, Tennessee, was 
born at Rockwood, Tennessee, August 15, 1878, and has been 
in the coal business for ten years. Mr. Richards was for- 
merly connected with the Knox Mining Co. and Roane Iron 
Co. of Rockwood, Tennessee. 

H. B. SHELTON, member of McFadden & Shelton, retailers 
of coal at Covington, Tennessee, was born September 10, 
1870, in Tipton County, Tennessee, and has been in the coal 
business twenty-five years. 

E. M. SO"WELL, General Manager Sowell Smith Lumber 
Co., Mt. Pleasant, Tennessee, was born at Maury City, Ten- 
nessee, in 1877, and has been in the coal business since 1907. 

R. M. STACY, retail coal merchant at Pulaski, Tennessee, 
was born in Pulaski August 24, 1861, and has been in the 
coal business about twenty-two years. 

HENRY JACKSON SWINDLER, Manager Newbern Coal 
Co., Newbern, Tennessee, was born in Livermore, Kentucky, 
April 3, 1856, and has been in the coal business twenty- 
three years. Mr. Swindler was formerly connected with 
Swindler & Pope. 

G. M. THOROGOOD, President Flat Branch Coal Co. and 
Secretary-Treasurer Tennessee Consolidated Coal Co. of 
Tracy City, Tennessee, was born at Cowan, Tennessee, July 
2, 1879, and has been in the coal business for fifteen years. 
Mr. Thorogood is also interested in the Tracy City Coal Co. 
and Nunley Ridge Coal Co., with which latter company he 
was formerly connected. 

MISS ANNIE WALKER. Manager of the retail coal firm 
of John A. Walker & Co., Columbia, Tennessee, was boi'n in 
Clinton, Alabama, and has been in the coal business eighteen 
years. This business "was established in 1882 by John A. 
Walker, and since his death has been continued under the 
firm name by his daughters. 

WILLIAM HERSCHEL WALKER, retail coal merchant of 
Dickson, Tennessee, was born in Lewisburg, Tennessee, No- 
vember 11, 1867, and has been in the coal business about six 
years. 

S. H. WILHOITE, Secretary and Treasurer Goodlettsville 
Coal Co., Goodlettsville, Tennessee, was born February 24, 
1867, in Davidson County, Tennessee, and has been in the 
coal business three years. 



419 



TEXAS 



ALTHOUGH Texas contains one fairl}- extensive 
bed of Ijitnniinoiis coal and several scattered 
fields of both bituminous coal and lignite, geo- 
graphic or transportation proximity to other earlier ex- 
ploited fields on the one hand and the competition witli 
fuel oil on the other have served to retard the develop- 
ment of the coal resources of the state upon a large 
scale and production during recent je&TS has suffered a 
progressive decline. While the total actual fuel con- 
sumption within the state compares favorably with 
that of other parts of the South, where manufacturing 
enterprises that are heavy coal consumers are not highly 
developed, the vast territory covered by the Lone Star 
state pulls down the per capita and square mile con- 
sumption averages to low figures. 

The largest bituminous fields of Texas lie in the north 
central part of the state in what is known as the South- 
western field, which covers portions of Arkansas, Okla- 
homa and northern Texas. The Texas division of this 
field is about 350 miles long and 45 miles wide and has 
an area of approximately 11,000 square miles. The 
known coal-bearing area is, however, much more limited 
and finds its principal commercial development in Wise, 
Palo, Pinto, Erath and McCullough counties. A small 
bituminous area is also worked in Maverick county, in 
the southern part of the state, near Eagle Pass, while in 
Webb county, near Laredo, the lignite beds, which ex- 
tend from the eastern boundary at the Sabine river in a 
southwesterly direction to the Eio Grande, change into 
bituminous. The bituminous fields as a whole are esti- 
mated to cover 13,500 square miles, of which 8,300 are 
classed as kno^ar to contain workable coal. 'While the 
lignite area is charted as covering the greater part of 
the eastern and southern joortions of the state, actual 
mining operations are carried on in scattered areas. 
The known lignite areas cover 3,000 square miles, while 
there are 53,000 square miles that may contain work- 
able beds. The principal centers of lignite production 
are in Medina, Milam and Wood counties, although op- 
erations have also been carried on in Anderson, Bastrop, 
Fayette, Hopkins, Houston, Leon, Eaines, Robertson, 
Shelby and Van Zandt counties. 

While Texas is first mentioned as a coal producer in 
the government reports of 1884, the tonnage credited to 
it for that year would indicate that development had 
lieen begun in a small way, some at a somewhat earlier 



date. Detailed production statistics since 1884 are 
shown in the foUowino- table : 



Year. 

1884.. 

1885.. 

1886.. 

1887.. 

1888.. 

1889.. 

1890.. 

1891.. 

1892.. 

1893.. 

1894.. 

1895. . 

1896.. 

1897.. 

1898.. 

1899.. 

1900.. 



Ton. Year. Ton. 

125,000 1901 1,107,953 

100,000 1902 901,912 

100,000 1903 926,759 

75,000 1904 1,195,944 

90,000 1905 1,200,684 

128,216 1906 1,312,873 

184,440 1907 1,648,069 

172,100 1908 1,895.377 

245,690 1909 1,824,440 

302,206 1910 1,892,176 

420,848 1911 1,974,593 

484,959 1912 2,188,612 

544,015 1913 2,429,144 

639,341 1914 2,323,773 

686,734 1915 2,088,908 

883,832 1916 1,987,503 

968,373 



Local and railroad fuel purchases accounted for ap- 
proximately 93 per cent, of the 1915 production of the 
state. The mines themselves consumed 59,356 tons, 
local trade took 13,366 tons, and intrastate shipments 
amounted to 800,834 tons, while the railroads used 
1,037,349 tons. Approximately 100,000 tons was 
shipped to tidewater, presumably nearly all for l^unker 
fuel, and 78,303 tons were exported all-rail to Mexico. 

The per capita consumption for the state for 1915 
was .48 ton and a square mile consumption of 8 tons. 
This low record is in a large measure due to the 
vast area included within the state, with its corre- 
sponding lack of density in population. During the 
year mentioned the consumption, using tonnage figures 
in place of averages, was 2,133,833 tons, exclusive of 
approximately 33,000 tons of Pennsylvania anthracite. 
Of this amount 873,456 tons, or more than 40 per cent., 
came from the Texas mines. Oklahoma, with ship- 
ments of 381,131 tons, ranked second as a source of 
Texas supply ; New Mexico came third with 313,589 
tons, and Colorado fourth with 273,337 tons. The 
Colorado figures also include some tonnage exported 
into Mexico through Texas. The other states furnisli- 
ing part of the Texas fuel requirements and the ton- 
nages shipped were as follows: Alabama, 39,987 tons; 
Arkansas, 78.418; Georgia, 156; Illinois, 30,648; Ken- 
tucky, 40,113; Pennsylvania, 339; Tennessee, 56,168; 
Viro-inia. 54,300, and West Viroinia, 3,381. 



420 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



TEXAS 

HIBEUT \V. AUAMS, Dallas, Texas, President Somluin 
Fuel Co., Dallas, was born in Vermont in 1870, and has 
been in tlie coal business twenty-eight years. He was 
formerly connected with the Kansas & Texas Coal Co., the 
Texas Coal Co., and the Brewer Coal & Mining' Co. 

JAMES A. BEAL, Manager Farmers' Union Warehouse 
Co., Shamrock, Texas, was born in Springfield, Missouri. 
March 12, 1860, and has been in the coal business eight years. 

MACK M. nOXXER. Manager of Allen & Bonner, retailers 
in business at Plaiuview. Texas, was born at Weatherford, 
Texas, June 10, 1883, and has been in the coal business for 
ten years. Mr. Bonner was formerly connected with Crow- 
dus Bros. & Hume Co. 

■WILLIAM COLLEY HKIGGS, Manager F. L. Briggs & Son, 
doing a coal business at Paducah, Texas, was born at Mexia, 
Texas, December 2S, ISfll, and has been in the coal business 
for eight years. Mr. Briggs is a Director of the Retail Coal 
Dealers' Association of Texas. 

GEORGE L,. CALDWELL, doing a retail business at Cor- 
pus Christi. Texas, was born in Tennessee in 1858, and has 
been in business for himself for fifteen years. 

R. ■«■. CARR, President of the Carr Coal Co., at San Anto- 
nio, Texas, was born at Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, May 16, 
1873, and has been in the coal business for twenty-two 
years. Mr. Carr is also President of the Rockdale Consoli- 
dated Coal Co. He has been Secretary of the Retail Coal 
Dealers' Association of Texas. 

EARL COBB, President of the Southwestern Coal Co.. 
wholesalers at Amarillo and Dallas, Texas, McAlester, Okla- 
homa, and Wichita, Kansas, was born in Pine Bluff, Arkan- 
sas, February 27, 1877, and has been in the coal business 
ten years, the entire time with this company. Mr. Cobb is 
also President of the Sunshine Smokeless Coal Co. of Hack- 
ett, Arkansas, a newly incorporated company, and Vice 
President of the Security Coal Co. of Huntington, Arkansas. 
He is regarded as one of the most progressive coal salesmen 
in the Southwest. 

IRVIX'G D. COLE, Division Sales Agent of the Colorado 
Fuel & Iron Co. at Amarillo, Texas, was born at Spring 
Valley, New York, April 18, 1871, and has been in the coal 
business for fifteen years. Mr. Cole is popular 'w^ith the 
trade and has many friends among the retailers. 

EDAVIN T. COLEMAN, retailer in coal and grain at Plain- 
view, Texas, was born at Arkadelphia, Arkansas, December 
23, 1879, and has been in the coal business for eighteen 
years. Mr. Coleman was formerly connected with the Timp- 
son Coal & Coke Co., and was Secretary-Treasurer of the 
Texas Retail Coal Dealers' Association for three years, when 
he retired last year. 

CHARLES G. DENISON, Owiier and Manager of the Bas- 
trop Lignite Co., wholesalers of coal at San Antonio, Texas, 
was born at Belton, Texas, August 6, 1880, and has been 
in the coal business for six years. Mr. Denison, before form- 
ing his present company, was connected with the Bastrop 
Coal Co. 

GEORGE \VILLIA3I DERBY, General Manager of the 
Santo Tomas Coal Co., miners of coal, with offices at Laredo. 
Texas, was born at Oswego, New York, in 1874 and has been 
in the coal business for a quarter of a century. Mr. Derby 
was formerly connected with the Rio Grande Coal Co. 

■W. P. DIAL, retail coal merchant at Memphis, Texas, was 
born at Woodstock, Georgia, February 17, 1864, and has been 
in the coal business for twelve years. Mr. Dial has other 
coal interests at Estelline, Texas. 

O. D. DILLINGHAM, retailer, engaged in business at Win- 
ters, Texas, was born at Columbia, Kentucky, February 28, 
1885, and has been in the coal business for five years. 

WILLIAM W'YATT EVANS, owner of the Evans Sales Co., 
El Paso, Texas, was born in Marion, Alabama, September 
21, 1870, and has been in the coal business twenty-five 
years. Mr. Evans was connected with Nelson Morris & Co., 
Morris & Co., Rothschild & Co., and Darbyshire & Evans, 
before forming the above company. 

DEAN M. PALLKNER, Southern Sales Agent for the Mc- 
Alester Fuel Co. at Dallas. Texas, with offices in the Wilson 
Building, was born at St. Louis, Missouri, September 9, 1882, 
and has been in the coal business since 1904, the entire time 
with this well known company. 

R. M. HESTER, Manager of the Abernathy Coal & Grain 
Co., doing a retail business at Abernathy, Texas, was born 
at Easley, South Carolina, in April. 1880, and has been in 
the coal business for twenty years. Mr. Hester was formerly 
connected with the Tandy Coal & Grain Co. 

R. E. HINES, President of the Hines Lumber & Coal Co., 
El Paso, Texas, was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, No- 
vember S, 18SS, and has been in the coal business six years. 



JOHN K. HIXTEH. Manager of the Dallas territory of 
the Southwestern Coal Co., with ollices at Dallas, Texas, 
was born at Enilenton, Pennsylvania, July 26, 1886, and has 
been in the coal business for four years, having been with 
this company at its Dallas office since it was opened. 

•irsTIx E. .lAKOWICZ, Manager Consumers' Ice & Coal 
Co., Port Arthur, Texas, was born in Poland, Russia, 
January 7, 1S73, and has been in tlie coal business six years. 
He was connected with a similar firm at Beaumont, Texas, 
before going into business at Poi-t Arthui-. 

WILLIAM H. JOHN, Secretary and Treasurer Bridge- 
port Coal Co., Bridgeport, Texas, was born in Mt. Car- 
mel, Pennsylvania, December 28, 1868, and has been in 
the coal business since his boyhood. Mr. John was formerly 
connected with the Swansea Coal Co. and Tom's Creek Coal 
& Coke Co. in Wise County, Virginia. 

JAS. F. JOHNSTON, proprietor of the Johnston Fuel Co., 
retailers engaged in business at San Angelo, Texas, was born 
at Dallas, Texas, December 15, 1871, and has been in the 
coal business for eight years. Mr. Johnston was previously 
connected with Johnston & Moore. 

WILLIAM C. KENYON, Owner and Manager of the Kenyon 
Grain & Coal Co. at Amarillo, Texas, was born in Kane 
County, Illinois, January 3, 1865, and has been in the coal 
business almost twenty-five years. Mr. Kenyon was pre- 
viously connected with the Maddrey Kenyon Grain & Coal 
Co., Amarillo Grain & Coal Co. and Lemons Grain & Coal 
Co. and has been a member of the Executive Committee of 
the Texas Retail Coal Dealers' Association for six years. 

CHARLES JACOB KLEINER, General Manager of Kleiner 
Bros. Coal Co. at Cisco, Texas, was born in Cisco February 
24, 1894, and has been in the coal trade for one year. 

JOHN HARTMAN KLEINER, Assistant Manager of the 
Kleiner Bros. Coal Co. at Cisco, Texas, was born in Cisco 
January 29, 1896, and has been in the coal business for two 
years. 

ORA DAA'IS LEISBLRG, retailer doing business at Clar- 
endon, Texas, was born at Pink Hill, North Carolina, in 
1880, and has been in the coal business for fifteen years. 

CHARLES H. LILLEY, retail coal merchant at Fort 
Worth, Texas, was born in Willougiiby, Ohio, November 12, 
1856, and has been in the coal business thirty years. Mr. 
Lilley was formerly connected with Lilley & Bibb. He is 
President of the Retail Coal Dealers' Association of Texas. 

JAMES A. LINCOLN, Owner and Manager of the James A. 
Lincoln Coal Co., doing a wholesale business at Dallas, 
Texas, was born at Somerville, Ohio, May 5, 1871, and has 
been in the coal business for eight years. Mr. Lincoln was 
formerly connected with the Bolen-Darnall Coal Co. of Kan- 
sas City, Missouri. 

C. J. LYNN, Manager of C. J. Lynn & Son, retailers at 
Ballinger, Texas, was born in 1870, and has been in the coal 
business for thirteen years. 

T. J. H. aicLEOD, retail coal merchant at Hillsboro, Texas, 
was born in Mississippi September 26, 1875, and has been 
in the coal business for fourteen years. Mr. McLeod is Vice 
President of the Retail Coal Dealers' Association of Texas. 

JOHN H. SIcLERRAN, retail coal merchant at Cameron, 
Texas, was born in Clay County, Tennessee, January 12, 1859, 
and has been in the coal business for himself for twenty- 
six years. 

H. C. PEARSON, Manager of Pearson & Pieratt, retailers 
of coal at Lorenzo, Texas, was born at Baileyville, Texas, 
January 13, 1876, and has been in the coal business for six 
years. 

J. SIDNEY PULLIAM, President of the Pulliam-Trewitt 
Coal Co., retail coal merchants at Dallas, Texas, was born 
at Houston, Missi.=sippi, July 27, 1878, and has been in the 
coal business for fifteen years. Mr. Pulliam was the founder 
of the Pulliam Fuel Co. He is Vice President of the Retail 
Coal Dealers Association of Texas. 

GERRIE PRICE PUTNAM, President and Manager of the 
West Texas Fuel Co.. El Paso, Texas, has been in tlie coal 
business fifteen years. 

LEWIS THOMAS RANDEL, retailer engaged in business 
at Chillicothe, Texas, was born in Perry County, Tennessee, 
December 23, 1865, and has been in the coal business for 
himself for eight years. 

W. C. SILLIMAN, President and General Manager Calvin 
Coal Co., San Antonio, Texas, was born at Clinton, Alabama, 
December 10, 1865, and has been in the coal business for 
twenty years. Mr. Silliman organized the first Texas State 
Mining Board and served upon it for two years. 

DAVID HENRY" THOMPSON, President of the D. H. 
Thompson Lumber Co., dealers in coal at retail at Waxa- 
hachie. Texas, was born February 3, 1863, and has been in 
the coal business almost thirty years. 



421 



UTAH 



FivOJM the point of view of commercial mining Utali 
nial<es a strong appeal to the practical operator 
because of the number of thick veins, ranging up 
to 20 feet, found in its coal measures. Although its 
earl}' development was somewhat retarded because of 
lack of extensive transportation facilities this handicap 
has been lessened, while the growth of the metal indus- 
try in the West gives it an attractive market close to 
home. Larger general markets opened up to it during 
the winter of 1917-1918 because of the country- wide 
difficidties in transportation and the rising demands of 
the East. 

The coal fields of the state are known to contain 
workable beds covering an area of over 13,000 square 
miles and there are 2,000 square miles which may also 
contain workable beds. The largest and commercially 
most important field of the states lies in the Uinta 
basin, which parallels the southern side of the Uinta 
Mountains and extends to the southeast as far as Crested 
Butte, Colo. The coal bearing rocks are exposed in the 
Book Cliffs along the southern rim of the basin and ar(; 
easily accessible, but those in the center of the basin 
are under such heavy cover that it is doubtful if they 
can ever be worked. The Book Cliffs field and its 
southern extension, the Wasatch plateau, produce over 
90 per cent, of the output of the state, with the center 
of activity in Carbon county. The coal-bearing rocks 
of this field, outcropping in western Colorado and east- 
ern Utah, contain several beds varying in thickness from 
three to 20 feet. The most important Utah mines are 
at Sunnyside, Castlegate, Winterquarters and Clear 
Creek. Next in importance to the Book Cliffs field 
comes the Weber Eiver field in the northern part of the 
state. Two beds, ranging from seven to 11 feet in thiclc- 
ness, have been worked in this field at Coalville, Summit 
county. Another important field is in the southern part 
of the state in Iron, Washington, Kane and Garfield 
counties. The coal here varies from less than one to 
more than ten feet in thickness. Some semi-anthracite 
and a fair grade of cannel have been found in this part 
of the state. 

The first record of Utah production was for the year 
1870 when 5,800 tons were reported. There is a hiatus 
in figures until 1876, when production reached 50,400 
tons. Output increased for the next three years, fell to 
50,000 in 1879 and dropped to 14,748 tons in 1880. 



The next year it jumped to 52,000 tons, reached 100,000 
tons in 1882 and doubled in 1883. Output between 
that year and 1900, when the 1,000,000-ton mark was 
passed, showed pronounced fluctuations, particularly in 
the early part of the period. The yearly output since 
] 900 is shown in the following table : 



Year. 
1900., 
1901.. 
1902.. 
1903.. 
1904. . 
1905.. 



Ton. Year. Ton. 

1,147,027 1909 2,266,899 

1,322,614 1910 2,517,809 

1,574,521 1911 2,513,175 

1,681,409 1912 3,016,149 

1,493,027 1913 3,254,828 

1,332,372 1914 3,103,036 

1906 1,772,551 1915 .- 3,108,715 

1907 1,947,607 1916 3,567,428 

1908 1,846,792 

Until the development of the conditions referred to 
in the opening paragraph Utah looked to the home mar- 
ket for the distribution of the major portion of its out- 
put. For example, in 1915 out of a total production 
of 3,108,715 tons 1,903,749 tons never left the state. 
Of this internal consumption 104,304 tons were used 
at the mines, 47,224 tons were sold locally, 1,097,834 
tons were shipped to intrastate points and 654,387 tons 
were made into coke. Part of the latter, of course, ulti- 
mately reached points outside of the state. The rail- 
roads used 565,489 tons, leaving 639,447 tons for ship- 
ment to interstate points for general industrial and 
domestic use. Of the tonnage last mentioned Idaho 
took 227,417 tons; Nevada, 169,928; California, 161,- 
987; Washington, 32,039; Oregon, 30,755; Montana, 
17,301, and W3'oming, 50 tons. 

Upon a per capita consumption basis Utah's bitu- 
minous consumption of 2.79 tons was .75 ton above the 
average for the country as a whole and only .03 ton 
less than the combined anthracite and bituminous aver- 
age. Its square mile consumption, however, was only 
23 tons, or 100 tons less than the national average. Ac- 
cording to government figures for the year under review, 
1915, no Pennsylvania anthracite was used in Utah. 
The total bituminous consumption, exclusive of a small 
quantity of Colorado coal included in the Nevada con- 
simiption fig-ures, was 1,978,702 tons. Of this, as before 
stated, 1,903,749 tons, or slightly in excess of 96 per 
cent., was Utah coal. W^'oming contributed 74,788 tons 
and West Virginia shipped 165 tons. 



422 



COAL MEN OF AATI-RTCA 



UTAH 



WILLIAM A. BAIR, retail coal merchant in Imsiness at 
Richmond. Vtah. was born in Richmond .Iiil>- 24. ISB.'!, and 
has been in the coal business for fifteen years. 

CHARLES AV. BROAV.V, General Sales Ag-ent of the Cen- 
tral Coal & Coke Co., Salt Lake City. Utah, was born in 
Akron, Ohio. October 15, 1881. He has been in the service 
of this company sine? the early part of 1915 as North- 
western representative, with headquarters at Spokane, 
Wasliington. 

JOHX S. CRITCHLOW, General Sales Manager United 
States Fuel Co., with several branches and main office at 
Salt Lake City, Utah, ^vas born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 
1870, and has been in the coal business twenty-three years. 

JOV "\V. DUIVYOIV, proprietor of the J. W. Dunyon Coal Co., 
doing- a retail business at Salt Lake City, Utah, was born at 
Salt Lake City November 25, 1S65, and has been in business 
for himself for fourteen years. 

THOMAS J. DYE was General Sales Agent of the Central 
Coal & Coke Co., Salt Lake City, Utah, until March 31, 1918, 
when called into the military service of his countrj'. He 
was born in Rexbury. Idaho, November 17, 1890, and has 
Vieen in the coal business eight years. Mr. Dye was for- 
merly connected with the Utah Fuel Co. of Castle Gate, Utah. 

JOHN FARR, proprietor of the John Farr Coal Co., Og- 
den, Utah, was born at Ogden, January 4, 1863, and has been 
in the coal business for almost twenty-five years. Mr. Farr 
was formerly connected with the Manmath Coal Co. He has 
been President of the Utah Retail Coal Merchants Associa- 
tion. He succeeded his father in business, a pioneer retail 
coal man of 1.S4T. prominent In Ogden City as Mayor for 
twenty-two years. 

HENRY FRANS PERNSTROM, Manager of the Bamberger 
Coal Co., retailers in business at Salt Lake City, Utah, was 
born at Salt Lake City, August 22, 1877, and has been in 
the coal business for twelve years. Mr. Frenstrom is a 
member of the Advisorv Committee of National Fuel Ad- 
ministrator Garfield. 

S. N. LEE, partner in the Lee Coal Co., doing a retail coal 
business at Brigham City, Utah, was born in Denmark 
March 31, 1852, and has been in the coal business twenty 
years. 



AVILLIAM I>. LEWIS. Manager of the Utah Coal & Supply 
Co., doing a i-etail business at Provo, Utah, was born in 
Provo, I'tali, is a native of Provo, born July 9, 1S88, and 
has been in the coal business for three years. 

EDAV.VRD H. O'BRIEN, President Citizens Coal Co., Salt 
T>ake Cil.v, I'tali, is a native of Penns.vlvania, born in 1S7-1, 
and has been in tlie coal business for a (luarter of a cen- 
tury. Mr. O'Brien was formerly connected witli the Dia- 
mond Coal & Coke Co. of Wyoming and the coal department 
of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. of Montana and knows 
every brancli of the coal industry thoroughly, including min- 
ing, wholesaling and retailing of coal. 

DELBERT HILI, PAPE, General Manager of the Lion Coal 
Co. and Wyoming- Coal Co., miners with offices at Ogden. 
Utah, was born at Park City, Utah, January 11, 1884, and 
has been in the coal business for eight years. Mr. Pape 
was previously connected with the Central Coal & Coke Co. 
and is well known in the western coal trade because of his 
interest in mining conditions. 

LEON FELIX RAINS, with offices in the Newhouse Build- 
ing, Salt Lake City, Utah, was born in Nashville, Tennessee, 
February 1, 187.7, and has been in the coal business for fif- 
teen years. Mr. Rains is President of the Carbon Fuel Co., 
Wasatch Coal Co., Rains Mercantile Co. and Blazon Coal Co., 
General Manager of the Wattis Coal Co. and Wattis Mercan- 
tile Co., partner Rains-"S\^attis Agency Co., and Sales Agent 
Wyopa-Kemmerer Coal Co. He -was formerly connected with 
the Pennsylvania Coal & Coke Co.. Sunday Creek Coal Co., 
St. Paul & Western Coal Co.. and City Fuel Co. of Chicago. 

ALEX. H. ROLLO, Secretary of the Parowan Mining & 
Coke Co. at Parowan, Utah, was born in Scotland September 
17, 1867. and has been in the coal business for four years. 
Mr. Rollo, before coming with this company, was associated 
with Wood-Taylor Co. of Cedar City, Utah. 

HEBER S. RUPPER, Manager of the Knight Coal Co., re- 
tail coal yard of the Spring Canyon Coal Co., wholesalers at 
Provo. Utah, is a native of Provo, born July 9. 1888. and has 
been in the co.al business for three years. 

FREDERICK A. SWEET, President of the Standard Coal 
Co., producers with offices at Salt Lake City, Utah, was born 
at Hinckley, Illinois, February 2, 1873, and has been in the 
coal business for ten years. Mr. Sweet was formerly con- 
nected with the Independent Coal & Coke Co. and Consolida- 
tion Fuel Co. and is also interested at present in the Stand- 
ard Fuel Co., a retail company at Salt Lake City. 



423 



VIRGINIA 



VllfCil^'IA, the lir8t of the original Thirteen Col- 
onie.s, also enjoys the honor of l^eing the first 
state in the Union to enter the ranks of the 
country's bituminous coal producers. Although in re- 
cent years it has been overshadowed in tonnage by a 
number of its juniors, most notably by its sister com- 
monwealths of West Virginia and of Pennsylvania, it 
still holds a place well towards the front, its production 
in 1916 being ninth in point of tonnage. Much of 
the coal mined has a high reputation, some of it being- 
classed with semi-anthracite and semi-bituminous. In 
addition it is the gateway through which the tidewater 
traffic of West Virginia must pass. While eighteenth 
in point of total consumption within the state in 1915, 
it was fifth among the southern commonwealths. 

The earliest developments of the coal resources of the 
state were in what is generally known as the Eichmond 
basin. This basin, which is included within the coun- 
ties of Chesterfield, Goochland, Henrico and Powhatan, 
lies in the southeastern part of Virginia about thirteen 
miles above tide on the James River. The coal bearing 
formations are of the Triassic age. The occurrence of 
coal in this locality was known as far back as 1700 ; 
mining began the latter half of the eighteenth century 
and in 1789 shipments were made to some of the north- 
ern states. By 1882 production was estimated at 5-1,- 
000 tons, this field being the only bituminous coal area 
then a factor in the coal history of the country. 
The district reached its hey-dey of production in 1833 
Avhen the output rose to 142,587 tons. With the rise of 
the Pocahontas field in the early '80s, the Eichmond 
basin mines were placed at a substantial disadvantage 
and operations practically ceased. Eehabilitation and 
redevelopment of certain Henrico County properties 
M'ere inaugurated in 1909. 

The most important coal bearing area of Virginia is 
the southeastern extension of the well-known Pocahon- 
tas Flat Top field of West Virginia. Development upon 
a commercial scale began with the extension of the New 
Eiver division of the Norfolk & Western Eailway into 
Tazewell County in 1883. The first car shipped from 
this field to Norfolk was distributed among the poor. 
Tazewell County held undisputed sway until the com- 
pletion of the Clinch Valley branch of the railway named 
in 1892. This l)ranch of the Norfolk & Western, tap- 
ping the ricli deposits of Wise County, in a few years 



made that county the leading coal producing field of the 
state. Starting with a production of 126,216 tons in 
1893, against a Tazewell County output of 653,374, by 
1897 Wise County production had outstripped that of 
Tazewell. 

About eleven years ago (1907) development was be- 
gun in the "Pocket" coal district, lying, for the most 
part, in what is known as Black Mountain, which is a 
portion of the Cumberland Eange. By 1910 a dozen 
separate beds of workable thickness had been located and 
extensive exploitation of the field, particularly in Lee 
Couiity, was under way. This district of the south- 
western part of the state was further aided by the con- 
struction of the Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio Eailway 
from Dante, Va., to Spartanburg, S. C. The opening 
up of this line made possible further exploitation of the 
coal fields in Dickenson, Eussell and Buchanan counties. 
Although the coal fields of the southwestern part of 
the state are of comparatively limited extent, "the high 
quality of the coal," says the United States Geological 
Survev, "and the number and thickness of the beds give 
promise of a considerably increased production within 
the next few years." ' Much of the coal in this district is 
of high grade steam and coking quality. 

In addition to the Eichmond basin and the south- 
western fields the state also contains two small basins 
of Pocono (basal Mississippian) age situate to the 
southeast of the main Allegheny coal field in the state. 
The northern basin lies in Frederick County ; the south- 
ern, in Pulaski and ]\Iontgomery counties. It is from 
these basins that the Virginia semi-anthracite, contain- 
ing between 84 and 86 per cent, fixed carbon, comes. 
Prior to 1904, the coal from these mines had only a 
local sale, but since that date, development — and espe- 
cially of the Pulaski-Montgomery, or sorithern, basin — 
has spread the fame of this Virginia coal over a wide 
area. 

As has been stated, the first production was sometime 
prior to 1789, but the records compiled by the Geolog- 
ical Survey do not go back further than 1822, when the 
state was credited with an output of 54,000 tons. Growth 
M'as steady until 1837, when the output had reached an 
estimated total of 160,000 tons. The next je%Y the 
state's production had jumped to 300,000 tons and by 
1840 had reached 424,894 tons. The output which, it 
^^^ll be recalled, also included the coal fields of what is 



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now AYest Virginia suffered a routiniious clei-liue until 
1850, wlien the total was only oKi.ihmi Ions. Kecovcrv 
started iu 1S5"2 and by 18.J.") pi'odiicl ion liad risen tn 
380,782 tons. Tlie output was subject to increases and 
decreases until 18()(>, when a production of 473.3()0 tons 
was reported. A^'itii the opening of tlie Civil War the 
outpiit dropped to 4-4o,165 tons, while the separation of 
the Ohl Dominion into two states in 1863 left Avhat is 
now Virginia with an estimated production of only 
40,000 tons. War days, the reconstruction period and 
the panic of "73 were all reflected in the fluctuating 
output of the following years. With the o])euing up 
of the Pocahontas Flat Top field, to which reference 
was made in an earlier paragraph, production received 
an impetus that pushed it over the 1.000,000 ton mark 
in 1888, only to fall back again in 1889. Production 
since that date is shown in the foUov/ing talmlation: 

Year. Ton. 

1904 3,410,914 

1905 4,275,271 

1906 4,254,879 

1907 4,710,895 

1908 4,259,042 

1909 4,752,217 

1910 6,507,997 

1911 6,864,667 

1912 7,846,638 

1913 8,828,068 

1914 7,959,535 

1915 8,122,596 

1916 •. 9,707,474 



Year. Ton. 

1890 784,011 

1891 736,399 

1892 675,205 

1893 820,339 

1894 1,229,083 

1895 1,368,324 

1896 1,254,723 

1897 1,528,302 

1898 1,815,274 

1S99 2,105,791 

1900 2,393,754 

1901 2,725,873 

1902 3,182,983 

1903 3,451,307 



The Irigh quality of coal produced in this state in 
normal times permits Virginia to distribute her output 
over 40 per cent, of the states of the Union. In 191.5, 



ont of a ]iro(hic1ion of 8,122,59(3 tons, about 25 per cent. 
was coked at the mines or used within the state, about 
•')•") per cent, was shipped to various other parts of the 
country, ap])ro.\imately nine per cent, went to tidewater 
and the railroads absorbed in the ncighljorhood of 31 
per cent. In detail, the distrilmtiou figures were as 
follows: Consumed within the state, 2,0<)4.;)44 tons 
(viz., 135,799 tons used at tlie mines, 82,210 tons sold 
to local trade, 829,983 tons shipped to intrastate points 
and 956,352 tons coked) ; shipped to other states, 2,824,- 
961 tons; shipped to tidewater, 766,575 tons; used by 
railroads, 2,526,716 tons. 

N'early 50 per cent, of the total tonnage shipped to 
interstate points went to the Carolina.s, Avhich used 
1,366,943 tons. Georgia came next with 368,751 tons. 
Shipments to other states were as follows: Alabama, 
67,961 tons; District of Columbia (and Maryland), 
3.913 ; Florida, 40,230; Illinois, 120,300; Indiana, 152,- 
291 ; Iowa, 1,500 ; Michigan, 29,205 ; Minnesota, 47,000 ; 
Mis.souri, 1,500; North Dakota, 15,391; Ohio, 169,432; 
South Dakota, 4,000; Tennessee, 373,244; Texas, 54,- 
300 and Wisconsin, 9,000 tons. 

As a consumer Virginia depended upon her own 
mines and those of West Aarginia for her priuci]5al 
requirements. Out of a total bituminous consumption 
of 4,286,834 tons, A^^irginia, as appears above, contril)- 
uted 2,004,344 tons to her OAvn needs, while West A'^ir- 
ginia furnished 2,228,268 tons. Penn.sylvania was 
called upon for 51,064 tons ; Alaryland for 787 ; Ken- 
tucky for 2,064 and Alabama for 307 tons. Pennsyl- 
vania anthracite shipments were approximate] v 170.000 
tons. The average consumption of coal per capita for 
tlie state was 1.41 tons; per square mile, 104 tons. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 




JOHN A. ESSER, Esserville, Virginia, 

President J. A. Esser Coke Co., Esserville, Virginia, was born at Mauch 
Chunk, Pennsylvania, December 15, 1848, and has been connected with 
coal and coke companies continuously since July, 1864. Mr. Esser is 
well known in the trade and has been associated with the following 
companies: Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co., 1864-1881; H. C. Frick & 
Co., 1881-1896; General Manager Virginia Coal & Iron Co., 1896-1900; 
General Manager Colonial Coal & Coke Co., 1900-1910; General Manager 
Norton Coal Co., 1912-1913, at which time he bought his present plant, 
and since then has more than doubled the output. The plant has 102 
coke ovens, turning out the best grade of foundry coke. 



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OSCAR W. GARDNER, Lynehbursr. Virsinia. 

President of The Chesapeake & Virginian Coal Co., Inc., 
distributors, with offices at Lynchburg-, Virginia, Cleveland 
and Cincinnati, Ohio, and Huntington, "West Virginia, was 
born in Gallipolis, Ohio, June 4, 1882, and has been in the 
coal business sixteen years. Mr. Gardner was formerly 
associated with the Guggenheim interests and the New 
River Collieries Co. He has several other coal interests, and 
his company is known in the trade as one of the largest 
distributors of West Virginia coal. 





CLINTOJV DE WITT, JR., Lynchburpr. Virginia, 

Secretary and Treasurer of The Chesapeake & Virginian 
Coal Co., Lynchburg, Virginia, large wholesalers, with many 
branches, was born at Lynchburg February 12, 1881, and has 
been interested in operating companies for the past twelve 
years. Mr. DeWitt is also a Director of the Turkey Gap Coal 
& Coke Co. and Secretary-Treasurer of the Ivy White Ash 
Coal Co. 



BERT F. MILLS, Cleveland, Ohio, 

Western Manag.er The Chesapeake & Virginian Coal Co. of 
Lynchburg,- Virginia, at 556 Rockefeller Building, Cleveland, 
Ohio, was bor:n "in Gallipolis, Ohio, October 31, 1867, and has 
been in the coal business twenty-five years. Mr. Mills was 
previously connected with the Pittsburgh & Wheeling Coal 
Co., Pittsburgh & Ohio Mining Co., and Pittsburgh-West- 
moreland Coal Co. 



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428 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 




WEBB J. AVII,LITS, Norton. Virgliiin, 

President Norton Coal Co., Norton, Virginia, was born in 
Three Rivers, Michigan, March 8, 1882, and has been in the 
coal business for fifteen years, the entire time -wnth the Nor- 
ton Coal Co. Mr. Willits is also President of the Hawthorne 
Coal Co. and Gladeville Coal Co. of Norton, Virginia. He 
is a member of the Virginia Coal Operators Committee and 
on the Board of Directors of Kilgore Coal Corp. of Norton, 
Virginia, and Old Dominion Coal, Iron & Coke Co. of 
Roanoke, Virginia. This latter company is handling the 
major portion of coal and coke produced by their operations. 





WILMKR WILLIS HOUSTON, Norfolk, Virginia, 

Co-partner of Paul L. Jones in the ownership of the Pan- 
Handle Coal Co., Norfolk, Virginia, formerly Norfolk Man- 
ager Houston Coal Co., and having charge of the company's 
export interests at Hampton Roads, ^vas born in Collamer, 
Pennsylvania, February 10, 1869, and has been in the coal 
business since 1904. Mr. Houston has had experience in the 
production and selling of coal and was formerly General 
Superintendent at Mines for Thacker Coal & Coke Co., 
Thacker Fuel Co., and Lynn Coal & Coke Co., near Thacker, 
West Virginia. He opened the Norfolk ofHce of the Houston 
Coal Co. in 1913, prior to which time he was located at the 
Chicago office. 



WALKER C. COTTRELL, Richmond, Virginia, 

Owner of Samuel H. Cottrell & Son, doing a large retail busi- 
ness at Richmond, is a native of Richmond, born in 1878, and 
a son of Samuel H. Cottrell. Mr. Cottrell has been in the 
coal business for twenty-two years and has acquired a num- 
ber of other interests. He has held many offices in the 
Retail Coal Dealers' Association of Virginia and is also a 
member of the Executive Committee of the National Retail 
Coal Merchants' Association, President of the Richmond 
Rotary Club and Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees, 
Richmond Public Schools. Mr. Cottrell is unusually popular 
in the trade and highly regarded in his city. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



VIRGINIA 



WILLIAM H. ASTON, President Bridgeport Coal Co. of 
Bridgeport, Texas, is a resident of Meadow View, Virginia, 
having- been born in Meadow View May 11, 1S65. Mr. Aston 
was formerly President of tlie Swansea Coal Co. of Coeburn, 
Virginia, and lias been in the coal business twenty-five 
years. 

J. M, BLESSING, retail coal merchant at Wytheville, 
Virginia, was born August 15, 1879, in "Wythe County, Vir- 
ginia, and has been in tlie coal business for two years. 

G. VV. BOND, Manager of the Bedford Coal Co., Bedford, 
Virginia, is a native of Bedford and has been in the coal 
business a year. 

C W. BONDURANT, President and General Manager United 
Collieries, Inc., St. Charles, Virginia, was born at Bristol, 
Virginia, in 1887 and has had fifteen years' mining experi- 
ence. 

CHARLES HENRY BOSCHEN, retail coal merchant doing 
business at Ashland, Virginia, was born at Richmond, Vir- 
ginia, January 24, 1876, and has been in business for him- 
self for five years. 

IRVING L. BRAGG, Southern Sales Agent American Coal 
Co. of Allegheny County at Roanoke, Virginia, was born in 
Roanoke July 28, 1886, and has been in the coal business for 
ten years. Mr. Bragg was formerly connected with Hat- 
ton. Brown & Co. 

THOMAS V. BRENNAN, Southern Sales Manager Whitney 
& Kemmerer Co., Norton, Virginia, was born in Covington, 
Kentucky, January 12, 1885, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness seven years. Mr. Brennan was formerly connected with 
Carver Bros. Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. 

WILLIAM S. BRYAN, retail coal merchant in business at 
Staunton, Virginia, was born October 26, 1S68, in Staunton 
and has been in the coal business for thirty-two years. 

JOS. E. CALDWELL, Secretary and Treasurer of the C. "W. 
Kanode Coal Co., producers at Cambria, Virginia, was born 
at Wytheville, Virginia, February 4, 1868, and has been in 
the coal business two years. This company is opening a 
mine within two hundred yards of and on the saine vein 
as that from which was taken the coal to fire the "Merri- 
mac." 

LEE DAVIS CALPEE, retailer engaged in business at 
Wytheville, Virginia, was born in 1862 in Wythe County, 
Virginia, and has been in the coal business for twenty-seven 
years. 

OSCAR L. COHRON, member of the firm of C. H. Cohron 
& Son, doing a retail coal business at Stuart's Draft, Vir- 
ginia, has been in the coal business for thirty years. 

CHARLES WILLIAM COMPTON, Secretary and Sales Man- 
ager Banner Pocahontas Fuel Corp., vi^ith offices in the Mac- 
Bain Building, Roanoke, Virginia, was born at Mechanics- 
burg, Virginia, March 18, 1865, and has been in the coal 
business since 1907. Mr. Compton was President of the Poca- 
hontas Sewell Coal Co. from 1912 to 1917. 

SAMUEL H. COTTRELL of Samuel H. Cottrell & Son, re- 
tail firm at Richmond, Virginia, was born in Henrico County, 
Virginia, in 1850 and died November 24, 1917, leaving an 
irreproachable reputation. His name has long been iden- 
tified with the coal interests of this locality, the first active 
operation of coal in the United States having been on the 
property of a grandfather four generations removed from 
him. Mr. Cottrell was a member of the Board of Aldermen 
of the city of Richmond for eighteen years and was one of 
the most highly respected and prominent retailers in his 
section. At has death his entire interests were taken over 
by his son, Walker C. Cottrell, for nineteen years a member 
of the firm. 

W. I. COX, Secretary and Treasurer of Friend & Co., Inc., 
Petersburg, Virginia, was born October 30, 1874, and has 
been in the coal business twenty-three years. 

CLARENCE JACKSON CREVELING, General Superintend- 
ent of the Blackwood Coal & Coke Co., Blackwood, Vir- 
ginia, ^vas born in Pennsylvania in 1864 and has been in the 
coal business for twenty years. Mr. Creveling was formerly 
connected with Pardee Bros. & Co. and is a Director of the 
Southwestern Virginia Coal Operators' Association. He was 
the Virginia delegate to the National Mining Congress. 

FRANK S. DIUGUID of Diuguid Bros., handlers of coal at 
retail in Lynchburg, Virginia, was born at Lynchburg Sep- 
tember 7, 1884, and has been in the coal business for twelve 
years. Mr. Diuguid is Vice President of the Retail Coal As- 
sociation of Virginia. 
Coal Co. 

CHARLES GAVON DIJFFY, Superintendent Stonega Coke 
& Coal Co., Stonega, Virginia, was born September 27, 1875, 
in Somerset, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, and has been 
in the coal business thirty years. Mr. Duify was formerly 
connected with the H. C. Frick Coke Co. for nine years, 
having been in his present connection twenty-one years. 



JACOB KENTON EVANS, proprietor of the Evans Feed Co., 
doing a retail business at Clifton Forge, Virginia, has been 
in the coal business for six years. 

GEORGE BENSON FEREBEE, Vice President and General 
Manager of the Nottingham & Wrenn Co., Norfolk, Virginia, 
was born in Princess Anne County, Virginia, March 22, 1861, 
and has been in the coal business for thirty-one years. Mr. 
Ferebee is also interested in some West Virginia coal mines. 

J. T. FISHER, retailer at Winchester, Virginia, was born 
August 24, 1848, in West Virginia and has been in the coal 
business for twenty-two years. 

TAZEWELL FITZGERALD, Southern Manager of the Nor- 
folk & Chesapeake Coal Co., Norfolk, Virginia, was born in 
Richmond, Virginia, October 15, 1878, and has been in the 
coal business for fifteen years. Mr. Fitzgerald -was previ- 
ously connected with the W. R. Johnson Coal Co. 

ROBERT FLEMING, President Robert Fleming & Co., Nor- 
ton, Virginia, was born in Scotland in 1855 and has been 
in the coal business all his life. Mr. Fleming was formerly 
connected with the Banner Coal Co., Virginia Coal Co., Nor- 
ton Coal Co. and others, and his experience has been in Illi- 
nois, lo^wa, Tennessee and Virginia. 

OSCAR ROBERTSON FULLER, partner of Peerman & 
Fuller, retail coal merchants of Danville, Virginia, was born 
in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, October 27, 1874, and has 
been in the coal business since 1899. Mr. Fuller was for- 
merly connected with Conway & Walker. 

CHARLES SMITH GAW, retail coal merchant of Waynes- 
boro, Virginia, was born in April, 1873, at Woodstock, Vir- 
ginia, and has been in the coal business for tvs^enty years. 
He was formerly connected with Lavell & Gaw. 

CHARLES EVINGTON GEOGHEGAN, retail coal merchant 
engaged in business at Chase City, Virginia, was born at 
Clarksville, Virginia, January 20, 1867, and has been in busi- 
ness for himself for twenty j ears. 

PETERSON AGEE GOODWYN. President and Treasurer of 
the Goodwyn Coal & Ice Co., doing a retail coal business at 
Bristol, Virginia, was born in Petersburg, Virginia, August 
2, 1872, and has been in the coal business thirteen years. 
Mr. Goodwyn is President of the Retail Coal Dealers' Asso- 
ciation of Bristol, Virginia-Tennessee. 

B. THEODORE GRIFFIN, President Griffin Bros., Inc., of 
Norfolk, Virginia, was born in Hertford, North Carolina, 
November 5. 1S79, and has been in the coal business fifteen 
years. Mr. Griffin is President of the Norfolk Coal Exchange. 

F. G. GROVE, retail coal merchant engaged in business 
at Luray, Virginia, has been in the coal business for twenty 
years. 

ORVILLE W. GUY, President O. V\''. Guy Co., Norfolk, 
Virginia, is a native of Norfolk, born November 22, 1876, 
and has been in the coal business for twenty years. 
Mr. Guy was formerly connected with the Water Front Coal 
Co. as Secretary and Treasurer and is one of the best known 
coalmen in his section. 

S. HORACE HAWES, President S. H. Hawes & Co., Rich- 
mond, Virginia, was born in Powhatan, Virginia, June 5, 
1838. and has been in the coal business since 1867, over 
half a century. 

J. T. HEARD, retail coal merchant engaged in the general 
merchandise business and the manufacture of slack staves 
at Elkton, Virginia, was born in Henry County, Virginia, 
October 20, 1860, and has been in the coal business twenty 
years. 

JAMES H. HILL, Secretary and Treasurer of the James H. 
Hill Co., Inc., Norfolk, Virginia, was born at Norfolk Decem- 
ber 11, 1867, and has been in the coal business almost forty 
years. Mr. Hill was formerly connected with Geo. W. Taylor 
& Co. and Norfolk Coal & Ice Co. and is a Past President of 
the Retail Coal Dealers' Association of Virginia. 

SAMUEL HURT HOBBS of Hobbs Hoy Co., Petersburg, 
Virginia, was born in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, Decenn- 
ber 14, 1865, and has been in the coal business twenty years. 
Mr. Hobbe was formerly President of the City Fuel Co. 

JAMES C. HOY of the Hobbs Hoy Co., Petersburg. Vir- 
ginia, was born at Petersburg and has been in the coal 
business all his life. He was formerly connected with J. C. 
Hoy & Bro. and Jackson & Hoy. 

CHRISTIAN S. HUTTER, retail coal merchant at Lynch- 
burg, Virginia, was born in Bedford County, Virginia, Oc- 
tober 19, 1862, and has been in the coal business for thirty- 
six years. Mr. Hutter was formerly connected with I. H. 
Adams & Bros, and was Secretary and Treasurer of the Vir- 
ginia and Carolina Coal Association. 

MONTGOMERY C. JACKSON, President Jackson Coal & 
Coke Co., Inc., Petersburg, Virginia, -was born at Petersburg 
December 26, 1872, and has been in the coal business for 
twenty-three years. 

GRATTON C. JONES, proprietor of the Christiansburg Fuel 
Co., doing a retail coal business at Christiansburg, Virginia, 
is a native of Christiansburg, born October 1, 1881. He has 
been in the coal business twelve years. 



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HKKVIIO SLAl (iH'I'Kll .lOXKS. Clifton Forge, Virginia, 
was born in Culi)fi).T County, Virginia, January 18, 1868. 
and lias been in tlie coal business fifteen years. Mr. Jones 
Avas formerly connected witli the Chesapealce & Ohio Coal 
& Coke Co.. Smokeless Fuel Co. and White Oak Coal Co. 

VV. I. JOAES, Secretary and Treasurer O. W. Guy Co., Nor- 
folk, Virginia, was borij in 1886 and has been in the coal 
business for six years. 

TYLER FRAZIER KIDD. retail coal merchant engaged in 
business at Crockett. Virginia, \vas born at Cove Creek, Vir- 
ginia. May 3, 1873, and has been in business for himself for 
twelve years. 

THOMAS P. KIXNEY, Secretary and Treasurer of the 
Standard Coal & Wood Co., doing- a retail coal business at 
Danville, Virginia, was born at Staunton, Virg^inia, in 1869 
and has been in the coal business two years. 

of C. P. Lathrop 
nia, was born in 
ess for over fifty 

P. Lathrop. Mr. 

his section. 



Co., retailers at 

County, Virginia, 

for twelve years. 

T. Martin & Co. 



CH.\Rl,B.S P. LATHROP. senior partner 
& Co., large retailers at Richmond, Virgi 
Richmond and lias been in the coal busin 
years. He was formerly associated with S. 
Lathrop is one of the leading retailers in 

JAMES J. LEAVIS, Manager Lewis & 
Salem. Virginia, was born in Pittsylvania 
in 1871 and has been in the coal business 
Mr. Lewis was formerly connected with D. 
and F. C. "Wiley. 

LEE LOXG. Vice President of the Clinchfield Coal Corp. 
and President of the Virginia Banner Coal Corp., with offices 
at Dante. Virginia, was born in Morganfield, Kentucky, De- 
cember 26. 1868. and has been in the coal business twen- 
ty-five years. Mr. Long was formerly connected with the 
Eureka Coal & Coke Co., Imperial Colliery Co. and Keeney 
Creek Colliery Co. He is a member of the American Mining 
Congress and Workmen's Compensation Commission of Vir- 
ginia. 

AVILMER MAHOXE, retailer doing business at Newport 
News, Virginia, was born in York County, Virginia, April 11, 
1856, and has been in the coal business for twelve years. 

AVILLIAM EMRY Mc-COY, President of W. E. McCoy Coal 
Co., miners at McCoy. Virginia, is a native of McCoy, born 
July 5, 1892. and has been in the coal business for five years. 

W. M. AIEXIFEE, retail coal merchant in business at Har- 
risonburg, Virginia, vi'as born at Mount Crawford, Virginia. 
August 6, 1866, and has been in the coal business for six 
years. He was formerly connected with Swank & Hoover. 

C. E. MORRISETT, Vice President O. W. Guy Co., Inc., 
Norfolk, Virginia, was born April 3, 1872, and has been in 
the coal business twenty-three years. Mr. Morrisett is Sec- 
retary-Treasurer of the Retail Coal Dealers Association of 
Virginia. 

CHARLES B. KEEL, Secretary and Treasurer Raven Red 
Ash Coal Co., Red Ash, Virginia, w^as born in Tazewell 
County, Virginia, August 5, 1878, and has been in the coal 
business ten years. Mr. Neel is also Secretary-Treasurer of 
Laurel Coal Corp. and a Director of the Kennedy Coal Corp. 
He was formerly in the transportation department of the 
Norfolk & Western Railway and also Manager of a lumber- 
producing firm. He is a Director of the Southwest Virginia 
Coal Operators' Association. 

W. A. NEW'BERRY, President of the Newberry Land, Coal 
& Coke Co. at Bland, Virginia, was born at Bland Febru- 
ary 26, 1868, and has been with this company since its forma- 
tion. 

"W". C. XEWMAX, handling coal at retail in Farmville, Vir- 
ginia, was born in Hanover County, Virginia, in 1869, and 
has been in the coal business ten years. Mr. Newman was a 
director in the Virginia Retail Coal Dealers' Association and 
owns a large acreage of coal lands in Mason and Fayette 
counties. West Virginia. 

THOS. J. :XOTTIXGHAM, President Nottingham & "Wrenn 
Co., Norfolk. Virginia, was born at Richmond, Virginia, Sep- 
tember 1, 1864, and has been in the coal business over thirty- 
five years. Mr. Nottingham is also interested in the Hamp- 
ton Roads Colliery Co. and was formerly associated with his 
father, Thos. J. Nottingham, and Wm. A. Wrenn, composing 
the firm of Nottingham & Wrenn. 

GROA'ER E. ORR, Business Manager Benedict Coal Corp.. 
St. Charles. Virginia, was born in Lee County, Virginia. 
March 2.5. 1888, and has been in the coal business for nine 
years. Mr. Orr -was formerly connected with the Virginia- 
Lee Co. 

ROBERT LEE PEERMAX of Peerman & Fuller, retail coal 
merchants in business at Danville, Virginia, was born at 
Rustberg, Virginia, October 12, 1871, and has been in the coal 
business since 1897. Mr. Peerman was previously connected 
with Conway & Walker and F. L. Walker & Co. and is Vice 
President of the Virginia Retail Coal Dealers' Association. 



I'.VKK L. PRME, Manager Price & Chick, retailers at 
Roanoke. A'irginia, is a native of Virginia, born there April B, 
1869, and has been in the coal business for fifteen years. Mr. 
Price is President of the Retail Coal Dealers' Association o( 
his city. 

GEORGE M. REID. General Manager and Secretary-Treas- 
urer of Fort Branch Coal Corp., Richmond, Virginia, is a 
native of Virginia and until 1905 was with ihe American To- 
Ijacco Co.. when he became connected with this company. 

EIJW.\Rn TREXT ROBIJVSOIV. President and Manager 
Robinson Supply Co.. retail coal merchants at Lexington. 
Virginia, was born in Richmond, Virginia. July 28, 1865, and 
has been in the coal business fifteen years. Mr. Robinson 
was formerly connected with the Robinson & Hutton Co. 

JOHN E. SEATOX, part owner of W. E. Seaton & Sons, 
Richmond. \'irginia, was born in Richmond January 31, 1871, 
and has been in the coal business for thirty-two years. 
C. A. Seaton. his brother, is interested with liim in this 
business. 

W. A. SMOOT. President "W. A. Smoot & Co., Alexandria, 
Virginia, was born in Alexandria May 16, 1878, and has been 
in the coal business twenty-five years, associated with his 
father until his death, July 10, 1917. Mr. Smoot is a man of 
affairs in his community, taking a very active part in its 
business life, and is looked upon as a man of exceptional 
ability, sterling character and well posted on practical lines. 
Mr. Smoot is President of the National Retail Coal Mer- 
chants' Association, Director of the Alexandria Chamber of 
Commerce and a member of the Virginia State Legislature. 

GEORGE OLIVER SjVAPP, retail coal merchant of Win- 
chester, Virginia, was born in 1855 in Winchester and has 
been in the coal business for ten years. 

■W\ B. SPRATT, President Lewis Creek Coal Co., Inc., Rich- 
lands, Virginia, is a native of Virginia, born in 1858, and 
has been in the coal business for fifteen years. Mr. Spratt 
was formerly with the Big Town Hill Creek Coal Co. 

J. WILLIAM SW'AN, retailer handling coal at Culpeper, 
Virginia, was born at Culpeper in 1863 and has been in busi- 
ness for himself since 1889. 

RALPH E. TAGGART, General Manager Stonega Coke & 
Coal Co., large producers, with branch at Big Stone Gap, 
Virginia, was born in Leisenring, Pennsylvania, April 17, 
1S87, and has been in the coal business twelve years. 

FLOYD TY'LER, proprietor of Tyler & Ryan, Richmond, 
Virginia, is a native of Richmond and has been in the coal 
business for twenty-two years. Mr. Tyler was formerly con- 
nected with R. N. Northen & Co. 

AVILLIAM ROGERS VAIGHATV, General Manager A. H. 
Vaughan Coal Co., South Boston. Virginia, was born in South 
Boston August 31. 1892, and has been in the coal business for 
three years. Mr. Vaughan is a graduate of Hampden Sid- 
ney College and gave up a professional career to continue 
the business established by his father, who died in 1914, 
Avhile Mayor of the city. 

WILLIAM H. AVARREIV, Secretary and Sales Agent for 
Virginia of the New River Coal Co., Richmond. Virginia, was 
born in Fayette County, West Virginia, March 30, 1866, and 
has been in the coal business twenty-eight years. Mr. War- 
ren Is also Eastern Sales Agent of the Wyatt Coal Co., and 
is connected with a number of producing companies in the 
New River field on the Chesapeake & Ohio and the Virginian 
Railways and in the Logan County ("West Virginia) fields 
on the Guyandotte branch of the Chesapeake & Ohio Rail- 
way. He was formerly connected with the New River Con- 
solidated Coal Co.. New River & Kanawha Coal Co. and New 
River Consolidated Coal & Coke Co. He began his career as 
a coal man in the employ of the Rush Run Coal & Coke Co. 
of Rush Run, West Virginia. 

FRANK H. WHEELER, retailer in business at Clifton 
Forge, Virginia, was born at Hillsboro. West Virginia, June 
30, 1881, and has been in the coal business for six years. Mr. 
Wheeler was formerly associated w^ith F. S. Spencer. 

BEXJAMIX C. WHITE, senior partner of B. C. "White & 
Bro., doing a retail coal business at Chatham, Virginia, was 
born at Chatham July 22, 1881, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for six years. 

THOMAS WHYTE, President Friend & Co., Inc., Peters- 
burg, Virginia, was born at Petersburg October 15, 1878. and 
has been in the coal business for six years. 

HEXRY BOYKIX WILKINS, retail coal merchant in busi- 
ness at Portsmouth. Virginia, w^as born in Gates County, 
North Carolina, February 21, 1854, and has been in the coal 
business for thirty-one years. 

J. A. "WILKIXS, son of Henry Boykin Wilkins, is in busi- 
ness with his father at Portsmouth, Virginia. He was born 
October 20, 1894, and has been in the coal business for four 
years. 

DAXIEL T. ZEXTMEYER, Manager credit and advertising 

department of the Christiansburg Fuel Co. of Christians- 
burg, Virginia, was born at Floyd, Virginia, September 6, 
1898, and has been in the coal business for several years. 



431 



WASHINGTON 



WASHINGTON is the only one of the Pacific 
Coast states in which the coal mining industry 
has attained any considerable importance. 
Fuel oil and wood have operated to keep down the con- 
sumption of coal within the state and the former has 
affected production, but despite these drawbacks, the 
coal fields of the state, with their record of 60 3fears 
behind them, have been able to maintain productioii 
above the 3,000,000 ton mark first set 15 years ago and 
preliminary reports for last year place the 1917 output 
at over i,000,000 tons. 

The principal Washington coal fields, five in number, 
lie in the western and central portions of the state. 
These fields are known as the North Puget Sound, em- 
bracing operations in Skagit and Whatcom counties ; 
the South Puget Sound, embracing operations in King 
and Pierce counties; the Puget Sound basin, which lies 
east of Seattle; the Eoslyn field in Kittitas County on 
the eastern slope of the Cascade Mountains in Kittitas 
County and the Southwestern field in Cowlitz and Lewis 
counties. In point of present production the South 
Puget Sound and Eoslyn fields lead. 

In quality Washington coals range from bituminous 
coal found in Kittitas, Pierce, King, Lewis, AVhatcom 
and Skagit counties through sub-bituminous coal — 
found in Lewis, Pierce, King and Snohomish counties — 
to lignite — found in Columbia, Cowlitz and Lewis coun- 
ties. Certain of the bituminous coals are of coking 
grade and the United States Geological Survey states 
that "some natural coke and anthracite have been ol> 
served." The coking coals, found in the Wilkeson-Car- 
bonada district of the South Puget Sound field and also 
in the North Puget Sound field are said to be the only 
coking coals known to exist on the Pacific Coast slope 
of the LTnited States. The sub-bituminous coals in the 
South Puget Sound district have been utilized in do- 
mestic consumption, while the high grade bituminous 
has been used in Alaskan and Oriental bunker trade and, 
during the current year (1918) has been shipped to 
Chile. 

The discover}' of a low grade ligTiite in the Cowlitz 
Valley in 1848 marked the beginning of the coal history 
of Washington. Four years later bituminous coal was 
discovered on Bellingham Bay, Whatcom County and 
the first commercial development, from which ship- 
ments were made in 1860, was in this field. This mine 



was in continuous operation until 1878, when it was 
abandoned because of a fire originating in spontaneous 
combustion. The northern field remained inactive 
until 1891. Coal was discovered in King County in 
1859 and mining was begun a short time thereafter. 
For a long time, the San Francisco market was a 
heavy consmiier of coal from the mines in this field, 
but the growth of the fuel oil industry has practically 
eliminated this business. Further developments in King 
County took place in the early "TOs and rail connections 
betw'een the Eenton mines in that field and Seattle were 
established in 1877. The Green Eiver district in the 
same county also came into prominence about that time 
as did the Pierce County mines opened in 1875, but 
subsequently abandoned. The Eoslyn field also began 
to attract attention about this time. 

The first record of production appears in the 1860 
Census when Whatcom County was credited with an 
output of 5,374 tons. Development proceeded slowly 
until the exploitation of the King and Kittitas county 
mines in the '80s. From a production of 110,343 tons 
in 1876, the state advanced to 380,250 tons in 1885, and 
the 1,000,000-ton mark was passed in 1888. Produc- 
tion since that date is shown in the following tabula- 
tion : 
Year. Ton. Year. Ton. 

1889 1,030,578 1903 3,193,273 

1890 1,263,689 1904 3,137,681 

1891 1,056,249 1905 2,864,926 

1892 1,213,427 1906...'. 3,276.184 

1893 1,264,877 1907 3,680,532 

1894 1,106,470 1908 3,024,943 

1895 1,191,410 1909 3,602,263 

1896 1,195,504 1910. 3,911,899 

1897 1,434,112 1911 3,572,815 

1898 1,884,571 1912 3,360,932 

1899 2,029,881 1913 3,877,891 

1900 2,474,093 1914 3,064,820 

1901 2,578,217 1915 2,429.095 

1902 2,681,214 1916 3,038,588 

Under normal conditions, about 39 per cent, of the 
output of the state is consumed within its own borders. 
As a class the railroads are the largest customers, tak- 
ing about 47 per cent, of the output. Out of a total 
1915 production of 2,429,095 tons the carriers ac- 
counted for 1.149,446 tons; 126,047 tons were used at 
tbe mines ; intrastate shipments took 592,444 tons, and 
64,707 tons were sold locally. Shipments to inter- 



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state rnil clostiiuilions totiiled IT'3.090 tons and were 
contined to two states; Idaho took 25,000 tons and Ore- 
gon 147,000 tons. Tidewater shipments totaled 150.071 
tons: of this tonnage 12,171 tons were exported to for- 
eign conntries, 89,233 tons were used for Inmker fuel 
in domestic and 47.316 tons for bunker trade in foreign 
eommerce, while 1,362 tons were shipped via water 
routes for consumption at San Francisco. 

The coal fronr "Washingi-on mines consumed witliin 
the state represented over 90 per cent of the require- 
nu'nts of the commonwealth for the vear. The total 



eonsuiiiptidii. iiuluding aji|)i'o.\iiiiately !.!)()0 tons of 
Pennsylvania anthracite, was 1,087,684 tons. Alabama 
shipped 21 tons; :\[ontaiia, 20.859; Utah, 32,039; Wy- 
oming, 100,277 tons. Upon the per capita basis the 
total consumption, .43 ton, was among the lowest re- 
ported. The same was true of the scjuare mile average 
of 16 tons. These Washington fig-ures should be com- 
pared with the national averages of 2.82 and 123 tons 
respectively. As explained in the opening paragraph, 
fuel oil and wood play a great part in pulling down the 
Wash iuffton averages. 



WASHINGTON 



JAV AGXEW, proprietor of the Agnew Fuel Co. and the 
Monarch coal mine of Centralia, Washington, was born in 
1872 at Hudson, Wisconsin, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness tliree years. 

PERCY H. BROWNE, Manager Caine-Grimshaw Co., re- 
tailers of coal at Bellingham, Washington, was born August 
1, ISSl. in Brown's Valley, Minnesota, and has been in the 
coal business twelve years. 

DANIEL F. BUCKINGHAM, General Manager and Secre- 
tary The Roslyn Fuel Co., Seattle, V\'ashington, was born 
January 16, 1S7S. He is also Vice President and General 
Manager of the Independent Coal & Coke Co. 

J. W. BULLOCK, retail coal merchant of Seattle, Wash- 
ington, was born in 1868 in Binghamton, New York, and has 
been in the coal business fifteen years and is well known 
in that section. 

JOHN H. FERRYMAN, President Wenatchee Fuel Co., 
Wenatchee, Washington, was born November 6, 1866, in Leb- 
anon, Pennsylvania, and has been in the coal business four- 
teen years. 

A. B. FOSSEEN, President and Manager of A. B. Fos- 
seen & Co., retailers of coal at North Yakima, Washington, 
has been in the coal business two years. 

WILBUR B. IV'ES, President of the Cumberland Coal 
Co., Seattle, Washington, was born in Meriden, Connecticut, 
December 10, 1873. He was previously connected -with Amos 
Ives, doing a retail business at Meriden. His brother, C. A. 
Ives, is Secretary of the companj'. 

BERNARD HAWLEY JOHNSTON, President and Treas- 
urer Mendota Coal & Coke Co., and Vice President Farmers 
& Mercliants Bank, Centralia, Washington, was born in 
Warsaw, Illinois, September 18, 1861, and has been in the 
coal business since 1883. Mr. Johnston was previously con- 
nected with the Mendota Coal Co. and Rogers Coal Co. of 
Mendota, Missouri. 

JOHN JOHNSON, President Johnson-Bungay Fuel Co.. 
Spokane, Washington, was born in Sweden in 1863, and has 
been in the coal business eighteen years. 

ALEC R. McLEOD, President and Secretary of Wain- 
wright & McLeod, Inc., retailers of coal at Seattle, Wash- 
ington, was born February 22, 1862,' in Nova Scotia. Mr. 
McLeod was previously connected with the Issaquah Coal Co. 

GEO. R. MILI>ER, Secretary and Treasurer Monks & 
Miller, Inc., retailers of coal at Seattle, Washington, was 
born in Pennsylvania April 13, 1875, and has been in the 
coal business twelve years. 

■WILHA3I B. MONKS, President Monks & Miller, Inc., 
retail coal merchants at Seattle, Washington, was born 
March 2, 1871, in Butler, Pennsylvania, and has been in the 
coal business tliirteen years. He is also interested in the 
May Creek coal property. Mr. Monks is Chairman of the 
Coal Dealers Association of the Seattle Chamber of Com- 
merce and Commercial Club and has always taken a keen 
interest in anything for the betterment of the retail coal 
trade. 

ALEXANDER H. MONTGOMERY, owner of the Mont- 
gomery Fuel & Transfer Co. at Bellingham, Washington, 
was born in Chicago, Illinois, August 8, 1855, and has been 
in the coal business fifteen years. 



ROBERT ORR, proprietor of the Orr Fuel Co., Centralia, 
Washington, was born March 20, 1862, in Motherwell, 
Scotland, and has been in the coal business about tliirty- 
nine years, twenty-five of whicli he has worked in the 
mines. Mr. Orr was previously connected with the Gale 
Creek Coal Co., Snoqualmie Coal Co., and the Perth Coal 
Co., all of Washington. 

IRA OWEN, proprietor and Manager of the Twilight Lum- 
ber & Fuel Co., Spokane, Washington, w^as born June 28, 
1877, in Gorin, Missouri, and has been in the coal business 
nine years. Mr. Owen was previously connected witla the 
Potlatch Lumber Co. and the Northern Lumber Co. 

JAS. S. RAMAGE, President Continental Coal Co., Spo- 
kane, Washington, was born in Canada December 17, 1868, 
and has been in the coal business tliirty years. Mr. 
Ramage was for two years President of tlie National Apple 
Sho'w and President of the Spokane Chamber of Cominerce 
for one year. Previous to his present connection he was in 
business for himself at Worthington, Minnesota. He has 
gone to France in volunteer work for tlie American Red 
Cross. 

WILLIAM G. RAMAGE, Secretary and Treasurer of the 
Hawkeye Fuel Co., Spokane, Washington, was born in 1867 
in Canada, and has been in the coal business for tliirteen 
years. He is also Vice President of the Continental Coal 
Co. Mr. Ramage was previously associated with James S. 
Ramage at Worthington. Minnesota. 

RAY' S. ROBERTS, member of the Great Western Fuel 
Co. of Spokane, Washington, was born at Ulysses, Nebraska, 
August 16, 1890, and has been in the coal business eight 
years. ' 

SI3IEON ROBERTS, Manager of the Great Western Fuel 
Co. of Spokane, Washington, was born in Bloomington, 
Illinois, October 31, 1861, and has been in the coal business 
thirteen years. 

CLEMENT SCOTT, Manager and Sole Owner of the Red 
Ash Coal, Ice & Transfer Co. of Vancouver, Washington, 
was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, April 6, 1876, and has 
been in the coal business seven years. His company also 
handles building materials, fertilizers, blasting' supplies and 
has the only furniture storage wareliouse in town. Mr. Scott 
is a prominent member of tlie Commercial Club of Vancouver' 
and is Financial Chairman of the Local Red Cross. He is 
Exalted Ruler of Vancouver Lodge of Elks and ranks high 
in Masonic circles. 

JAMES SELDEN VINING, proprietor of the retail coal 
business carried on as J. S. Vining- at Seattle. Washington, 
was born September 15, 1867, in Maine, and has been in the 
coal business sixteen years. He has held the position of 
President of the Retail Coal Dealers Association of Seattle. 

AMORY D. ■\VAIN\VRIGHT, Vice President and Treasurer 
Wainwright & McLeod, Inc., Seattle, Washington, was born 
December 17, 1860, in Boston, Massachusetts, and has been 
in the coal business fifteen years. Mr. Wainwright was 
previously connected with the Issaquali Coal Co. 

WARREN HARPER YEAKEL, Manager Yeakel Fuel 
Co., retailers of coal at Spokane, Washington, was born 
December 1. 1873, in Polo, Illinois, and has Ijeen in the coal 
business twenty-three years. Mr. Yeakel was previously 
connected witli his father, Samuel K. Yeakel, in business at 
Polo. 



433 



WEST VIRGINIA 



As A GOOD WINE needs no bush, so, too, may 
it l^e said that the coal resources of West Vir- 
ginia cry for no Christopher Columbus to dis- 
cover them for a waiting world. Unlike the diffident 
Alden they speak for themselves. The semi-bituminous 
coals of the Pocahontas, ISTeAv River and Tug Eiver 
fields, for example, have won not only a national, but 
an international reputation ; in many sections of the 
United States they are classed as a premier domestic 
fuel, as smithing coals they are used from coast to coast, 
they are a favorite coking coal, esteemed for bunkering 
and for myriad industrial uses. The high volatile dis- 
tricts are also known far beyond the confines of the state 
carved out of the Old Dominion. Coal is the industry 
of West Virginia. It is the commodity that gives it 
Avealth and business prestige. 

The coal producing area of the state is included in 
the coal fields of the great Appalachian region, which 
crosses West Virginia from Pennsylvania and Mary- 
land on the north to Virginia and Kentucky on the 
south. The greater part of the state is imderlaid with 
coal-bearing rocks ; the exceptions are the area lying to 
the east of the escarpment of the Allegheny Mountains 
and portions of the territory south of the Ohio River, 
below Wetzel, which Dr. I. C. White, state geologist, 
has said are barren of workable coals. 

At present there are eleven dift'erent mining districts 
recognized in the state. The number of coal seams so 
far classified totals 102 ; of this number, 52 are of suffi- 
cient thickness to be considered workable. The total 
area of coal-bearing formations in the state is estimated 
at 9,500 square miles. The specific districts referred 
to in the first sentence of the paragraph are known as 
the Elk Garden, Upper Potomac, Roaring Creek, Pan- 
handle, Eairmont, New River, Kanawha, Pocahontas, 
Tug River, Thacker and Kenova. The greater per- 
centage — estimated as high as 90 — of the tonnage pro- 
duced comes from five districts, viz., the Fairmont (or 
Clarksburg) and the Elk Garden (or Piedmont) in the 
northern portion of the state and the New River, Kana- 
wha and Pocahontas regions in the southern part of the 
state. 

The principal workings of the Fairmont district are 
in Harrison and Marion counties. The beds from 
Avhich the coal is iiiined belong to the Monongahela 



formation ("Upper Productive Coal Measures'") ; the 
most important bed in this formation is the famous 
Pittsburgh, which reaches an average thickness of St^ 
feet. "The Waynesburg and Sewickley coals, the for- 
mer iDoor and the latter good," says the United States 
Geological Survey, "also occur in this district and run 
from 5 to 10 feet in thickness, but are seldom mined." 

From the point of view of operation the Elk Garden 
or Piedmont field is the oldest in the state. Coal was 
mined here contemporaneously with the opening of the 
Georges Creek field in Maryland and prior to the sep- 
aration of West Virginia from Virginia. Geologically 
speaking the region lies in the detached Potomac basin 
and is included in Mineral, Grant and Tucker counties. 
The strata of this narrow eastern basin are much more 
stronglv folded than those of the regions to the west. 
The beds worked range from 4 to 11 feet in thickness. 
The coal, which is ranked as semi-bituminor\s, comes 
principally from the "Big'" (Pittsburgh), the "Thomas" 
(Upper Freeport) and the "Davis"" (Kittanning) beds. 

The New River field, which shares with the Pocahon- 
tas region the bulk of the production of the semi-bitu- 
minous "smokeless"' coal, is "confined to the valley of 
NeM' River and its tributaries, and to the Slab Fork and 
Winding Gulf drainage areas of Guyan River. The 
productive portions are in Fayette and Raleigh coun- 
ties. The coals of this district are of middle or lower 
Pottsville age and lie below the- Kanawha and Alle- 
gheny formations of the northern part of the state. The 
three coal beds which furnish the larger part of the 
New Eiver production are the Sewell, which runs from 
21/^ to 6 feet; the Becklev. 4 to 6 feet, and the Quinni- 
niont (Fire Creek), from 3 to 5 feet in thickness, the 
last named lying below and to the southeast of the 
others. One seam of coal, belonging properly to the 
Kanawha field and the upper Pottsville, lies high in the 
hills of the New River district and is extensively mined 
at Ansted." 

The Kanawha field, wliich adjoins the New River on 
the west, includes the western portion of Fayette, all of 
Kanawha and portions of Putnam and Boone counties. 
The coals in this field vary both in character and thick- 
ness. The beds range from 3 to 5 feet where mined, 
although in some cases the thickness reached is 11 feet 
or more. No small portion of the coal in this field is 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



the well-known l\;inawlia gas. The prini'ipal heil< arc 
the Xorth Coalburg and Xo. .") ol' the Allegheny age and 
the Stoekton, Coalhiirg, Winil'redc, Cedar Grove, Xo. 2 
gas and Eagle seams in the npper Pottsville formation. 

The Pocahontas field extends From McDowell and 
Mercer counties in the southeastern corner of the state 
into Tazewell County. Vii'ginia. The most important 
seam is the Xo. 3. which ranges from 4 to 11 feet, with 
an a\erage thickness of over (> feet. In addition to this 
seam, operations are also carried on in Xo. 4, War 
Creek ( Beckley ) . Welch and Davey seams. The Welch 
and Becklev seams are worked in the Tug River dis- 
trict, served like the Pocahontas, which it adjoins, l)y 
the Xorfolk i.^' Western railroad. 

The Thacker and Kenova fields, west of the Kanawha, 
are of the same general character as that held. 

While West Virginia was producing coal at the time 
of its separation from Virginia in 1863, it was not until 
ten yeai'S later that its output reached 1.000,001) tons 
and it was not until 1882 that the 2,000,00()-ton mark 
was passed; production showed more rapid gains from 
that time although ten more years elapsed before 10,- 
000,000 tons were produced. This slow growth is ex- 
plained in part by the competition which the state had 
to meet in marketing its coals against the older fields 
arul in the lack of a home market because of the low 
rank occupied by West Virginia as a manufacturing 
entity. While no great impetus has been given to its 
home market, as appears from the detailed statistics of 
production since 1894, the state appears to have been 
aide to take care of competition : 



Year. 

1894 

1895.... 

1896 

1897 

1898 



Ton. Year. Ton. 

11,027,757 190G 43,290,350 

11,3S7,9G1 1907 48,091,583 

12,876,290 1908 41,897,843 

14,248,159 1909 51,849,220 

16,700,999 1910 61,671,019 

1899 19,252,995 1911 59,831,580 

1900 22,647,207 1912 66,786,687 

1901 24,068,402 1913 71,254,136 

1902 24,570,826 1914 71,707,626 

1903 29,337,241 1915 77,184,069 

1904 32,406,752 1916 86.460,127 

1905 37,791,580 

"The coal industry of West Virginia," said a govern- 
ment report treating upon the distribution of coal, "has 
been developed under unique conditions. There has 
been little home market, so the operators had to 
seek markets for their coal in other parts of the United 
States and in foreign countries. Immense reserves of 
high-grade coal in easily workable beds have permitted 
mining on a large scale and at a low cost. Proximity 
to the Atlantic seaboard, where good harbors afforded 
opportunity for foreign and coastwise shipments, and 



excclk'iit railroad oulli'l> to llic markets of i|ic \\',.>( ,-ui,l 
Xorlbwrsl iia\c cnalilcd tlic coal in(luslr\ of tlu' slate 
to (IcM'lop at a rapid rale. 

'■including ibc coal made into coke al the mines 
( l,il!).-..v'7l) tons) and tbat used for steam and heat at 
tlie mines ( 1 . 1 II , 1 7 S tons) the coiisum|i| ion nf West 
\'irginia coal in tlie state in l!Mo \\a> but ti.iioii.OOO 
tons, or S per cent, of the total output. More than 
;)2..')IMI. 11(10 Ions, oi- I'l [>er ciMit. of the oulput. was- 
shipped to other statt's by rail or bv ri\ei- for ir-e other 
than as railroad fuel. The shi|>ments to tlu' (Jreat 
r>akes for cargo were 8,700.000 tons, cm- 1 1 ])er cent, of 
the total, and shipments to tidewalei' were moi'e tban 
20,400,000 tons, or 27 per cent, of ibe outimt. Tlie 
lake cargo shipments included 80l).l.')l tons For railroad 
use in the Xorthwest and the tidewater shi|)ments in- 
cluded ],7 7().419 tons sent by \essels coastwise to Xew 
Kngland and there used by the lailroads. The (pumtity 
of i-ailroad fuel that reached its destination by all-rail 
I'outcs was 9,478,401 tons, or 12 per cent, of the ]n-o- 
duction : the total quantity of West A'irginia coal \ise(l 
by railroads in 1915 was 12,054,954 tons, or 15.7' per 
cent, of the total output."' 

The total [)roduction for the year in question was 
7 7',184,0r>9 tons. Of this, ti.000,117 tons were consumed 
within the state; this Hgure included the coal used at 
the mines, that coked, 1,091,371 tons sold locally, and 
1.7 72,289 tons shipped to points within the state. In- 
cluding the coal coked and that used at the mines, the 
total consumption within the state was 6,232,299 tons. 
This consumption included 3o,00() tons of anthracite, 
87 tons of bituminous from Kentucky, 0,525 tons from 
Maryland, 15,500 tons from Ohio and 175,000 tons from 
Pennsylvania. Upon a per capita basis, the anthracite 
consumption was too small to be taken into account ; 
the curious fact about the bituminous consumption was 
that it was 2.04 tons — the only instance where the \wr 
capita of a state was the same as the average bitumin- 
ous per capita for the country as a whole. Upon a 
square mile basis the con.sumption. 258 tons, was 
slightly more than double the national average of 123 
tons. 

The all-rail shipments to other states from West 
A^irginia aggregated 32.555.406 tons in 1915. Four 
states — Illinois, Indiana. Michigan and Ohio — absorbed 
o\er 55 per cent, of this tonnage. In detail the ship- 
ments were as follows: Alabama. 2.800 tons; Arizona, 
450; California, 17.250; Carolinas. 977,782; Delaware, 
245,451; Florida, 31,980; Georgia, 41.332; Illinois, 
5,079,032 ; Indiana, 4,072,001 ; Iowa, 159,444 ; Kansas, 
390 ; Kentucky, 443,407 ; Maryland and District of Co- 
lumbia, 814,379; Michigan, 4,326,412; Minnesota, 40,- 
704; Missouri, 158,763; X^ebraska, 1,553; Xevada, 300; 
X^ew England states, 20,419 ; X^ew Jersey, 645,600 ; Xew 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



Mexico, 50; Xew York, 2.0r2.6T0; North Dakota, 425; 
Ohio, 5,375,560; Penusylvania, 4,945,295; South Da- 
kota, 10,833; Tennessee, 1,305; Texas, 2,281; Utah, 
165; Virginia, 2,228,268, and Wisconsin, 839,105 tons. 
All-rail exports Avere 42,913 tons. 

No review of West Virginia would be complete with- 
out reference to the foreign and bunker trade in coals 
from that state. The figures have an added signifi- 
cance now because those who cherish the belief that the 
close of the World War means a greater export market 
for American coals turn first to the fields of West Vir- 
ginia as the 'logical ones to most successfully meet for- 
eign competition in overseas and South American mar- 



kets. The latest export and bunker statistics for the 
Hampton Eoads ports show the following: 

, Exports , 

Year. Anthracite. Bituminous. Coke. Foreign bunker. 

1915 GOG 5,183,846 32.903 1,703,506 

1916 353 5,095,596 36,198 2,961.709 

1917 7.705 4,157,827 16,888 1,976.332 

Among the destinations for which cargoes have 
cleared from the Virginia piers during .1914-16 were 
Argentina, the Azores, Brazil, British Guiana, Canary 
Islands, Chile, Colombia, Costa Eica, Ecuador, Egypt, 
France, French Africa, G-reece, Gibraltar, Italy, JMex- 
ico, Morocco, ISTorwa)'', Panama, Portugal, Spain, 
Sweden. Venezuela. Uruguav and the West Indies. 



436 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





DR. J. A. AVOOD, Amigo. West Virginia. 

A well-known character in the New River field, having' de- 
veloped many successful properties in that district, entered 
the business comparatively late in life. After practicing' 
medicine for twenty-four years, he embarked in the coal 
business as an operator in the Ne^v River field. He is Pres- 
ident and Treasurer of the Amigo Coal Co,, Amigo, an opera- 
tion started in 1915. and with a present capacity of 75,000 
tons annually. In this enterprise he is closely associated 
with J. C, Sullivan, Vice President, with whom he has been 
identified also in various preceding coal enterprises. 



FRED G. AVOOD, AiniKO, AVest Virsinia, 

Manager and Secretary Amigo Coal Co., was born in Kana- 
wha County, the son of Dr. J. A. Wood, and received his tech- 
nical training at the University of West Virginia. The 
output of the Amigo Coal Co. goes to Tidewater and Atlantic 
seaports as run of mine, and is there sold thrpugh the East- 
ern Export Corp.. Richmond, Virginia. The practical qual- 
ities of Mr. Wood have been effectively demonstrated in the 
rapid development of this property. 



Mead - Toliver Coal Company 

Raleigh County 
Beckley, West Virginia 



During its comparatively brief career to date, 
the ^Mead-Toliver Coal Company has scored an 
unusually rapid progress. It began shipments in 
December, 191G, and its recent developments point 
to an annual production of 300,000 tons. The 
property of the company is located on Stone Coal 
Creek of the Winding Gulf field, and transporta- 
tion facilities are availal:)le over both the Virginian 
and the Chesapeake & Ohio railroads. The prop- 
erty carries the Beckley seam in a 6i/2-foot vein 
and this was fir.'^t developed, and also a seam of 
Pocahontas Xo. 3. Mines Xos. 1 and 2 of the com- 
pany profluce tlie Beckley product l)ut preparations 



were speedily begun to open ^lino Xo. 3 near the 
station of Killarne}', about a mile from Mines 1 
and 2, to operate the Pocaliontas Xo. 3 seam. The 
mines are equipped with modern electric shaker 
screens and loading booms. 

The output goes eastward and to tidewater. 
It is sold through the Eastern Coal »!c Exjiort Cor- 
poration. Eichmond, Virginia. 

The officers of the company are: C. H. ]Mead. 
President and General Manager ; J. H. Craft. Vice 
President, and J. P. Xowlin. Secretary and Treas- 
urer. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



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J. ELLIOTT HALL, Bluefield, West Virginia, 

General Manager Appalachian Coal Land Co., Bluelield, is as 
M'ell-kuown to the coal interests of West Virginia as probably 
any man in the state. He has had a wide experience in all that 
goes to make for the prosperity of this Avonderfnl coal-producing 
state. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



RAGLAND COAL COMPANY 

Beckley, West Virginia 

One of the newer coal operations in llic liccklcy srani of New 
Kiver coal is tlie TJagland Coal Co., tlie propeilv of wliicli is located 
at Pembertou, Haieigli County, A\'est \'ii-,uiiiia. Sliipinents ai-e 
niade on l)oth the Chesapeake and the A'ir.ainian llailway^- 

Tom Rnsh Ivagland is President and (iciici-al Manager of 
tlie company, M'ith offices at Becklev, ;ind .1. t.. Sniitli is Secretary 
and Treasurer. Air. Raglancl has been identified with the coal 
business for many years. He was formerly associated with the 
r4anleY Consolidated Coal Co., the Fort Defiance Coal ev: Coke Co. 
and the West Virginia Coal Mining Co. It was tlirough his efforts 
tliat the properties of the two last named companies were developed, 
.yi the coal interests of President Eagland. however, are now cen- 
tered in the Ragland Coal Co., which in its brief history has beccnno 
one of the active and successful operations in this field. 



GIT D. FRENCH. 
Bluefield, West Virg-inia, 

District Manager Producers Coal Co. 
at Bluefield, has been in the coal busi- 
ness seven years. For five years Mr. 
French was Assistant to the General 
Manager at Cincinnati. He was for- 
merly with the coal department of the 
Norfolk & Western Railway at Blue- 
field. 




M. FRANKMN BEAMER, Bluefield, M'est Virginia, 

General Manager Beamer Red Ash Coal Co., Bluefield, was 
born in North Carolina September 15. 1878, and has been 
in the coal business five years. Mr. Beamer is also inter- 
ested in the Flat Rock Coal Co. 



439 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



FRAXK S. EASLEY, 
Bluelield. AVest Vli-giiiia, 

President Bluefield Coal & Coke Co., 
Bluefield. is a native of Virginia, born 
August 3, 1878, and has been in the 
coal business twenty years. Mr. Easley 
was formerly connected with the 
American Smelting- & Refining Co., 
Pocahontas Fuel Co. and Pocahontas 
Coke Co. He Is a stockholder in a 
number of producing companies. 



SIDNEY S. COFER, 
Bluefield, ^Vest Virginia, 

General Manager Bluefield Coal & Coke 
Co.. Bluefield. was born in Bedford, 
Virginia, March 16, 1862, and has been 
in the coal business twenty-five years. 
Mr. Cofer has also some interests in 
operating coal inines. He was for- 
merly Secretary of the Flat Top Fuel 
Co. and General Manager of the Pro- 
ducers Coal Co. prior to which time 
he was with the Norfolk & Western 
Railway. 



STEPHEN H. 3IEEM, 
Bluefield, West Virginia, 

Vice President Diamond Block Coal Co., 
Hazard, Kentucky, was born at Shen- 
andoah, Virginia, in 1879 and is a grad- 
uate of the Virginia Military Institute. 
After follo^wing his profession of en- 
gineer for a time in the Lake Superior 
ore regions, he went to Pocahontas, 
Virginia, in 1900 and established his 
own engineering business and has been 
retained by practically all operators 
in the Pocahontas field at one time or 
another. Mr. Meem became an opera- 
tor in 1913 and is also a partner in the 
firm of S. H. Meem & Co., manufac- 
turers' agents of heavy mine equip- 
ment. He is member of the American 
Society of Civil Engineers and Vice 
President of the Acme By-Product Coal 
Co.. Fleming, Kentucky. 




VICTOR R. WHITE, Bluefield, West Virg-inia, 

Secretary and Treasurer Flat Top Fuel Co., Bluefield, "West 
Virginia, has been in the coal business since February, 1906. 
Pie was formerly with the Berwind-White Coal Mining Co. 
and with the Berwind Fuel Co., of which he was Secretary 
and Treasurer from September 1. 1910, to April 1, 1916. 
Mr. "White was born in Chicago .Tune 111, 1885. 



440 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





WALTER S. WOOD, Booiie, West \ iisiiiia. 

President of the Keeney's Creek Colliery Co., Boone, West 
Virginia. 



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H. S. BROWN, Bianiwell, ^Ve.st Viijsinia, 

Manager Extrajoca Coal Co., Bramwell, was born in Mon- 
treal, Canada, and has been in the coal business fifteen 
years. Before engaging in the coal business he was a lum- 
berman in Michigan. Mr. Brown formed the "Welch Coal 
Co. in 1902 and was active in the same until December 1. 
1916. 





COL. JOSEPH L. BEURY, Beury, West Virginia, 

A strong character and a pioneer in the New River dis- 
trict, was born in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. 
Colonel Beury left Pennsylvania at the close of the Civil 
War and went prospecting in the coal regions of Virginia. 
He later anticipated the building of the Chesapeake & Ohio 
Railvi^ay and was ready to ship coal from his operations 
at Quinnimont. West Virginia, when the railroad opened up. 
Since that time he was very active, with large holdings 
and operations in the New River field. He died at Beury. 
West Virginia, June 3, 1903, where he had lived since 1883. 



THOJIAS C. BEURY, Charleston, West Virginia, 

President Stone Cliff Coal & Coke Co., Charleston, has 
been in the coal business all his life and has always been 
Identified with his father's interests. Mr. Beury is also 
President of the Beury-New River Land Co.. liolding in fee 
3,200 acres of land near Fayette. West Virginia, on which 
the Elmo Mining Co.'s and Sunbury Coal Co.'s operations are 
located. He is also President of the Nuttalburg Smokeless 
Coal Co. and Beury Bros. Coal Co. and General Manager 
of the Phoenix Coal Co. Practically the entire output of 
the mines that Mr. Beury controls is marketed through the 
West Virginia Coal Co., Richmond. Virginia. 



441 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



CABINCREEK CONSOLIDATED 
COAL COMPANY 

Charleston, West Virginia 

This company has an annual capacity of 4,000,000 tons, con- 
ducting nineteen operations on Cabin Creek in Kanawha County, 
West A^irginia. These nineteen mines are located along the 
Chesapeake & Ohio Eailroad and are as follows : 

Kayford, Eaccoon, Shamrock, Thistle, Buckeye, Old Acme, 
Euby, Empire, Keystone, Caledonia. Eed Warrier, United 1 and 2, 
Belle Clare, Davis, Quarrier, Eose, Holley and Cherokee. 

Thousands of acres of soiue of the choicest coal lands in the 
state of West Virginia are worked under the brands of Acme Splint 
and Keystone Gas and Steam. These brands are favorably known 
in l)oth western and eastern markets. 

The officers of the Cabin Creek Consolidated Coal Co. have 
lieen ^prominently connected with the coal business of West Vir- 
ginia for many years. They include Wm. M. Puckett, President; 
James Kay, Vice President; Josiah Keeley, General Manager; E. 
B. xs eedham. Treasurer and Auditor ; Simon P. Eichmond, Secre- 
tary, and G. E. Krehbiel, Assistant to President; 

The Cabin Creek Consolidated Coal Co. maintains its own 
sales department in the Kanawha National Bank building, Charles- 
ton, West Virginia. President Puckett is also General Sales Agent 
and he is recognized as one of the liest posted men in the coal 
industry. 

Bi'anch sales offices are also maintained at 2110 Union Cen- 
tral Buildhag, Cincinnati, Ohio. Charles E. Moriarity is West- 
ern Sales Manager. The Northern Sales Office is located at 1228 
Majestic Building, Detroit, with C. P. Moriarty as Manager. B. 
PL Eandolph is Eastern Sales Manager, vvith offices in the American 
National Rank Building, Eichmond, Virginia. 



442 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 




J. W. DAWSON, Charleston, West Virginia 



Geneval Manager Kelly's Creek Colliery Co., Charles- 
ton, was born in Scottsville. Yiro'inia, March 24, 1863, 
and has been interested in the coal Inisiness twenty years. 
In 1882 Mr. Dawson became connected with the K. & ^l. 
E. R. and held practically every position up to Snperin- 
tendent, when he organized the Kelly's Creek Coal Min- 
ing Co., which he sold after three years' management. 
He next went into SoiitliAvest Virginia and bnilt the 
Lake Erie & Lick Creek Railroad and projected tbe 
Dawson Coal c^' Coke Co. Mr. Dawson returned to 
Kanawha in 1903 and constructed the Kelly's Creek 
and Western Railroad and organized the Kelly's Crock 



Colliery Co., of which he remained General Manager 
until the sale of the property in April, 1917. He has 
always been interested in any movement for the better- 
ment of coal ti-ade conditions and has been president 
of the Kanawha Coal Association, a member of the 
Executive Committee of the West Virginia Coal Asso- 
ciation and Splint and Gas Coal Association of West 
Virginia and Past President of the West Virginia Coal 
Association. Mr. Dawson is also very active in the 
public life of his community. fFe was Production Man- 
ager of the L'nited States Fuel Administration for the 
Hiffh Volatile Fields of Southern West Virginia. 



443 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 




JOHIV AV. MOORE, Charleston, West Virginia, 

President and General Manager Ivy Branch Coal Co., 
Charleston, was born in Summersville, West Virginia, No- 
vember 5. 1867. Mr. Moore has been actively engaged in 
the coal business twenty-eight .years and is a prominent 
factor in southern coal trade circles. He is owner of the 
Kanawha Western Fuel Co. Mr. Moore was formerly con- 
nected with the Chesapeake Mining Co., Coalburg Colliery 
Co., Hughes Creek Coal Co. and Kanawha Gas Coal Co. as 
General Manag-er. He was Western Manager of the Chesa- 
peake & Ohio Coal & Coke Co. at Cincinnati for one year. 
The Ivy Branch Coal Co., which is owned by himself and 
his family, was organized by Mr. Moore in 1915. 





LEO F. .IIOORE, Cliarle.ston, West Virginia, 

Vice President and Superintendent Ivy Branch Coal Co., 
Charleston, is a native of Maiden, West Virginia, born 
February 15. 1891. Mr. Moore has been in the coal business 
ten years, and was formerly connected with the Black Bet- 
sey Coal & Mining Co. as traveling salesman. 



HERBERT S. MOORE, C'harleNton, West Virginia, 

Secretary Ivy Branch Coal Co., Charleston, was born in 
Handley, West Virginia, and has been in the coal business 
since 1915, the entire time with the Ivy Branch Coal Co. 
Before he became connected ivith his father's coal interests 
he was with Lewis Hubbard & Co., wholesale grocers. 



444 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



NEW RIVER COAL COMPANY 

Charleston, West Virginia 

The Xew K'ivcr Coal Co. was organi/A'd .liiiic I. !!)()!). by 
certain mines in the New l\iver District tor the [lurposi- ot mar- 
keting tlieir coal in the different markets of the country. TJie New 
Elver Coal Co. represents and sells the coal of the following- com- 
panies, on the line of the Virginian Railway, in Raleigh and Wyo- 
ming Connties: MacAlpin Coal Co., MacAlpin; Slab Fork Coal 
Co.. Slab Fork; Snllivan Coal & Coke Co., Snllivan, and Alpha 
Pocahontas Coal Co., Alpoca. 

Also the following West Virginia companies on the line of the 
Chesapeake & Ohio Eailway : Scotia Coal & Coke Co., Exrsh Eun : 
Star Coal & Coke Co., Eed Star; Beeclwood Coal & Coke Co., 
Claromont ; Beury Bros. Coal & Coke Co., Echo ; Sonth Side Co., 
Caperton ; Branch Coal & Coke Co., Elverton ; Export Coal Co., 
Lawton; Lanrel Creek Coal Co., Lawton; Qninnimont Coal Co., 
Quinnimoht ; Hemlock Hollow Coal & Coke Co., Lawton; Green- 
wood Coal Co., Lawton; Turkey Knob Coal Co., Macdonald. 

The mines enumerated above produce approximately 1,800,000 
to 2,000,000 tons of coal. Tidewater shipments made to both 
Newport News and Sewall's Point. 

The officers of the company are as follows: G. H. Caperton, 
President ; Geo. W. Jones, Vice President ; W. H. Warren,- Sec- 
retary; C. D. McCoy, Treasurer; Directors — G. H. Caperton, E. 
W. Knight, John Laing, C. C. Beury, Geo. Lawton, W. G. Caper- 
ton. Geo. W. Jones, W. H. Warren, Walter S. Wood. 

The New Elver Coal Co. maintains sales offices in NeAV York, 
Norfolk and Eichmond, Virginia, Greensboro, North Carolina, 
Cincinnati, Ohio, with general offices at Charleston, West Virginia. 
The company has a contract for the shipment of 1,250,000 to 
1,-500,000 tons of coal to New England through the New England 
Coal & Coke Co. of Boston, Mass. The company ships coal into 
all ]narkets and is a producer of all grades of smokeless coals. 

The Export Agent is Fred E. Eohe, Inc., No. 1 Broadway, 
New York City ; Tidewater Agent, A. G. Ayers. Citizens National 
Bank Building, Norfolk. Virginia; Eastern Eepresentative, W. 
H. Warren, .\merican National Bank Building, Eichmond. Vir- 
ginia; Southern Sales Agent, C. W. Lee, Greensboro. North Caro- 
lina : Western Sales Agent, G. W. Tuohy. Tmion Central Tjifp 
Building-. Cincinnati. Ohio. 



445 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 




JOHN LAING, Charleston, West Virginia, 

President Wj'att Coal Co., Charleston, Is a native of Scot- 
land, born August 24, 1865. Mr. Laing has been in the coal 
business thirty-six years. He is also President of the, 
MacGregor Coal Co., MacAlpin Coal Co., and MacBeth Coal 
Co His ancestors have long- been connected with mining 
Industries and he seems to have inherited their ability to 
develop rich mining lands. The Wyatt Coal Co., of which 
he is President, operates twenty mines in Kanawha, 
Raleigh, Logan and Gilmer counties, with a daily output of 
18.000 tons. 



T. J. ROBSOIV, Charleston, W. Va., 

Sales Manager Wyatt Coal Co., Charles- 
ton, was born April 7, 1882, in Maiden, 
West Virginia, and has been interested 
in the Goal business seven years. Mr. 
Robson is also Auditor of the Wyatt Coal 
Co., Main Island Creek Coal Co.. Mac- 
Gregor Coal Co. and MacAlpin Coal Co. 
and Secretary of the MacBeth Coal Co. 



Main Island Creek Coal Company 

Omar, Logan County, West Virginia 



One of the big factors in the Logan field is the 
Main Island Creek Coal Co., located on the Chesa- 
peake & Ohio Eailwa}' in Logan County. The 
compan}' has twelve operations now active and 
twelve additional operations are under construc- 
tion. The daih' capacity is 8,000 tons. 

The company has the following officers:' John 
Laing, President; J. B. Barlow, General Superin- 
tendent, and John B. Jjee, Assistant Superintend- 
ent. Mr. I^aing, the President, has developed 
many prosperous coal mining companies in West 
Virginia, and is one of the best known and most 
successful coal operators in that State. 

The company has recently established a sales 



department at 303 Robson-Prichard Building. 
Hunting-ton, West Virgiiina, with E. J. Payne in 
charge as General Sales Manager, Mr. Payne 
directing the sale of the entire output of the Main 
Island Creek mines from that point. Branch salei 
offices have also been established as follows: At 
Cincinnati in charge of C. T. Eandall, with office 
in the Union Central Building; at Detroit in 
charge of W. L. Walton, with office in the Dime 
Savings Building; at Toledo in charge of E. S. 
VanHart ; at Eichmond, Indiana, in charge of E. 
E. Longstreth, and at Chicago in charge of D. M. 
Cohen. 



446 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



THK CAHHOX FtJEL C031PA.\V, 
Ciiioiiinati, Ohio, 

Was organized in 1902 by J. R. Thomas 
and C. A. Cabell of Charleston, "West. 
Virginia. Its executive offices are in 
Charleston and its mines on Cabin 
Creek, Kanawiia County, "West Virginia 
Twelve mines are being operated under 
the supervision of Mr. C. A. Cabell. 
Vice-President and Manager of the 
company. The tonnage has been de- 
veloped to two and one-half million 
tons annually, due to a careful and in- 
telligent study of market requirements 
and satisfactory service to its patrons 
Mr. J. R. Thomas, the President, is 
located at Charleston. The sales of 
the Carbon Fuel Co. are in charge of 
Mr. "V\^. J. Magee, with headqvjarters at 
the Cincinnati office, who has been 
identified in this capacity since the 
company's organization. 




R. B. COBB, Charleston, West Virginia, 

Deputy .State Inspector, Charleston, was born in Kanawha 
County, "West Virginia, January 11, 1872, and has been 
identified with the coal industry thirty-two years. Mr. 
Cobb passed all his life in the mines and held every posi- 
tion in the operating end of the business. He is a self- 
educated man and never went to school a day in his life, 
applying himself in all his spare moments to getting an 
education. He has been with the government since 1913. 



r. M. FISHER, 
Charleston, West Virginia, 

Late President F. M. Fisher Coal Co., 
Charleston, w.as a native of Lewis- 
town, Pennsylvania, born in 1854. Mr. 
Fisher had been identified with the coal 
industry ten years, and was connected 
with the Pennsylvania Railroad thirty 
years. He was formerly connected with 
the "Wattles-Fisher Coal Co. and Mill 
Creek Cannel Coal Co. Mr. Fisher died 
August 23, 1917, after having led a very 
active life. 




ftUlJf MORTON, Charleston, \^ est Virginia, 

General Manager Imperial Coal Sales Co., Charleston, is a 
native of Charlotte, "West Virginia, born January 29, 1858, 
and has been interested in the coal business twenty-one 
years. Mr. Morton is also President of the Coal Valley 
Mining Co., General Manager of the Imperial Colliery Co. 
and Christian Colliery Co. and a Director of the "Wood 
Coal Co., Peytona Mining Co. and Christian Colliery Co. 
He has served as a member of the Executive Committee of 
the Splint and Gas Coal Association of "V\^est Virginia, Vice 
Chairman of the Kanawha Shippers' Association and as 
President of the Kanawha Coal Operators' Association. 



447 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





AVIGHTMAN D. ROBERTS, Clisirlostoii. We.st Virsinisi. 

Editor and Publisher "West Virginia Mining News," Charles- 
ton, is a native of Weaverville, North Carolina, born August 
25, 1875. Mr. Roberts has been in the publishing business 
ten years and is author of "The Man ^vith a Job," distrib- 
uted extensively by employers to their workmen. He 
founded and edited the "Appalachian Trade Journal" in 
Johnson City, Tennessee, in 1907. He has also served as 
publicity representative for the New River and Winding 
Gulf Operators' Associations and represents several com- 
panies in the Kanawha field. 



EDWIIV AVALTER TILDESLEY, Charleston, AVe.st Virginia, 

Commission Coal Purchasing Agent, with offices in the 
Union Trust building, Charleston, was born in Columbus, 
Ohio, March 20, 1891, and has been in the coal business seven 
years. Mr. Tildesley was formerly connected with the 
Halmar Coal Mining Co. and is now a stockholder 
and Director, handling their business on a commission basis. 



X. J. AVOOU, 
Charleston, West Virginia, 

Secretary and General Sales Manager 
Dickinson Fuel Co., Charleston, was 
born in Clay County, West Virginia. 
June 29, 1890, and has been interested 
in the coal business ten years. Mr. 
Wood acted as .District Manager for 
the Halmar Coal Mining Co. four years 
and also served as a Director of the 
National Coal Jobbers Association. 



AVILI.IAM E. WRIGHT, 
Charleston, West A'irsinia, 

Treasurer and Manager Indian Run 
Coal Co., Charleston, West Virginia, 
was born in Payetteville, West Vir- 
ginia, March 23, 1S78, and has been en- 
gaged in the coal business fifteen years. 
Mr. Wright was formerly connected 
with the Winifrede Coal Co. and Sun- 
day Creek Coal Co. The Indian Run 
Coal Co. has branch agencies at Day- 
Ion and Toledo, Ohio, and Detroit, Mich- 
igan, ^vith an annual output of 1,000,000 
tons. 



448 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



KANAWHA A ALLEY COAL, CO., 

Kanaivhu \'ationnl Maiik Building, 

Charleston, West Virginia. 

This company was started in the 
spring of iyi3, by Otto J. Cox, and 
later in the same year was incorpor- 
ated and org-anized with Otto J. Cox 
as President. E. M. Cox Treasurer, and 
Roy Cox Secretary. 

The company is the exclusive selling 
ag-ent for the Valco Coal Co., Eagle 
Gas Coal Co., Lens Creek Coal Co., 
Piney-Pocahontas Coal Co., and Lin- 
coln Coal & Coke Co., all of which are 
controlled by the Cox boys. The Kan- 
awha Valley Coal Co. is also agent for 
the Sterling- Block Coal Co., Superior 
Kanawha Coal Co., Britton Coal Co., 
and the Wehole Coal Co. 

These mines are located on the Ches- 
apeake & Ohio and Kanawha & Mich- 
igan Railways, and are in the Coal 
River District of the Kanawha field 
and the New River field. 

The company handles both steam and 
domestic coal. 




S. A. LEWIS, Chelyan, \\ est Mrsinia, 

President and Manager Lewis Coal & Coke Co., Chelyan, 
was born in New Haven, West Virginia, in 1865 and has 
been engaged in the coal business forty-two years. Mr. 
Lewis was formerly connected with the Hutchinson Coal 
Co. and Hutchinson Fuel Co. and is a member of the 
Kanawha County Coal Operators Association, Kanawha 
County Coal Shippers Association, Kanawha Gas and Splint 
Association and Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Shippers Asso- 
ciation. 





VINCEIVT E. GOCKE, Olarksburs, West Virginia, 

Vice President and General Manager Francois Coal Co., 
Clarksbuig. was born in Howesville, West Virginia, Novem- 
ber 30, 1874, and has been engaged in the coal business 
seventeen years. Mr. Gocke is also Vice President of the 
Kingwood Coal Co. and President of the Aster Coal Co. He 
w.Hs formerly associated with the Daniel Coal Co. and Vin- 
cent Coal Co. and is a member of the Finance and Transpor- 
tation Committee of the Northern West Virginia Coal Oper- 
ators Association. 



DANIEL. HOWARD, Clarksbarg, West Virginia, 

President and General Manager Central Fairmont Coal Co. 
and Fairmont Big Vein Coal Co., Clarksburg, was born in 
Ireland November 19, 1848, and has been engaged in the 
coal business twenty years. Mr. Howard is a past Presi- 
dent of the Central West Virginia Coal Operators Asso- 
ciatioti. 



449 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 




FRANK EHLEJV HUTCHINSON, 
Logai'. AVest Virs'inia, 

Superintendent Logan Mining Co., Lo- 
gan, is a native of Fairmont, "West 
Virginia, born October 6, 1892. Mr. 
Hutchinson is also Vice President and 
General Manager of the Rich Creek 
Coal Co. and Empire Fuel Co. and has 
been identified with the coal business 
four years. 



BROOKS SWEARENGEN HUTCHINSON, Fairmont, AV. Va., 

President Rich Creek Coal Co., Empire Fuel Co. and Hutch- 
inson-Arnold Coke Co., Fairmont, -was born in Monongalia 
County, West Virginia, July 10, 1888, and has been in the 
coal business seven years. Mr. Hutchinson is also inter- 
ested in the Logan Mining Co. 




BERNARD LEE HUTCHINSON, Cincinnati, Ohio, 

Cincinnati Manager Hutchinson Coal Co., was born in 
Beechwood, West Virginia, January 12, 1890, and has been 
in the coal business eight years. He is also General Mana- 
ger of the Empire Fuel Co. and Vice President of the Rich 
Creek Coal Co. For five years he was with the Logan 
Mining Co. 



JA3IES FUOYD COLE, 
Fairmont, We-st Virginia, 

Secretary-Treasurer Rich Creek Coal 
Co., Fairinont, was born in Grafton, 
West Virginia, April 20, 1883, and has 
been in the coal business twelve years. 
Mr. Cole is also Auditor of the Empire 
Fuel Co.. Secretary-Treasurer of the 
Braxton-Pittsburgh Coal Co. and Moun- 
tain State Fuel Co. and President of 
the Crescent Fuel Co. He was former- 
ly identified with the Hutchinson Coal 
Co. and Logan Mining Co. 



450 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



CHAS. H. UIFFEMJERFFER, 
I'liiladelphia, Pennsylvania, 

President of the Harry B. Coal & Coke 
Co. of Fairmont, "West Virginia, and the 
Blair-Parke Coal Co. at Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania, was born at Baltimore, 
Maryland, May 23 1877, and has been 
in the coal business for seventeen 
years. He is also interested in the 
Abrams Creek Coal & Coke Co. anJ is 
^vell kno^vn in the trade. 




JOHIV A. CLARK, Fairmont, AVest Virsinia, 

Secretary-Treasurer Harry B. Coal & Coke Co. and Vice- 
President Madeira-Hill-Clark Coal Co., Fairmont, was born 
in Cumberland, Maryland. January 22, 1855, and has been 
in the coal business forty years. Mr. Clark wa.s formerly 
connected with the Newburg Orel Coal Co. 



JOHN A. CLARK, JR., 
Fairmont, "West Virginia, 

General Superintendent Harry B. Coal 
& Coke Co.. Fairmont, was born in 
Newburg-, "West Virginia, December 7, 
1888, and has been in the coal business 
eleven years. Mr. Clark is also inter- 
ested in the Harry B. Coal Co. and Sal • 
vatore Coal Co. and was formerly iden- 
tified ■with the Madeira-Hill-Clark Coal 
Co. 




CHARLES H. WAGGEIVER, Fairmont, West Virginia, 

Assistant Secretary-Treasurer Harry B. Coal & Coke Co.,. 
Fairmont, was born in Newport, Kentucky, September 4, 
1861, and has been in the coal business twenty years. Mr. 
"Waggener is also Secretary-Treasurer of the Harry B. Coal 
Co. He was formerly identified with the Montana Coal & 
Coke Co. 



451 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





HARRY B. CLARK, Fairmont. ^Vest Virsiniii, 

President Harry B. Coal Co., Fairmont, was born in New- 
burg:, West Virginia, December 19, 1882, and has been in 
the coal business fifteen years. Mr. Clark is also interested 
in the Harry B. Coal & Coke Co. and was formerly con- 
nected with Madeira-Hill-Clark Coal Co. 



THOMAS M'ATSON ARjVIiTTK, Faiijuoiit, West Virsinia, 

President and General Manager Antler Coal Co., Fairmont, 
West Virginia, was born in Rivesville, W^est Virginia. 
August 29, 1868, and has been in the coal business twenty- 
flve years. Mr. Arnette has also acted as President of the 
Har-Mar Coal Co. and was previously connected with the 
Hutchinson Coal Co. and Consolidated Coal Co. 



ALEXANDER R. WATSON, 
Fairmont, W^est Virginia, 

President Alexander R. Watson Co., 
Fairmont, was born in Taylor County. 
West Virginia, September 25, 1879, and 
has been in the coal business three 
years. Mr. Watson is also President 
of the Initial Fuel Co. and Old Domini, 
ion Coal Co. and a member of the West 
Virginia Coal Operators Association. 



W. D. NORTH, 
Fairmont, AVest Virginia, 

Sales Manager Alexander R. Watson 
Co., Fairmont, was born in Baltimore, 
Maryland, May 24, 1888, and has been 
in the coal business three years. Mr. 
North is also General Manager of the 
Initial Fuel Co. and Old Dominion Coal 
Co. He is a member of the West Vir- 
ginia Coal Operators Association. 



452 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



GEORGE »E BOLT, 
Fairmont, A\ est Virginia, 

Secretary and General Manager Red 
Rock Fuel Co., Fairmont, was born at 
Masontown, Pennsylvania, October 30, 
1S58, and has been in the coal business 
thirty years. Mr. De Bolt was formerly 
connected with the Montana Coal & 
Coke Co., West Fairmont Coal & Coke 
Co. and Consolidation Coal Co. 



(. H. ,IEXKI\S. 
Enii'iiioiit, \VeNt Virginia, 

Secretary-Treasurer Hutchinson Coal 
Co. and Vice President I..og:an Mining 
Co., Fairmont, was born in Barbour 
County. West Virginia, Xovember l.'i. 
1871, and has been in the coal business 
twenty years. Mr. .Jenkins has also 
served as President of the Central West 
Virginia Coal Operators Association and 
Vice President of the West N'irg-inia 
Coal Association. 



H. H. STAGGERS, 
Fairmont, West Virginia, 

West A^irg-inia Agent Moreland Coke 
Co., Fairmont, was born in Fairmont 
April 21. 1886, and has been engaged 
in the coal business fifteen years. Mi. 
Staggers is also interested in W A. 
Marshall & Co. He owned and oper- 
ated for several years mines of his own, 
which he sold. 



W. E. WAT.SOX, JR.. 
Fairmont, West Virginia, 

General Manager Rosebud Fuel Co. and 
Fairmont & Cleveland Coal Co., Fair- 
mont, was born in Detroit, Michigan. 
May 19. 1885. Mr. Watson has been in 
the coal business nine years and was 
formerly connected with the Fairmont 
Coal Co. three years. 



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THE E. E. WHITE COMPANY 

Glen white, West Virginia 




E. E. WHITE, 
I'rvsideiit and Ceiieral Manager The E. E. White Co. 



Every coal mining operation is just a little different from 
any other operation. They are modified by the personali- 
ties of their projectors and managers, by their environ- 
ment, by policies put into effect and by various other fac- 
tors. Concerning the E. E. White Coal Co., Glen White, 
Raleigh County, West Virginia, there is much that might 
be said of general interest to the coal trade. 

The E. E. White Coal Co. operates two plants at Glen 
White and Stotesbury, respectively. The Glen White 
plant is located near the head of Shockley Creek, about 
eight miles southwest of Beckley, and the Stotesbury mine 
lies four miles due south of Glen White on Winding Gulf 
Creek. The former of these two operations is a shallow 
shaft mine, working the Beckley Seam, while Stotesbury 
is a drift mine in the same seam. 



The company was chartered under the law of West Vir- 
ginia December 26, 1907, by the following incorporators: 
E. E. White, Voris Auten, T. E. Snyder, Thomas M. 
Righter, J. M. Humphrey, A. C. Stahl, Edward Williams, 
B. S. Daddow, B. F. Bartho, P. A. Vought and T. Bickel. 

A staff of officers and directors was chosen immediately 
afterwards, and it is a remarkable and significant cir- 
cumstance that this staff served continuously without any 
change of personnel during the first ten years of its exist- 
ence. 

The President and General Manager is E. E. White, 
Glen White, West Virginia; Vice President, T. E. Snyder, 
Hazelton, Pennsylvania; Secretary-Treasurer, Preston A. 
Vought, Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania. 

The Board of Directors consists of John Laing, Charles- 



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ton. "West Virginia: Thos. H. Wickham, Beckley, West Vir- 
ginia; E. E. White. Glen White. West Virginia; F. L. Buck, 
Ashland, Pennsylvania; .1. M. Humphrey, Wilkes-Barre, 
Pennsylvania; Voris Auten, Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania; 




C. R. STAHL, 
Assistant Gt-iicral Manager. 



Tobias Bickel, Mowry, Pennsylvania; Edward Brennan, 
Shamokin, Pennsylvania; C. A. Gable, Mount Carmel, 
Pennsylvania; Preston A. Vought, Mount Carmel, Pennsyl- 
vania; T. E. Snyder, Hazelton, Pennsylvania; and T. M. 
Righter, Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania. 

Eighteen months after the company was organized, the 
shafts and drift openings were completed, towns were built 
and all necessary construction work perfected for the ship- 
ment of coal. Shipments began July 1, 1909, and within 
eight years thereafter had aggregated considerably more 
than 5,000,000 tons. The total coal area of the property is 
5,18-5 acres, the greater portion of which is leased from 
the Beaver Coal Co. 

It is interesting to note that the operations of the E. E. 
"White Coal Co. were developed by men whose early expe- 
rience was gained in the anthracite regions. They had 
experience in coal seams lying at all angles of formation, 
from degrees to 90 degrees, and of varying thicknesses. 
On the Board of Directors were two former operators, two 
present anthracite operators, one general manager, and 
one mining engineer of the anthracite fields. On the oper- 
ating force there are not only officials and foremen, but 
many engineers, miners and day men from the same fields. 
Just as the English, Welch and Scotch miners brought 
into the anthracite fields many of the methods of European 
mining, so have these anthracite men introduced into the 
development and working of the West Virginia mines 
methods in vogue in the Pennsylvania anthracite regions. 
That this preparatory knowledge has been a valuable 
asset to the E. E. White Coal Co. is indicated by the suc- 
cess of its operations. 

Especially has the personality of the directing spirit of 
the enterprise impressed itself upon the development of 
the company. President and General Manager E. E. 



White began his business career as a trapper boy in the 
mines, and from that humble position in the coal-mining 
industry he advanced steadily through every job in the 
n.ining series until his indomitable will and lofty ideals 
found adequate opportunity for expression in the develop- 
ment of this company, founded by himself, and now enjoy- 
ing a degree of success, compatible with the genius for 
business which he has imparted to the activities of the 
concern. 

President White was born near Plymouth, England, in 
1858, and has been engaged in the coal business forty 
years. He is a Director of the McAlpin Coal Co. of Mc- 
Alpin, West Virginia, and is also interested in Pennsylvania 
anthracite mines. He was formerly President and Gen- 
eral Manager of the Beckley Coal & Coke Co. and the 
Columbus Collieries and President of the Winding Gulf 
Operators Association of West Virginia. 

The influence of President White is perhaps nowhere 
more conspicuously shown than in the social opportunities 
which the employes of the company enjoy. Coming up 
from the ranks, Mr. White has that intimate knowledge of 
the workingman's heart, his joys and his sorrows, his ideals 
of life and his appreciation of the recognition due him from 
his employers — that has enabled him to meet adverse labor 
conditions and develop among his men that esprit de corps 
that has made it one of the vital and influential assets of 
the organization. A man of this type, surrounded as he is 
by a staff of experienced, competent and courteous officers, 
has given to the growth of the company a momentum 
which may be recorded as one of the memorable achieve- 
ments in the development of the coal mining industry in 
West Virginia. 

The towns of both Glen White and Stotesbury have been 
carefully located, due regard having been given not only 




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"w^mism 



R. F. ROTH, 
Chief Engineer. 



to convenience of mine operation, but to the attractive- 
ness of residence itself for the mine worker. Glen White 
in particular has an unusually favorable environment. 
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hills beautifully wooded and the fiat grounds sodded almost 
as smoothly as a college campus, the town is extremely 
beauteous to the visitor's eye. Great care has been exer- 
cised in the construction of buildings. Substantial miners' 




J. Kf. COLEMAN, 
Superintendesit Stotesbury Mine. 



houses and a wide variety of public buildings were erected 
to enhance the enjoyment of social life in the communi- 
ties. 

Mining institutes are maintained at Glen White and 
Stotesbury for the instruction of employes wishing to pre- 
pare themselves for examination for the various grades of 
mine foreman and for the general advancement of the 
mining science. Many young men have taken advantage 
of the educational opportuities thus afforded, thereby 
greatly adding to the efficiency of mine operation. An 
enumeration of all the commendable things done by the 
company's management for the benefits of its employes 
would require large space. 

Equally careful and thorough has been the equipment 
of the mines with the latest appliances for promoting the 
skill of the men and for increasing the efficiency of oper- 
ation. 

In addition to the general inside foreman, a man of long 
and varied experience, and his assistants, each of whom 
has a certificate of efficiency from the State, the company 
employs a man whose title is "Safety Inspector" and whose 
duty principally is to find fault. He is expected to visit 
as much of the mine as possible every day, keep tab on 
ventilation, mine timbering, etc., report faulty conditions, 
instruct both company men and miners in good and safe 
practices and warn them against bad ones. He has full 
power to discharge an employe for violation of the mining 
laws or rules of the company. 

Every entry and room in the mines is driven on lines 
set by the engineers. An interesting detail to the actual 
mine operation is the tonnage speedometer, conspicuously 
posted at both mines showing total output daily, monthly 
and annually, since the beginning of operations. A red cir- 
cle by its advances indicates daily the growth of tonnage. 



The men thus see the progress of their work at the end of 
each day, and, somehow, the mines, as shown in the com- 
parative chart, keep running at their maximum capacity. 
That this chart has an infiuence in speeding up the work 
of the men is clearly indicated. 

The workings of the Glen White mines, covering an area 
of about 700 acres, are ventilated by a current of 1.50,000 
cubic feet of air per minute. Close to the shaft bottom 
the intake is divided into three main splits, which are fur- 
ther subdivided allowing each entry a supply of from 
20,000 to 30,000 cubic feet of air per minute. All per- 
manent stoppings are stone set in cement mortar, and a 
force of masons is kept constantly at work building these 
stoppings. The return air crosses the main haulage ways 
via overcasts of stone and brick masonry and reinforced 
concrete. 

All entries and rooms are connected by breakthroughs 
at a maximum distance of 80 feet, and where necessary 
brattice is carried from the last breakthrough to the face. 
In no part of the mines is there left a blank end, every 
entry or room when stopped being connected right at 
the face to the adjoining entry or room, thus keeping the 
air circulating directly across the face of the workings. 
Each panel before being robbed is connected at one or 
more places, furthest from the intake with the return 
airway of the entry above, so that there is always a cur- 
rent of fresh air passing over and through to the faces. 

From the time the first pick was sunk in the opening of 
these mines the motto of the company has been "Safety 
First" and there is no danger common to coal mining that 
is not carefully watched. The main haulage roads in all 
three mines are lighted by electricity, and neatly lettered 
sign boards are posted in conspicuous places bearing 
warnings of dangerous practices and pointing out the 
direction to the exits. 




E. B. WHITE, JR. 
Chemist. 



Sanitary conditions have been maintained in a most 
extraordinary manner. It is stated that Glen White in 
its ten years' existence has never developed a single con- 
tagious disease that originated within the town limits. 



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JARIUS COLLINS, Bramwell, West Virginia. 

For thirty years tliis prominent citizen of West Virginia has 
been actively identified with the development of coal properties in 
that state. He was horn at Clayton. Alabama, in 1859, and em- 
l)arked in the coal l)nsiness when a young man. He was formerlx' 
connected with the Collins Colliery Company, Glen jean, West Vir- 
ginia. Mr. Collins is at present General ]\Ianager of the Louisville 
Coal & Coke Co:. Goodwill, West Virginia, of which Isaac T. ]\Iann. 
Xo. 1 Broadway, Xew York, is President. Mr. Collins is also Gen- 
eral Manager of the Greenbrier Coal & Coke Co., McDowell, West 
Virginia, and of the Kiml)all-Pocahontas Coal Co., Big Pour, West 
Virginia. 

^Ir. Collins is President of the Fonrseam Block Collieries Co., 
Dial)lock, Kentucky, the Elkhornseam Collieries Co.. Yeager. Ken- 
tucky, and the Hoo Hoo Coal Co., Lester, West Virginia. He is 
also a Director of the Pocahontas Coke Co.. the Superior Supply 
Co., and the National Carbide Corporation, all of Blueiield, West 
Virginia. 

He is Treasurer of the Pocahontas Operators' Association, 
Bramwell, West Virginia. 



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AV. E. DEEGANS, Huntington, AVest Virsinia. 

President and General Manager W. E. Deegans Coal Co., 
Huntington, was born at Coal Grove, Ohio, in 1875 and has 
been engaged in the coal business eighteen years. Mr. 
Deegans is also President and General Manager of ten or 
twelve other concerns. 



A. AV. FITZA\'ATER, Hiintiugton, We.st Virsinia. 

Secretary-Treasurer W. E. Deegans Coal Co., Huntington, 
was born in Lockwood, West Virginia, October 8, 1884, and 
has been in the coal business fifteen years. He was pre- 
viously associated with the White Oak Coal Co., Macdonald, 
West Virginia, and more recently with the Chesapeake Min- 
ing Co., Handley, West Virginia. Mr. Fitzwater has a wide 
experience in accounting' and is regarded as an avithority 
on that subject. 



OTHO C. HUFFMAA. 
HuntiiijEi'ton, West Virginia, 

General Sales Manager W. E. Deegans 
Coal Co., Huntington, was born in Har- 
risonburg, Virginia, April 26, 1881, and 
has been identified with the coal busi- 
ness seventeen years. 




JOHjV FAULKNER, Huntington, West Virginia, 

General Purchasing Agent W. E. Deegans Coal Interests in 
West Virginia, comprising Paragon Colliery Co., Deegans 
Eagle Coal Co., Cub Pork Coal Co., Orville Coal Co., Guyan 
Valley Coal Co., Royal Block Coal Co., Sterling Colliery Co., 
New Pocahontas Coal Co., Virginian Smokeless Fuel Co., 
Miller Pocahontas Coal Co., Mullens Smokeless Coal Co., 
Aileen Coal Co., and Mount Hope Coal & Coke Co., was born 
in York County, England, in 1856, and came to the United 
States in the year 1890. since which time he has been ac- 
tively engaged in the coal business. Mr. Faulkner is also 
President of The Bank of Mullens, West Virginia, and Vice 
President of the National Bank of Thurmond, West Virginia. 



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JOHN L,. ROBIXSOIV, 
Grnfton. West Virginia, 

President Gabe Pork Coal Co., Grafton, 
was born in Pruntytown, West Vir- 
ginia, December 5, 1867, and has been 
in the coal business thirty year?. Mr. 
Robinson is also interested in the 
Knash, Carder and Lynn mines. 




A. J. KING, Hiiiitiiigtoii, AVe.st A'irKiuia. 

President and General Manager Aracoma Coal Co., Hunting- 
ton, was born in Salineville, Ohio, May 19, 1874, and has 
been in the coal business thirty years. He is also President 
and General Manager of the Sunbeam Coal Co.. Eagle Island 
Coal Co. and Thermo-Pocahontas Coal Co. Mr. King- was 
formerly connected with the Pittsburgh Coal Co., H. C. Frick 
Coke Co., Pocahontas Consolidated Collieries Co., Ne^v River 
Collieries Co., Virginia Iron Coal & Coke Co., and James 
W. Ellsworth & Co., and in 1909 was in the Department of 
Mines of "West Virginia. 




GEORGE DONALD MILLER, Huntington, West Virginia, 

Vice President Trinity Coal Co., Huntington, was born in 
Huntington December 20. 1888, and has just been in the coal 
business two years. Mr. Miller is also interested in the 
Don Coal Co., Sekay Coal Co., Alonzo Coal Co., Trinity Coal 
Co., and Waldon Coal Co. 



PRANK ENSLOW, 
Huntington, West A'irginia, 

Prominent operator of Huntington, 
West Virginia, was born in that city in 
1882. Mr. Bnslow followed the legal 
profession until tw^o years ago when 
he entered the coal business. He is ac- 
tively identified with the Sekay Coa! 
Co., Don Coal Co., Sharlow Coal Co.. 
Eagle Island Coal Co., West Virginia 
Standard Coal Co., and five or six 
others. Mr. Enslow^ is al^ways ready to 
promote any proposition for the im- 
provement of Huntington or the good 
of the coal trade and is President of the 
Day and Night Bank, first of its kind 
in this part of the United States. 



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HARVEY H. 3IORRIS, Huntington. 

President "West Virginia Standard Coal 
Co. and Kentucky Elkhorn By-Product 
Coal Co.. and Vice President Elkhorn 
Collieries Co., Huntington, was born at 
Coalburg. West Virginia, April 11, 1873, 
and has been engaged in the coal in- 
dustry since January 1, 1916. He is 
also interested in the Huntington By- 
Product Coal Co. and Virginia Elkhorn 
By-Product Coal Co., Huntington, op- 
erating companies in Eastern Kentucky 
.and Virginia; .also Secretary and Treas- 
urer of the Huntington Investment Co., 
real estate, and the Kyle Smith Air- 
craft Co., builders of airplanes, both 
of Huntington. Prior to entering the 
coal bu.siness he was connected with 
the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. for 
several years, as trainmaster of both 
the Kanawha and Guyandot coal fields, 
and later Superintendent at Hunting- 
ton, Richmond and Ashland, Kentucky, 
resigning in December, 1915, to become 
President of the West Virginia Stand- 
-ard Coal Co. 




W. H. CUNNIXGHAM, Huntington, 

Consulting engineer, ^was born at Al- 
lentown, Pennss'lvania, in 1882, and 
has been Interested in the coal busi- 
ness all his life. He is a graduate of 
Kiskiminetas Springs Preparatory 
School and Lehigh University. His first 
coal experience 'was with his father, 
who was associated -with E. J. Berwind 
in Pennsylvania. After graduation he 
went to the Pocahontas fields as min- 
ing engineer, then as a mechanical en- 
gineer and Superintendent for the Davis 
Coal & Coke Co. and was later Man- 
ager of Mines and General Manager 
for the Western Kentucky Coal Co. Mr. 
Cunningham went to Huntington in 
1912 and is not only active in coal op- 
erations but also in many other local 
ent'"'rprises. He is Secretary-Treasurer 
of the Don Coal Co., Sharlow Coal Co., 
Bengal Coal Co., Eagle Island Coal Co., 
and Sekay Coal Co., and Secretary Trin- 
ity Coal Co. He has been Secretary of 
the West Virginia Coal Association 
since its organization in 1915 and Sec- 
retary of the Kentucky Mine Q-wners 
Association, and represents West Vir- 
ginia on the Red Cross Advisory Board 
for the Potomac Division. 



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ALBERT J. CONNEI.LY, Huntington, AVest A'irsinia, 

Vice President and Sales Manager Clear Creek Coal Co., 
Huntington, -was born in Foster, Kentucky, November 7, 
1877. Mr. Connelly lias been in the coa! business fifteen 
years and was formerly identified M'ith the Sunday Creek 
Coal Co., Toledo, Ohio, and Norfolk & Chesapeake Coal Co. 
and Producers Coal Co. of Cincinnati, Ohio. 



PAVL HARUY, 
Huntin^^ton. West Virginia, 

President Monte Coal Co., Huntington, 
was born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1877 
and has been in the coal business 
twenty years. He was previously con- 
nected with the Island Creek Coal Co. 
and Pond Creek Coal Co. He was in 
charg-e of one of the very first opera- 
tions in the Logan field. 



LITZ- SMITH FUEL COMPANY 

Huntington, West Virginia 



The Litz-Smitli Fuel Co. was organized March 
30, 1915, with main offices at Huntington, West 
Virginia, for the purpose of liandling the output 
of the mines of the Litz-Smith interests, this out- 
put amounting to about 750,000 tons a year with 
a prospective development of 2,500 to 3,000 addi- 
tional acres, owned by lAtz & Smith on the ex- 
tension of the Chesapeake & Ohio road from Man 
to Gilbert. 

The officers of the Litz-Smith Fuel Co. are as 
follows: R. R. Smith, President; A. Z. Litz, Vice 
President; W. P. Neekamp, Secretary and Treasurer. 

The mines of the Litz-Smith interests now operat- 
ed include two mines of the Shamrock Coal Co., 
Logan, West Virginia, which was organized Octo- 
ber 5, 1909. These mines are known as Litz-Smith 
Nos. 1 and 2, with a daily output of 1,350 tons, in 
the Island Creek seam. 

The Litz-Smith Coal Co., organized March 27, 
1914, operates at Accoville, West Virginia, what 



is known as Litz-Smith mine No. 3, with a produc- 
tion of 750 tons a day in the Eagle Gas seam. 

The Litz-Smith Island Creek Coal Co., Chaun- 
cey, West Virginia, organized March 30, 1915, op- 
erates what is known as Litz-Smith mine No. 4, 
with a production of 1,250 tons a day in the Island 
Creek seam. 

All of the above mines are on the Chesapeake 
& Ohio Railway in Logan County, West Virginia. 

The Litz-Smith Pocahontas Coal Co., situated 
on the Dry Fork Branch of the Norfolk & West- 
ern Railway in McDowell County, West Virginia, 
was organized March 30, 1915, and has a produc- 
tion of 10,000 tons a month of No. 3 Pocahontas 
coal. 

All of the above interests, both of the company 
and the mines, are practically owned by Messrs. 
Litz and Smith, and in addition they are both 
largely interested in real estate and coal lands in 
southern West Virginia, Kentucky and Virginia. 



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DAN A. MOSSMAN, Huntington, AVest Virginia, 

Prominent retailer of Huntington, is a native of Ohio, born 
May 13, 1860. He was formerly in the retail coal business 
at Portsmouth and Gallipolis. Ohio, and went to Hunting-- 
ton thirty-four years ago, where he started another retail 
yard, which he continued to operate for eight years, when 
he retired. Mr. Mossman is a prominent and influential citi- 
zen of Huntington and has large realty holdings there. He 
is an officer of six or seven of Huntington's leading indus- 
tries and a tireless -worker for its best interests. For eight 
years he was President of the Huntington Chamber of 
Commerce and for four years its Vice President. 



W. li. ROBINSOIV, KLstler, AVest A irginia. 

In charge of operations for the Bengal Coal Co., Kistler, is 
a native of Pennsylvania, born in 1886, and has been in- 
terested in the coal business eighteen years. Mr. Robinson 
opened operations for the Dry Pork Colliery Co. and was. 
later with the Carter Coal Co. He has also been connected 
with the Shawmut Mining Co. in Pennsylvania. 



THOMAS W. FITZSIMMONS, 
Kyle, West Virginia. 

General Mine Superintendent Powhatan 
Coal & Coke Co., Kyle, West Virginia, 
passed his early life in the anthracite 
fields of Pennsylvania and has been in- 
terested in the coal business twenty- 
one years. He is also connected with 
the Lynchburg Coal & Coke Co., Eure- 
ka Coal & Coke Co. and Elk Ridge Coal 
& Coke Co. as General Mine Superin- 
tendent. 



C. I. LANTZ, 
MorgantOTvn, AVest Virginia, 

General Manager Rosedale Coal Co., 
Morgantown, was born in Kirby, Penn- 
sylvania, November 12, 1882, and has 
been engaged in the coal business five 
years. He is an associate member of 
the American Society Civil Engineers. 



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H. S. GAY, Shamokin, Pennsylvania. 

Vice President and General Manager of the Gay Coal & Coke Co., 
Logan, West Virginia, since his graduation at Lafayette College, 
Easton. Pennsylvania, in 1882, has heen interested in coal mining, 
starting in as a mining engineer in the anthracite fields. Later he 
became Assistant Engineer for the Susquehanna Coal Co., and was 
for ten years Superintendent for J. Langdon & Co. at Shamokin. 
He was the pioneer operator in the Logan field of West Virginia in 
1904. 



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JAMES H. GENT. Fort Branch, ^Vest Virginia, 

Mine Superintendent Fort Branch Coal Corp., Fort Branch, 
is a native of Pennsylvania, born June 12, 1871. Mr. Gent 
has been engaged in the coal business thirty-three years 
and was formerly connected with the Frieze Fork Coal 
Mining- Co., Thacker Coal Co., Glen Alum Coal Co., Poca- 
hontas Consolidated Coal Co. and MacDowell Coal Co. This 
company opened operations In this field in 1905. 



FRED HAISLIP. 
liOgan, AVest Virginia, 

Secretary and Superintendent of Mines. 
Flynn-Haislip Coal Co., Logan, was 
born in Woodstock, Virginia, January 
10, 1887, and has been identified with 
the coal industry eight years. Mr. 
Haislip has had considerable practical 
experience in connection with coal 
mining .and vs^as previously with the 
Hutchinson Coal Co. in the Fairmont 
fields. The inine in ■which his firm is 
interested is located on the Dingess 
Run river. 



JUDGE J. B. WILKIXSOA, 
LiOS'an, West Vir.g'inia, 

Prominent land owner of Logan, with 
an extensive law practice among the 
coal trade, vfus born in Logan County. 
West Virginia. He is interested in the 
Guyan Coal Co. and Big Huff Coal Co., 
land holding' companies, as well as 
many others. He acquired lands in 
Guyan and Main Island Creek valleys 
prior to the coming of any operators 
into these fields. Judge Wilkinson is 
prominent locally and very active. For 
sixteen years he served as county pros- 
ecutor and was elected twice, without 
any opposition, as State Circuit Judge, 
in which capacity he served twelve 
years, until he resigned in 1916. 



THOMAS WILSOX, 
Logan, "West Virginia, 

General Manager H. T. Wilson (::oal 
Co., Logan, is a native of Clearfield 
County, Pennsylvania, born June 5, 
1888. He had his first experience in the 
coal business in the bituminous fields 
of Pennsylvania, where he started in 
as a trapper boy and then took up en- 
gineering. Mr. Wilson went to West 
Virginia in 1906 and this Wilson mine 
is one of the early openings in the 
Logan field. It has a five-foot seam 
and is modern in every way, with facil- 
ities for careful preparation of coal. 
Mr. Wilson was also connected with 
Peale, Peacock & Kerr and a member 
of the Guyan Valley Coal Operators 
Association. 



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NEW RIVER COMPANY 

MacDonald, West Virginia 

A modern otfice building, located right in the heart of their 
extensive and important '\^'est Virginia mining operations, is one 
of the unique possessions, of which the New Eiver Co. may not 
only be rightfully proud but it is one, the advantage of which in 
the coal mining industry will commend itself generally. From 
this centralized office building the executive atfairs of the company 
are managed, the sah's department as well as the producing end 
of the business. And a moment's reflection will show how closely 
these two branches of the industry are related. One advantage 
is that the method of preparation comes right under the watchful 
eye of the sales representatives and that questions relating to 
preparation, etc., can he settled before the car of coal starts on its 
way to the consumer. 

The extensive product of the Xew Eiver Co. is marketed for 
inland shipments exclusively through the White Oak Coal Co., 
the executive offices of which are comfortably housed in the Mac- 
donald, AVest Virginia, office structure, alluded to. 

E. H. Gross, President of the ISTew Eiver Co., is located 
at No. 85 Devonshire street, Boston, Massachusetts, and H. X. 
Sweet, Vice President, at 60 Congress street, Boston. B. F. 
Dowst, Secretary and Treasurer, and A. H. Mclntire, Assistant 
Treasurer, have their offices at the Macdonald headquarters. 

The extensive organization at ]\Iacdonald is headed by S. A. 
Scott, General Manager, whose progressive methods and wise 
comprehension of the multitudinous details of the coal industry 
are familiarly known throttghout the coal industry. The opera- 
tion of the mines is in charge of P. C. Thomes, Manager of 
Mines. In his persistent efforts towards greater efficiency, ]\Ir. 
Thomes has regard not only for equipment, but his broader survey 
takes in as well the housing and liandling of the many hundreds 
of men, connected with the operation of the company's mines. 

In brief the policies of the company look far into the ftttui'e 
as well as to the immediate present. The correctness of this 
attitude is well illustrated by a computation made recently by an 



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officer of the company, showing that eyen at the present large rate 
of production it would take 250 years to exhanst the company's 
13resent holdings. 

The J^ew Eiver Co.'s operations number fifteen, five of which 
are located in Ealeigh County and ten in Fa3^ette County. Four 
of the mines are located on the Chesapeake & Ohio Eailroad and 
eleven on both the Chesapeake & Ohio and the Virginian Eailway. 
The company specializes in the preparation of prepared coal. The 
company owns outright or controls under perpetual lease a total 
of 50,000 acres of land underlaid with coal, some of it bearing 
as many as three workable seams. The Fayette County opera- 
tions include those located at Lochgelly, Summerlee, Oakwood, 
Whip]3le, Scarbro, Pru.dence, Harve)^, Collins, Dunloop and Mac- 
donald. The Ealeigh County mines are Cranberry, jSTos. 1, 2 and 
3, located respectively at Cranberry, Skelton and Spragiie, Beck- 
ley and Mabscott. The daily capacity of the fifteen plants is 
12,000 tons. These mines are equipped throughout with the 
latest types of electrical machinery for both mining and haulage, 
all standardized and interchangeable. In the recent extensive 
installation of this modern machinery clue regard has been given 
to a greatly increased production in the future. 

The company's Ealeigh County mines all produce Sewell 
seam coal, which is standard for the United States navy. 

The AVhite Oak Coal Co., wliich markets the products of 
the New Eiver company, has as officers E. H. Gross, Boston, Massa- 
chusetts, President; F. B. Dowst, Macdonald, West Virginia, Vice 
President; S. A. Scott, Macdonald, General Manager. "White 
Oak" smokeless coal products include lump, egg, mine run, steam 
and smithing. Shipments include tidewater, bunker and export, 
lake and all rail — east, west and south. 

Tidewater agents are C. H. Sprague & Son, 70 Kilby street, 
Boston, Massachusetts. European cargo agents are Moore & 
Fletcher, 101 Leadenhall street, S. E., London, E. C. England. 

The White Oak Coal Co. maintains branches at Chicago, In- 
dianapolis, Eichmond and Washington. The Chicago office is in 
charge of C. D. Ebbert, Peoples Gas building; Indianapolis office, 
C. W. Trowbridge, Hume-Mansur building; Washing-ton office, 
L. A. Snead, Woodward building; Eichmond office, A. T. Massey, 
American Kational Bank building. 



466 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



PERRY CRITCHI>EY TH03IAS, Maedonald, 

Jlanager of Mines New River Co., Mae- 
donald, West Virginia, was born in 
Scranton, Pennsylvania, January 28, 
1888, and has been interested in the 
coal business for the past fourteen 
years. He is Vice President and Gen- 
eral Manager Lick Fork Coal Co., Lick 
Fork, "West Virginia, and a Director in 
the East Gulf Coal Co., and was pre- 
viously with the Temple Iron Co. and 
the H. C. Frick Coke Co. 



E. J. PAYXE, Huntin^^ton, 

General Sales Manager of the Main 
Island Creek Coal Company, with 
headquarters at 303 Robson-Prichard 
Building, Huntington. West Virginia, 
M'as born in Newport, Kentucky, 
March 29, 1883. He has been identified 
with the coal trade for thirteen years. 
He is a director of several operating 
companies and was formerly associat- 
ed with the Berwind-White Coal Co. 



FRED EASLEY, Omar, AVest Virginia, 

General Manager Island Creek Superior 
Coal Co., Omar, is a native of Vir- 
ginia, born in 1872. He is also in- 
terested in the No. 5 Block Coal Co. and 
was formerly connected with the King 
Coal Co. and Moha^vk Coal Co. in an 
executive capacity. 



STAR COAL, & COKE C03IPANY, 
Red .Star, West Virginia. 

This company was organized in 
1893. It is producing about a thou- 
sand tons of New River Smokeless 
Coal daily in prepared sizes. Two 
mines are operated, both located on 
the Chesaijeake & Ohio Railroad. 

George W. Jones, President and 
Ma,nager of the company, with resi- 
dence on the property, was born in 
Fayette County, West Virginia, and 
has been engaged in the coal business 
in Fayette County all his life. He is 
also interested in the Lundale Coal 
Co. in the Logan field, and the Slab 
Coal Co. and the MacAlpin Coal Co. in 
the Ne-w River field. 



467 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



RALEIGH COAL & COKE COMPANY, 

Raleigh, West Virginia 



In 1901 the Raleigh Coal & Coke Co. secured a lease on 
10,000 acres of land In Raleigh County, West Virginia, and 
in the same year began its operations under the direction 
of T. J. Morgan of Wellston, Ohio, the first president of 
the company. Mr. Morgan had been prominently identi- 
fied with the Wellston Coal Co. and the Dayton Coal & 
Iron Co., and was generally regarded in the coal trade as 
one of the big and successful coal men of that district. He 
died November 11, 1908, at Wellston. 




are three loading booms and a box car loading equip- 
ment, with coal bin attached. This is a four-track tipple, 
provided with the most up-to-date and modern equipment. 
The prominent position of the company is the result of 
efficient management in every department. 

The officers of the company are: President, J. M. 
Wright Cincinnati; Secretary, A. A. Liggett; Treasurer, H. 
V. Stevenson; General Manager, Ernest Chilson; Superin- 
tendent of Mines, J. P. White. 




JOHN M. WRIGHT, 
President Raleigli Coal & Coke Co. 



THE LATE T. J. MORGAIV, 
First President Raleigli Coal & Cojse Co. 



During the seven years prior to his death the Raleigh 
Coal & Coke Co. had made remarkable progress as one of 
the most active producers in Raleigh county. The seams 
mined are known as the Beckley and Sewell. Six mines 
were developed, with both the Chesapeake and Ohio and 
the Viriginia railways as outlets. These mines have an 
annual capacily of 700,000 tons. One of the policies early 
adopted was a broad 
minded attitude to- 
ward the employes of 
the company. The 
homes provided are 
large and well kept. 
The mining camp, 
within three miles of 
Beckley, is an ideal 
one. social conditions 
averaging unusually 
high. An illustration 
of this is the fact that 
44 autos are owned 
by miners in this 
camp. 

The mines are 
known as drift mines, 
with one steel and 
four timber tipples. 
The steel tipple is 220 
feet high, employing 
the scraper retarding 
conveyor and shaker 
screen, as well as the 
drag conveyor. There 






President J. M. Wright is the son-in-law of T. J. Mor- 
gan, the founder of the company. 

Ernest Chilson is a capable executive, whose first expe- 
rience in 1890 was with B. R. & P. mines, Punxatavvny, Pa. 
Later he went to West Virginia in charge of the Southern 
Coal & Transportation Co.'s operations. He was then 
with the Stonega Coal & Coke Co. and eleven years 

ago he assumed the 
management of the 
Raleigh Coal & Coke 
Co. 

H. V. Stephenson, 
Treasurer, has offices 
at the properties and 
has been identified 
with this organiza- 
tion and the Mor- 
gan interests for 25 
years. 

A. A. Liggett, Sec- 
retary, is actively in 
charge of western 
sales, with oflice at 
1510 First National 
Bank building, Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio. 

Eastern sales to 
tidewater are handled 
through the Chesa- 
peake & Ohio Coal 
Agency Co., Eastern 
Agents, Boston. 




\ io»\ of a ItaU-igli t oal A: Coke Co. Ti|i|>le. 



468 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



SLAB FORK COAL COMPANY 

Slab Fork, Raleigh County, 
West Virginia 

This company first began operation in 1907 at Slali Fork alon<i- 
the Virginian Eaihva}-. New Eiver Coal to the amoiint of 300,000 
tons is produced annually from four openings. 

The officers of the Slab Fork Coal Co. are : G-. H. Caperton of 
Charleston President, Malcolm Jackson of Charleston A'^ice Presi- 
dent, S. P. Richmond of Charleston Secretary, and W. CI. Caperton 
of Slab Pork Treasurer and General Manager. W. ^i. Warwick is 
Mine Superintendent. 

The company has built upwards of two hundred houses in tin- 
toAvn of Slab Fork, which are occupied l)y the operatives of the 
mines. 

The mining town of Slal) Fork nestles in a picturesque valley 
which is spanned by an immense trestle of tire Virginian Eailway. 
Living conditions are maintained at a high level. Churches, for 
both white and colored einployes, are provided by the company 
with regular services on Sunday. Facilities for' schooling of the 
children are above the average. 



469 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



SULLIVAN COAL & COKE CO. 

Sullivan, Raleigh County 
West Virginia 

This compaii}' has Ijeen operating mines in this locality since 
1907. At the jjxesent time they are running three openings and 
- producing Xew Eiver Smokeless Coal, practically all for steam 
consumption. Shipments are made over the Chesapeake & Ohio 
and the A^irginian railroads, mostly to Eastern territory and to 
tidewater. Tlie ontpnt is sold through the New Elver Coal Co. of 
Charleston, West A^irginia. 

The officers of the company are : Walter S. Wood of Charles- 
ton, President; J. C. Sullivan of Tralee, A^ice President; James 
F. Brown of Charleston, Secretary; G. G. AA^ood, General Alan- 
ager and Treasurer, with residence on the property. F. B. Conway 
is Superintendent of Alines. 




F. M. COOK, Terry, West Viigiatia, 

General Manager Cook & Carter Coal Co., Terry, was born 
and reared in Wyoming County, West Virginia. Gaining' re- 
sourcefulness in a Webster County lumber camp, he was at- 
tracted to coal iTiining with which in various capacities he 
has been identified for more than twenty-five years, his 
experiences ranging from coal digger to mine owner. As 
Mine Foreman and Mine Superintendent his practical judg- 
ment has been clearly demonstrated. 



COOK & CARTER COAL C09IPA3VY, 

Terry, Raleigh County, 

West Virginia. 

This company is one of the newer 
operating companies of Raleigh Coun- 
ty. The officers are: B. E. Carter, 
President; Harvey Cook. Secretary and 
Treasurer, and Frank M. Cook, Gen- 
eral Manager. Mr. Carter is also Pres- 
ident of the Raleigh County Bank at 
Beckley, West Vii-ginia. 

This company is located on the Ches- 
apeake & Ohio railway at Terry, Ra- 
leigh County, West Virginia. New 
River Smokeless Coal of the Fire 
Creek Seam is produced. The company 
purchased 1,500 acres in fee and ac- 
quired the leasehold of an adjoining 
tract of 1,300 acres formerly held by 
the Stonewall Coal & Coke Company. 
The capacity of the two mines is 1.500 
tons daily. 

The market is reached through the 
agency of Nowlin Brothers, Lynchburg-, 
Virginia. 



470 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





WILLIAM R. JOH^SO^^ Sniitliers, West Virginia, 

Pi'esident T\'. R. Johnson Coal Co.. Smithers, was born in 
Cresetnt, "West Virginia, April 4, 1887, and has been iden- 
tified with the coal industry since his graduation from 
V. M. I., Lexington, Virginia, about ten years ag-o. He is 
also President of the Kana^vha-Gauley Coal & Coke Co., and 
has served as Vice President of the Kanawha Coal Opera- 
tors Association. He is now serving his country in France 
as First Lieutenant. 323 Field Artillery, 83rd Division. 



WILLIAM K. BRIDGES. Siiiiflier.s. AVe.st A irginia, 

Secretary and General Manager W. R. .Tohnson Coal Co., 
Smithers, was born in Richmond, Virginia, January 30, 
1878, and lias been in the coal business fifteen years. Mr. 
Bridges is also Secretary-Treasurer of the Kanawha- 
Gauley Coal & Coke Co. and the K. & M. Railway Coal Ship- 
pers Association. 





L. D. BURIVS, Ronda, West Virsiniu, 

Treasurer and General Manager Coalburg Colliery Co., 
Ronda, was born in Meadow Bluff. West Virginia, May 18, 
1879, and has been in the coal business since 1901. Mr. 
Burns is also General Manager of the Wet Branch Coal Co. 
He was previously connected with the Mt. Carmel Coal Co. 
and Gauley Consolidated Coal Co. 



J. M. ORR, AVilsonburg, W e.st A irginia, 

President Orr Coal Mining Co., Wilsonburg, West Virginia, 
was l>orn in Hiorra, West Virginia, March 30, 1875. and has 
been identified with the coal business twenty years. He is 
a graduate of West Virginia University and has a degree as 
mining engine(!r. Mr. Orr was formerly with the Orr Coal 
& Coke Co. and is a member of the Central West Virginia 
Coal Operators Association. 



471 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



JOHN C. SULLIVAN 

Tralee, Wyoming County, West Virginia 

An interesting figaire and prominent factor in the production 
of coal from the New Eiver fields is John C. Sullivan. He is 
Treasurer and General Manager of the Mead-Pocahontas Coal 
Co., the Hart}^ Coal Co., Barkei's Creek Coal Co., Wood-Sullivan 
Coal Co., and the Pickshin Coal Co., with executive offices at 
Tralee, West Virginia. 

The shipping point for the Mead-Pocahontas Coal Co., which 
began shipments in 1913, is Mullens, West Virginia. The Harty 
Coal Co. ships from Tralee, West Virginia, and began making 
deliveries in 1915. The Barkers Creek Coal Co. ships from Bark- 
ers, West Virginia, and began in 1915. Wood-Sullivan Coal Co. 
has been shipping since 1916 from Vanwood, West Virginia, and 
the Pickshin Coal Co. since 1917, located at Picksliin, West A-^ir- 
giuia. 

Coal from all of these operations is what is known as iSTew 
Eiver-Pocahontas jN'o. 3. Shipments are made over the Virginian 
and the Chesapeake & Ohio Eailways. These mines are modernly 
equipped to prepare their coal to all required sizes. 

Sales for these companies are handled by the Chesapeake 
& Ohio Coal Agency Co., Boston, Massachusetts, and the Raleigh- 
Pocahontas Coal Co., of the same city. 

Mr. Sullivan was born at Coalburg, Kanawha County. West 
Virginia, May 29, 1868. He began work in the mines when only 
ten years old and has had an extended experience in the various 
phases of mining, having been connected with various mines 
throughout the Kanawha and l^ew Eiver valleys. 

In addition to the extensive operations noted above, Mr. Sul- 
livan has to his credit and responsibility the following official 
connections : President, Sabine Smokeless Coal Co., Otsego, West 
Virginia; President Mead-Toliver Coal Co., . Stonecoal, West 
A^irginia; President Ealeigh-Pocahontas Coal Co., Norfolk, Vir- 
ginia ; President Bank of Wyoming, Mullens, West Virginia ; Vice 
President, Sullivan Coal & Coke Co., Sullivan, West A'irginia; 
A^ice President, Amigo Coal Co., Amigo, West Virginia. 



472 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 




COLONEL WILLIAM LECKIE, Welch, West Virginia. 

This striking- example of the self-made coal men of AYest Virginia was 
born in Scotland in 1855. He started to work in the coal mines when ten 
j'ears old. At twenty-one he migrated to America and found employment 
in the anthracite mines of Pennsylvania. Saving his inoney. he obtained 
an education at Dickei'son College. Returning to the coal mining industry. 
he worked for the Reading- Coal & Iron Co. and then for the Buck Moun- 
tain Coal Co. 

Serving- for three years as superintendent for the Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre 
Coal Co.. he then had charge of several mines of the Lehigh Coal & Navi- 
gation Co. at Pottsville. The next two years were with the "Webster Coal 
Co., now the Pocahontas Coal & Coke Co., followed by a service with the 
Loyalhanna Coal & Coke Co. Colonel I.«ckie was next sent to Pocahontas, 
Virginia, as Ge-neral Manager for the Pocahontas Coal Co. 

In 1906 he began acquiring coal interests of his own, and the degree of 
success that has attended his investments is indicated by the fact that he is 
President and General Manager of the following- companies: West Virginia 
Pocahontas Coal Co.; Lathrop Coal Co.; Panther Coal Co.; Leckie Col- 
lieries Co.; Leckie Fire Creek Coal Co.; Doug-las Coal Co.; Pond Creek Coal 
& Land Co.; Mount Rose Coal Co. Col. Leckie is also President of the 
Leckie Coal Co., a selling- concern, and of the First National Bank of Ana- 
wait, West Virginia. 

Notwithstanding his distinctive success as a coal operator. Colonel 
Leckie is at heart thoroughly democratic. His camps are model ones, 
with modern homes, concrete walks and landscaping. His interest in social 
and welfare work has frequently been demonstrated in the most effective 
manner. His popularity with the miners is accounted for in part by the fact 
that he has never forgotten that he himself was a miner and the evident 
pride he has manifested in that circumstance on many occasions. 

Colonel Leckie has also made notable contributions to the mining jour- 
nals, especially to "Mines and Metallurgy." 



473 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



FIRE CREEK SMOKELESS FUEL CO. 



Lego, West Virginia 



While it is one of the later operations of 
Raleigh County, the Fire Creek Smokeless Fuel 
Co., located on Stonecoal Creek, in the Wind- 
ing Gulf Smokeless field, has made unusually 
I'apid progress in its brief career. The com- 
pany began shipments in December, 1916, op- 
erating in the Beckley and the Fire Creek 
seams. 

The company's lease comprises 1,700 acres, 
containing four workable seams. It is esti- 
mated that the property contains 24,000,000 
tons, which fact promises indefinite continu- 
ance of operation. Beginning with two mines, 
which speedily developed an output of 500 tons 
daily, the company have been planning an ex- 
tensive increase in production. The tracks of 
both the Virginian and the Chesapeake & Ohio 
Railways reach the mines, thus affording 
splendid shipping facilities. The output goes 
principally to the east and is handled by the 
Eastern Coal & Export Corp. of Eichmond, 
Virginia. 



Great care has been taken in the upbuilding 
of the mining community, centering in these 
operations. Inasmuch as the construction work 
was recently begun, there has been every oppor- 
tunity to provide the latest improvements and 
the mining camp may therefore be regarded as 
strictly modern. The houses are durably con- 
structed and many public buildings have been 
erected. One interesting circumstance is that 
the streets all run at an angle across the valley, 
thereby securing perfect drainage: 

E. 0. Taylor is President and General Mana- 
ger in active charge of this operation. He is a 
graduate of the Virginian Polytechnic Insti- 
tute and has been actively engaged in the pro- 
ducing of coal for a long time, having been for 
thii-teen years with the Keystone Coal & Coke 
Co. of Greensburg, Pennsylvania. 

Other officers of the company are: T. F. 
Bailey, Jr., of Huntington, West Virginia, Vice 
President ;' and J. C. R. Taylor, of Page, West 
Virginia, Secretary and Treasurer. 



C. I.. BIDDISOX, AVar Eagle, W. Va. 

President and Manager Traders Coal 
Co., "War Eagle, was born at Glouster, 
Ohio, March 27, 1879, and has been 
identified with the coal industry 
eighteen years. Mr. Biddison is also 
connected with the Sunday Creek Co. 
and the Jewett, Bigelow & Brooks Coal 
Co. 



WOOD-PECK COAL, CO., 
Sullivan. West Virsiiiia. 

This is a 300 ton operation produc- 
ing- New River smokeless coal from 
the Beckley Seam, located in Raleigh 
county. The company was organized 
in 1910. Officers are: R. C. Jeftreds. 
President; J. D. Duval, Vice President 
and Secretary; Dr. W. W. Koiner, 
Treasurer and General Manager. 

The output of this mine goes mostly 
to tidewater, shipments being- made 
over both the Virg-inian Railway, and 
the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway. The 
selling is looked after by the Northern 
Coal Co. of Boston, Massachusetts. 

The postoffice and express office of 
this operation is Sullivan, West Vir- 
ginia, and the shipping- point for coal 
is Woodpeck, T\'est Virginia. 



474 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



LYNWIN COAL CO. 

Winding Gulf, West Virginia 

Among- the successful companies that have established for 
themseh'es a gratifying output of coal in the well known \yinding 
Gulf Section of Ealeigh County, West Virginia, must be men- 
tioned the Lynwin Coal Co., whicli became a producing concern 
in the year 1906. The plant of the company is located near Wind- 
ing (xulf post office. Unlike many other operations the location 
selected for the homes of the men is on the verj' top of the 
mountain, where the freshest and purest air is always to be had. 
The water is obtained from an artesian well, 600 feet deep, 
driven at the foot of the moi^ntain and pumped up the mountain 
side 300 feet to a huge reservoir, whence it is piped to the homes 
of the men. The houses of the miners are not only thus provided 
with running water but also with electric lights and other modern 
improvements 

E. J. Flanigan, the resident General Manager and Superin- 
tendent of the mine property, has given special study to the 
comforts and conveniences for the men and the policy, aside from 
its humanitarian side, has been in many ways of great material 
advantage to the company. Theaters, bath house, gardening fa- 
cilities, etc., have been the means of broadening the lives of J:he 
men and securing their contentment. 

The mines are entered by drift. The tipple is ec^uipped with 
picking tables and loading booms. The seam mined is the well 
known Beckley. The company maintains two operations and 
produces from 500 to 600 tons daily. The openings are located 
on the Chesapeake & Ohio as well as the Virginian Eailway and 
shipments are made via either road. Although the bulk of the 
company's product goes to tidewater, much of it also finds west- 
ern markets. Sales are handled by the Eastern Coal & Export 
Corp. of Eichmond, Virginia. 

The ofRcers of the company are as follows: President. C. L. 
Goodwin. Greensburg, Pennsylvania; Vice President. P. P. Grif- 
fin, Lock PTaven, Pennsylvania; Secretary and Treasurer, P. C. 
L^Tich, Blue Jay, West Virginia : General Manager and Superin- 
tendent, residing on the property, E. -T. Flanigan. 



475 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



WEST VIRGINIA — Bluefield 

W. F. BANE, Vice President Bluefleld Coal & Coke Co., 
Bluefield, "West Virginia, is a native of Virginia. 

C. li. BORDEIV. Shipping Agent Wm. C. Atwater & Co. 
at Bluefield, West Virginia, ■was born in Cliristiansburg, 
Virginia, in 1874, and has been in the coal business fifteen 
years, the entire time with his present company. 

GARLAND RAY CARTER, President and Treasurer Car- 
ter Red Ash Collieries Co., Bluefield. West Virginia, was 
born in East Stone Gap, Virginia, October 6, 1889, and has 
been in the coal business six years. Mr. Carter is also 
President and Treasurer of the Buchanan Coal Co. 

WILLIAM D. COFER, Secretary Bluefield Coal & Coke 
Co., Bluefield, West Virginia, is a native of Bedford, Vir- 
ginia, born October 10, 1871, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness three years. 

JOHN P. HOUSTON, Shipping Agent for Castner, Curran 
& Bullitt. Inc.. .at Bluefield. West Virginia, is a native of 
Virginia, born in 1872 and lias been in tlie coal business six- 
teen years. 

HARMAN WOODWARD, Sal3S Manager Flat Top Fuel 
Co.. Bluefield, West Virginia, was born in Staunton. Vir- 
ginia, October 23, 1888, and has been in the coal business 
eight years. Mr. Woodward was formerly Secretary-Treas- 
urer of the Pocahontas Coke Co., Bluefield. West Virginia. 



WEST VIRGINIA — Charleston 

JOHN C. BLAIR, President and Treasurer Peytona Mining 
Co. and Treasurer Malleable Coal Co., Charleston. West 
Virginia, was born in Pennsylvania in 1884 and has been in 
■the coal business seven years. Mr. Blair is Manager of the 
Eastern Petroleum Co., Vice President of the Louis F. Pryn 
Co., and a meinber of The Blair-Butler Co., a partnership. 
He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the 
Kana^wha Coal Shippers Association. 

CLARENCE A. BROCKMAN, General Ma,nager Stone Cliff 
Coal & Coke Co., Cliarleston, West Virginia, was born in 
Virginia October 27, 1881. and has been in the coal business 
eixteen years. He ■was previously identified ■WMth the Nut- 
talburg Coal & Coke Co., Tliurmond Coal Co. and Elk River 
Coal & Lumber Co. 

JOHN C. BURNS, Manager John C. Burns & Co., Charles- 
ton, West Virginia, ■was born in Charleston June 24, 1863, 
and has been in tlie coal business seventeen years. This 
company owns 1,000 acres of Jefferson County land. Mr. 
Burns is a Director of two banks in Charleston and served 
ten years on the bench of the Jefferson County Court. 

JAMBS MARTIN, Generaf Superintendent Wyatt Coal 
Co., Charleston, West Virginia, is a native of Scotland. 
born March 26, 1874. Mr. Martin is connected with the 
McGregor Coal Co., MacAlpin Coal Co. and McCaa Coal Co. 
He has been in the coal business for many years, beginning 
work in the mines at the age of thirteen, making rapid 
progress. Mr. Martin was formerly connected with the 
New River Smokeless Coal Co., New River Collieries Co. 
and Nichol Colliery Co. and was State Mine Inspector for 
five years. 

SIMON P. RICHMOND. Secretary Scotia Coal & Coke Co., 
Charleston. West Virginia, was liorn in Summers Countv. 
West Virginia, January 20. 1870, and has been interested in 
the coal business about ten years. Mr. Richmond is also 
Secretary of the Co.bin Creek Consolidated Coal Co., South 
Side Co.. Slab Pork Coal Co., Chesapeake Mining Co., and 
Coalburg Colliery Co. 

HOUGHTON A. ROBSON, former President Cardiff Coal 
Co., Charleston, West Virginia, was born in Cotton Hill. 
West Virginia, February 1, 1856, and has been in the coal 
business about ten years. Mr. Robson served as State Mine 
Inspector of West Virginia four years and was also con- 
nected with the Wyatt Coal Co. for a while. 

E. H. SHONK, Vice President Webb Coal Mining- Co., 
Cliarleston. West Virginia, ■was born in Plymouth, Pennsyl- 
vania, December 22, 1874. and has been in the coal business 
twenty-one years. Mr. iShonk is also Treasurer of the Shonk 
Land Co. and Snonk-Garrison Coal Co. Mr. £,honk's family 
came from the anthracite fields, where they were pioneer 
operators and are now big landholders in West Virginia, 
with valuable operations. 

T. E. B. SILER, President Seng Creek Coal Co.. Marsh 
Fork Coal Co. and Silush Coal Co., Charleston. West Vir- 
ginia, is a native of Lot, Kentucky, born January 20, 1858. 
Mr. Siler was formerly connected witli the Bird Eye Coal 
Co., Jellico, Tennessee. 

S.AMUEL G. SMITH, Manager Blue Creek Coal & Land 
Co., Charleston, West Virginia, was born in Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania, in 1884. and has been in the, coal business 
ten years. 



H. T. SMARR is General Manager of the Central Coal Co., 
Charleston. West Virginia. 

GEORGE R. WOOD, President and General Manager Wet 
Branch Mining- Co., Charleston, West Virginia, is a native of 
Ohio, born in 1872, and has been in the coal business twenty 
years. Mr. Wood is also a Director of the Buffalo-Eagle 
Colliery Co. He was previously connected with the Pitts- 
burgh Coal Co., Berwind-White Coal Mining Co., and the 
New River and Pocahontas Consolidated Coal Co. 



WEST V I R G I N I A Fairmont 



ULYSSES NEAR ARNETTE, General Superintendent 
Antler Coal Co., Fairmont, West Virginia, has been in the 
coal business two years. 

ALVEY P. BRADY, a Director of the Monongalia Coal Co.,'' 
Fairmont. West Virginia, is a native of West Virginia, born 
May 2, 1880. and has been in the coal business fifteen years. 
Mr. Brady is also a Director, stockholder and Treasurer of 
the Abrams Creek Coal & Coke Co. He was previously con- 
nected with L. B. Brydon & Co. and Southwestern Splint 
Fuel Co. 

BROOKS FLEMING, JR., Assistant General Manager of 
Operations of the Consolidation Coal Co., Fairmont, West 
Virginia, was born in Fairmont July 10. 1882, and has been 
in the coal business seventeen years. Mr. Fleming has some 
other coal interests in West Virginia. 

GUY B. HARTLEY, Manager Cambria Coal Co., Fair- 
mont, West Virginia, was born in Masontown. West Vir- 
ginia, June 26. 1885, and has been in the coal business ten 
years. Mr. Hartley is also interested in the Morgantown 
Coal Co., and was formerly connected with the Lehigh Coal 
Co. as receiver. He is a member of the American Institute 
of Mining Engineers and acted as Chief Mining Engineer 
for the Monongahela Valley Engineering Co.. ■which repre- 
sents twenty independent coal companies in West Virginia. 

DAN RICHARD LAI^^SON, Secretary Central West Vir- 
ginia Coal Operators' Association, Fairi-nont, West Virginia, 
was born in St. Paul, Kansas, January 8, 1879, and has been 
interested in the coal business about ten years. Mr. Lawson 
was formerly identified with the New River Consolidated 
Coal <& Coke Co. and has served as Deputy Distributor in 
the Fairmo;it region for the Fuel Adi'ninistration. 

ERNEST MC COY, President and Manager McCoy Coal Co., 
Fairmont. West Virginia, was born in Fairmont October 15, 
1871, and has been handling coal eleven years. Mr. McCoy 
is also interested in the Fairmont Fuel Co. and ■was for- 
merly connected -with the Fairmont Coal Co. 

BERNARD HUGH MC GINLEY, Secretary-Treasurer Ant- 
ler Coal Co.. Fairmont, West Virginia, -was born in Mauch 
Chunk, Pennsylvania, in 1886, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness four years. Mr. McGinley ^vas formerly with the Con- 
solidation Coal Co. 

SEYMOUR MCINTIRE, President South Pittsburgh Coal 
Co. and South Fairmont Coal Co., Fairmont, "West Virginia, 
was born in Fairmont in 1867 and has been in the coal busi- 
ness tAventy years. Mr. Mclntire is also interested in the 
Haywood Coal Co. and is a Director of four companies. 

HOAVARD W. SHOWALTER, President Westwood Coal 
Cc. and Diamond Coal Co., Fairmont, West Virginia, -was 
born in Harrisville, West Virginia, April 4. 1881, and has 
been in the coal business ten years. Mr. Showalter is also 
interested in the Rosebud Fuel Co. and Fairmont & Cleve- 
land Coal Co. 

DA-\1D VICTOR, President Monongah Fuel Co.. Fairmont. 
West Virginia, ■was born in Fairchance, Pennsylvania, Janu- 
ary 5, 1870, and has been in the coal business thirty years. 
Mr. Victor began Avork in the mines at the age of 17. He 
"was later a mine inspector for the Consolidation Coal Co. 
He was also connected with the Fairmont Coal Co. and the 
Monongah Co. Mr. A'ictor deals in undeveloped coal lands. 

JOHN MAGRUDER WOLFE, General Superintendent Jam- 
ison Coal & Coke Co., Fairmont. West Virginia, was born in 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 10. 1879, and has been in 
the coal business ten years. Mr. Wolfe was formerly con- 
nected witli tlie Keystone Coal & Coke Co. 



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THOMAS F. BAILEY. Treasurer Banks Supply Co., Hunt- 
ington, West Virginia, was Ijorn in Pittsburgh, Pennsyl- 
vania, in 1880, and has been in the coal business fifteen 
years. He is also Vice President of the Fire Creek Smoke- 
less Fuel Co. and Kentucky Elkhorn By-Product Coal Co., 
.and a Director of the Bengal Coal Co.. Huntington By- 
Product Coal Co., and Sharlow Gas Coal Co. 



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HAURY P. JONES, JK.. Secretary-Treasurer Harry P. 
Jones & Sons Coal Co.. Hunting-ton, West Virginia, was born 
in Mononsaliela. Pennsylvania. August 1, 1897, and has been 
interested in the coal business four years. Mr. Jones is also 
Treasurer of the West Virginia & Kentucky Coal Co., and 
was previously connected with the Jones-Parsons Coal Co. 

AV.VI.TER AVIM.IAM PAYNE, retail coal merchant of 
Huntington, AVest A'irginia, was born in Cliillicothe, Ohio, 
January 21, ISSl, and has been in the coal business nine 
years. Mr. Payne was formerly connected with the New 
River Co. and the McKell Coal & Coke Co. 

FREIJ C. PRICH.\Rn, Secretary-Treasurer Island Creek 
Colliery Co.. Huntington. West Virginia, was born in Gray- 
son, Kentucky, March 1, 1871, and has been interested in 
the coal business seventeen years. He is also Secretary- 
Treasurer of the Alemma Coal Co. of Switzer, Rum Creek 
Collieries & By-Products Co. of Yolyn, and Gilbert Coal Co., 
and President of the Blooming Rose Coal Co., all of West 
Virginia. Mr. Prichard was formerly connected with the 
White Oak Fuel Co., Falls Colliery Co. and Belleciare 
Coal Co. 



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CHARI.es JACOB ADAMS, Superintendent Madeira-Hill- 
Clark Coal Co., Wilsonburg, West Virginia, was born in 
Clarion County, Pennsylvania, January 24, 1858, and has 
been in the coal business forty-eight years. Mr. Adams was 
formerly connected with the Thacker Coal & Coke Co., Red 
Jacket Consolidated Coal & Coke Co., and Borderland Coal 
& Coke Co. 

J. BLiAINE AGEE, Superintendent Shamrock Coal Co., 
Logan. West Virginia, is a native of Tennessee, born Febru- 
ary 24, 1887, and has been in the coal business ten years. 

ROY E. BAILEY, Assistant Secretary Sugar Creek Coal & 
Coke Co., Mount Hope, "West Virginia, is a native of West 
Virginia, born July 24, 1892, and has been in the coal 
business six years. 

W. R, BALLARD, Superintendent Dry Branch Coal Co., 
Dry Branch, West Virginia, was born in Chelyan. West Vir- 
ginia, August 6, 1880, and has been interested in the coal 
business all his life. Mr. Ballard was formerly connected 
with the McKell Coal & Coke Co. 

FRANK DANIEL BARRON, General Superintendent Wini- 
frede and Belmont Coal Co. and Winifrede Railroad Co., 
Winifrede, West Virginia, Coal Co., is a native of Ashland, 
Pennsylvania, born September 22, 1880, and has been in the 
coal business fifteen years. He is also interested in the 
Britton Coal Co. Mr. Barron was formerly connected with 
the New- River Collieries Co. and Olcott Coal & Iron Co. 

C. B. BATES, Auditor Kellys Creek Colliery Co., Ward, 
West Virginia, was born in Beatrice, Nebraska, December 
11, 1884, and has been m the coal business ten years, the 
entire time with the present company. 

AVILLIAM WILKES BEDDOW, Superintendent Lundale 
Coal Co., Lundale. West A'irginia. was born in Minersville, 
Pennsylvania, in 188.5 and has been engaged in the coal 
business eighteen years. Mr. Beddow was formerly con- 
nected with the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co., 
Susquehanna Coal Co., Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co., Logan 
Mining Co. and Kohenoor Coal & Coke Co. 

JOHN W.4DE BELL, Secretary and General Manager 
Keeney's Creek Colliery Co., Winona, West Virginia, was 
born in Goshen, Virginia, October 26. 1882, and has been 
interested in the coal business twelve years. He is also 
Vice President of the Meadow River Smokelss Coal Co. and 
Secretary and General Manager of the Greenbrier Collieries 
Co. Mr. Bell was formerly with the Stonewall Coal & 
Coke Co. 

JOSEPH B. BERTKE, Assistant to General Manager- 
Winifrede Coal Co., Winifrede, West A'irginia, was born in 
Cincinnati, Ohio, October 14, 1889, and has been in the coal 
business ten years. 

BENNETT RANDOLPH BIAS, AVilliamson, "West Virginia, 
was born in Lincoln County, "West Virginia, in 1876, and 
has been identified with the coal business five years. He 
is a member of the law firm of Wiles & Bias and is also 
Vice President of the Matewan Coal Co.. President of the 
Warbride Mining Co.. Secretary-Treasurer of the Standard 
Thacker Coal Co. and a Director of the Wigarb Mining Co. 



F. W. ItOR(;.M.VN, Superintendent and Manager Borgman 
Coal Co., Tunnelton, West Virginia, was born in Harris- 
ville, West Virginia, September 25, 1870, and has been In 
the coal business seven years. 

.I.4MES G. BOYD, General Manager Blaine Mining Co., 
Potomac Manor, West Virginia, is a native Scotchman, born 
October 10, 1803, and has been interested in the coal busi- 
ness forty years. He was previously connected with the 
Davis Coal & Coke Co., Lick Branch Coal Co. and Dor- 
chester Coal Co., and served as a State Mine Inspector two 
years. Mr. Boyd is the oldest mine manager in point of 
service on the line of the Western Maryland Railway and 
has filled every position in and about a coal mine, and is an 
expert in the business. 

GEORGE S. BRACKETT, Superintendent Pittsvein Coa! 
Co., Flemington, West Virginia, was born in Pottstown, 
Pennsylvania, September 15, 1875, and has been in the coal 
business twenty years. Mr. Brackett was previously con- 
nected with the Maryland Coal Co. and engaged in general 
mining engineering practice. 

A. SPATES BRADY, Elkins, West Virginia, a coal oper- 
ator owning a mine at Mabie, Randolph County, West Vir- 
ginia, Avas born in Brady's Mills, Maryland, October 8. 1876, 
.and has been in the coal business twenty years, having been 
connected with numerous coal companies in Northern West 
Virginia as mining engineer. 

JOSEPH GARDNER BR.YDLEY, President and General 
Manager Elk River Coal & Lumber Co.. Dundon, West Vir- 
ginia, was born in Newark, New Jersey, September 12, 1881, 
and has been in the coal business twelve years. Mr. Brad- 
ley is a member of the Executive Committee and President 
of the West Virginia Coal Association and Vice President of 
the West Virginia Splint and Gas Coal Association. 

JOHN W. BRANH.4M, General Superintendent Clear Fork 
Coal Co., Jarrolds Valley, West Virginia, was born in Pond 
Gap. West Virginia, January 12. 1865, and has been in the 
coal business twenty years. Mr. Branham was formerly 
connected with the Stevens Coal Co., Cabin Creek Consoli- 
dated Coal Co. and Olcott Coal & Iron Co., all of West 
Virginia. 

THOMAS FREDERICK BROWN. General Manager Brown 
Coal Co.. Princeton, West Virginia, was born in Oakvale. 
West Virginia, in 1897, and has been interested in the coal 
business ten years. Mr. Brown was formerly with the 
Pioneer Coal Co., Princeton. 

WT[LLIA3I A. BRO"WN of the Brown Coal Co., Princeton, 
"VVest Virginia, was born in Oakvale, West Virginia, in 
1862, and h.as been in the coal business ten years. He was 
formerly with the Pioneer Coal Co., Princeton. 

T. FRANK BrRK, Auditor Elkins Coal & Coke Co., Mor- 
gantown, West Virginia, is a native of Yardville, New 
Jersey, born December 16, 1870, and has been interested in 
the coal business twelve years. Before coming with this 
company Mr. Burk was a public accountant. 

AARON CiRVER, Superintendent Ajax Coal Co., Fayette, 
"West A^irginia, was born In Pennsylvania in 1861 and has 
been in the coal business twenty j'ears. Mr. Carver was 
formerly identified with Carver Bros., Montgomery, West 
Virginia. 

T. "W. CH.'VMBERS, Superintendent Eureka Coal & Coke 
Co., Eckman. West Virginia, -was born in Pamplin, Virginia, 
March 21, 1875, and has been in the coal business twenty- 
one years. Mr. Chambers is also acting as Purchasing 
Agent for the Lynchburg Coal & Coke Co. He was formerly 
with the Powhatan Coal & Coke Co. 

PETER THOMAS COLGAN, Vice President and General 
Manager Spruce Valley Coal Co., Blair, West Virginia, was 
born in Dublin. Ireland, September 21, 1877, and has been 
in the coal business thirteen years. Mr. Colgan has other 
coal interests in the Middlesboro, Kentucky, field. He was 
formerly connected with the Nicholson Coal Co., Clear Creek 
Coal Co. and Manring Coal Exchange, and is Receiver for 
the Halsey Red Ash Coal Co. 

G. .1. COTTRELL, General Manager Fort Defiance Coal & 
Coke Co., Fort Defiance, West Virginia, is a native of North 
Carolina, born June 4, 3 889, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness six years. Mr. Collrell is also manager of the Green- 
brier Coal Co. of Belva. West Virginia, and Treasurer and 
General Manager of the Lory Coal & Coke Co.. Julian. West 
Virginia. He was formerly connected with the Commis.=;ary 
department of the Paint Creek Collieries Co. 

H. M. CRAWFORD, General Manager H. M. Crawford & 
Co. and Luella Coal & Coke Co., Philippi, West Virginia, was 
born in Kittaning, Pennsylvania, June 12. 1867, and has 
been in the coal business ten years. He is also President of 
the Taibot-Crawford Coal Co. Mr. Crawford was formerly 
with the Midland Coal & Coke Co. 



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TLOYD E. CUNNYiVGHAM, Superintendent of Coal Mines, 
Pulaski Ii-on Co., Ecl<man, West Virginia, was born in Rhea 
County, Tennessee, January 8, 1877, and has been interested 
in coal and blast furnaces twenty years. Mr. Cunnyng- 
ham was formerly connected with the Dayton Coal & Iron 
Co., Dayton, Tennessee, and Virginia Iron, Coal & Coke Co., 
Roanoke, Virginia. 

R. HARDEN, owner of The Darden Co., Elkins, West Vir- 
ginia, was born in Murfreesboro, North Carolina, In 1867 
and has been handling coal fifteen years. Mr. Darden Is 
also interested in lumber manufacturing and banking. 

HARLEY M. DAVIS, Assistant Superintendent Davis Coal 
& Coke Co.. Davis, West Virginia, was born in Salem, West 
Virginia, February 16, 1876, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness thirty years. Mr. Davis was previously identified with 
the Consolidation Coal Co. 

ALEXANDER CAMDEN DAWSON of Deegans Eagle Coal 
Co., Accoville, West Virginia, was born in Clay County, 
West Virginia, Jujy 30, 1881, and has been in the coal 
business ten j'ears. Mr. Dawson was chief engineer of rail- 
road construction ten years. 

HENRY DEEM. Superintendent Cannelton Coal & Coke 
Co., Cannelton, West Virginia, was born in Volcano, West 
Virginia, September 22, 1873, and has been in the coal 
business a quarter of a century. Mr. Deem was formerly 
with the Sunday Creek Coal Co. and M. A. Hanna Coal Co. 

J. W. DEVISON, General Superintendent of Mines, New 
England Fuel & Transportation Co., Grant Town, "West Vir- 
ginia, -was born in Westville, Nova Scotia, Canada, Novem- 
ber 10, 1871. and has been in the coal business twenty-five 
years. Mr. Devison is also interested in the Jewett, Bigelow 
& Brook Coal Co. of Twin Branch, West Virginia. He was 
formerly connected with the Doininion Coal Co., H. C. Frick 
Coke Co., and Crows Nest Pass Coal Co. 

THOMAS F. DO"WNING, General Manager Yuma Coal & 
Coke Co. and Monitor Coal & Coke Co., Wilkinson, "West 
Virginia, is a native Englishman wath thirty years' experi- 
ence in the coal business. 

ARTHUR HAMILTON FENI3IORE, Vice President Right 
Fork Coal Co., Ivyton. West Virginia, was born in Clare- 
mont. West Virginia, January 4. 188j, and has been engaged 
in the coal business fen years. H"e is a son of J. C. Feni- 
more, deceased, promoter and operator of mines in the New 
River and Kanawha fields. Mr. Fenimore is also interested 
in the Sovereign Coal Co., I-\ry White Ash Coal Co. and 
Guyandotte Coal Co., and wa^ previously connected with 
the Ne"w River Co., Branchland Coal Co. and Dunglen 
Coal Co. 

W. R. FENIMORE, President and General Manager Right 
Fork Coal Co., Ivyton, West Virginia, was born in Thur- 
mond, "West Virginia, September. 30, 1889,_. and has been in 
the coal business fifteen years. Mr. Fenimore is a son of 
J. C. Fenimore, deceas_e4. prominent promoter and operator. 
He is also interested in the Ivy White Ash Coal Co. and 
Sovereign Coal Co. and was previously connected with the 
Dunglen Coal Co. 

HENRY L. FISHER, Superintendent Cabin Creek Con- 
solidated Coal Co., Kayford, West Virgnnia, is a native of 
Bedford City, Virginia, born January 9, 1873. Mr. Fisher has 
been engaged in tlie coal industry t^wenty-three years and 
■was previously connected -with the Quinnimont Coal Co.. 
Turkey Knob Coal Co., Southwest Virginia Improvement 
Co., Virginia Pocahontas Coal Co., Dun Loop Coal Co., and 
Holly Coal Co. 

JAMES P. FLANAGAN, President and General Manager 
Flanagan Coal Co., Welch, West Virg-inia, was born in Silver 
Creek, Pennsylvania, August 21, 1868, and has been an 
operator ten years. Mr. Flanagan is also interested in the 
Cumberland Cannel Coal Co. In his youth he -worked for 
the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co. at their Eagle 
Hill colliery in Pennsylvania. 

H. H. FLETCHER, Superintendent Quincy Coal Co., 
Quincy, West Virginia, was born in Dot, Virginia, July 22, 
1886, and has been in the coal business five years. He holds 
the degrees of Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts from 
William and Mary College. 

WILLIAM GANTZ, Mine Foreman for the Rosemont Coal 
Co.. Rosemont, West A^irginia, was born in TJniontown, 
Pennsylvania, in 1873, and has been connected with the 
coal industry thirty-t-wo years. Mr. Gantz -was fori-nerly 
with Marshall & Jameson. He is a}so interested in the 
Pitcairn Coal Co. of Pennsylvania. 

C. M. GATES, President and General Manager Matewan 
Coal Co., "Williamson, West Virginia, was born in Scottdale, 
Pennsylvania, October 17, 1870, ai-id has been in the coal 
business thirty-five years. He is also Vice President and 
General Manager of the Wigarb Mining Co., Williamson. 
Mr. Gates was formerly with the H. C. Frick Coke Co. and 
subsidiaries fifteen years and Crystal Block Coal Co. five 
years. 



HARRY S. GAY, JR., General Superintendent The Gay 
Coal & Coke Co., Logan, West Virginia, was born in Lykens, 
Pennsylvania, April 7, 1889. He is a graduate of the De- 
partment of Mines, Lehigh University, and has been en- 
gaged in the coal business six years, 

RICHARD GERSTELL, JR., Secretary-Treasurer Davis 
Coal Mining Co., Grafton, West Virginia, was born at Key- 
ser. West Virginia, July 11, 1880, and has been in the coal 
business seventeen years. Mr. Gerstell was formerly con- 
nected with the Century Coal Co., Davis Colliery Co. and 
Davis Bryden Coal Co. 

JOHN C. GILMOtJR, Superintendent Litz-Smith Island 
Creek Coal Co., Chauncey, West Virginia, is a native of 
Scotland, born May 5, 1886, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness fifteen years. Mr. Gilmour -was formerly connected 
with the Carbon Fuel Co. and Quincy Coal Co. 

PATRICK A. GRADY, Superintendent of Mines. Boone 
County Coal Corp., Clothier, West Virginia, was born in 
Ashley, Pennsylvania, February 15, 1882, and has been en- 
gaged in the coal business twenty-two years. Mr. Grady is 
Secretary and a Director of the Fo'arseam Block Colliery 
Co., Hazard, Kentucky. He -was fori-nerly State Mine In- 
spector, T-welfth District, West Virginia, for five years, 
General Superintendent of the Davy Pocahontas Coal Co. 
for three years and a safetj^ and efficiency engineer for the 
Collins interests in West Virginia and Ohio until he became 
connected -with his present coi-npany in 1917. 

FLOYD HACKETT, Secretary Haekett Coal Co., Cedar 
Grove, West Virginia, was born in Shiawassee County, Michi- 
gan, September 25, 1893, and has been in the coal business 
eight years. 

SAMUEL HACKETT, President and General Manager 
Haekett Coal Co., Cedar Grove, West A^irginia, was born 
in Tuscola County, Michigan, December 5, 1872, and has 
been in the coal 'ousiness twenty-five years. Mr. Hackett's 
first experience was in the mines of Michigan. Later he 
was in a retail coal business at Flint, - Michigan. He 
founded the Caledonia Coal Co. and Consumers Coal Co. of 
Saginaw, Michigan. He is a member of the Kanawha 
County Coal Shippers' Association. 

CHARLES A. HARMON, Chief Electrician Cabin Creek 
Consolidated Coal Co., Kayford, West Virginia, was born 
in Raymond City, West Virginia, August 19, 1877, and has 
been identified with the coal business seventeen years. Mr. 
Harmon was formerly connected -i.vith the Marmet Coal Co., 
Beury-New River Coal Co., Piney Mining Co. and Ephraim's 
Creek Coal Co. 

WILLIABI T. HARVEY, Superintendent Argyle Coal Co.,. 
Tolyn. West Virginia, was born in Oak Hill, West Virginia, 
in 1888 and has been in the coal business three years. 

JOHN L. HATFIELD, President Rosedale Coal Co., Mor- 
gantown. West Virginia, was born in Greene County, Penn- 
sylvania, April 19, 1874, and has been in the coal business 
fifteen years. 

HENRY HOUSTON HONAKER. Mining Superintendent 
United Pocalionta,s Coal Co., Crumpler, West Virginia, was 
born in Tazewell County, Virginia, August 4, 1873, and has 
been in the coal business twenty-seven years. Mr. Honaker 
started as door boy and worked himself up to his present 
position. He -was formerly connected -with -the Ashland Coal 
& Coke Co. and the Pocahontas Consolidated Coal Co. 

FREDERICK "W. HORCHLER, Manager Horchler Coal 
Mining- Co., Newburg, "\^'est Virginia, was born in Newburg 
May 28, 1869. and has been engaged in the coal business 
thirty-four years, thirty-two years as a mine -worker and 
two years as an operator. He -was formerly connected -with 
the Newburg Coal & Coke Co. and Austen Coal & Coke Co. 

CARL L. HORNOR, General Manager Hornor Bros., 
Clarksburg, West Virginia, was born in Harrison County, 
West Virginia, July 2, 1876, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness ten years. Mr. Hornor is also interested in the Stone 
Coal Co., Burrows Coal Co., Trainer Coal Co., and Catherine 
Coal Co. 

WAYNE B. HORNOR, Manager The J. M. Macdonald Coal 
Mining Co., Clarksbui'g-, West Virginia, is a native of Clarks- 
burg, born in 1888, and has been in the coal business three 
years. 

A. M. HO'WERY, General Manager and Secretary East 
Bank Mining Co., East Bank, West Virginia, is a native of 
East Bank, born December 16, 1872. Mr. Howery has been 
connected with tlie coal business ten years. 

ED"\VARD E. HUDD.LESTON. General Manager Royal Coal 
Co., Royal, "West Virginia, -was born in Kanawha County. 
West Virginia, April 17, 1876, and has been identified -with 
the coal trade seventeen years. He was formerly con- 
nected with the Stone Cliff Coal Co., Glendale Colliery Co.. 
Beckley Coal & Coke Co. and Export Coal Co. 



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BERT C. HYI.TOX. General Superintendent Tidewater 
Coal & Coke Co. and King- Coal Co., Vivian, "West Virgrinia, 
was born in Virginia .Tune 27, 1886, and has been with these 
companies eleven years. He was formerly with the Mill 
Creek Coal & Coke Co.. Coaldale Coal & Coke Co. and 
McDowell Coal & Coke Co. 

ROBERT BtRXS ISNER, Secretary and General Sales 
Manager A"\'est Virginia Coal & Coke Co., Elkins. West Vir- 
ginia, was born in Elkins December 3, 1877, and has been 
in the coal business fifteen years, the entire time with above 
company. Mr. Isner is also interested in the Inter-Mountain 
Coal & Lumber Co., which owns 22,000 acres of coal and 
timber lands in Harlan and Leslie counties. Kentucky. 

XOEL V. JAMES, late Secretary-Treasurer War Eag-le 
Coal Co., War Eag-le, West Virginia, was born in Zaleski, 
Ohio. February 11, 1860, and was connected with the coal 
business twenty years. He was also interested in the 
Thacker Coal Mining Co. Mr. James died March 4, 1916. 

WILLIAM EWART JAMES. General Superintendent Mount 
Carbon Co., Powellton, M^est Virginia, was born in Wales, 
Great Britain, and has been interested in the coal business 
sixteen years. Mr. James acted as General Superintendent 
for the Carbon Coal Co. and West Virginia Collieries Co. 
six years. 

AITBREY E. JEXjVINGS. Secretary-Treasurer Lathrop Coal 
Co., Welch, West Virginia, -was born in Lynchburg-. Vir- 
.ginia, September 28, 1876, and has been Interested in the 
coal business seven years. He is also Secretary-Treasurer 
of the Panther Coal Co., Leckie Collieries Co.. Douglas Coal 
Co., Leckie Fire Creek Coal Co. and Pond Creek Coal & 
Land Co. Before entering- the coal business Mr. Jennings 
had a varied experience and -vvas later connected with the 
Dixon interests in the New River field. 

GEORGE MILTOX JOXES. President and General Man- 
ag-er Amherst Coal Co. and Vice President and General Man- 
ager Lundale Coal Co. and Amherst Fuel Co., Lundale, West 
Virginia, was born in Oak Hill, West Virginia, November 12. 
18S6. and has been engaged in the coal business six years. 
He is a stockliolder in various New River concerns. 

C. D, jrXKIXS. Sales Manager North American Coal Co., 
^Torg-antown. West Virginia, was born in Mineral County, 
West Virginia. March 13, 1864, and has been interested in 
the coal business twenty-seven years. Mr. Junkins was 
formerly with the H. G. Davis Coal Co.. Davis & Elkins 
Coal Co., Davis Coal & Coke Co., J. A. Clark Coal & Coke 
Co., Clark Coal & Coke Co., Clark Coal Co. and Nebo Con- 
solidated Coal & Coke Co. 

THOMAS r. KEEXER. Superintendent Albright Smoke- 
less Coal Co., Tunnelton, West Virginia, was born in Ne-w- 
burg, West Virg-inia, Aug-ust 17, 1878, and has been in the 
coal business twenty-one years. Mr. Keener -was formerly 
with the Hite Coal & Coke Co. 

C. D. M. KRAMER, Superintendent Ryan Coal Co., Clarks- 
burg, West Virginia, -was born in Cata-syba, West Virginia, 
January 7, 1869. and has been in the coal business t-wenty- 
seven years. Mr. Kramer was formerly connected with the 
Hutchinson Coal Co. 

CHARLES B. LEE. President Lee Coal Co. and Bailey- 
Wood Coal Co.. Glen Jean. West Virginia, was born in Ellis- 
ton, Virginia, June 28, 1867, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness fifteen years. Mr. Lee is also Secretary of the Willis 
Branch Coal Co. and a. Director of the Nichol Colliery Co. 
Before going into the coal business he practiced i-nedicine 
and surgery. 

FRAXK M. LEE. President Alpha Pocahontas Coal Co., 
Alpoca, West Virginia, -was born in Lynchburg-, Virginia, 
June 30, 1873, and has been in the coal business twenty 
years. Mr. Lee was formerly President of the Wright Coal 
& Coke Co. 

JOHIV F. LOGAN, Mine Superintendent Algoma Coal Co., 
Algoma, West Vlrg-inia, was born in Jefferson, North Caro- 
lina, February 14, 1873, and has been in the coal business 
twenty years. Mr. Logan -was forinerly connected with the 
United States Coal Co., Gary, West Virginia, and acted as 
inine foreman and superintendent fifteen years. 

J. EDGAR LONG. President J. E. Long Coal Co., Clarks- 
burg, AVest Virginia, was born in Williamsport, Pennsyl- 
vania, January 5, 1879. Mr. Long has been engaged in the 
coal business for a quarter of a century and was formerly 
connected with the J. H. Weaver interests. 

OLIVER FIXLEY Mf COV. Secretary Nichol Colliery Co., 
Glen Jean, Vi'est Virg-inia, was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, and 
has been in the coal business fifteen years. Mr. McCoy is 
also Secretary-Treasurer of the Kanawha, Glen Jean & 
Eastern Railroa-1 Co. 



C. H. MEAD Of Beckley, West Virginia, was born in 
Belfonte, Kentucky, February 12, 1879, and has been in 
the coal business since 1903. Mr. Mead is identified as 
President with the Mead-ToUver Coal Co., Sabine Smoke- 
less Coal Co. and Milams Fork Smokeless Coal Co. and as 
Secretary of the Mead-Pocahontas Coal Co. and Pickshin 
Coal Co. He was previously connected witli the Red War- 
rior Coal Co. and C. H. Mead & Co. as President and Pey- 
tona Block Coal Co. as General Manager. 

ERNEST M. MERRILL. President Ernest M. Merrill En- 
gineering Co., Beckley, AVest Virginia, was born in Newark, 
Ohio, September 7, 1878, and has been in the coal business 
fifteen years. Mr. Merrill is Treasurer of the Mordue Col- 
lieries Co., Secretary of the Bowyer Smokeless Coal Co., 
real estate agent for the Wyoming-Pocahontas Coal Co. 
and New Flat Top Mining Co. and consulting engineer 
for twelve other coal companies in the smokeless coal 
field. He is the autlror of "American Coals for I'ixport" 
and "Coal Mining- in AVest Virginia." He was graduated 
from the Ohio State University in 1,902, and is a member of 
the American Society of Civil Engineers and American In- 
stitute of Mining Engineers. 

WILLIAM C. MITCHELL, General Manager Plymouth 
Coal & Mining Co., Plymouth, West AMrginia. was born in 
Spilman. West A^irginia, March 22, 1866, and has been con- 
nected with the coal business twenty-seven years. Mr. 
Mitchell is also interested in the Coalburg-Kanawha Mining- 
Co. of Coalburg, AVest A^irginia, and was formerly with 
Carver Bros. 

ARCHIBALD ROGER MONTGOMERY. JR.. General Super- 
intendent Boone County Coal Corp., Clothier, was born in 
Radnor, Pensylvania, July 1, 1886, and has been interested 
in the coal business seven years. Mr. Montgomery was 
previously connected with tlie Beech Coal Co. 

JONATHAN M. MOORE, A'ice President and General Man- 
ager Monte Coal Co., Ottawa, AA^est A^irginia, was born in 
Bloomington, West Virginia. June 8, 1875, and has been 
identified with the coal business fifteen years. He is also 
President and Treasurer of the Ruthanne Coal Co. and 
v^ice President and General Manager of the Big Eagle Min- 
ing Co. and was formerly with the Davis Coal & Coke Co., 
The New River Co., Raleigh Coal & Coke Co. and The Coal 
River Co. The latter company shipped the first carload of 
coal from Boone County in 1909. This company was suc- 
ceeded by the Monte Coal Co. April 1, 1916. 

THOMAS J. O'NEIL. Superintendent Ashland Coal & Coke 
Co., Ashland, West A^irginia, -was born in Pennsylvania in 
1871. Mr. O'Neil has been in the coal business thirty years 
and -was formerly connected with the Philadelphia & Read- 
ing Coal & Iron Co. 

GEORGE S. PATTERSON, Secretary-Treasurer Bottom 
Creek Coal & Coke Co. and General Manager Sycamore Coal 
Co., A'ivian, AVest A'irginia, is a native of Pennsylvania, 
born in 1861. Mr. Patterson is a graduate of Lehigh Univer- 
sity. He -was a mining engineer for seven years and later 
an operator. He has served as a President of the Coal 
Operators Association of the Williamson field. 

SAMUEL wr. PATTERSON, President Sycamore Coal Co., 
A^ivian. West A^irg-inia. is a native of Pennsylvania, born 
September 24, 1863, and has been in the coal business 
thirty-eight years. He is also President and General Man- 
ager of the Bottom Creek Coal & Coke Co. and A'ice Presi- 
dent of the Majestic Collieries Co. Mr. Patterson was for- 
merly -with J. C. Haydon & Co., Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania. 

CHARLES A. PHILLIPPI. mining engineer of the Federal 

Coal & Coke Co., Grant Town, West Virginia, -was born in 
Allegheny County, Maryland, September 7, 1880. and has 
been in the coal business fifteen years. Mr. Phillippi was 
previously identified with the Consolidated Connellsville 
Coke Co. and the LTnited States Steel & Wire Co. of Union- 
town, Pennsylvania. 

WILLIAM A. PHILLIPS. President Ashland Coal & Coke 
C, Ashland, West A^irginia, Pemberton Coal & Coke Co. of 
Affinity, West Virginia, and Majestic Collieries Co. of Majes- 
tic. Kentucky, was born in Wales, England, in 1848, and has 
been in the coal business thirty years. 

WILLIAM O. PERCIVAL, General Superintendent Island 
Creek Coal Co., Holden. AVest A^'irginia, is a native of Ken- 
tucky, born January 28, 1880, and has been engaged in the 
coal business seven years. 

ALONZO D. RICE, General Manager United Pocahontas 
Coal Co., Worth, West Virginia, is a native A^'irginian, born 
January 11, 1857, and has been in the coal business a quarter 
of a century. He is also interested in the Roanoke Coal & 
Coke Co. Mr. Rice was previously with the Indian Ridge 
Coal Co., Zenith Coal & Coke Co., Roanoke Coal & Coke Co. 
and A'ulcan Coal Co. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



JA3IES STEPHEN RILEY, General Manager and Secre- 
tary Manbar Coal Co., Manbar, is a native of West Vir- 
ginia, born December 25, 1888, and has been engaged in the 
coal industry fourteen years. Mr. Riley was previously 
connected with the Ephraim Creek Coal Co. and Superior 
Pocahontas Coal Co. 

JUSTUS JAY ROSS, General Manager Logan Mining Co., 
Logan, was born in Simpson, West Virginia, October 14, 
1879, and has been in the coal business twelve years. Mr. 
Ross is also a stockholder in the Ross Coal Co., Island Creek 
Coal Land Co., Logan Mining Co.. and Hutchinson Coal Co. 
He was formerly with the Hutchinson Coal Co. as General 
Superintendent. 

H. H. ROTHWELL, President and General Manager Roth- 
well Coal Co., Dubree, West Virginia, is a native of England, 
born in 1867, and has been identified with the coal business 
in the New River field thirty years. Mr. Rothwell was for- 
merly connected with the Nuttallburg Coal & Coke Co. 

EDWIIV ALLEN RUSSELL, Secretary-Treasurer Hygrade 
Coal Co., Keyser, West Virginia, is a native of Grant County, 
West Virginia, born March 25, 1878, and has been inter- 
ested in the coal industry sixteen years. Mr. Russell was 
formerly with the Fairmont Coal Co., now known as the 
Consolidation Coal Co. 

CLAUDE J. RYAjV, General Superintendent Hutchison 
Coal Co., Hepzibah, West Virginia, was born in Bridgeport, 
West Virginia, August 27, 1876, and has been in the coal 
business eighteen years. Mr. Ryan is also Vice President of 
the Ryan Coal Co. of Hepzibah. and was formerly identified 
with the Monongah Coal & Coke Co. and Consolidation Coal 
Co. He has served as Treasurer of the Central West Vir- 
ginia Coal Operators' Association, and is now serving as 
Treasurer of the Northern West Virginia Coal Operators 
Association. 

CHARLES R. SANTROCK, Superintendent Black Betsey 
Consolidated Coal Co., Black Betsey, West Virginia, was 
born in Raymond City, West Virginia, February 19, 1883, 
and has been in the coal business eighteen years. 

THOMAS A. SHEWEY, Mine Manager Grey Eagle Coal 
Co., Armor, Mingo County, West Virginia. Dempsey Coal 
Co., Armor, West Virginia, and Warfield Coal Co., Kermit, 
West Virginia, was born in Virginia, December 13, 1877, 
and has been in the coal business seventeen years. Mr. 
She^vey was formerly connected with the Cirris Coal & 
Coke Co., Margaret Mining Co., and the Traders Coal Co. 

B. J. SHUMATE, Superintendent Hawley Coal Co., Clute, 
West Virginia, -was born in Marshes, West Virginia, in 1882 
and is just beginning his career as a coal man. 

ER-WYN A. SMITH, General Manager Jackson Coal & Min- 
ing Co., Hartford, West Virginia, was born in Cincinnati, 
Ohio, February 26, 1876, and has been in the coal business 
twenty years. 

HORACE F. SMITH, Secretary-Treasurer Jackson Coal 
Mining Co., Hartford, West Virginia, has been with this 
company twenty years. 

WILLIAM H. SMITH, Secretary-Treasurer Smith & Son, 
New Martinsville, West Virginia, was born in West Virginia 
In 1879 and has been handling coal twelve years. 

P. M. SiVYDER, President Long Branch Coal Co., Mount 
Hope, West Virginia, was born in Green Brier County, West 
Virginia, December 12, 1869, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness six years. Mr. Snyder is also President of the DeWitt 
Fuel Co. and East Gulf Coal Co. and Vice President and 
Sales Manager of the Pemberton Fuel Co. He is a member 
of the New River Association. 

EUGENE SOMMERVILLE, propi ietor Eugene Sommerville 
Coal Co., Grafton, West Virginia, was born in West Vir- 
ginia, and is just beginning his career as a coal man. 

HERSCHEL V. STEPHENSON, Treasurer and Purchasing 
Agent Raleigh Coal & Coke Co., Raleigh, West Virginia, is 
a native of Jackson, Ohio, born January 7, 1871, and has 
been identified with the coal business twenty-five years. 
Mr. Stephenson was formerly connected w^ith the Wellston 
Coal Co., Milton Coal Co., Dayton Coal & Iron Co. and 
Jackson County Coal Co., all of Wellston, Ohio. 

W. P. TAMS. JR., President Gulf Smokeless Coal Co., 
Tams, West Virginia, was born in Staunton, Virginia, in 
1883 and has been in the coal business t^velve years. He 
is also interested in the Gulf Coal Co. and Wyoming Coal 
Co. and was formerly connected with The New River Co. 
Mr. Tams has served on the Board of Governors of the 
Smokeless Coal Operators' Association. 

J. C. R. TAYLER, General Manager Loup Creek Colliery 

Co., Page, West Virginia, was born in Albemarle County, 

Virginia, August 21, 1874. and has been interested in the 

•coal business twenty-one years. He ^vas formerly connected 

with the Gauley Mountain Coal Co., Ansted, West Virginia. 



FREELAND H. TIBBETS, Superintendent Masteller Coal 
Co., Beryl, West Virginia, was born in Morgantown, West 
Virginia. August 10, 1862, and has been in the coal business 
forty-five years. Mr. Tibbets was formerly connected with 
the Lowmoor Iron Co. of Virginia and Davis Coal & Coke 
Co. at Beryl. 

L.VURENCE E. TIERNEY, Powhatan, West Virginia, is a 
native of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, born June 25, 
1862, and lias been identified with the coal industry thirty- 
two years. He is President and General Manager of the 
Lynchburg Coal & Coke Co. and the Eureka Coal & Coke 
Co.. President of the Tierney Mining Co. and Mohawk Coal 
& Coke Co., General Manager and Secretary-Treasurer of 
the Elk Ridge Coal & Coke Co., Secretary-Treasurer of the 
Tierney Coal Co. and a Director of the Page Coal & Coke 
Co. and Crozer-Pocahontas Co. Mr. Tierney has served as 
Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Pocahontas 
Operators Association, Vice President of the West Vire-inia 
Bopird of Trade, is a member of Franklin Institute, Phila- 
delphia, and the American Institute of Mining Engineers, 
New York City. 

C, H. VARIAN, a retail coal merchant at Point Pleasant, 
West Virginia, was born in Letart, West Virginia. January 
12, 1854, and has been in the coal business sixteen years. 
Mr. Varian operates two yards. 

DOUGLAS VASS, General Sales Agent Beech Flats Coal 
Co., Wheeling, West Virginia, was born in Mobile, Alabama. 
January 27, 1878, and has been in the coal business three 
years. He is interested with others in stripping proposi- 
tions and operating five mines in Danville, Illinois, and one 
at Rush Run, Ohio. They operate the largest steam shovel 
and largest electric shovel in the world and have an output 
of 2,000 tons a day -when both shovels are working. 

LARENZO D. VAUGHN, Grafton, West Virginia, District 
Mine Inspector for the State of West Virginia, was born in 
Whiteside. Tennessee, in 1858, and has been engaged in 
the coal business forty-five years. Mr. Vaughn was for- 
merly connected with the Davis Coal & Coke Co. 

VICTOR STOCKTON VEAZEY, President and General 
Manager Sunset Mining- Co., Mount Hope, W.est Virginia, 
was born in Pratt, West Virginia, February 20, 1883, and 
ha.s been in the coal business two years. Mr. Veazey is also 
interested in the DeT\^itt Fuel Co. He is connected with the 
McKell Coal & Coke Co. and Several other companies as 
Chief Engineer. 

C. L. VOGELSANG, President and General Manager The 
Elkland Coal Mining Co., Clay, West Virginia, was born 
in Gallia, France, January 27, 1886. and has been in the 
coal business six years. Mr. Vogelsang is also interested 
in the Domestic Coal Co. of Wellston, Ohio. He -was for- 
merly connected with the Domestic Coal Co., Hickory Ash 
Coal Co., and Elliott Splint Coal Co. 

E. V. WALKER, Superintendent Branch Coal & Coke Co.. 
Elverton, West Virginia, -was born in Fayetteville, West 
Virginia, January 8, 1886, and has been in the coal business 
ten years. Mr. Walker -was formerly identified with the 
New River & Pocahontas Consolidated Coal Co. 

LA-VYRENCE WILEY, General Manager Piney Creek Coal 
Co., Sullivan, West Virginia, was born in Raleigh County, 
West Virginia, in 1883, and has beeti engaged in the coal 
business eighteen years. He ^vas formerly with the Poca- 
hontas Consolidated Collieries Co., United States Coal & 
Coke Co., and .Sullivan Coal & Coke Co. 

JOHN AUGUSTINE WILLIS, Secretary-Treasurer and 
Manager Coalburg-Kana-wha Mining Co., Coalburg, W^est 
Virginia, was born in Rock Hall, .Jefferson County, "R^est 
Virginia, September 17, 1877. Mr. Willis is a graduate of 
the West Virginia University and has been handling coal 
seventeen years. He was formerly connected with the Coal- 
burg-Kanawha Coal Co., Winifrede Coal Co., Kanawha & 
Hocking Coal & Coke Co., and Kelly's Creek Mining Co. 

G. H. WISSER, President and a Director of the Haywood 
Coal Mining Co., Shinnston, West Virginia, -was born in 
Dravosburg, Pennsylvania, in 1880. He has been with his 
present company eight years. 

GEORGE AVOLFE, Treasurer and General Manager Wind- 
ing Gulf Colliery Co., Winding Gulf, West Virginia, Vi'as 
born in Camden, New Jersey, August 2. 1874, and has been 
in the coal business twenty years. He is also General Man- 
ager and Treasur&r of the Superior Pocahontas Coal Co. of 
Davy. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the 
West Virginia Coal Operators Association, of the Executive 
Committee of the Tug River Coal Operators Association and 
of the Winding Gulf Coal Operators Association. Mr. Wolfe 
-was previously connected with Berwir.d-White Fuel Co. 

G. G. WOOD, General Manager Sullivan Coal & Coke Co.. 
Sullivan, West Virginia, is also a stockholder in the W^ood 
Coal Co. 



480 



WISCONSIN 



WITH a climate That makes fuel eoii,suiiii>tion in 
w iiiTiT time iidt a matter of ehuiee l)iit one oL' 
iiecessity. and with a iiiaiuifacttiring rank, 
based on the value of its pj-oducts, among the first ten 
states of the Union, it is not strange that AYisconsin 
should be ninth in total normal coal consumption nor 
that its fuel requirements from the per capita and 
square mile basis are comfortably above the average for 
the United States as a whole. Proditcing no coal her- 
self, the state, nevertheless, is not only a worth Avliile 
buyer of tlie coals from other commonwealths for- 
tunate enough to h.ave the commodity of commodities 
within their own borders, l)ut through its lake ports also 
serves as a distributor for substantial tonnages of east- 
ern coal moving westward. 

In 1915 the total fuel reqitirements of the state, ex- 
clusive of railroad and steamship consumption, was set 
at i),38-2,249 tons by the United States Geological Sur- 
vey. Of this tonnage 1,730,000 tons were credited to 
the Penns^dvania anthracite fields. Analysis of the 
bituminoits figures, totaling 7,652,249 tons, throws an 
interesting sidelight upon the streng-fh of the western 
lake markets for eastern coals. Despite the greater 
proximity on a strictly mileage basis to the Illinois 
fields, over 60 per cent, of the coal, other than the an- 
thracite mentioned, consumed within the state that year 
was received via the Great Lakes. Tlie lake tonnage 
was nearly four times that furnished hy Illinois. In 
detail, the figures were as follows: Lake tonnage, 
4,883,000; Illinois. 1,260.188; Indiana. 128,190; Ken- 
tucky, 379,644; Ohio, 10,428; Pennsylvania, 142,694; 
Virginia, 9,000; AYest Virginia, 839,195 tons. The per 
capita consumption was 3.34 tons (2.64 bituminous and 
.70 anthracite) as against the general average of 2.82 



tons. The s(|uai'e mile consumiuion was liil tons, 1! 
tons greater than ibc average for the counlr\- as a whole. 
The principal dock points of Wisconsin are, of course, 
Superior and .Milwaukee. Statistics in connection with 
the fii-st named port have been treated with those of 
Dtdufli, reported under Alinncsola. Milwaukee sta- 
tistics, as com]iil(Ml by tbc Milwaukee Chamber of 
Commerce, show the following situation for the past 
five yeai's : 

Receipts. 1913. 1914. 1915. 191G. 1917. 

Lake 5,228,770 4,950,578 4,805,205 4,590,384 3,948,096 

Car ferry... 322,708 158,604 212,183 359,824 238,191 

All-rail 308,785 250,852 193,157 240,174 987,613 



Total 



5,8G0,2C3 5,300,094 5,270,545 5,190.382 5,173,900 



The anthracite receipts by lake for the above years 
were as follows: 1913, 1, 153,406. tons ; 1914. 1,061,704; 
1915, 1,088.434; 1916, 853,217; 1917, 922,538 tons. 
Bituminous receipts were as follows: 191.'!, 4,075,364; 
1914. 3,888,874; 1915, 3,776,771; 191(i, 3,737,167: 
1917, 3,025,558 tons. 

Shipments via rail and lake from ^Milwaukee during 
the same period have been as follows: 1913, 1,000,599; 
1914, 1,468,250; 1915, 1,656,396; 1916, 1,417,543; 
1917, 973,235 tons. Deducting these figures from the 
receipts for the same years and the tonnage consumed 
or held in storage at ]\Iilwaukee during the periods in 
question would be as follows: 1913, 4,859,664 tons; 
1914, 3,891,844; 1915, 3,614,149; 1916, 3,778.839; 
1917, 4,200,665. These figures include not only the 
coke and gas operations at the Cream City, but, pre- 
sumably, also take into account railroad and vessel fuel 
consumiition. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





RICHARD W. HOUGHTON, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 

President Wilbur Lumber Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was 
born in Milwaukee in 1869 and has been in the coal business 
for twenty-five years. This company has a number of yards 
at different points and is one of the largest and most suc- 
cessful in this section. 



ROSSITER H. WILBUR, Waukesha, Wisconsin, 

Vice President Wilbur Lumber Co., Waukesha, Wisconsin, 
was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 30, 1869, and 
has been in the coal business with this company ever since 
he was twenty years of age. 





GEORGE H. WILBUR, Waukesha, AVisconsin, 

General Manager Wilbur Lumber Co., Waukesha, Wisconsin, 
was born in Unadilla Forks, New York, in 1839 and has been 
in the coal business thirty-five years. Mr. Wilbur is Secre- 
tary and Treasurer of all the Wilbur Lumber Co.'s retail 
yards. 



HAWLEY W. WILBUR, Waukesha, Wisconsin, 

Yard Manager Wilbur Lumber Co., Waukesha, Wisconsin, 
was born in Burlington, Wisconsin, and has been in the coal 
business fifteen years. Mr. Wilbur takes an active part in 
all movements for the betterment of civic and trade con- 
ditions. 



.482 



COAL M1£N OF AMERICA 





RAY WILBUR, niilnaukee, Wisconsin, 

"With the Wilbur Lumber Co. of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was 
born in Milwaukee September 22, 1S74, and has been in the 
coal ..liusiness for twenty years, the entire time with this 
company. He is a Past President of the Illinois and Wiscon- 
sin Retail Coal Dealers' Association and a popular member 
of the co.al trade. 



SIDNEY H. BENJAMIN, Milwaukee, Wisooiisin, 

President S. H. Benjamin Fuel & Supply Co., 209 Grand Ave., 
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is a native of Milwaukee, having been 
born there on March 21, 1882. He has been in the coal busi- 
ness for ten years and has many friends in the trade. 





EDWARD CALLAWAY, Milwaukee, \i iseonsin. 

President Callaway Fuel Co., Milwaukee, was born in Mil- 
waukee June 19, 1877, and has been in the coal business 
nineteen years. Mr. Callaway is a member of the Retail 
Fuel Dealers' Club of Milwaukee and a well-known mem- 
ber of the Milwaukee coal trade. 



CLARENCE E. PATRICK, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 

Vice President Callaway Fuel Co., Milwaukee, was born in 
Marengo, Illinois, December 28, 1874, and has been in the 
coal business five years. Mr. Patrick was formerly at Rock- 
ford, Illinois, for C. M. Moderwell & Co. In 1!)17 he repre- 
sented the National Coal Jobbers' Association at Washing- 
ton. 



483 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





JOSEPH RAOKMACHEH, Milwaukee, WIseonsiii, 

Managing- Partner of F. Wittig- & Co.. Milwaukee, was born 
In St. Marys, Wisconsin. June 30, 1870, and lias been in the 
coal business twenty-eight years. Mr. Rademacher was for- 
merly connected with the Gross Coal Co. and Milwaukee 
Coal Co. He is President of the Milwaukee Fuel Dealers' 
Social Club and a Director of the Illinois and Wisconsin 
Retail Coal Dealers' Association. 



JOHjV a. wittig, Mil«:««ikee, A\ i.sconsin, 

Co-partner P. Wittig & Co.. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was 
born in Milwaukee .July 20, 1S84, and has been in the coal 
business fifteen years. Mr. Wittig succeeded his father. 
Ferdinand Wittig', who founded this company in 1896 and 
died in 190(i. whereupon the son formed a partnership with 
Joseph Rademacher. This fii-m specializes in charcoal, sell- 
ing at wholesale and retail. 



The Milwaukee -Western Fuel Company 

Milwaukee, Wisconsin 



The Milwaukee-Western Fuel Company was in- 
corporated May 14, 1901. From a comparatively 
small beginning its growth has been steady until it 
has now reached the point where 3,000,000 tons of 
coal are handled over its docks in a season. 

The company operates eight docks, all located in 
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, covering an area of about 
85 acres, with three miles of waterfront and 6% 
miles of rail'way sidetracks. 

Equipment of the most modern type is used for 
the unloading of boats and the loading of cars, and 
for the handling, storing and preparation of coal. 

Twelve boats can be unloaded at one time, the 
unloading rigs having a capacity of 40,000 tons in 
ten hours. Car loading capacity is 400 cars a day. 



To properly care for its local trade the company 
is now operating a large fleet of motor trucks con- 
sisting of thirty 5-ton and five 2-ton trucks, hav- 
ing disposed of all of its teams. 

Early in January of this year the general offices 
of the company were moved from 14 Grand avenue 
to large and modern quarters in the Wells Building 
where it occupies the entire fourteenth floor and 
about half of the thirteenth floor. 

OfRcers of rhe company are: Edward A. Uhrig, 
President; Alex B. Uhrig, Vice President; Joseph W. 
Simpson, 'Vice President, in charge of City Sales; 
Alfred Teller, Vice President, in charge of Country 
Sales; William F. Ardern, Vice President and Gen- 
eral Superintendent; Chester Moody, Treasurer; 
Edward U. Demmer, Secretary. 



484 



COAL UEK OF AMERICA 





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ALFRED TELLER, MiUvaukee, W isconsin. 

Vice President Milwaukee-Western Fuel Co., Milwaukee, 
■was born in Sparta, Wisconsin. November 18, 1868, and was 
formerly connected with the H. M. Benjamin Coal Co. Mr. 
Teller has a wide personal acquaintance among retail coal 
nnerchants in his territory. 



CHARLES DICKIX AVEEKS. Milwaukee. AVisoonsin. 

Manager of the Milwaukee Solvay Coke Co., First National 
Bank Bldg., Milwaukee, was born in Coving-ton. Kentucky, 
February 6, 1876, and has been in the coal business twenty 
years. Mr. Weeks is also Manager of Coal Sales and Pur- 
chases of the Milwaukee Coke & Gas Co., Northwestern 
Iron Co., the Newport Mining Co. and Newport Chemical 
Works, Inc., and Vice President of Elkhorn Piney Coal 
Mining Co., with operations at Weeksbury, Kentucky, Pow- 
ellton and Stanaford. West Virginia, and the St. Clair Coal 
Mining Co. with operations at Eagle, West Virginia. He 
was six years with the Henry P. Weaver Coal Co. 



CHARLES BECKER. Milwaukee, 

President Wisconsin Coal Co.. with of- 
fices in the Germania Building. Milwau- 
kee, Wisconsin, was born in Milwaukee 
November 14, 1873, and has been in the 
coal business twenty years. Mr. Becker 
•was formerly connected with the Ka- 
nawha Fuel & Virginia Coal Co. and 
left these interests to form his present 
company in lf)07. He is the oldest all- 
rail shipper in Milwaukee. 




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Al'GlST' J. L.VX'GHOFF. Milwaukee, \Visconsin. 

President and Treasurer North Avenue Fuel Co., Milwaukee, 
Wisconsin, was born at Jefferson. Wisconsin, October 29, 
1866, and has been in the coal business for twenty-two years. 
Before engaging- in the coal business Mr. Langhoff was in 
the grocery business. He was instrumental in organizing 
the Milwaukee Coal Dealers' Club in ia04 and was its Presi- 
dent for three years, and is now a member of the Board of 
Directors. Mr. Langhoff has also been active in the Illinois 
and Wisconsin Retail Coal Dealers' Association. 



485 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 




C. S. DODGE, 9Ionroe, Wisoonsin, 

President C. S. Dodge & Son, Monroe, Wisconsin, was born 
in Fulton, "Wisconsin, July 31, 1861, and has been in the 
lumber and coal business thirty-six years. Mr. Dodge was 
doing- a coal business in Nebraska from 1887 to 1891, when 
C. S. Dodge & Son and the Dodge Lumber Co. were formed 
at Monroe, where they now operate two yards. He was 
also President of the Dodge Lumber Co. until recently, when 
he sold his interest to his son and sister, Laroy Dodge and 
Flora (Dodge) Drach. He has been Treasurer of the 
Illinois and Wisconsin Retail Coal Dealers' Association for a 
number of years. 



WISCONSIN — Milwaukee 



PERCY BRAMAX, SR., President and Treasurer Braman 
Coal Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was born in Oswego, New 
York, in 1863 and has been in the coal business tliirty 
years. Mr. Braman is also President and Treasurer of the 
Milwaukee Coal Co. He has served as President of the Re- 
tail Coal Dealers' Association of Milwaukee. He was for- 
merly connected with the H. M. Benjamin Coal Co., Hatfield 
Coal Co. and Milan Coal Co., and has been Deputy Commis- 
sioner of Public Works of Milwaukee for the past four 
years, also having been an alderman for several terms. 

PERCY V. BRAMAN, Secretary Braman Coal Co., Milwau- 
kee, Wisconsin, was born in Milwaukee December 3, 1885, 
and has been in the coal business fifteen years. Mr. Braman 
is also Manager of the Milwaukee Coal Co. He was formerly 
connected with the Kanawha Fuel Co. 

HERBERT I,. CONGER, General Sales Agent Central Coal 
Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with offices in the Pabst Build- 
ing, was born at Mancfhester, Iowa, February 25, 1860, and 
has been in the coal business thirty-five years. Mr. Conger 
was formerly connected with the North Western Fuel Co. 
and Milwaukee-Western Fuel Co. 

HENRY COOK, JR., Manager Henry Cook Co., Milwaukee, 
Wisconsin, was born in Milwaukee January 4, 1894, and has 
been in the coal business for eight years. This business 
was established by Mr. Cook's father twenty-five years ago. 



GrY F. GREGG, formerly General Sales Agent Milwaukee 
Gas Light Co.. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was born in Milwau- 
kee June 27, 1869, and was in the coke business twelve 
years, until his resignation June 1, 1918, to become actively 
identified witli the firm of Morris F. Fox & Co., a large 
bond investment house in Milwaukee, of which he has been 
elected Vice President. He was formerly connected with 
the Metropolitan Coke Co., became associated with the 
Milwaukee Gas Light Co. in 1905 as Manager of the Coke 
Department, and four years later was appointed Sales Man- 
ager, in which position he is succeeded by R. O. Jasperson, 
who has been connected with the company for the last five 
years as Advertising- Manager. 

ADAM GROSS, President Gross Coal Co., Milwaukee, Wis- 
consin, was born in Milwaukee and has been in the coal 
business for thirty years. 

MORTON M. HOWIE, traveling salesman for the Phila- 
delphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co. out of Milwaukee, Wis- 
consin, was born in Vernon, Wisconsin, January 31, 1868, 
and has been in the coal business thirty-two years. Mr. 
Howie was formerly connected -with the North Western Fuel 
Co. and D. W. Howie. 

FRED E. JENS, becretary-Treasurer Kipp Fuel Co., Mil- 
^vaukee, Wisconsin, was born in Chicago, Illinois, July 13, 
1SS7, and has been in tlie coal business for eleven years. 

EDW'IN W. LANGHOFF, Vice President and Secretary 
North Avenue Fuel Co., Milwaukee, Wiscjnsin, is a son of 
A. J. Langhoff. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, Febru- 
ary 1. 1893, and has been in the coal business for six years. 

EDMUND T. McDonald, Sales Agent Philadelphia & 
Reading Coal & Iron Co. in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was born 
in Milwaukee July 7, 1861, and has been in the coal business 
thirty-two years. Mr. McDonald was formerly connected 
with F. R. Buell & Co. and was Skout of the Order KoKoal. 
He has a wide acquaintance and stands high in the trade. 

ADAM R. MUTH of Jacob Muth & Co., Milwaukee, Wiscon- 
sin, is a native of Milwaukee, born October 15, 1885, and has 
been in the coal business fifteen years. 

JACOB MI:th, President and Treasurer Jacob Muth & Co., 
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was born in Gern-iany December 5, 
1854. and has been in the coal business for thirty-five years. 
Mr. Muth was formerly associated with William Callaway & 
Co. and is a Director of the Fuel Dealers' Social Club of Mil- 
waukee. 

J. E. MUTH (MRS.), co-partner of Jacob Muth &'Co., Mil- 
waukee, Wisconsin, was born in Germany April 16, 1862, and 
has been actively engaged in this company for fourteen 
years. 

CART> G. PAUI.I, General Sales Manager Wisconsin Coal & 
Dock Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was born in Davenport, 
Iowa, in 1874 and has been in the coal business thirty 
years. Mr. Pauli was formerly connected with the Pennsyl- 
vania Coal & Supply Co. 

JAMES PHEIiPS, Secretary-Treasurer B. F. Berry Coal Co., 
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was born at Galland, Iowa, April 1, 

1867, and has been in the coal business for twenty-seven 
years. Mr. Phelps was formerlj' connected with the Phila- 
delphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co., Ohio Coal Co., Western 
Coal & Coke Co.. Peninsular Coal Co., Standard Coal Co., and 
King Knob Coal Co. 

REINHOLD SCHMIDT. Treasurer North Side Coal Co., Mil- 
-waukee, Wisconsin, was born in Germany in Noven-iber, 

1868, and has been in the coal business for twenty-one years. 

W. J. SUTTON. President and Treasurer W. J. Sutton Fuel 
& Cartage Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has been in the coal 
business thirty-one years. Mr. Sutton was a Director of the 
Milwaukee Retail Coal Dealers' Association for three years. 

ED-W'ARD A. UHRIG, President Milwaukee-Western Fuel 
Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was born in Milwaukee March 26, 
1862. and has been in the coal business forty years. Mr. 
Uhrig was formerly connected with the B. Uhrig Fuel Co. 
He is highly respected in his community and is a prominent 
leader in the coal trade. 



WISCONSIN 



JOHN MILTON PISKE, JR., Sales Agent Milwaukee oflice 
of Lehigh Valley Coal Sales Co:, was born In Toledo, Ohio, 
April 30, 1877, and has been in the coal business for seven- 
teen years. 

EDWIN A. FLEM3IING, proprietor E. A. Flemming Coal 
Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, -was born at Iron Ridge, Wiscon- 
sin, May 22, 1873, and has been in the coal business eighteen 
years. Mr. Flemming was formerly associated with J. H. 
Pauly and has been Secretary of the Fuel Dealers' Social 
Club for the past six years. 



FREDERICK C. ARNOLD. Manager Arnold Fuel Co., Osh- 
kosh, Wisconsin, is a native of Oshkosh, born May 20. 1S52. 
Mr. Arnold has been retailing coal for twenty-six years. 

JEROME BAKER, Manager Whitewater Lumber Co., 
Whitewater, Wisconsin, Avas born in Rockford, Illinois, No- 
vember 22, 1868, and has been in the coal business thirty 
years. Mr. Baker is also Vice President Rockford Lumber & 
Fuel Co. and President Whitewater Commercial & Sav- 
ings Bank. He was formerly connected with the Minnesota 
Lumber Co. Mr. Baker is highly regarded and has many 
friends in that section. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



(a-:oit(;K s. lt.\M)\VI.\, retail coal merchant of Kenosha, 
Wisconsin, was born at Stanstead. Canada. March 24. 1835, 
aiul lias been serving the public for half a century in the 
capacity of retail coalman. He operates a dock in connection 
with his coal yard. 

H.VURV .MKHRILL IIALUWI.X. son of George S. Baldwin. 
is Managrer for his father, who does a retail coal business at 
Kenosha. Wisconsin. Mr. Baldwin was born in Kenosha 
April 20. 1862, and has been in the coal business for thirty- 
seven years. 

L,AA\KK.\CE .MKRUII.I, HA1,1>\M.\, Krandscn of George S. 
Baldwin of Kenosha. Wisconsin, and acting as cashier and 
office manager for him. was born at Kcnoslia August a. ISHO, 
and has been in the coal business for eight years. 

STKPHEX n. B.\I>LIET. President and Manager Balliet 
Suppl.v Co., Appleton. Wisconsin, was born in Appleton in 
18S5. and has been in the coal business four years. 

H. BARLAMEXT. Manager De Pere Co-Operative Coal Co., 
De Pere, Wisconsin, was born at New London, Wisconsin, 
February 24, 1873, and has been in the coal business for 
fourteen years. 

GEORfJE F. BEEDLE, Manager Beedle Coal Co.. Beloit, 
AVisconsin, was born in Rockton Township March 12, 1S65. 
and has been in the coal business for twenty years. 

GTSTAA' BESKE. retail coal merchant at Atwater, "Wis- 
consin, was born in Dodge County, Wisconsin, February 24, 
1S73. and has been in the coal business for ten years. 

RICHARD J. BLOEDEL,, proprietor of the Bloedel Fuel Co., 
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, was born October 4, 1856, and is a 
native of Wisconsin. Mr. Bloedel has been in the coal 
business for twenty years and succeeds his father, Henry 
Bloedel. 

WILLlAiM C. BOHEjVSTEDT, retail coal merchant of Ar- 
cadia, Wisconsin, was born at Trempealeau, Wisconsin, 
October 2, 1870, and has been retailing coal for eleven years. 

FRED BOSSERT, proprietor of the Bossert Coal Co. of 
Grand Rapids, Wisconsin, was born in Hennepin County, 
Minnesota, and has been in the retail coal business for fif- 
teen years. Mr. Bossert has a very modern, well-equipped 
coal yard. 

ALBERT M. BREHM, Secretary-Treasurer Brehm Bros. 
Co., retailers at Burlington, Wisconsin, has been in the coal 
business for forty-five years. Mr. Brehm is interested in 
the coal business with the Wilbur Lumber Co. of Milwaukee, 
which company does most of the buying, while Brehm Bros, 
attend to the distribution. The firm was established in 
1868 by B. Brehm, his father. 

GEORGE T. CAYSTIL.E, Treasurer and General Manager 
Carroll Coal Co.. Racine. Wisconsin, was born- at Sheboygan 
Falls, Wisconsin. December 13, 1868, and has been in the 
coal business for thirty years. Mr. Caj^stile w-as formerly 
connected with E. L. Hedstrom & Co. 

FRED T. CHITTENDEIV, Vice President Middleton Lum- 
ber & Fuel Co., Ripon, Wisconsin, was born in Ripon in 
1883 and has been in the coal business for eighteen years. 

ED. CLiACK, retail coal merchant of Pittsville, Wiscon- 
sin, was born in England November 20, 1861. and has been 
doing a retail coal business for twelve years. 

ROBERT B. CLARK, President Clark Grain & Fuel Co., 
Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, was born at Beloit, Wisconsin, 
August 15, 1862, and has been in the coal business twenty- 
seven years. Mr. Clark was formerl.v connected with the 
Sunday Creek Coal Co. and Clark & Taylor. 

HENRY B. COLEMAN, retailer, in business at Chippewa 
Falls, Wisconsin, was born at Rochester. New York, August 
5. 1847, and has been in the coal business a quarter of a 
century. 

JAME.S S. Cl'SICK, Manager Cusick, Richards & Roberts, 
Oregon, Wisconsin, was born in Oregon October 15, 1857, 
and has been in the coal business for fifteen years. Mr. 
Cusick was President of the Illinois and Wisconsin Retail 
Coal Dealers' Association for two terms and member Board 
of Directors for eight years. He is one of Wisconsin's lead- 
ing retailers. 

H. G. DARDIS, President Dardis Lumber & Fuel Co., Bur- 
lington, Wisconsin, was born at Kenosha. Wisconsin, Jan- 
uary 1, 1856, and has been doing a retail coal business for 
thirty years. 

GL'Y A'. DERING, retailer, in business at Columbus, Wis- 
consin, was born in Columbus September 28, 1872, and has 
been in the coal business twenty-one years. 

J. E. DOYLE of Castle & Doyle, Madison, Wisconsin, was 
born in Madison in April, 1875, and has been in the coal 
business for twenty years. J. H. Castle is the other member 
of the firm, which is one of the largest retail concerns in the 
state. 



.1. H. Dl'.X.XE, retail coal merchant of Cedarburn, Wiscon- 
sin, was born March 13. 1S49, in Cedarburg and h.is been in 
tlie coal Inisiness ten years. 

PR.VXK .■»!. Dl RKEE, proprietor F. M. Durkee & Son, Lake 
Geneva, Wisconsin, was born at Houvelton, New York, in 
1854 and has been in the coal business almost forty years. 
He is one of the best known retailers in southern Wisconsin. 

C. li. Dl'V.\I,L, Secretary-Treasurer Kewaunee Grain Co., 
Kewaunee, Wisconsin, was born in Kewaunee February 8, 
1S93, and has been h:indling coal at retail for five years. He 
is now in the Service. 

H. E. EASTM.4X, Manager Eastman Lumber Co., Platte- 
ville. Wisconsin, was born at Georgetown Wisconsin, Octo- 
ber 17, 1870. and has been in the coal business ten years. 

X.VTHAX \V.\I,TER ELLIS, retail coal merchant at Sparta, 
Wisconsin, was born at Mazomanie, Wisconsin, March 19, 
1871, and has been in the coal business two years. 

E.MIL EMMERT, Superintendent Lehigh Valley Coal Sales 
Co.. Superior, Wisconsin, was born in Wyandotte, Michi- 
gan. November 7, 1871, and has been in the coal business for 
twenty-one years. Mr. Emmert was formerly connected 
with Coxe Bros. & Co., Inc. 

C. H. FIXTEL, President C. H. Fintel Co., Genesee Depot, 
Wisconsin, was born at Blue Grass, Iowa, in 1862 and has 
been in the coal business for thirty years. Mr. Fintel was 
Vice President of the Illinois and Wisconsin Retail Coal 
Dealers' Association for one year and Treasurer for two 
years. 

"W. G. FISHER, proprietor of the Berlin Produce Co., 
Berlin, Wisconsin, was born July 26, 1888, in Chicago, Illi- 
nois, and has been in the coal business for two years. 

M.AURICE L. FITZGER.VLD, President Fitzgerald & Mc- 
Donald, Tomahawk, Wisconsin, was born at Oshkosh, Wis- 
consin, March 1, 1866, and has been in the coal business for 
eight years. 

CHARLES E. FLOYD, Manager C. E. Floyd & Sons, Eureka, 
Wisconsin, was born November 23, 1855, at Aurora, Wiscon- 
sin, and has been in the coal business for seven years. 

ALEXANDER W. FLUEGEL, General Superintendent of 
Docks, Island Creek Coal & Dock Co., Superior, Wisconsin, 
was born in Germany February 4, ISSl. and has been in the 
coal business sixteen years. Mr. Fluegel was formerly con- 
nected with the Jones & Adams Co. and Pittsburgh Coal Co. 

HARVEY B. GAINES, Manager C. B. Gaines' Sons Co., 
Bristol, Wisconsin, was born in Bristol December 3, 1878. 
and has been in the coal business for twenty-three years, 
the entire time with above company. 

JOHN L. GASPAR, retail coal merchant of Waukesha, 
Wisconsin, was born in New York City May 19, 1837, and is 
of French descent, his parents having been natives of 
France. They were married in New York City. Mr. Caspar 
came to Waukesha September 3, 1841, and has been in 
the coal business forty-five years. Mr. Gaspar was for- 
merly connected with Kendick & Gaspar, Gaspar & LeClear 
and Gaspar & Lyons. 

CLEVE D. GATES, Secretary-Treasurer Caldwell & Gates 
Co.. Rio, Wisconsin, was born at Maine, New York, March 30, 

1866, and has been in the coal business for twenty years. 
This firm operates eight yards. 

CHARLES E. GEORGE, Manager C. E. George Co., suc- 
cessors to L. Stark Co., Weyauwega, Wisconsin, was born 
in Burnips Corners. Michigan, December 14, 1870, and has 
been in the coal business thirteen years. 

JOHN W. GIBSON, Superintendent North Western Fuel Co., 
Washburn, Wisconsin, was born at Bryn Mawr, Wales, No- 
vember 28, 1871. Mr. Gibson has been in the coal business 
for twenty-two years, the entire time with the above com- 
pany. 

WILL McCLURE, JR., retail coal merchant at Prairie du 
Chien, Wisconsin, was born at Prairie du Chien May 24, 
1879, and has been in the coal business for three years. 

CHARLES H. GITTNER, Secretary and Treasurer Gittner 
Coal & Supply Co., Waukesha. Wisconsin, was born in 
Waukesha November 15. 1897, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness a year. 

HENRY L. GITTNER, President Gittner Coal & Supply Co., 
Waukesha, Wisconsin, was born in Waukesha January 25, 

1867, and has been in the coal business twenty-one years. 

MRS. LILLIAN I. GITTNER, Vice President Gittner Coal 
& Supply Co., Waukesha. Wisconsin, was born in Waukesha 
in 1871 and has been interested in the coal business fifteen 
years. 

XVALTER E. GLEASON, Secretary and General Manager 
Consumers Lumber & Coal Co., Portage, Wisconsin, was born 
at Madison, Wisconsin, January 17, 1872, and has been in the 
coal business eight years. Mr. Gleason, before coming w-ith 
this company, was with the Brittingham & Hixon Lumber 
Co., North Star Lumber Co. and Walker Lumber Co. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



FRANK E. GREEN, retail coal merchant of Fort Atkinson, 
Wisconsin, was born at Alfred, New York, May 23, 1862, and 
has been retailing coal for ten years. 

ALAIS GROSS, Secretary-Treasurer Gross & Jacobs Co., 
Stevens Point. Wisconsin, was born at Kelhausen, France, 
January 21, 1860, and has been in the coal business for 
twenty-five years. 

A'lVIAN HARVEY, President V. Harvey & Son, Platteville, 
Wisconsin, was born at Benton, Wisconsin, in 1856 and has 
been in the coal business eight years. 

ROLAND C. HARVEY, Secretary-Treasurer V. Harvey & 
Son. Platteville, Wisconsin, was born at Highland, Wiscon- 
sin, in 1888 and has been in the coal business for seven 
years. 

WILLIAM B. HAWKINS, General Sales Agent C. Reiss 
Coal Co., Sheboygan, Wisconsin, was born in Litchfield, Illi- 
nois, June 15, 1862, and has been in the coal business a 
quarter of a century. Mr. Hawkins was formerly connected 
with the Sunday Creek Coal Co. and has many friends in the 
coal trade. 

AVILLARD S. HEDDLES, Secretary-Treasurer and General 
Manager Brittingham & Hixon Lumber Co. and Heddles 
Lumber Co. of Madison, Wisconsin, was born at Edgerton, 
Wisconsin January 17, 1861, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness twenty-nine years. 

CHRISTIAN HENNINGSEN, retailer of Oakfleld, Wiscon- 
sin, was born at Nakskov, Denmark, and has been in the 
coal business twenty-three years. 

CHARLES H. HILL, Manager Beloit Lumber Co., Beloit, 
Wisconsin, was born in Washington, Maine, November 12, 
1871, and has been in the coal business seven years. Before 
engaging' in the coal business Mr. Hill was in the shoe 
business sixteen years, fourteen years as a traveling sales- 
man. He is one of the Directors of the Illinois and 
Wisconsin Retail Coal Dealers' Association, and this com- 
pany, which does a large wholesale and retail business, 
is a branch of the Rockford Lumber <& Fuel Co. of Rock- 
ford. Illinois. 

PETER J. HOFFaiAN, retail coal merchant of Black River 
Falls. Wisconsin, was born at Hixton, Wisconsin, February 
10, 1868, and has been in the coal business for fifteen years. 

CHARLES E. HOOK, retail coal merchant of Cumberland, 
Wisconsin, was born at Independence, Iowa, December 8, 
1874, and has been in the coal business three years. 

ALBERT HOLLISTER of Delavan, Wisconsin, proprietor 
of A. Hollister & Sons, Williains Bay, Wisconsin, was born 
in Williams Bay June 15, 1854. and has been in the coal busi- 
ness thirty-five years. Mr. Hollister formerly did business at 
Manchester, Iowa, under the firm name Hollister Lumber Co. 
When the old Northwestern Coal Association was formed at 
Minneapolis he was its first President and held office for 
tliree years, and is at present Mayor of the city of Delavan. 
Mr. Hollister has retired from active work, his sons having 
taken up his interests. 

F. W. HURLBITT, Secretary-Treasurer F. Hurlbut Co., 
Green Bay, Wisconsin, was born in Green Bay in 1880 and 
has been in the coal business sixteen years. 

C. W. IRISH, well-known retail coal merchant of Clinton, 
Wisconsin, was born in Clinton August 1, 1850, and has 
been in the coal business since 1900. 

PAUL F. IRWIN is a member of the firm of the Struck & 
Irw-in Fuel Co., Madison, Wisconsin. He has been seventeen 
years in the coal business, formerly with the Milwaukee- 
Western Fuel Co., Hunter W. Finch & Co.. C. Reiss Coal Co., 
and Spring Valley Coal Co. He was born at Farmet-sburg, 
Indiana, August 10, 1877, and is well known to the western 
retail trade. 

DAVID C. .lACKA, President Mineral Point Dray & Coal 
Co., Mineral Point. Wisconsin, was born in Mineral Point 
January 2S, 1S69, and has been in the coal business three 
years. 

ALDEN O. .JOHNSON, buyer , for J. B. Johnson & Sons, 
Neenah, Wisconsin, was born at Waupaca, Wisconsin, June 
28, 1885, and has been in the coal business for four years. 

ELMER S. .lOHNSTON, General Manager Johnston Fuel & 
Warehouse Co., Baraboo, Wisconsin, was born at Ironton, 
Wisconsin, August 29, 1882, and has been in the coal business 
for fifteen years. He was formerly connected with the H. 
M. Johnston Lumber Co. 

.lULIUS KNOBLAUCH, retail coal merchant at Prescott, 
AVisconsin, was born in New Trier, Minnesota, June 29, 1860, 
and has been in the coal business seven years. 

BENJAMIN EMORY KELLOGG, Owner and General Man- 
ager H. Kellogg & Son, Oconomowoc, Wise )nsin, was born 
in Oconomowoc March 24, 1867, and has been In the coal 
business thirty-three years. Mr. Kellogg is a former Vice 
President of the Illinois and Wisconsin Retail Coal Dealers' 
Association. 



JACOB BERNARD LALN, retailer, in business at Kiel, 
Wisconsin, was born August 5, 1863, in Germantown, Wis- 
consin, and has been in the coal business fifteen years. Mr. 
Laun is connected with Laun Bros, at Elkhart Lake, Wis- 
consin, A. A. Laun Co. at New Holstein, Wisconsin, and Laun 
Bros., Wausaukee, Wisconsin. 

ELMER I. LINDOW, President West Allis Fuel & Supply 
Co., West Allis, Wisconsin, was born in Manawa, Wisconsin, 
November 29, 1878, and has been in the coal business ten 
years. Mr. Lindow was formerlj^ connected with Meigs & 
Lindow, Inc. J. A. Raniszewski is Secretary-Treasurer of 
the company. 

T. F. MACKMILLER, retail coal merchant of Iron River, 
Wisconsin, was born at Watertown, Wisconsin, December 17, 
1861, and has been retailing coal for eighteen years. 

.lOHN MALONE, doing a retail coal business at Hammond, 
Wisconsin, was born at Cylon, Wisconsin, and has been in 
the coal business for fourteen years. He was formerly 
connected with Keyes & Malone. 

CHARLES LELAND MARSTON, President Marston Bros. 
Co.. Appleton, Wisconsin, was born in Hardwick, Vermont, 
February 5, 1860, and has been m the coal business thirty- 
five years. Mr. Marston is a charter member and organizer 
of the Illinois and Wisconsin Retail Coal Dealers' Associa- 
tion and was on its Executive Committee for many years. 

JOHN I. MAYER, Sales Agent Gross Coal Co., Milwaukee, 
Wisconsin, was born at Menasha, Wisconsin, November 17, 
1872, and has been in the coal business twentj'-two years. 
Mr. Mayer was formerly connected with the Lehigh Valley 
Coal Sales Co. 

ALEXANDER A. McDONELL, Manager Tarbox & McDon- 
ell, Ashland, Wisconsin, was born at Alexandria, Ontario, 
August 17, 1858, and has been in the coal business for 
t'wenty years. He was formerly connected \vith the Lake 
Superior Coal Co. 

EDW\ M. McDonald, Manager and Treasurer Fitzgerald 
& McDonald of Toinahawk, Wisconsin, -was born at De Pere, 
Wisconsin, August 13, 1876, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness eight years. 

.lAMES H. MEADE, proprietor Iron County Lumljer & Fuel 
Co., Hurley, Wisconsin, was born in Greenland, Michigan, 
August 17, 1872, and has been in the coal business for eight 
j^ears. 

BLASE W. MEIDL, proprietor Whitelaw Lumber Yards, 
Whitelaw, Wisconsin, was born at Franklin August 12, 1878, 
and has been in the coal business thirteen years. 

"WILLIAM W. MENZIES, proprietor of Plowright & Men- 
zies, Janesville. Wisconsin, was born in Rock Prairie March 
22, 1872, and nas been in the coal business twelve years. 

H. L. MEYER, proprietor of H. L. Meyer & Co., Hilbert, 
Wisconsin, was born at Kiel, Wisconsin, June 3, 1879, and 
has been in the coal business fourteen years. Mr. Meyer is 
also interested in the Sherwood Lumber Co. of Sherwood, 
AVisconsin. He is a. former member of the Membership Com- 
mittee of the Illinois and Wisconsin Retail Coal Dealers 
Association. 

HERBERT O. MEYERS, part owner in Meyers & Schal- 
lert Lumber Co., Johnson Creek, Wisconsin, was born at 
Verona, Wisconsin, in 1864, and has been In the coal busi- 
ness for a quarter of a century. Mr. Meyers resides at Ev- 
ansville, Wisconsin. 

E. L. MILLS, senior member of Crump & Mills, Lake Mills, 
Wisconsin, was born at Whitewater. Wisconsin. February 9, 
1862, and has been in the coal business for twenty-five years. 
He was connected with Hubbs & Mills from 1893 to 1910. 

FERDINAND C. MINTZLAFF, retail coal merchant of 
Grafton, Wisconsin, was born in Grafton January 20, 1864, 
and has been in the retail coal business eighteen years. 

WILLIAM C. MITCHELL, President and Treasurer Port 
Washington Fuel Co., Port Washington, Wisconsin, was born 
in Milwaukee in March, 1871, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness twenty-seven years. Mr. Mitchell "was formerlj' con- 
nected with the North Western Fuel Co., D. W. Howie and 
Geo. S. Eastman. 

C. F. MOHR. retail coal merchant of Portage, Wisconsin, 
was born in Germany December 31, 1845. Mr. Mohr has been 
doing a retail coal business for thirty years. 

B. A. MORGAN, proprietor of the Morgan Co., Hurley, 
Wisconsin, was born in Canada in 1S78 and has been retail- 
ing coal for ten years. 

"V. L. MORISETTE, Manager Marion Lumber & Fuel Co., 
Marion, Wisconsin, was born at Wausau, Wisconsin, July 21, 
1882, and has been in the' coal business ten years. Mr. 
Morisette was formerly connected with the Pleddles Lum- 
ber Co. 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



Ol.OF J. <)I,SO\, Manager Cambridge Lumber & Fuel Co., 
Cambridge. Wisconsin, was born April 16. 1855. in Cambridge 
and has been in the coal business about twenty years. Mr. 
Olson was formerly connected with the Cambridge Lumber 

Co. 

K. Tj. P.WKRATZ, retail coal merchant of Menasha, Wis- 
consin, was boin in Menasha Marcli 21. 1892. and has been 
in the coal business for two years. He was formerly asso- 
ciated with W. W. F'anUratz. 

I'ETER \'. PKTKUSOX, retail coal merchant of Amherst, 
Wisconsin, was born in Norway May 1, 1850, and has been 
in the coal business for twenty years. He has served as a 
Director of the Illinois and Wisconsin Retail Coal Dealers' 
Association. 

CHRIS J. POMMER, retail coal merchant of Waupaca, Wis- 
consin, was born in Denmark, April 10, 1869, and has been 
in the coal business fifteen years. 

I». A. RICHARDS, retail coal merchant of Durand, Wis- 
consin, was born in New York in 1854 and has been retailing 
coal for twenty years. 

MARTI\ J. RO.\CH, retail coal merchant of Greenleaf 
AVisconsin. was born in Chilton. "V\'isconsin, December 16, 
1S64, and has been in the coal business for eleven years. 

BEX H. RODERICK, proprietor of the Roderick Lumber 
Co., Brodhead. Wisconsin, was born in Brodhead in 1SS3 and 
has been in the coal business eleven years. Mr. Roderick 
is also owner of the Juda Lumber & Fuel Co.. Juda, Wiscon- 
sin, a branch yard. 

AV. R. RlIi.VX'D. retailer, in business at Bangor, Wisconsin, 
was born in New York December 13, 1861, and has been in 
the coal business for five years. 

A. H. RISCH & SOX CO., doing a retail coal business at 
Reedsville, Wisconsin, have been in the coal business twelve 
years. 

A. B. S.WXDERS, Manager T. A. Saunders & Son, Milton. 
Wisconsin, was born at Walworth, Wisconsin, September 4, 
1880, and has been in the coal business for fifteen years. 

TRUMAX A. SAUXDERS, proprietor of T. A. Saunders & 
Son, Milton, Wisconsin, was born at Berlin, New York, Janu- 
ary 4, 1S44, and has been in the coal business at the same 
location twenty-seven years. Mr, Truman is a charter mem- 
ber of the Wisconsin Lumber Dealers' Association. 

AVILl. H. SCH.\LIjERT, President and General Manager 
Meyers & Schallert Lumber Co., Johnson Creek, Wiscon- 
sin, was born at Watertown, W^isconsin, Decejnber 10, 1876, 
and has been in the coal business for twelve years. 

GEORGE SCHWEIGER. proprietor Beaver Dam Wood Co., 
Beaver Dam. Wisconsin, was born in Beaver Dam April 28, 
1SR6, and has been in the coal business for ten years. 

GEORGE AA'. SHEPHERD of Shepherd Bros., Platteville. 
AVisconsin. was born in Platteville March 17, 1859, and has 
been in the coal business for eight years. 

THOMAS A. SHEPHERD of Shepherd Bros., retailers at 
Platteville, Wisconsin, was 'oorn in Platteville April 28, 
1861, and has been in the coal business for eight years. 

J. P. SHERIDAX, retail coal merchant of Kendall, Wis- 
consin, was born at Kenosha, Wisconsin, November 19, 1859, 
and has been in the coal business for eleven years. 

AUGUST SIEFERT, President and Manager Aug. Siefert 
Hardware Co., Reedsburg, Wisconsin, was born in Germany 
August 14, 1855, and has been handling coal thirty-five 
years. He was Postmaster under President Harrison, mem- 
ber of the Library Board many years, and is now serving" 
his third term as Mayor of Reedsburg. 

BURTOX E. SKIXXER, proprietor of the Star Coal Co., 
Beloit, Wisconsin, was born in Beloit December 20, 1872, 
and has been in the coal business eleven years. 

FRAXCIS M. SPELUMAX, proprietor F. M. Spellman Fuel 
Co., Oshkosh. Wisconsin, was born at Ripon, Wisconsin, No- 
vember 28, 1881, and has been in the coal business for five 
years. His yard is very modern and well equipped. Before 
going into business for himself Mr. Spellman was associated 
with Louis Schneider for two years. 



i'HARMOS HEXItV STEVEXS. retailer of Omro, Wl.scon- 
sin, was born at Shawano, Wl.sconsin, January 30, 1857, and 
has been in the coal business for twenty-eight years. Mr. 
Stevens was with O'Connor & Stevens for one year. 

J.\S. F. SUI.MVAX, retail coal merchant of Phillips, Wis- 
consin, is a native of I.iansing, Michigan, born there Sep- 
tember 24, 1870, and has been in the c'oal business for four 
years. 

ULYSSES S. SWAXX, retail coal merchant of Adell, Wis- 
consin, was born in the town of Sherman, Sheboygan Coun- 
ty. Wisconsin, December 25, 1868, and has been in the coal 
business three years. 

.lOHX G. THOM.VS, senior member of J. G. Thomas & .Son, 
Dodgeville. Wisconsin, was l)orn in Wales. Great Britain, 
February 15, 1854, and has been in the coal business for 
twelve years. 

ROY .1. THOMAS, junior member of J. G. Thomas & Son, 
Dodgeville, Wisconsin, was born at Barneveld, Wisconsin, 

December 26, 1882. 

.lOHX HEXRV TIMM, President J. H. Timm Co.. Plymouth, 
Wisconsin, was born in Winooska, Wisconsin, June 4. 1S5S, 
and has been in the coal business tliirty years. Mr. Timm 
was formerly connected with Huson Bros. & Timm Co. He 
is a charter member of the Illinois and Wisconsin Retail 
Coal Dealers' Association. 

JAS. A. URftUHART, retail coal merchant at Oconto, Wis- 
consin, was born in Canada in 1863 and has been in the coal 
business for fifteen years. 

WIULIAM P. WAUSH, proprietor Standard Ice & Fuel Co., 
Superior, Wisconsin, was born in Ireland April 20, 1866, and 
has been in the coal business for ten years. 

FRED 3IASOX WATTLES, Secretary and Manager of Sales 
Interstate Coal & Dock Co., Green Bay, Wisconsin, was born 
in Towanda, Pennsylvania, August 21, 1882, and has been in 
the coal business for eighteen years. Mr. Wattles is also 
a stockholder in several West Virginia and Ohio mining 
companies. He was formerly connected with the Rockhill 
Iron & Coal Co., Pittsburgh Coal Co., Marine Coal Co., Wat- 
tles-Fisher Coal Co., and Wattles Rail & Dock Co. 

GEORGE MOSCRIP WATTLES, Secretary and Sales Man- 
ager Interstate Coal & Dock Co., Green Bay, Wisconsin, was 
born January 28. 1892, in Denver, Colorado, and has been in 
the coal business seven years. He was formerly connected 
with the Wattles-Fisher Coal Co. and the Wattles Rail & 
Dock Co. and w^as North Western Sales Agent for the Inter- 
state Coal & Dock Co. at Minneapolis, Minnesota, until De- 
cember, 1917, when he was transferred to the main office 
at Green Bay, Wisconsin, in his present capacity. 

DAA'ID R. AVILLIAMS, senior partner of AVilliams & Da- 
vies, Cambria, W^isconsin, was born in AVales. Great Britain, 
and has been in tlie retail coal business twenty-two years. 
Mr. Williams was formerly connected with AVilliams & Rob- 
erts. 

W. G. WOHLFEIL, Manager Walker Lumber Co., Colum- 
bus, Wisconsin, has been in the coal business seven years. 
Mr. Wohlfeil bought the interests of Scoular & Lawrence. 

ALVIX F. ROTE, retail coal merchant of Monroe, Wiscon- 
sin, is a native of Monroe, born July 5, 1858. Mr. Rote has 
been retailing coal for fifteen years. 

MABEL -WOLKE, Secretary Fitzgerald & McDonald. Tom- 
ahawk, Wisconsin, was born in Tomahawk July 4. 1S92, and 
has been interested in the coal business eight years. 

■\V. M. WORKMAX. Secretary De Pere Co-Operative Coal 
Co., West De Pere, AA'isconsin. was born in Ripon. T\'isconsin, 
December 13, 1850, and has been in the coal business for ten 
years. 

PETER .1. Y'ERLV, Secretary Cargill Coal Co.. LaCrosse, 
Wisconsin, was born at Braidwood, Illinois. October 6, 1872, 
and has been in the coal business for twenty-four years. 
Mr. Yerly was formerly connected with the General Wil- 
mington Coal Co., Park County Coal Co., Buchanan Coal Co. 
and William Maltby. 



489 



WYOMING 



THE ESTIMATED tonnage of coal in the ground 
in Wyoming exceeds tliat of any other state in 
the Union with the possible exception of Forth 
Dakota. This is the striking statement made by the 
United States Geological Survey. The coal reserves 
of W3'oming, moreover, are superior to those of the Da- 
kota claimant for first honors in that, while the North 
Dakota deposits -are almost entirely lignitic, the coal 
bearing formations of Wyoming range from suli-l^itu- 
minous to a medium grade of bituminous coal. The 
unmined tonnage, estimated at 424,000,000,000 tons, is 
attributed to the large number of coal bearing forma- 
tions in the state, the great number and thickness of the 
beds — one in the southwestern part of the state is 90 
feet — and the size of the coal fields which underlie 
about half the area of Wyoming. 

The Powder Eiver field, which lies in the Ijasin be- 
tween the Black Hills and the Bighorn Mountains and 
extends from the North Platte Eiver to the Montana 
state line, is the largest of the districts now under ex- 
ploitation. This field contains approximately 15,000 
square miles, of which at least 11,000 square miles are 
known to contain beds of workable thickness. This field 
furnishes al^out 20 per cent, of the production of the 
state. The principal operations are at Sheridan, Mon- 
arch and Dietz in Sheridan County, and at Cambria in 
Weston Couiitjf. 

From the point of view of present productive activity, 
however, the Powder Eiver field is outranked by the 
Green Eiver. This field, lying in the southwestern part 
of the state, contains 4,800 square miles of territory 
known to contain workaljle coal and approximately 
1,200 square miles lielieved to be underlaid, at least par- 
tially, with coal of workable thickness. There are also 
20,000 square miles in this field in which the coal-bear- 
ing formations are under such heavy cover that nlti- 
mate recovery is considered doubtful. Sweetwater 
County is the center of the mining operations in this 
field ; it is the home of the Eock Springs coal. Opera- 
tions are also carried on in Carbon County. i\.ccording 
to the latest detailed fig'ures available, Sweetwater 
County contributes about 40 per cent, of the production 
of the state. 

Second in importance from the production side is the 
Bear Eiver region in Uinta and Lincoln counties. 



which produce about 25 per cent, of the coal inined in 
Wyoming. The product of this field is largely bitumi- 
nous. The Kemmerer district is the most important in 
this field. Another field that has been attracting greater 
attention during the last decade is the Bighorn in the 
northern part of the state. The Hanna field in the 
eastern part of Carbon Comity is the home of the 
Hanna mines of the Union Pacific Eailroad and one of 
the older fields in point of development. Among the 
fields that have not as yet come to the front rank are 
the Wind Eiver basin in Fremont County ; the Henrys 
Fork, southwestern Sweetwater County ; Muddy Creek 
field, Fremont County ; Fall Eiver basin and Upper 
Green Eiver fields in Uinta and Fremont counties, and 
the Mount Leidy, Lander Peak and Grays Eiver fields 
in LTinta Connty. "The Green Eiver and Bear Eiver 
basins and a small area in Weston County produce 
bitiuninous coal. The output from the other districts 
is sub-bituminons." 

■ The production history of the state began in 1865 and 
was probably carried on in connection with the con- 
struction of the Union Pacific Eailroad; the tonnage 
produced that year was 800 tons. Five years later, 
when the railroad was completed, the output had in- 
creased to approximately 50,000 tons. The next year 
saw a marked increase to 147,328 tons; in 1876 it had 
grown to 334,550, the aftermath of the panic of "73 
leaving but little impress on the volume of the output ; 
in 1887 the 1,000,000-ton mark was left behind, and in 
1891 the state passed 2,000,000 tons with a margin of 
327,841 tons to spare. Production since that date is 
shown in the f ollowdng table : 

Year. Ton. Year. Ton. 

1891 2,327,841 1904 5,178,55G 

1892 2,503,839 1905 5,602,021 

1893 2,439,311 190G 6,133,994 

1894 2,417,463 1907 6,252,990 

1895 2,246,911 1908 5,489,902 

1896 2,229,624 1909 6,393,109 

1897 2,597,886 1910 7,533,088 

1898 2,863,812 1911 6,744,864 

1899 3,837,392 1912 7,368,124 

1900 4,014,602 1913 7,393,066 

1901 4,485,374 1914 6,475,293 

1902 4,429,491 1915 6,554,028 

1903 4,635,293 1916 7,910,647 

When the pressure of heavy competition from the 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



east is eonsidored the oiHTiitoi-s in the Wvominu- (iehls 
have succeeded to a marked degree in pushing their 
coals to the Missouri Hiver and beyond. Mhile enjoying 
a far western trade. In 1913, out of a total production 
of G,r)54,02S tons, 1,T-21,011, or approximately 26 per 
cent, of the outjmt. was shipped to various interstate 
destinations in the following quantities: California, 
43.-546 tons; Colorado, 101; Idaho, 87,619; Iowa. 16,- 
418: Kansas, 38,540; Missouri, 1,484; jMontaua, 594,- 
60-2 ; Xehraska, 363,418 ; Nevada, 44,523 ; North Dako- 
ta. 96.558; .Oregon. liMi.r87; South Dakota, 152.350; 
Utah. 74. 788. and Washino-ton, 100.277 tons. The 



iailix)ads aljsorhed 4,2"i.').".'Ili) Ions, or approximately 65 
per cent, of the production. Wyoming used ()()9,546 
tons, or approximately eight per cent. This represented 
by far the major portion oL' the total consumption of 
the state, its outside purchases being limited to 20.984 
tons from Colorado, 50 tons from Utah, and 200 tons 
of Pennsylvania anthracite. Tlie per capita consump- 
tion for the state, 2.14 tons, was .66 ton under the coun- 
try average, while tlie scpuire mile consumption was only 
six tons, against an average of 123 tons for the United 
States. 



WYOMING 



CI^AREXCE A. BARNARD, General Superintendent The 
Owl Creek Coal Co.. Gebo, V\'yoming-, was born in Rochester, 
New York. iMarch 26. 1S75. and has been in the coal business 
nine years. Mr. Barnard is Secretary of the Northern "Wy- 
oming- Coal Operators Association. 

PETER KOOI, President Kooi Coal Co., well-known coal 
operator of Kooi, Wyoming, was born in Chicago, Illinois, 
and has been in the coal business about fourteen years. 
He was formerly Secretary and Treasurer of the Wyoming 
Coal Mining Co.. Monarch, Wyoming, and is one of the best 
known and most popular coal operators in the West. He 
has a wide acquaintance and many warm friends in the 
trade. 



AVILLIAM UAVID BREXIVAN, Assistant General Manager 
of The Union Pacific Coal Co., Cheyenne, Wyoming, was 
born October 29. 1877, in Malone, New York, and has been 
in the coal business seventeen years. He was previously 
connected with the Superior Coal Co. Mr. Brennan is serv- 
ing as Secretary of the Southern Wyoming Coal Operators. 

C. B. SEYMOUR, General Manager of the Carney Coal 
Co., Carneyville, Wyoming, was born in 1S66 at Norwalk, 
Connecticut, and has been in the coal business thirteen 

years. 

JAMES K. AV.VLSH of the Carney Coal Co., retailers of 
coal at Sheridan, Wyoming, was born February 19, 1855, 
in Ontario, Canada, and has been in the coal business thir- 
teen years. 



491 



ALASKA 



ALASKA, first pictured to tlie country as a frozen 
uorthland that tlie Russian bear was glad to le- 
linc|uisli, tlien opened up with a glow of romance 
b}- the Klondike rush, still later the subject of propa- 
ganda designed to remove first impressions of Arctic 
harshness, has in the joast year again been in the public 
eye — this time because of its coal deposits. These, it is 
claimed, with the development of the government rail- 
road in that territory, may yet become a real factor 
in the coal trade history of this country. 

The two fields of greatest importance at this par- 
ticular time are the Bering Eiver and the Matanuska. 
The Bering Eiver field lies about 25 miles to the north- 
east of Controller Bay. Surveys have revealed the 
presence of anthracite, semi-anthracite, bituminous and 
semi-bituminous coal. The coal beds which geolo- 
gists say may be workable vary from three to 25 feet 
in thickness, although at some points the maximum is 
still greater than that just stated. The anthracite in 
this field has an average fixed carbon content of 81 per 
cent, and the semi-lntuminous 73 per cent. Some of 
the liituminous coal is of coking grade. 

In the ]\ratanuska field numerous coal beds, with pos- 
siljle working thicknesses of from three to 32 feet, have 
l^een reported. In quality the coal ranges from lignite 
to anthracite. "The bituminous coal, which seems to 
form the main body," say i^lfred H. Brooks and George 
C. Martin, who have contributed a number of reports 
on the Alaskan fields to the United States Geological 
Survey, "appears to pass into a lignite at the west end 
of the field, Avhile there is some evidence that the same 
coal is represented by an anthracite near the east end 
of the Ijelt. The lower grade coal from this field con- 
tains from 48 to 50 per cent, fixed carbon. The bitum- 
inous coal has from 61 to 77 per cent. One analysis 
of the anthracite yields 81 per cent, fixed carbon. The 
bituminous coal can, in part, he coked. The coal 
measures are much folded and faulted, a condition that 
may prevent the economic recovery of some of the coal." 

Coal-bearing rocks are also widely distributed in the 
Cook lulet region and it is considered possible that the 
entire depression may be underlaid Avith such forma- 
tions. The best known part of this field is on the east 
side of Cook Inlet nortli of Kachemak Bay. Here the 
formation of partially indurated sands and clays is 



interbedded with lignite seams of moderate thickness. 
Coal is also widely distributed over the Alaska penin- 
sula, the most important of the known fields being the 
Chignik and Herendeen bay where both bituminous and 
sub-bituminous have been found. The Nenana field, in 
the southern part of the lower Tanana vallev, is under- 
laid with beds ranging three to 30 feet in thickness. 

In northern Alaska the known fields fall into three 
groups, viz., the Cape Lisburne, the Colville basin and 
the Wainwright Inlet groups. In quality the coal- 
bearing formations recognized range from lignitic, 
through sub-bituminous, to high grade bituminous. The 
Cape Lisburne is the most important gToup ; high grade 
bituminous, with a 76 per cent, fixed carbon and three 
per cent, ash analysis, has been reported there. Coal- 
bearing formations, particularly ligmitic, are known to 
exist in other parts of the territory. The lack of de- 
tailed knowledge of the territory as a whole prevents 
any trustworthy estiniate of its total coal area and re- 
sources being made at the present time. 

The production of coal in Alaska in 1917 showed a 
400 per cent, increase over that for the preceding year 
and more coal was mined in the preceding year (1916) 
than the total output up to 1889. Production and con- 
sumption since 1899 are shown in the following table: 



Year. 


Imported from 

States, chiefly 

from Washington. 

Bitumi- Anthra- 

nous. cite- 


Produced 
in Alaska, 
chiefly 
sub- 
bitumi- 
nous and 
lignite. 


Total 
domestic 


Total 
foreign coal 

chiefly 

bituminous 

from 

British 

. Columbia. 


Total 
coal 
con- 
sumed. 


1899.. 


. *10,000 




1,200 


11,200 


50,120 


61,320 


1900.. 


. 15,048 




1,200 


16,248 


56,623 


72,871 


1901.. 


. *24,000 




1,300 


25,300 


77,674 


102,974 


1902.. 


. *40,000 




2,212 


42,212 


68,363 


110,575 


1903.. 


. 64,625 


1 


1,447 


66,073 


60,605 


126,678 


1904. . 


. 36,689 




1,694 


38,383 


76,815 


115,198 


1905.. 


. 67,707 


6 


3,774 


71,487 


72,567 


144,054 


1906.. 


. 68,960 


533 


5,541 


75,034 


47,590 


122,624 


1907.. 


. 45,130 . 


1,116 


10,139 


56,385 


88,596 


144,981 


1908. . 


. 23,402 


491 


3,107 


27,000 


72,831 


99,831 


1909. . 


. 33,112 




2,800 


35,912 


74,316 


110,228 


1910.. 


. 32,138 




1,000 


33,138 


73,904 


107,042 


1911.. 


. 32,255 




900 


33,155 


88,573 


121,728 


1912.. 


. 27,767 




355 


28,122 


59,804 


87,926 


1913.. 


. 61,666 




2,300 


63,966 


60,600 


124,566 


1914.. 


. 41,509 






41,509 


21,882 


63,391 


1915.. 


. 46,329 




1,400 


47,729 


36,878 


84,607 


1916. . 


. 44,934 




13,073 


58,007 


36,454 


94,461 


*By 


fiscal years endin 


g June 30 









492 



CANADA 



THE IIO.MELAM) of tlie \m\\\> Lady oL' the 
Snows is both a c-oal producer and a Jieavy con- 
sumer. The present output of the coal iields of 
Canada, while small compared with the total produc- 
tion of the United States or even with that of the 
major producing states, such as I'ennsylvania, West 
Virginia, Illinois, Ohio or Kentucky, is one of grow- 
ing- ]X)ssibilities as the great Xorthwest is further de- 
veloped in a transportation and industrial way. At the 
same time the l^orninion is one of the important fac- 
tors in tlie coal trade of the United States. It cozi- 
sumes approximately twice as nivu-h coal as it pro- 
duces, and the greater part of its imported fuel come;-; 
from the mines of the United States. 

The Icnown coal Iields of the Dominion are esti- 
mated to cover an area of approximately 29,000 square 
miles, while the areas probably underlaid with coal for- 
mations total approximately 79,000 square miles. Esti- 
mates made five or six years ago placed the known 
areas at 26,219.31 square miles and the areas probably 
underlaid with coal at 82,662. .5- square miles. Since 
that time, however, production has become an actuality 
in certain of the districts then classified as probably 
containing coal reserves. This explains the difference 
between the estimates given in the tirst sentence of 
this paragraph and those jiist quoted. 

The fields from which ]n-oduction is reported lie in 
Alberta, British Columbia, Xew Brunswick, Xova 
-Scotia, Saskatchewan and the Yukon Territory. Th" 
Xova Scotia fields, which are probably the best known. 
are exposed in five areas, viz., the Cumlierland (includ- 
ing the Joggins and Springhill areas), the Pictou, In- 
verness, and Cape Breton or Sydney. In some parts o1' 
the Xova Scotia field, submarine operations are car- 
ried on. Certain mines in the Sydney district have 
vrorkings extending over a mile out from tlie shore 
and the submarine limit is estimated at from three 
to fne miles. Unlike the X'ova Scotia formation, which 
contains coal measures of great thickness, the seams in 
Xew Brunswick are tliin vein deposits ranging from 
18 to 22 inches. The principal operations have been 
carried on in Queen's, King's and Kent counties. An- 
thracite mixed with shale has been found in St. 
John County in a thick seam, "but the amount of coal 
is so small that no mining has lieen done." 



The Saskatchewan coal iields contain two coal-bear- 
iiig formations. The upper or Tertiary, having a maxi- 
mum thickness of 18 feet, is comparable with the Fort 
Union group of Xorth Dakota. The lower coal bearing 
formation is known as the Belly River and contains two 
seams, one of which attains a maximum thickness of 
eight feet and the other which ranges between four aiul 
seven feet. The Tertiary beds are exposed in the hilly 
country of southern Saskatchewan, where a numljer of 
lignite seams are being mined. D. B. Dowling of the 
Geological Survey of Canada says tliat "in the western 
part of the field the coal is generally brown in color; 
in the central portion it is very nearly black and has 
the appearance of sub-bituminous coal, but does not 
stand weathering." The Belly Eiver formation is ex- 
posed in the Saskatchewan valley in tiie western jiart of 
the valley. 

All)erta coals have been found in three distiiict hori- 
zons, viz., the Edmonton an'd part of the Paskapoo for- 
mation, the Belly Eiver and the Kootenay. The rocks 
of the Edmonton division cover a large part of southern 
Alberta. At the top of the formation is found a group 
of seams which unite at places into one thick seam; the 
aggregate thickness of the seam increases in a north- 
west direction, being five feet south of the Bow Piver 
and. 13 feet at Calgary; the maximum thickness is 
found on the Xorth Saskatchewan River west of Ed- 
monton, where the outcrop is a 25-foot seam. A north- 
ward extension of this seam, says Mr. Dowling. who has 
made an extensive study of the coal resources of Can- 
ada and to whose reports the writer is indebted for the 
information with regard to tlie Dominion coal fields, 
splits into at least two 10-foot l)eds at the Grand Trunk 
Pacific Pembina Eiver crossing. Several hundred feet 
!)elow the thick seams a number of smaller workable 
seams are found, "'i'lie coal of this basin shows a grad- 
ual change in character from lignite in the extreme 
northeastern part to a coking coal in the foothill areas." 
The Belly River formation underlies an area of ap- 
proximately IG.OOO square miles in eastern Alberta. '"'A 
belt along the borders of the area," says Mr. Dowling. 
"is generally considered to he the best part of the field 
on account of the occurrence in it, near the top of the 
formation, of a verv persistent coal seam which has been 
eroded from a large part of the exposed area. In the 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



northern part of the area the seams appear to be veiy 
thin. Near Medicine Hat two seams each abont five leet 
thick are exposed ; westward a seam of better grade coal 
is mined at Taber, while the seam mined at Lethbridge 
siipplies a still better coal." The character of the coal 
changes as the mountains are approached; the coal in 
the foothills is generally much harder than in the plains 
area and in man)^ cases has coking qualities. 

. The coals of the Kootena}' formation, which are con- 
sidered the most valuable in Canada, are exposed, 
only in the uplifted fault blocks that form the Eocky 
Mountains and at the crests of the anticlines in the 
foothills. The greater part of the coal is high gTade 
bituminous ; some semi-anthracite and anthracite also 
occur. The Alberta areas of the Ivootenay formation are 
found in both the outer ranges and in the foothills ex- 
tending in a northerly direction from near the interna- 
tional boundary to beyond the Athal^aska Kiver; nortl; 
of that latitude most of the coal bearing areas appear 
in the foothills. From south to north the areas of this 
formation may be described as follows: One work- 
able seam has been found in North Ivootenay 
2?ass. The Coleman field, a narrow strip cross- 
ing the Canadian Pacific Eailway at Coleman, con- 
tains, 16, 10 and 8-foot seams. The Blairmore-Frank 
area contains about 50 feet of coal in six difEerent seams 
ranging from 31/4 to 17 feet in thickness. The Liv- 
ingston range, which lias not yet reached commercial 
importance, contains one section of 13 seams with an 
aggregate thickness of 43 feet and another with 21 
seams and an aggregate thickness of 125 feet. The 
Moose Mountain area in the foothills west and south 
of Calgary has three coal seams with an aggTegate 
thickness of 35 feet. A portion of the Elk Eiver coal 
field crosses the Kananaskis watershed; one seam of 13 
feet has been uncovered. The Cascade area shows at 
least 15 seams with an aggregate thickness of 85 feet; 
in the valley of the Cascade Eiver, the eastern flank of 
the mountain contains beds of anthracitic character 
which approach true anthracite opposite Banff. Beyond 
the small Palliser area lies the Costigan. In the south- 
ern jJart of the Bighorn field, a number of seams, have 
been discovered; a 20-foot bed of coking coal is being 
exploited on the Brazeaix Eiver. Other areas explored 
include the Shunda Creek, Nikanassin, the area west of 
the Mcl^eod Eiver, Folding Mountain, Brule Lake, 
Eocbe Miette and Moose Creek, Baptiste Eiver and 
Muskeg Eiver areas. 

The Southern British Columbia coal measures in- 
clude the Flathead Eiver, Crow's Nest, Upper Elk Eiver, 
Bull Eiver, Midway, Okanagan, Princeton, Tulameeu, 
Nicola and Quilchena, Eraser Eiver Delta, Kamloops, 
Hat Creek and North Thompson Eiver districts. The 
Crow's Nest field is of the present greatest commercial 
importance. Its area is approximately 230 square miles, 
At j\[orrisey. reports Mr. Bowling, there are 23 seams 



with an aggregate thickness of 216 feet in 3,676 feet 
of measures; at Fernie, 23 seams, 172 feet of coal in 
2,250 feet of measures; at Sparwood, 23 seams, 163 
feet of coal in 2,050 feet of lower measures and 24 seams, 
43 feet of coal in 2,015 feet of upper measures. These 
last named measures contain a number of thin seams 
of caunel and high volatile bituminous. At Corbin, a 
seam 125 feet thick is being recovered by stripping. 
The Flathead Eiver (Kootenay formation) area, al- 
though faulted, contains bituminous that promises to be 
of great value. The most important part of the Upper 
Elk Eiver area of Kootenay coals is the Green Eiver sec- 
tion which contains ten seams with 97 feet of coal of 
character very like that of the Crow's Nest field. 

The Central British Columbia coal measures include 
the Eraser Eiver, Bear Eiver, Lightning Creek, Skeena 
Eiver, Morice Eiver, Telka Eiver, Bulkley Eiver and 
Zymoetz Eiver areas. As in the case of several of the 
Southern British Columbia areas, many of the coal 
measures so far reported are of little or no present 
economic importance. The Eraser Eiver areas are 
chiefly lignitic and have not been developed to any 
great extent. In the Bear Eiver field, three seams of 
an aggregate thickness of 21 feet have been reported ; 
the coal is coking bituminous. Bituminous coal has 
also been found in the Morice Eiver district; some is 
known to be non-coking, while some in the Gold- 
stream may be available coking. In the Goat Creek 
section of the Telka Eiver field coal believed to be 
of coking quality has been found, while the Cabin 
Creek branch of Goat Creek contains coal approach- 
ing the anthracitic grade. Eleven seams aggregating 16 
feet have been exposed by stripping in the Bulkley Eiver 
field. 

The Northern British Columbia coal measures in- 
clude the Kispiox Eiver, Groundhog Mountain, Substut 
Eiver, Peace Eiver, Liard Eiver and Atlin districts. 
In the Groundhog Mountain field, estimated at 170 
square miles, "the coal is all semi-anthracite and in 
some instances is classed as anthracite." Small seams 
of lignite are found in the Substut Eiver district. Thin 
seams of fairly high grade bituminous occur in parts 
of the Peace Eiver field. The Liard Eiver district is 
known to contain lignite de]30sits. Little is known re- 
specting the deposits of the Atlin district. 

The coal measures of Vancouver Island, known as 
the Nanaimo series, underlie approximately 1,800 square 
miles, but the area undei'laid by workable coal seams is 
estimated at approximately 600 square miles. The 
basins known or believed to contain workable seams 
are the Koskeemo, the Suquash and portions of the 
Comox, Nanaimo and Alberni. At least two of the 
several seams of the Suquash basin contain workaltle 
coal of low carbon and high moisture content, grading 
down from bituminous toward sub-l)ituminous or lig- 
nitic coal. At least three of the several seams of the 



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COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



t'omox i\c\(.\ have been exploited. The eoal is a coking tliracile, but have not as vet been extensively developed 

bituminous and is the highest in iixed carbon mined on because of transportation dilliculties. Tlie iu'liel' is ex- 

the isknd. Extensive ojierations have been carried on pressed, liowever, that this territory nuiy contain coal 

since 1888. Alining has lu'cii carried on the Xanainu:) bearing formations of great area. 

lield since 18(iO ; the coal is a liigh Nolaiilc bituminous Xcwfoundland also contains some undeveloped coal 

'•of fair quality and cokes readily." areas on the eastern side of the island. The forma- 

The coal measures of the (,)ueen Charlotte islands, tions are an extension of those of Nova Scotia and 

though very small in the area of the known coal bear- XCw i!niii<\viik-. The largest tract, ajjproxiiuatelv 

ing formations show a range in quality from anthracite l.lon square miles, is south of the Iniv St. tieorge. The 

down to brown lignite. The largest area of the Cre- llumhcr l»i\('r or (irand Lake area is second in potent ial 

taceous series, \vliich range from semi-anthracite to low- importaiu'c. 

carbon bituminous, borders on and underlies Skidegate Canadian coal ])i-oduction during the past decaile is 

iidet. which separates Graham and Moresby islands; it shown in the taliulation at the end of this article. In 

also extends northward on Graham island for about 20 11)1.5, Canada produced 13,207,023 tons. I lei' imi)orts 

miles. The lignite depo.sits are found in widely scat- were 13,709,873 tons, principally from tlu; I'nited 

tered outcrops in the northeastern pait of Graham States. Canadian exports were 2,135,359 tons. The 

Island: the seams range from one to l.j feet in thick- sununary of Canadian coal and coke })ro(lueti(iii is as 

ne«s. The Yukon coal fields range from lignite to an- follows: 

CANADI.VN COAT. AND COKE PRODUCTION. 

Tons, Tons. Tons. Ton.s. Tons. Tons, Tons, Tons, Tons, Tons, Tons, 

Province. 1907. 1008. I!i0;i. lillO. 1911. 1912. 1913. 1914. 1915. 1916. 1917. 

Nova Scotia 6.354.1:^;? 6, 6.52. .539 .5,652,089 6,431,142 7,004.420 7,791,440 7.980,073 7,370,924 7,463,370 6,912,140 6,324,684 

British Columbia 2.364,898 2,333,708 2,606,127 3,330,745 2,542.532 3,220,899 2.714.420 2,239,799 2.065,613 2,584,061 2,418.929 

Alberta 1.591,579 1,685,661 1,994.741 2.894,469 1,511,036 3,446.349 4,014,755 3.683,015 3,360,818 4,559,054 4,723,139 

Saskatchewan 151.232 150.556 192,125 181,156 206,779 196,325 212,897 232,299 240,107 281,300 355,304 

NeviT Brunswick 34,584 60,000 49,029 55,455 55,781 42,780 70,311 98,049 127,391 143,540 188,660 

Yukon Territory 15,000 3,847 7,364 16,185 2,840 2,160 19,722 13.433 9,724 3,300 4,872 

Totals 10,511.426 10.886,311 10.501,475 12,909.152 11,323,388 14,699.953 15,012.178 13,637,519 13,267,023 14,483,395 14,015,588 



495 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 




EMAS ROGERS, Toronto, Ontaiio, 

President and Treasurer The Crow's Nest Pass Coal Co., 
Ltd., 25 Toronto Street, Toronto, was born in York County, 
Ontario, June 23, 1850. In 1876 he established a coal business 
in Toronto, "W'hich in 1897 became the Ellas Rogers Co., 
Ltd. He is also interested in the Pacific Coast Collieries. 
Mr. Rogers was President of the Toronto Board of Trade 
in 1898. Mr. Rogers is also President National Life 
Assurance Co., Vice President Imperial Bank of Canada, 
and has many other large interests. 




ALFRED ROGERS, Toronto, Ontario, 

President of The Elias Rogers Co., Ltd., Toronto, On- 
tario, has been in the coal business for over twenty 
years. He ^vas born at Newmarket, Ontario, July 13, 1874. 
He is also President of Rogers Supply Co. and Alfred Rogers, 
Ltd., Director St. Mary's Portland Cement Co., and Director 
Ridley College. 



496 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 




KJEXRIC RUD MARSHAI,L„ Toronto. Ontario, 

Vice President Standard Fuel Co., Ltd., 97 Glen Road, 
Toronto, has been connected with the coal business twenty 
years and was born in Toronto October 13, 1880. He went to 
France when the war broke out as Captain in the 15th 
Battalion (48th Highlanders). In June. 1917. he was dec- 
orated with the Distinguished Service Order by King- 
George V. and now is Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster 
General of the Fourth Canadian Division ■with rank of 
Lieutenant Colonel. 




(Copyright Lambert Weston. Ltd.. 25 Sandgate Road, 
Folkstone; also 39 Brompton Square. S. W., & 15 Bench 
Street, Dover.) 



XOEL CLIFFORD MARSHALL, Toronto, Ontario, 

Vice President of the Standard Fuel Co., Ltd., Toronto. 
Ontario, was born at Toronto, February 28, 1883, and has 
been in the coal business twenty years. 



497 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





CAPTAIN GEORGE J. GUY, Hamilton, Ontario, 

Vice President and General Manager of Gillies-Guy, 
Ltd., Hamilton, Ontario, has been in the coal trade for 
over twenty years. He formerly was with the Murton 
Coal Co. and the Rogers Coal Co., both of Hamilton. He 
was born at Hamilton, June 3, 1867. Mr. Guy was an Alder- 
man for several years and Chairman of the Board of 
Harbor Commissioners appointed by the Government. 



JOHX W. GILLIES, Hamilton, Ontario, 

Secretary-Treasurer of Gillies-Guy, Limited, of Hamilton, 
Ontario, has been in the coal business fourteen years. He 
was born in North Nation, Ontario, August 3, 1865, and w^as 
formerly in the lumber business at Saginaw, Michigan. 





JAMES A. HARRISON, Toronto, Ontario, 

President of the J. A. Harrison Coal Co., Limited, Toronto, 
Ontario, is President of the Canadian Retail Coal Dealers' 
Association and has been in the coal business twenty-eight 
years. He was born in Durham County, Ontario, March 24, 
18.58, and is highly respected in his city. 



K. .1. HARRISON, Toronto, Ontario, 

Secretary and Treasurer of the J. A. Harrison Coal Co., 
Limited, 57 Brock Ave., Toronto, Ontario, has been inter- 
ested In the coal business six years and is a native of 
Toronto. He was born July 27, 1895. 



498 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



EDMIXU E. BELL., Toronto, Ont., 

Manager for C. A. Wilson & Co., Lttl., 
wholesale coal merchants at Toronto, 
Ontario, was formerly with the Le- 
high Valley Railroad and has been in 
the coal business for thirteen years. 
He was born at Cremung, New York, 
April 12. 186T. 



GEORGE J. C'HA\TLEI(, London, 

Member of the coal fiiin of Chant ler 
Bros, at London. Ontario, has been in 
the coal business twenty-eight years. 
The business was established in 1878 
as Campbell & Chantler. Mr. Chantlor 
was born in Canton, England, May 30, 
1866. H. N. Chantler. his brother, was 
born in 1864 in Canton, England. 




WILLIAM T. ORCHARD, London, Ontario, 

Member of the firm of John G. Orchard & Sons, 45 York St., 
London, Ontario, entered the business twenty-seven years 
ago, when it was established by his father. He has filled 
the oflice of President of the London Retail Coal Dealers' 
Association. He was born in Canada July 14. 1872. 



ROSE BROTHER.S COAL CO... LTD., 
Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 

This company has its head office in 
the Canadian Pacific Railroad building 
at Toronto and its affairs are directed 
by Alexander Rose, Hugh Ro^e and 
Norman E. Arnot. 

Alexander Rose, President of the 
company, was born in Ross-Shire. 
Scotland, and first entered the coal 
business at Liverpool, England, thirty- 
six years ago, in the accounting de- 
partment of the Meyrick Bankes col- 
liery offices. He came to Canada in 
1886 and was with the Elias Rogers 
Co. until, with his brother Hugh and 
Norman E, Arnot. he established the 
business of the Rose Brothers Coal Co. 

Hugh Rose was born at Ross-Shire. 
Scotland, and after service as yard- 
master for the Meyrick Bankes collier- 
ies at Liverpool, he came to Canada in 
1886 with his brother. Alexander, and 
with him was engaged by the Elias 
Rogers Co., until the present company 
was formed. ' 

Norman E. Arnot was born at To- 
ronto thirty-five years ago and has 
been identified with the coal business 
all his life. 



499 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 





WILLIAM FAWCETT PARKI>% Lindsay, Ontario, 

Retail coal merchant of Lindsay, Ontario, was born in Lind- 
say September 12, 1893. and has been in the coal business for 
the past three years, and is one of the progressive young 
business men of Lindsay. He is a Director of the Dighy 
Lumber Co. of which his father is owner and General 
Manager, and also does an extensive wood business. 



ROBT. J. WEBSTER, London, Ontario, 

President of the Webster Fuel Co., London, Ontario, filled 
the office of Director, of President two years, and of Secre- 
tary and Treasurer five years, of the Canadian Retail Coal 
Association. He has been in the coal business for twenty- 
four years and was born at London in May, 1872. Mr. 
Webster org'anized .and is Manager of the Fireproof Ware- 
housing: Co., Ltd., wliicli doef5 a general warehousing and 
foiwarding business p.nd is now the largest of its kind in 
Western Ontario. 





MRS. BEATA HTJMBERSTOjVE, Beverly, Alberta, 

Head of The Humberstone Coal Co., Beverly, Alberta, was 
born July 24, 18G9, in Germany, and has been in the coal 
business for twenty years. She came to Canada in 1897 
and married William Humberstone two years later, assist- 
ing him in the coal business until 1912, when she took over 
the business and since then has conducted it very success- 
fully. Her husband, William Humberstone, walked behind 
ox carts from Winnipeg to Edmonton in 1880 and started 
mining coal. He is now eighty-one years of age. 



D. B. .JACQ,tJES, Toronto, Ontario, 

Senior member of the coal firm of Jacques, Davy & Co., 18 
Richmond St., East, Toronto, Ontario, was born in York 
County, Ontario, December 2, 1863, and has been engaged in 
the coal business for eighteen years. Mr. Jacques is Presi- 
dent of the Toronto Section of the Retail Merchants' Asso- 
ciation of Canada. 



500 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



CANADA — Alberta 



EDWARD S. <l l,\ Kit. piopiiotor of the Xortli West 
Coal Co.. Ednioiitoii, Albeita. was born Jaiiuar.v 11, 1881, 
in Delaware. Ohio, and lia.s been in the coal business 
sixteen years. Mr. Culver was formerl.v connected witli 
Maynard Brothers, New Kngland Coal Co., and the General 
Hocking Fuel Co., all of Columbus, Ohio. 

M'ILL C. DV.XX, 423 Tegler Building, Edmonton, Alberta, 
Canada, is Secretary and Treasurer of Lakeside Coals, Ltd., 
and of the Wabaniun Power & Coal Co., Ltd. He has been 
in the coal business seven years. He was born in Wiscon- 
sin May 2G, 1865. 

DEI^MKR :>!. GARI..VXD, Manager Trimble-Garland Lum- 
ber Co., Lacombe. Alberta, was born August 21, 1886. in 
Green County, Iowa, and has been in the coal business for 
the past five years. 

Hf. C. R.\MBO of Edson, Alberta, Canada, is Secretary of 
Ramho & Haldin, owners of the Keystone anthracite mine. 
He has been connected with the coal business for seven 
years. He was born in Montgoinery County, Pennsylvania, 
March IS, 1816. 

C. G. SHELDOX, Edmonton. Alberta, Canada, represents 
the Humberstone Coal Co. as General Manager. He has 
been in the coal business for about three years and has 
served a term as Treasurer of the North Alberta Coal Oper- 
ators' Association. He was born April 14, 1880, at Spring- 
boro, Pennsylvania. , 

D. R. YATES is a member of the coal firm of Becker & 
Yates at Warner. Alberta. He has been in the coal business 
for eleven years. He was born at Stillwater, Minnesota, 
in July, 1877. 

CANADA — British Columbia 

WALTER R. GILLEY is Managing Director for Gilley 
Bros., Ltd., at New Westminster, British Columbia. He was 
born at St. Andrews, New Brunswick, October 22, 1859, 
and has been in the coal business for the last twenty- 
nine years. 

JOHX DUNCAN SIcNEILL,. 1629 Main St., Vancouver, 
British Columbia, is the Managing Director and President 
of McNeill, Welch & Wilson, Ltd., at Vancouver, British 
Columbia. He has been engaged in the coal business for 
over twenty years, conducting his business under different 
names until four years ago, when the present company was 
incorporated. Mr. McNeill was born April 22, 1866, at 
Paisley, Ontario. 

JAMES EDWARD PAINTER, JR., 617 Cormorant St., 
Victoria, British Columbia, is Manager for J. B. Painter & 
Sons, coal merchants. He has been fourteen years in the 
business. He was born at Hamilton, Ontario, June 2, 1886. 

CANADA — Manitoba 

DAVID BOWMAN, 461 Main St., Winnipeg, Manitoba, Is 
President and General Manager of the David Bowman Coal 
& Supply Co., Ltd. He also is President of Mackenzie & 
Thayei', Ltd., .Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and a Director of 
the Dominion Lime & Coal Co. of Regina, Saskatchewan. 
He was formerly with the Conger Coal Co., Toronto, and 
the Winnipeg Supply & Fuel Co., Ltd. Mr. Bowman served 
as Secretary of the Winnipeg Coal Dealers' Association foi 
three years. He was born at Gait. Ontario. August 3, 1869. 
His company is selling agent for the Oliphant-Munson 
Collieries of Yellowhead Pass in the Rocky Mountains. 

DAVID HOMER CLARY, 268 Portage Ave., Winnipeg, 
Manitoba, represents the Pittsburgh Coal Co., Ltd., as 
Manager. From 1911 to 1916 he was employed as a chemical 
engineer by the Pittsburgh Coal Co. at Duluth, Minnesota, 
since which time he has filled his present position. He 
was born at Monroeville, Ohio, March 11, 1882. 

D. E. ERASER is a retail coal merchant at Kenton, Mani- 
toba, Canada, who has been fourteen years in the business. 
He was born December 11. 1873, at Nairn, Ontario. 

VICTOR GIILBAILT, President and General Manager of 
Guilbaults, Ltd., Winnipeg, Manitoba, succeeded his father, 
the late Edward Guilbault, as head of the concern, w-ho 
had been in the coal business twenty-one years. Mr. Guil- 
bault is a member of the wholesale section of the Canadian 
Credit Men's Association. He was born in St. Boniface, 
where his father was the pioneer coal merchant. 

MAX MAINS, Manager Douglas Fuel Co., Ltd., Winnipeg, 
Manitoba, was born February 13, 1886. in Russia, and has 
been in the coal business for two years. 



I*. liritKK RAYMOVD. Sales Jlanager VVinni|)eK Supply 
& Fuel Co.. 298 Kietta Street. Winniiieg, Manitoba. Canada, 
was born in Ionia, Michigan, August 5, 1S78. and has been 
in the coal business sixteen years. He was formerly with 
the Monarch Coal Co. of Chicago, Illinois, and the Pitts- 
burgh Coal Co. and Carnegie Fuel Co. of Minneapolis. Min- 
nesota. 

DYSON 1». SMITH, 603 Electric Railway Chambers, Win- 
nipeg, Manitoba, is the Western Manager for the Empire 
Coal Co., Ltd. He has been in llie coal business for the 
last seventeen years and was formerly with llic North 
Western Fuel Co. and the Consolidation Coal Co. He was 
born January 7, 1872. at Dowagiae, Michigan. Mr. Smith 
is popular and has many warm friends in the coal trade. 

DANIEL D. WOOD. 904 Ross Ave.. Winnipeg. Manitoba, 
is President and Manager of D. D. Wood & Sons, Ltd. He 
is a Director of the Breckenridge & Lund Coal Co., Ltd.. 
and has been in the retail coal business for seventeen 
years. Mr. Wood was born April 17, 1859, at Bilston, Staf- 
fordshire, England. 



CANADA — New Brunswick 



GEORGE McAVITY BLIZARD, Vice President of the 
Consumers' Coal Co.. Ltd., St. John, New Brunswick, Canada, 
was born January 4, 1881, in St. John, and lias been in the 
coal business sixteen years. He is also a Director in F. W. 
Blizard, Ltd., miners' agents and brokers in Nova Scotia 
coals. 

CLAYTON J. ELEM-MING is the Owner and Manager of 
the Flemming Coal ..t Wood Co. at Woodstock, New Bruns- 
wick, and has been in the business for four years. Mr. 
Flemming was born in Woodstock in 1892. 

GEORGE E. FORD of Sackville. New Brunswick, Canada, 
has been in the coal business for about thirty-six vears 
and is the President of George E. Ford & Sons, Ltd.", im- 
porters of anthracite. Mr. Ford was born December 11. 1847, 
at Sackville. 

JAMES S. MoGIVERN, St. John, New Brunswick, was 
I'oin in St. John IJeeember 8, 1852, and has been in the coal 
business since his youth, succeeding to the business 
established by R. P. McGivern. 

FRANCIS PENISTON STARR, 51 Carleton St., St. John, 
New Brunswick, is President of R. P. & W. F. Starr. Ltd., 
who are also agents foi- the Dominion Coal Co. Mr. Starr 
was born in St. John in 1868 and has been actively connected 
for thirty-two years with the business, which was founded 
in 1864. 

HENRY' N. STETSON is President and Treasurer of the 
Consumers' Coal Co., Ltd., at St. John, New Brunswick. He 
has been engaged in the business for five years. He was 
born at St. John in 1880. 

ASA HEUHER'I' V.4N WART, coal merchant at Fred- 
ericton. New Brunswick, has been in the retail business 
for more than a quarter of a century. He was born at 
Fredericton in 1852. 

WILLIAM McKENZIE AVELDON, retail coal merchant of 
Moncton, New Brunswick, was born September 9. 1853. at 
Dorchester, New Brunswick, and has been in the coal busi- 
ness for forty-three years. He was formerly with the 
Spring Hill Coal Co., Cumberland Railway & Coal Co., and 
the Dominion Coal Co., Ltd. 



CANADA — Nova Scotia 



I. SIDNEY BLE.XKHONN, Manager Blenkhonn & Sons, 
Canning, Nova Scotia, was born September, 1848, at Corn- 
wallis, Nova Scotia, and has been in the coal business for 
thirty years. 

GEO. B. Bl'RCHELL, Managing Director Bras D'or Coal 
Co., Ltd., of North Sydney, Nova Scotia, was born in 1880 
in North Sidney and lias been in the coal business twenty 
years. He is also interested in the Maritime Coal Railway 
& Power Co. and is a consulting engineer. 

JAMES NORWOOD DL'FFUS is sole partner in the firm 
of S. Cunard & Co. at Halifax, Nova Scotia. He was born 
at Norwood, England, June 27, 1864. Mr. Duffus has been 
connected with this old established and prominent firm for 
thirty-four years. 

HUGH D. MACKENZIE, St. Paul Building, Halifax, Nova 
.Scotia, has been in the coal business for forty-nine years 
and is the President of the Hugh D. Mackenzie Co., Lim- 
ited. From 1869 to 1914 he was Sales and Shipping Agent 
for the Intercolonial Coal Mining Co. Mr. Mackenzie was 
born at Pictou, Nova Scotia, January 21, 1852. 



501 



COAL MEN OF AMERICA 



JOHN R. BIcMULLEIV, retail coal merchant of Truro, Nova 
Scotia, was born October 13, 1885, in Truro, and has been in 
the coal business for three years. 

VIBERT SALTER, North Sydney, Nova Scotia, is a member 
of the firm of Joseph Salter's Sons, successors to Joseph 
Salter. The business has been conducted for nineteen 
years under the latter name and for seventeen years under 
the former. He is a native of Nova Scotia and was born 
in 1859. Joseph Salter, who is also connected with the firm, 
was born in 1871. 

THOMAS J. SEARS has been in the retail coal business 
at Antigonish, Nova Scotia, for seven years. He was born 
at Lochaber Antigonish, June 30, 1864. 

JOHN THOMAS SMITH, barrister-at-law, Amherst, Nova 
Scotia, is President of The Royal Coal Co., Limited. He has 
been interested in coal matters during the past twenty-six 
years, having formerly operated as an individual. He was 
born at Amherst, June 14, 1835. 

WM. E. VAN BLARCOM, retail coal merchant of Digby, 
Nova Scotia, was born September 16, 1871, in Digby, and 
has been in the coal business for twenty years. 



CANADA — Toronto, Ontario 



NORMAN E. ARNOT is a member of the Rose Brothers 
Coal Co., Ltd., at Toronto, Ontario, and has been in the 
coal business since his boyhood days. He was born thirty- 
six years ago in Toronto. 

GEORGE BROWN is the senior partner In the firm of 
Geo. Brown & Son, 361 Parliament St., Toronto, Ontario. 
He formerly was with the Conger Coal Co. and the Lake 
Simcoe Ice & Coal Co. He was born at Barrie, Ontario, 
January 4, 1865. 

G. WILSON BROWN, 361 Parliament St., Toronto, Ontario, 
is a member of the firm of George Brown & Son. He was 
born April 6, 1889, at Orillia, Ontario. 

JOSEPH WYLD CORSON, 549 King St., East. Toronto, 
Ontario, has been in the coal business for twenty-five years 
and is Manager of the Corson Coal Co. He was born 
December 26, 1864, and is a native of Ontario. 

THOMSON D. DUNLOP, Toronto, Ontario, is President 
of The Dunlop Coal Co., Ltd. He has been in the coal 
business twelve years and has served as Vice President of 
the coal section of the Toronto branch of the Retail Mer- 
chants' Association of Canada. Mr. Dunlop was born in 
Scotland in 1874. 

JAMES A. GLOVER is the Secretary-Treasurer of The 
Standard Fuel Co., Ltd., 22 Howland Ave., Toronto, Ontario. 
He is a native of Scotland, born April 5, 1861, and has been 
in the coal business for nearly thirty years. 

THOMSON GRINNELL, 843 Girrard St., Toronto, Ontario, 
senior partner and Manager of the firm of Thomas Grinnell 
& Son. is the oldest retail coal merchant in Toronto, having 
started in business about forty-six years ago. Mr. Grinnell 
Vv-as born April 17, 1841, in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, 
England. He entered the Britisli naval service at the age of 
fourteen and served about eleven years. He came to Canada 
in 1869. 

F. G. HARROLD is owner of the business of Harrold's 
Coal Corp., Iiaving two oflices in Toronto, Ontario, 
314 Danforth avenue and 346 Carlow avenue. He has been 
in the business eleven years and is a member of the Retail 
Merchants' Association of Toronto. Mr. Harrold -was born 
at Newmarket, Ontario, December 3, 1881. 

RAYMOND WALKER KERR is Manager for The Rogerson 
Coal Co., Ltd., at Toronto, Ontario. He was formerly with 
A. E. Rogerson and has been in the coal business nine years. 
He was born in Toronto July 15, 1895. 

FRED K. ROBINSON is Manager of The Black Diamond 
Coal Co., 2004 Dundas St., Toronto, Ontario. He has been 
in the coal business for about four years. He -was born 
in 1872 at St. Mary's, Ontario. 

HARRY SEDDON is Secretary-Treasurer of C. A. Wilson 
& Co., Ltd., 57 Queen St., West, Toronto, Ontario, and has 
been in the coal business for eleven years. He was for- 
merly with the Outwood Coal Co. He was born August 25, 
1885, in Toronto. 

ERNEST WILLIAM TRENT, 327 Confederation Life Build- 
ing, Toronto, Ontario, is Secretary-Treasurer and a Director 
of the Grenadier Ice & Coal Co.. Chapman's, Ltd.. and has 
been engaged in the coal business for thirty years. He 
has served as a committee member of the Toronto Coal 
Exchange and has been a member of the Board of Trade for 
thirty years. He was born in the County of York, Ontario, 
August 12, 1863. 



C. A. WILSON, 57 West Queen St., Toronto, Ontario, is the 
President of the firm of C. A. Wilson & Co., Ltd. He 
lias been in the coal business for sixteen years and was 
born March 10, 1850, at Markham, Canada. 



CANAD 



Ontario 



G. H. 31. BAKER is President and Manager of the Baker 
Lumber Co., Lindsay, Ontario. He lias been in the business, 
including coal, for thirty-three years. Mr. Baker was born 
at Cai"letc>n Place. Ontario, in 1861. Formerly he ^vas con- 
nected witli the Ratlibun Co. 

JAMES R. BAKER is the head of the firm of J. R. Baker 
& Son at Grand Valley, Ontario, and has been in the retail 
coal business for seven years. He was born in England. 

PETER BERGESj. coal merchant at St. Jacobs, Ontario, 
is the pioneer dealer at that place and has been fifteen 
years in the business. He was born at St. Jacobs Decem- 
ber 10, 1865. 

E. RICHARD BLOAV, Whitby, Ontario, is the proprietor 
of a coal business and has been in the trade for thirty-two 
years, formerly with John Blow & Son. He was born at 
Whitby February 6, 1860. 

JAMES ROBERT BRESNAN, 6 King E., Brockville, 
Ontario, is General Manager of the firm of J. R. Bresnan 
& Son. He was formerly with George E. Shields of Brock- 
ville, whose business he took over some years ago. He has 
been in the coal business for thirty years. He was born 
at Buffalo, New York, June 30, 1847. James Arthur Bres- 
nan, Secretary-Treasurer of J. R. Bresnan & Son, Brock- 
ville, Ontario, -was born February 1, 1886, and has been with 
the firin for eleven years. 

EDWIN BROWN, proprietor of E. Brown & Co., Port 
Hope, Ontario, was born August 27, 1865, in Port Hope and 
iias been in tiie coal business thirty-five years. He w^as 
formerly connected vsrith the firms of J, A. Brown & Co. and 
Brown & Henning. Mr. Brown is President of the Canadian 
Retail Coal Association and has always taken an active 
interest in every movement for the betterment of coal trade 
conditions. 

ISRAEL BRUBACHER is a retail coal merchant of 
Elmira, Ontario, vs^here he has been in the business for 
seven years. He was born April 18, 1866, at Hawksville, 
Ontario. 

W^ALTER BURNSIDE, retail coal merchant of Kincardine, 
Ontario, w^as born August 26, 1873, at Madoc, Canada, and 
has been in the coal business for seventeen years. 

JOHN GEORGE BTSSETT BUTTERAVORTH, President of 
the J. G. Butterworth Co.. Ltd., Ottawa, Ontario, has been 
in tlie coal business thirty-six years. He was born in 
Ha^vkesbury. Nova Scotia, August 28, 1848. This com- 
pany does a large business and operates three complete, 
modern plants with capacity of nearly 30,000 tons. 

W^ILLIAM CHAPPLE, retail coal merchant of Meaford, 
Ontario, was l>orn in Meaford and has been in the coal 
business for three years. 

JOSEPH E. CHEVRIER has been in the retail coal 
business at Cornwall. Ontario, for over twenty years. He 
was born at Vaudreuil, in the province of Quebec, October 
23, 1868. Mr. Chevrier built the first silo coal pocket in 
that section. He v/as elected Mayor of tlie city in 1917 by 
acclamation. 

JAMES CUTHBERT CLARK is the Proprietor and Man- 
ager of a retail coal business at Sarnia, Ontario, which he 
has conducted for nineteen years. He w^as born at Sarnia 
in 1871. 

WALTER LEWIS CLARKE, Secretary and Treasurer Hall 
& Holcomb, Ltd., 80 Elgin Street, Ottawa, Canada, was born 
in Ingersoll, Ontario, January 24, 1874. and has been w^ith 
George A. Harris, tiall & Holcomb, and Hall & Holcomb, 
Ltd., during all that time. He has been interested also in 
tlie building business and at one time was a silent partner 
in another coal firm. 

J. STANLEY COULTER, a retail coal merchant at Essex, 
Ontario, has been doing business there for nine years. He 
was born at Essex October 24, 1893. 

ROBERT CRAAVFORD, Kingston, Ontario, has been in 
the retail coal business for thirty-six years. He is also a 
member- of the firm of Booth & Co., retailers at Kingston. 
He was formerly connected with R. C. Carter & Co. Mr. 
Crawford was born at Kingston in 1854. 

MICHAEL FR.4NCIS CR.4Y, retail coal merchant at 
Guelph, Ontario, lias been in tlie business twenty-nine years, 
having owned a yard at Hespeler, Ontario, for nine years, 
from 1904 to 1913. He was born at Goderich, Ontario, in 
December, 1869. 



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COAL MKN OF AMERICA 



A. J. CRKKiH'rox is the owner of a coal business at 
Owen Sound, ontaiio. aiui has been enpraged in ttie lousiness 
for sixteen \ears. lie formerly was with the Sivil-CreiKh- 
ton Co., and was also connected with the Davis-Smith- 
Malone Co. for a time. He has served as First Vice Presi- 
dent of the Coal Section of tlu- Hetail Merchants' Associa- 
tion. He was born in Owen Sound .liine 21. 1S58. 

JOHX M. IJALY, retail coal merchant at 19 York St., 
London, Ontario, has been in the business for thirty-three 
years. He was formerly the junior member of the firm of 
b. Daly & Son, established by his father in 1885. He is a 
Director of the Canadian Ketail Coal Association. Mr. Daly 
was born in London, Ontario, October 13, 186G, and is one 
of the best known coal merchants in Ontario. 

PR.\XK A. Dt'M-OI' is the Managing- Director and Secre- 
tary-Treasurer of The Dunlop-Magee Company, Limited, 
i)91-!t!l3 Barton St., East Hamilton, Ontario. He Avas born 
at Hamilton in 1891 and has been in the coal business for 
six years. He is a member of the Hamilton Rotary Clulj. 
undei- "Retail Coal" classification. 

AV. Ij. DOXXELLY. Ottawa, Ontario, is a retail coal mer- 
chant who has been in the business twenty-six years. He 
is a Director of the Canadian Retail Coal Association. He 
was born at Ironside, Quebec, February 4, 1869. 

WILiLiIAM DRURY has conducted a retail coal business 
at 235 T\^elling-ton St., King-ston, Ontario, for twenty-four 
years. He \vas born at Kingston in 1857. 

AVILLIAM EDWARDS, 22 Grant St., Brantford, Ontario, 
has been in the retail coal business for thirty-eight years. 
He ^vas born in London, England, in 1851. 

JOHX ELLIOTT is the senior member and Manager of 
the firm of John Elliott & Son at Agincourt, Ontario. He 
has been engaged in the coal business for about twenty-one 
years. He was born at Agincourt December 18, 1854. 

W. H. EVES, retail coal merchant at Newmarket, Ontario, 
was born in 1871 in the County of York and has been in 
the coal business for twelve years. 

J. E. A. FITZGERALD, coal merchant of Peterboro, On- 
tario, has been in the business for nearly twenty years. 
He was for several years a Director of the Canadian Retail 
Coal Association. He was born in Peterboro January 5, 
1870. Associated with Mr. Fitzgerald is T. E. Pratt who 
is one of the oldest coal men in that city. 

JOHX FLYNX, retail coal merchant of Hespeler, Ontario, 
was born January 28, 1856, in Hespeler and has been in 
the coal business fourteen years. He was formerly con- 
nected with W. F. Cray. 

JOHX S. GATFIELD is Managing Owner of the J. S. 
Gatfield Coal Co. at Amherstburg-, Ontario, and has been in 
the business for the past four years. He was formerly 
connected w'ith Duff & Gatfield, vessel agents. Mr. Gatfield 
was born at Amherstburg February 22, 1878. 

ARTHUR GALTHIER has been four years in the retail 
coal business at Cumming's Bridg-e, Ontario. He was born 
at Rlgaud in the province of Quebec. 

D. H. GILLIES, 664 King St., London, Ontario, is senior 
member of the coal firm of D. H. Gillies & Son, and has 
been engaged in the business thirteen years. Mr. Gillies 
was born at Buckingham, Quebec, May 21, 1861. 

PATRICK GLEESOIV has been the proprietor of a coal 
business at Napanee, Ontario, for eight years. The yard, 
which was one of the first operated in eastern Ontario in the 
retail coal trade, was founded by the Downey Co. and later 
owned by the late C. E. Bartlett. Mr. Gleeson was Manager 
for J. R. Dafoe many years. He was born in Napanee De- 
cember 20. 1862. 

FRANK B. GREGORY is a partner in the firm of Toner 
& Gregory at Collingwood, Ontario, and has been in the 
coal business thirty-six years. He was born in Albany, 
New York, in 1851. 

JOHIV C. HAY' is the sole proprietor of the coal business 
of John C. Hay & Son at Listowel. Ontario. He has been 
nineteen years in the business. Mr. Hay was the first 
President of the Canadian Retail Coal Association and 
filled the office for four consecutive years. He is at present 
a Director and a member of the Executive Committee. He 
w^as for two years a Director of the International Coal 
Association. He was born at Bowmansville. Ontario, in 
1849. Mr. Hay is very highly respected and has always 
taken a keen interest in every movement for the better- 
ment of the trade. 

JOHN JOSEPH HENEY is President of John Heney & 
Son, Ltd., at Ottawa, Ontario. He has been engaged in the 
coal business twenty-nine years. He was born in Ottawa 
May 27, 1861. 



Ait'l'Hl It niLLlllCR has been doln^ business for cloven 
years at Oakvillc, Onlario, under the name of lllUmer Fuel 
& Ice Co. He was born at Oakville, December 15, 1875; 

JAMES ALEXANUIOII HO<'Kl\G Of Brampton, Ontario, 

owns a retail coal business which he has conducted for six 
years. He was born at BroclcviUr, Ontario, May 21, 1865. 

R.VLPU Tl LI,ER MOL('«>MII, 80 Eltcin St., Ottawa, 
Ontario, is \iic I'residi-nt and Oenei-al Manager for Hall 
<& Holconib, Limited, lie has been connected with the coal 
business for about thirty years. Mr. Holconib was born 
at Windham, New York, September 28, 1869. 

JOHN HOWES, retail coal merchant at Harriston, On- 
tario, Canada, has been in the coal business thirty years. He 
was born April 14, 1855, in Hespeler, Ontario. 

JOHN WESLEY HUNT is the Proprietor of the business 
of J. W. Hunt, retail coal merchant at Ayr. Ontario, and 
lias been in the business twenty-three years. He is a native 
of Ontario, born October 8, 1850. 

JOHN E. HUTCHINGS IS the owner of the coal business 
of J. E. Hutchings & Co. at Niagara Falls, Ontario. He has 
been connected with the coal industry for over forty years, 
and formerly was with Thomas Myles Sons at Hamilton, 
Ontario, and with the Ohio Coal Co. at St. Paul, Minnesota. 
He was born in England in 1853. 

JOHN C. IRVIN, Weston, Ontario, is Local Manager for 
the Gibson, McCormack, Irvin Co., Ltd., in which he is a 
stockholder. He has been eight years in the coal business. 
He was born at Pontypool, Ontario, November 27, 1884. 

THOMAS CHARLES JEWELL of Bowmanville, Ontario. 
is Secretary-Treasurer of McClellan & Co., Ltd., and has 
been connected with th6 coal business for over forty years. 
He was born February, 1859, at Solina, Ontario. 

ANDREW JOHNSTON of Stratford, Ontario, is senior 
member of the firm of Andrew Johnston & Son. He has 
been in the coal business for over twenty years. He was 
born in the north of Ireland May 2, 1845. 

ANGUS W. JOHNSON, General Manager M. B. Johnson 
& Son, St. Thomas, Ontario, was born March 12, 1885, at 
Brownsville, Ontario, and has been in the coal business for 
six years. 

MARSHALL B. JOHNSON, President M. B. Johnson & 
Son. St. Thomas, Ontario, was born March 26, 1855, at St. 
Catlierines, Ontario, and has been in the coal business for 
six years. 

A. KIRKPATRICK, Lefroy, Ontario, was born in Tyrone, 
Pennsylvania, and has been in the coal business forty years. 
In addition to retailing coal Mr. Kirkpatrick oi)erates a 
grain elevator and does a general merchandising business. 

WILLIAM F. KOLBE is the Senior member of the firm 
of W. F. Kolbe & Co. at Port Dover, Ontario, and has been 
doing a coal business there for three years. 

SAMUEL LESLIE LAMBERT, retail coal merchant of 
Welland, Ontario, has been in the business for nineteen 
years. 

W^ILLIAM H. LONGFIELD is senior member in the firm 
of Longfield Bros., coal merchants, at Mount Brydges, 
Ontario. He has been in the business for four years and 
was born at Belmont, Ontario, April 21, 1877. 

SIDNEY LUKE, retail coal merchant at Tillsonburg, On- 
tario, has been in the business for ten years. He was born 
March 27, 1853, at St. Thomas, Ontario. 

TINDILL LUNDY, retail merchant at Rockwood, Ontario, 
was born February 16, 1851, at Bolton. Ontario, and has 
been in the coal business for twenty-nine years. 

DANIEL C. MABBB is the only exclusive retail coal 
merchant at Bolton. Ontario, liaving- bought the business of 
W. G. Dick in 1912 and of John Arnott in 1914. He has 
been in business for six years, and was born November 
22, 1866, at Albion, Ontario. 

FRED MANN is a member of the firm of John Mann & 
Sons, Brantford, Ontario, and has been in the coal business 
since boyhood, it having been established by his father. 
John Mann, in 1868. Fred Mann has filled the offices of 
President, Vice President and Director of the Canadian 
Retail Coal Association. He was born September 27. 1868. 
in Brantford. John Mann, the founder, also had coal 
interests in London and Toronto. He died September 0, 
1917, aged 80 years. 

J. C. MARK, Manager Park Hill Lumber & Mfg. Co., 
Park Hill, Ontario, was born April 18, 1862, and has been 
in the coal business for fifteen years. He was formerly 
with the firm of W. H. Mark & Co. 



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JOHN MARKS, Bast Hamilton, Ontario, lias been in the 
coal business for six years. He formerly was a member of 
the firm of Payne & Co., and became sole owner of the 
business after two years partnership. Mr. Marks was born 
February 7, 1883, at Bristol, England. 

RODERICK MARTYN, retail coal merchant at Ripley, 
Ontario, has been in the business for eighteen years. He 
formerly was a member of the firm of McKenzie & Martyn. 
He was born in Ripley April 15, 1869. 

JOHN MeCLELLAN is President of McClellan & Co., Ltd., 
Bowmanville, Ontario, and has been in the coal business for 
more than fifty years. He was born at Bowmanville in 
April, 1839. 

A. McFARLAJVD of A. & C. McParland, retail coal mer- 
chants, of Fenelon Falls, Ontario, was born May, 1866, and 
has been in the coal business for eleven years. 

W. H. MeGANNON, retail coal merchant at Morrisburg, 
Ontario, was born September 12, 1851, at Prescott, Ontario, 
and has been in the coal business eighteen years. 

JOHN H. MOREHOUSE is Manager at Ottawa, Ontario, 
and General Sales Agent for the east for The Connell 
Anthracite Mining Co., Limited. He has been in the coal 
business for twenty-four years and formerly was con- 
nected with The Old People's Coal Co. of Canada, whose 
equipment was taken over some years ago by the Connell 
Anthracite Mining Co. Mr. Morehouse was born at Elmira, 
New York, forty-eight years ago, and has an unusually wide 
acquaintance in the Canadian coal trade. 

M. ,1. MORRIS is .a partner in the firm of Morris Bros., 
Alexandria, Ontario, and has been in the coal business five 
years. 

CHARLES _JAMES MYLBS, President Thomas Myles' Sons, 
Ltd., 8 JamesSt., North, Hamilton, Ontario, was born in Ireland 
Januai-y 9, 1841, and has been engaged in the coal business six- 
ty-six years. The Myles family started in the coal business in 
Ireland in the year 1811, and the business at Hamilton was 
established by Thomas Myles in 1852. W. H. Myles, Secretary 
of the company and son of Charles James Myles, represents the 
fourth generation to be engaged in the coal business. 

JAMES MITRPHY, retail coal merchant of Fort William, 
Ontario, was born in 1863 at West Liberty, Iowa, and has 
been in the coal business fifteen years. Mr. Murphy 
started about thirty years ago handling coal for the 
Canadian Pacific Railroad as a contractor, and subsequently 
entered business for himself. He owns his own dock, and is 
regarded as one of the most substantial citizens in that 
section. 

CHARLES B. NIENABER, General Manager Fort William 
Coal & Dock Co., Ltd., Fort William, Ontario, was born in 
1872 in St. Paul, Minn., and has been in the coal business 
for twenty-four years. He is also associated with the Val- 
ley Camp Coal Co., Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Nienaber is well 
known and has many warm friends in the coal trade of the 
Northwest. He was for ten years in the retail coal busi- 
ness at St. Paul with his brother and afterwards with the 
Pittsburgh Coal Co. and the Northern Coal & Dock Co. be- 
fore taking his present position. 

NOECKER BROS, have been in the retail coal business 
since 1903 at Drayton, Ontario, under the present name. 
They have been in the grain trade since 1869 under the 
name of L. A. Noecker. 

RICHARD G. OKE, the owner of a retail coal business at 
Whitby, Ontario, was born in 1846 in Devonshire, England. 
He followed the building trade thirty-five years when he 
jDurchased the lumber, coal and wood business of Gross & 
Granger, and has continued the same until the present time. 

PHILIP CHARLES PATRIARCHE has been in the retail 
coal business for thirteen years at Burlington, Ontario. 
He was born at St. Louis, Missouri, February 10, 1875. 

p. w. PEARSON, retail coal merchant at Newmarket, 
Ontario, was born December 20, 1862, in Newmarket and has 
been in the coal business for fifteen years. 

JAMES A. PELKEY has been in the retail coal and wood 
business at Trenton, Ontario, for the past two years. He 
was born May 12, 1863, at Cannifton, Ontario. 

D. S. PRATT conducts a retail coal business at Midland, 
Ontario, and has been there for eighteen years. He was 
born at Coburg, Ontario, in 1868. 

WILLIAM I. PURKIS, proprietor of I. D. Purkis & Son, 
Prescott, Ontario, was born in May, 1863. in Prescott and 
has been in the coal business for twenty-five years. This 
business was established in 1856 by the father of Mr. Purkis. 

MARTIN B. REIDEL has been in the coal business for 
nine years, with an office at Waterloo, Ontario. His resi- 
dence is at Kitchener. Ontario. 



JOHN EWING ROXBURGH has been in the retail coal 
business at Norwood, Ontario, Canada, since 1903. He was 
born in Norwood February 18, 1876. 

W^ALTER SARJEANT is President and General Manager 
of The Sarjeant Co.. Ltd., with head office in Barrie, On- 
tario. He was born in England July 31, 1868. He entered 
the coal business over thirty years ago under J. S. Johnston, 
whose partner he afterwards became. Later he and his 
brother, S. Sarjeant, purchased the business. He developed 
the business until they operated yards at Barre, Orillia, 
Midland and Chatham. The latter two were sold in 1917. 
Mr. Sarjeant has served as a Director of the Ontario Coal 
Dealers' Association. 

ARTHUR SAYLES is the Manager and Proprietor of the 
Paris Coal & Lumber Co. at Paris, Ontario, and has been in 
the business for over thirty years. He was formerly con- 
nected with Gillies Bros. He was born at Paris, Ontario 
July 1, 1869. 

G. T. SCOTT, retail coal merchant of Erin, Ontario, was 
born in 1871 in Erin and has been in the coal business 
for twelve years. 

SEM3IENS & SON, retail coal merchants of Hamilton, 
Ontario, Canada, have been in the coal business for twenty- 
eight years in Hamilton. 

KURVEN J. SHIRTON, Manager of The William Shirton 
Co., Ltd.. Dunnville, Ontario, has been in the coal business 
for about nineteen years. He was born in 1882 at Gainsboro. 

LAWRENCE PATRICK SHORTALL, Gananoque, Ontario, 
is Vice President and Secretary-Treasurer of the Citizens' 
Coal & Forwarding Co., Ltd. He has been five years con- 
nected with the coal business. He was born in Brewers 
Mills July 25, 1873. W. T. Sampson is President of the 
company. 

JAMES H. SMART of Smart & Williams, Kingsville, On-, 
tario, was born February, 1845, and although he has only 
been in the coal business for three years he has had fifty 
years' mercantile experience. 

WM. A. SMITH of Gait, Ontario, was born September 
12, 1883, at Harrietsville, Ontario, and has been in the coal 
business for twelve years. 

CHARLES HENRY TAYLOR, President of The Hamilton 
Lumber & Coal Co., Ltd., Hamilton, Ontario, was born in 
Hamilton and has been in the coal business twenty-five 
years. 

CLARKE TAYLOR, Gananoque, Ontario, is the Owner and 
Manager of the business of James Taylor & Son. He has 
been in the coal business sixteen years. He was born in 
Gananoque December 19, 1876. 

STEWART A. THOMPSON is General Manager of the 
coal business belonging to the T. A. Thompson Estate at 
Iroquois, Ontario. He has held the position for six years, 
or since the death of his father, T. A. Thompson, who 
conducted the business for thirty years. Mr. Thompson 
was born in Iroquois August 19, 1893. 

JOHN M. THORNDIKE, retail coal merchant of Beach- 
ville, Ontario, was born April 21, 1870, in Beachville, and 
has been in the coal business for fifteen years. 

WILLIAM F. TONER is a member of the firm of Toner 
& Gregory, Collingwood, Ontario. In 1882 the coal 
business was added to lumber, but since 1912 the firm has 
discontinued its lumber department and dealt exclusively 
in coal. Mr. Toner was born in Collingwood in 1875. 

FRANKLIN ELMORE VAN LUVEN, retailer at Napanee, 
Ontario, was born September 19, 1861, at Camden, Ontario 
and has been in the coal business eighteen years. 

MARCUS A. W^ARE, retail coal merchant of Fonthill, 
Ontario, was born August 5, 1876, at Allanburg, and has 
been in the coal business for seven years. 

FREDERICK JAMES WATT, of Curries, Ontario, has been 
in the coal business for one year, having purchased the 
business of W. E. Smith, which had been established for 
twenty years. 

MENNO L. WEBER has been a retail coal merchant at 
St. Jacobs, Ontario, since 1916. He has also engaged in the 
flour and feed business since 1913. He -was born in St. 
Jacobs March 29, 1860. 

NEIL WETTLAUFER, retail coal merchant of Tavistock, 
Ontario, was born July 4, 1885, in Tavistock and has been 
in the coal business for two years. 

CHARLES H. WILLOUGHBY, born February 10, 1872, 
at Spencerville, now owns the coal business at Longwood, 
Ontario, formerly owned by Duncan McRae. Mr. Wil- 
loughby took it over two years ago. 



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KD\VI.\ ALFKKII AVOOOHOl SK. Manager of Woodhouse 
& Co., Dundas. Ontario, was born October 23. 1845. in lOng- 
land. and has been in the coal business for twenty-one 
years. 



CANADA — Prince Edward Island 



M. I.. BRAnSHAAV, Secretary Joseph Read & Co.. I^td.. 
Summerside. Prince Edward Island, Canada, has been con- 
nected with his present company ten years. He was a 
regular correspondent with Pattison & Bowns. Dickson & 
Eddy and several Canadian companies. 

GEORGE EDWARD FUI-L, retailer at Charlottetown, 
Prince Edward Island, was born September 10, 184 4, at 
Halifax, Nova Scotia, and has been in the coal business for 
ten years. 

ALFRED PICKARD, Charlottetown, Prince Edward 
Island, is the owner of the retail business of A. Pickard 
& Co., and has been handling anthracite and bituminous 
coal eighteen years. He was born in Charlottetown August 
25, 1878. 

JOSEPH READ. President Joseph Read & Co., Ltd., Sum- 
merside, Prince Edward Island. Canada, was born in Sum- 
merside and has been in the coal business thirty years. Mr. 
Read is a member of the Dominion Parliament and his com- 
pany carries on the largest and most extensive produce 
business in the Maritime provinces. 



CANADA— Montreal, Quebec 



ROBERT ADAIR, 146 Notre Dame St., West, Montreal, 
is President of The Hartt & Adair Coal Co. and has been 
engaged in the coal business for thirty-five years. He was 
born at Rutherglen, Scotland, August 11, 1864. 

AXDREW BAILE, President of Andrew Baile, Ltd., whole- 
sale and retail coal merchants of Montreal. Quebec, was 
born February 22, 1842, in the city of Quebec, and estab- 
lished his present business in Montreal in 1869. 

ZEPHIRIIV BEAUCAGE, 1869 Cote des Nieges Road. 
Montreal, Quebec, is senior member of the coal firm of Z. 
Beaucage & Fils. He has been in the coal business for 
sixteen years. 

ALEXANDER DICK, 112 St. James St., Montreal, Quebec, 
is General Sales Agent for the Dominion Coal Co., Ltd. 
He was for some years •with the Cumberland Railway 
& Coal Co. and the Canada Coal & Railway Co. He has 
been in the coal business for thirty-nine years. Mr. Dick 
was born at Stellarton, Nova Scotia, October 17, 1865. 

CLARENCE E. F. DUMARESQ is Vice President of The 
Hartt & Adair Coal Co., 146 Notre Dame St., West, Mon- 
treal, Quebec. He was born at Montreal, March 21, 1885, 
and has been in the coal business for sixteen years. 

ANTOINE GUYOT, retail coal merchant of Montreal, Que- 
bec, was born January 17, 1880, at Mortcerf, France, and 
has been in the coal business for twenty-three years, four- 
teen years with E. Lemire & Son, Ltd., and nine years for 
himself. 

NELSON W. HOWARD, McGill Building, Montreal, Quebec, 
is Managing Director of the Geo. Hall Coal Co. of Canada. 
Ltd., and has been in the business for eleven years. 
He is the Canadian representative of the Rochester & Pitts- 
burgh Coal & Iron Co. Mr. Howard was born at Ogdens- 
burg. New York, in December, 1884. 

J. B. LEON LECLAIRE, Manager Leclaire & Frere. Mon- 
tieal, Quebec, was born in Sorel, Quebec, and has been in 
the coal business ten years. He is also interested in the 
Prudential Coal Co., Ltd. Hi>s father, J. L. Bruno Leclaire. 
of Sorel, Quebec, who has been in the coal business for fifty 
years, is also a shipbuilder contractor. 

ERNEST LEMIRE, 196 Versailles St.. Montreal, Quebec, 
is President and General Manager of E. Lemire & Sons, 
Ltd. He has been engaged in the coal business for 
thirty-six years. He was born at St. Isidore of LaPrairie, 
Quebec, January 7, 1853. Associated with Mr. Lemire are 
his sons, Oswald, Joseph E., Hercule and Rodolphe. 

CHARLES PETRIE, Vice President and General Man- 
ager Lee Coal Co., Ltd., President Prudential Coal Co., and 
Vice President United States Coal Corp., Montreal, Canada, 
was horn in Quebec in 1880. and has been engaged in the 
coal business since 1904. This company is interested in 
several anthracite and bituminous coal operations, and 
handles their tonnage in the Dominion of Canada. 



KAK«ll llAR ROBERTSON. President Farquhar Robertson, 
Ltd., of Montreal, Cjiubec, was born April M, 1850, in Glen- 
garry County, Ontario, and has been in the coal business for 
thirty-eight years. Mr. Robertson has served as I'residcnt 
of the Montreal Board of Trade, Montreal General Hospital 
Governor Verdun Hospital, Director Merchant.s' Bank of 
Canada, and as Harbor Commissioner. 

EDGAH KlOUGI's TOI,IIl'RST, only son of Thomas Fer- 
guson T(;lluirst. and junior member of the firm of T. F. 
Tolhurst & Son, 6468 Lajeunesse St., Montreal, Quebec, has 
been with the firm five years. He was born in Montreal 
May 4, 1898. He is now in the Service abroad. 

THOMAS KERGl'SON TOLHi'RST, 64 68 Lajeunesse St.. 
Montreal, Quebec, is senior partner in the firm of T. f! 
Tolhurst & Son. He has been in the coal business five 
years. He was born in Montreal July 7, 1869. 

ROBERT ALLAN WEBSTER. 10 St. John St.. Montreal. 
Quebec, has been in the retail coal business off and on 
for thirty years. Formerly he was with Geo. M. Webster 
& Co. of Quebec City and Wm. Muir & Son, Ltd., of Mon- 
treal. He was born in the city of Quebec October 17. 1865. 



CANADA — Quebec 

MAXIMILIAN DAMASO BRISETTE, 80 St. Thomas St , 
Longueuil, Quebec, is Manager for D. Brisette & Co., and 
has been in the business for eleven years. He was form- 
erly with D. Brisette, his father, who founded the business. 
Mr. Brisette was born at Longueuil. 

JAMES HAMILTON, retail coal merchant at Chateauquay, 
Quebec, has been in the business for twenty-three years. 
Formerly he was connected with the Lehigh Valley Coal 
Co., Millspaugh & Green, Wm. Mino & Sons, and F. Robert- 
son. He was born July 16, 1871, at Chateauquay. 

EDWARD DES JARDINS. JR., retail coal merchant at 
Hull, Quebec, was born April 26, 1891, at Ironside. Quebec, 
and has been in the coal business, for six years. 

J. N. ARTHUR LECLAIRE, of Leclaire & Fils, Sorel, Que- 
bec, was born September 26, 1889. in Sorel and has been 
in the coal business for ten years. 

J. L. BRUNO LECLAIRE, senior member of Leclaire & 
Fils of Sorel, Quebec, was born May 1, 1858, at St. Ours. 
Quebec, and has been in the coal business for twenty-seven 
years. Mr. Leclaire has four sons who are also interested 
in the coal business and has yards at Ottawa and Montreal. 

MARTIN MADDEN, Senior member of Madden & Son of 
Quebec. Canada, was born May 23. 1869, in Quebec and 
the firm has been in business forty years. Mr. Madden 
has served as Alderman for St. Peter's Ward, the commer- 
cial ward of the city, twelve years, and was "Chairman of 
the Water Works Committee when he resigned in 1918. He 
still represents Quebec West in the Provincial Parliament 
of Quebec. 



CANADA — Saskatchewan 



WILLIAM MAXWELL GARMENT is a retail coal merchant 
at Kamsack, Saskatchewan, of eleven years standing. He 
is a native of Scotland and was born in 1854. 

LEONARD T. FAYER, 718 High St., West, Moose Jaw, 
Saskatchewan, is Manager for the Sterling Coal Co.. Ltd.. 
and has been four or five years in the coal business. He 
was born at Greensboro. Vermont, September 8. 1883. The 
other officers of the company are C. A. Baker, President; 
S. P. AV. Cooke, Secretary, and G. G. Jewell. A'ice President. 

GORDON STEWART HUNTER. 218 Twenty-first St., East. 
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, is Manager of The Spicer Coal 
Co., I>td., and has been in the coal business for four 
years. He is interested in a coal mining property at Dinant, 
Alberta. Mr. Hunter was born at Wiarton, Ontario. March 
17, 1885. 

ROGER P. STRICKLAND, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, is 
Managing Director of the Saskatchewan Supply & Fuel 
Co., Ltd., and has been in the coal business six years. 
He has filled the office of President in the Saskatoon Fuel 
Dealers' Association and in the Saskatchewan Fuel Dealers' 
Association. He was born May 7, 1885, at Lakefield, Ontario. 

FREDERICK JOHN W'ALSH. President and General Man- 
ager Walsh Coal Co., Ltd., Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, was 
born May 5, 1875, at Salem, Ontario, and has been in the 
coal business ten years. 



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THANKS TO PHOTOGRAPHERS 



The co-operation of many leading photographers in various cities throughout the United States and 
Canada has made it possible for us to reproduce the likenesses of so many prominent coalmen in this 
work. Among those who are especially entitled to credit for the assistance they have given us are the 
followin"' : 



Birmingham, Ala., Stephenson Studio. 

New Haven, Conn., The Donnelly Studio. 

Chicago, 111., Matzene Studio. 

Peoria, 111., Burkart Studio. 

Fort Wayne, Ind., Peck's Studio. 

Indianapolis, Ind., Chas. F. Bretzman. 

Terre Haute, Ind., Geo. Graham. HoUoway. 

Harlan, Ky., W. W. Choate. 

Lexington, Ky., P. E. Johns. 

Middlesborough, Ky., C. E. Orebaugh. 

Pineville, Ky., Star Photo Co. 

Baltimore, Md., Bachrach Studio. 

Worcester, Mass., Schervee Studio. 

Detroit, Mich., C. M. Hayes and Co. 

Minneapolis, Minn., Lee Bros. 

St. Paul Minn., Golling Studio. 

Kansas Cit3\ Mo., Henry Moore. 

St. Louis, Mo., J. Edward Eosch. 

Ijincoln, Keb., Alva C. Townsend. 

Omaha, Neb., The Hevn Studio. 

Albany, N. Y., The Wendell Studio. 

Binghamton, IST. Y., Leo J. Buckley. 

Buffalo, N. Y., Pohle Studio. 

New York City, K. Y., Gessford Studio. 

New York City, N. Y., Underwood & Underwood. 

Eochester, N. Y., Mock, the Photographer. 

Schenectady, N. Y.. Arthur J. White. ' 

Syracuse, N. Y., Fairbanks Studio. 

Canton, Ohio, Courtney Studio. 



Cincinnati, Ohio, Benjamin Studio. 
Cleveland, Ohio, B. Frank Moore. 
Columbus, Ohio, Baker Art Gallery. 
Dayton, Ohio, J. S. Corbitt. 
Jackson, Ohio, J. W. Miller. 
Nelsonville, Ohio, Lee McDowell. 
New Philadelphia, Ohio, The Green Studio. 
Toledo, Ohio, C. L. Lewis. 
Wellston, Ohio, A. Monroe Handley. 
Greensburg, Pa., Kougli Studio. 
Philadelphia, Pa., Marceau Studio. 
Pittsburgh, Pa., E. W. Johnston. 
Scranton, Pa., J. B. Schriever. 
Uniontown, Pa., The Croft Studio. 
Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Wildermuth & Sterns, 
Chattanooga, Tenn., Bronson Studio. 
Knoxville, Tenn., Knaffl & Brakebill. 
Memphis. Tenn., Grav's Studio. 
Nashville, Tenn!, W."G. Thuss. 
Boanoke, Va., The Cole Studio. 
Charleston, W. Ya., Sylvan Wallace. 
Clarksburg, W. Va., The Amon Studio. 
Fairmont, W. Ya., Walter E. Johnston. 
Fairmont, W. Ya., Ernest Schv/aner. 
Grafton, W. Va, W. E. Loar. 
Huntington, W. Va., The Thomas Studio. 
liOgan, W. A^a., Carter & Carter. 
Milwaukee, Wis., Klein Studio. 
London, Out., George A. Henry. 
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